Year: 2016

Youth Olympic Games changes

The Working Group recommendations presented to the Session put forward five strategic goals:

Increase participation and level of competition …

Bring the YOG to cities that cannot organise the Olympic Games …

Expand the reach and impact of the YOG …

Leverage digital platforms to extend the YOG experience …

Enhance the YOG’s role as incubator for innovation …

These recommendations were unanimously accepted by the Session. The implementation of the recommendations will be achieved in consultation with all relevant stakeholders by Q4 2017.

Olympic.org

The next Summer YOG to take place will be the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games of Buenos Aires. The next Winter YOG to take place will be the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games of Lausanne.

Gymnastics will be hosted in a venue yet to be built – Predio Ferial Olímpico.

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Nile Wilson – Olympian

Heart this photo on twitter.

271 RUS athletes cleared to compete

This is more than two-thirds of their original entry list of 389 athletes, despite the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) recommending a blanket ban after a doping scandal.

BBC

Here’s the list of Gymnastics sports athletes approved.

Olympic.org posted the official statement.

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Hong Un Jong – Yurchenko 3/1

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

does USAG do enough to protect kids?

The Indianapolis Star posted a lengthy article detailing numerous cases where the reporters feel the National Sports Governing Body could have done more, sooner.

Timing is lousy since most of the world is distracted by something happening in Rio right now. This is an important issue. Better would be to have posted a week ago. Or right after the Olympics.

Publishing now does smack of Olympic opportunism.

USA Gymnastics’ response to Indianapolis Star’s report

For information on how USA Gymnastics handles allegations of sexual misconduct, please click here.

which nations overscore their gymnasts?

The Gymternet has an interesting guest post trying to estimate which nations inflate FIG scores most.

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Austria is the biggest offender.

Surprisingly, Russian scores at home are about right. (That seems impossible to me. They do inflate.)

Click through to read that analysis for yourself – The Truth About Domestic Overscoring

Ivan Stretovich replaces Nikita Ignatyev

Here’s an interesting issue from Rio. Via Uncle Tim.

Did Russia Break the IOC’s Rules for Ivan Stretovich? Probably, But Does It Matter?

Such replacement will only occur when there are urgent medical conditions preventing participation of an athlete, or otherwise on a case-by-case basis for exceptional circumstances.

Nikita is not injured. Read his take on being replaced.

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5 new MAG elements submitted

For example, the Nguyen.

If done successfully at any time during the Games, these elements will be officially named for the gymnast who performs them. …

A free hip circle mount from the side of the bars with three quarter turn to handstand position.

Element value: E

The Nguyen use this

Scroll down this page to see the other four.