Rick Mc

beat Stanford

Defending Champions Stanford have one of the most loaded teams in the history of NCAA Men’s Gymnastics.

They are going to be tough to beat.

NCAA Championship Preview: Stanford Looks to Hold Off OU and Michigan to Defend Their Title. Read more below. #NCAAMGym https://t.co/pRHfFFClyQ
— College Gymnastics Association (@CollegeMGym) April 12, 2022

International Choreography Workshop Linz, Austria

Choreographers from 15 nations attended a workshop with Patrick Kiens and Daymon Jones.

Click PLAY or get a glimpse on YouTube.

Paris Olympics qualification system

A total of 318 athletes – 192 in Artistic, 94 in Rhythmic and 32 in Trampoline.

Via email from FIG:

Artistic Gymnastics

Available places: 96 male gymnasts + 96 female gymnasts
Venue: Bercy Arena
Dates: 27 July – 5 August

First opportunity to qualify for Artistic will be at Liverpool, United Kingdom, at the World Championships, scheduled to take place from 29 October to 6 November 2022. Top 3 teams each qualify 5 spots for Paris.

At the 2023 Worlds in Antwerp, Belgium the 9 remaining team places will be awarded. And and the 3 next-best-ranked eligible countries will get 1 non-nominative place. In addition, the All-Around Qualifications’ results will enable 8 male gymnasts and 14 female gymnasts to get their Olympic tickets. The Apparatus finals will be an opportunity for the specialists with places for the #1 eligible gymnast in each apparatus final.

The specialists will have another opportunity with the Apparatus World Cup series in 2024. The 2 best eligible women and men on each apparatus from the Olympic Qualification World Cup Ranking List – based on their best three results out of four in the series – will be Paris-bound.

The last qualifying opportunity will come at the 2024 continental championships, with 1 All-Around individual place at stake for contenders at each continental event.

State of Victoria – 2026 Commonwealth Games

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said the hosting of the Games would follow a new “multi-city model”, as events would be held across multiple rural regions in the state.
Hubs would be established in four regional hubs in the state, Geelong, Bendigo, Ballarat and Gippsland. Each of the towns, with populations under 300,000, would have its own athletes’ village and sport program, with the opening ceremony to be held in Melbourne. …
Australian state wins 2026 Commonwealth Games bid

The Games are expected to have a total of 72 Commonwealth nations, countries formerly under the British empire.

English city Birmingham will host the 2022 Commonwealth Games from July 28-Aug. 8, having replaced South Africa, who were stripped of them in 2017 over a lack of progress in preparations.

remembering Kateryna Dyachenko

The Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup in Sofia was marked by a highly emotional moment on Sunday when FIG President Morinari Watanabe invited the audience to observe a minute’s silence in memory of a young gymnast who died during the siege of Mariupol 🇺🇦 .
👉 https://t.co/DPs8qsoh2Q pic.twitter.com/XBFtSMUT1h
— FIG (@gymnastics) April 11, 2022

coach Andy Leis

COACH ANDREW LEIS IS USAG HEAD COACH OF THE YEAR‼️ Andy is leaving Ithaca with his second Head Coach of the Year award this season! 💙🐶 YGT is so lucky to have you, Andy!#ThisIsYale | #FuelTheFire | #TonryStrong pic.twitter.com/lfjX660e5g
— Yale Gymnastics (@YaleGymnastics) April 11, 2022

Cirque at NCAA WAG Nationals

Yvonne Tousek Renne, double Olympian and former star at UCLA, will be attending Championships if any coaches wish to speak about possible future careers for their gymnasts.