… One of the saddest stories of the 2011 World Championships is that of the former World Rings champion from Netherlands:
• Yuri van Gelder was centre of a drug scandal last Worlds in Rotterdam
• he was recently “cleared” to qualify for Olympics
• his routine was good enough to finish on the podium, qualifying him directly (I believe) to London where he could very well win an Olympic medal
Click PLAY or watch his Finals Ring routine on YouTube.
• for some reason he took out his “safe” double layout, replacing it with a piked double front (FALL) … Olympic dream ended.
• and, for some reason, … he decided to wear a Dutch orange outfit for finals, including orange socks. The first orange socks in Worlds history, I would imagine.
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