
FIG President Morinari Watanabe addressed the women’s floor Olympic bronze medal debacle in the latest FIG Bulletin.#Paris2024 #Olympics pic.twitter.com/sFHhBZ2mti
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,,, the United States’ performance at the Paris Olympics – with a team entirely composed of NCAA products – has college coaches feeling hopeful; team members and alternates represented Stanford, University of Michigan, Penn State and University of Minnesota’s defunct program.
The Olympians represented a fifth of all current programs, but that’s because there are only 15 active programs, 12 Division I and three Division III. Those numbers were nearly even lower – William & Mary planned to discontinue its team after the 2020-21 season but reinstated the team just a few months later.
Another ray of hope for the sport came in the fall of 2021. Simpson College and then Greenville University announced they would be launching men’s gymnastics programs. …

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Not 100% confirmed as yet.
But I do think we’ll have 8 elements counting instead of 10.
Coaches will be brainstorming best start scores for their FIG gymnasts.
Certainly you could argue that any of Jordan Chiles (USA), Ana Barbosu (ROM) and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea (ROM) could have won the Bronze medal on Floor at the Olympics.
It was close.
All excellent routines.
Sadly, judging errors were made by the FIG.
The FIG system for making an appeal is neither clear nor fair in 2024.
It seemed to me that the Court of Arbitration for Sport made a decision too quickly and without doing enough research. That should be reviewed.
In the end, Ana Barbosu is in the record books with the Bronze medal.

The entire “Paris Floor Bronze Debacle” ending an otherwise excellent Olympics on a very sour note. It’s one of the things the general public will remember — along with that Pommel Horse guy.
If the debacle had not happened, we’d be celebrating the return of Romania as Olympic medal contenders. That famous program is finally turned around.
Congratulations.
Most decorated male gymnasts at the Olympics since 1948.
1. Nikolai Andrianov – URS – 1971-1980 | 78 points (deceased)
7 Oly Gold / 5 Oly Silver / 3 Oly Bronze
2. Boris Shaklin – URS – 1956- 1964 | 69 points (deceased)
7 Oly Gold / 4 Oly Silver / 2 Oly Bronze
3. Sawao Kato – JPN – 1968-1977 | 67 points
8 Oly Gold / 3 Oly Silver / 1 Oly Bronze
4. Takashi Ono – JPN – 1956-194 | 65 points
5 Oly Gold / 4 Oly Silver / 4 Oly Bronze
5. Viktor Chukarin – URS – 1952-1956 | 61 points (deceased)
7 Oly Gold / 3 Oly Silver / 1 Oly Bronze
6. Alexey Nemov – RUS – 1993-2004 | 58 points
4 Oly Gold / 2 Oly Silver / 6 Oly Bronze
7. Akinori Nakayama – JPN – 1965 – 1972 | 54 points
6 Oly Gold / 2 Oly Silver / 2 Oly Bronze
8. Vitaly Scherbo – URS | CIS | BLR – 1989-1997 | 53 points
6 Oly Gold / 4 Oly Bronze
9. Alexander Dityatin – URS – 1976-1980 | 51 points
3 Oly Gold / 6 Oly Silver / 1 Oly Bronze
10. Mikhail Voronin – URS – 1966-1972 | 45 points (deceased)
2 Oly Gold / 6 Oly Silver / 1 Oly Bronze
See the full list on Zhoxxyy.
Surprising to me was seeing Kōhei Uchimura – JPN – 2007-2021 only ranked 14th.
3 Oly Gold / 4 Oly Silver