Author: Rick Mc

Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.

Petition to improve NBC Gymnastics coverage

NBC has a format that has not much changed over the decades.

Personally I tend to watch other broadcasts as NBC normally shows the fewest routines. And I’m there for the Gymnastics, not the fluff.

That said, there are a lot of good points in this petition applicable to all broadcasters. I signed.

Read it on Change.org.

 

Russia withdraws from World Cups – FIG must respond

Nikita Nagornyy and Lilia Akhaimova who were supposed to represent Russia at the American Cup on March, 7 have announced on their Instagram accounts that Russia will withdraw from the competition due to coronavirus fears. …

Earlier, Angelina Melnikova was not allowed by the national team to participate in a Serie A competition in Italy. …

Valentina Rodionenko officially confirmed that Russian gymnasts also withdrew from the Tokyo World Cup. …

gymnovosti

Chinese gymnasts were not allowed into Australia to compete the Melbourne World Cup. Iranian gymnasts did get in.

Certainly the World Cup Olympic qualification system is blown out of the water. FIG must revisit the qualification system and make a decision on alternatives.

https://twitter.com/russiangymstan/status/1233356796791836677

Update:

https://twitter.com/LubaBaladzhaeva/status/1233379596118171651

Simone throws an AXE

… How did she do? 

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Allison Zuhlke – Tsuk from handspring approach

Alison is planning on competing for Towson.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Pamchenkova @Pamchenkova)

USA MAG international assignments

If you (like me) are still confused about American assignments following Winter Cup, those were decided by MPC on Saturday, February 22st.

In the minutes the stated objective of the AA World Cups is to “earn +1 for Olympic Games with top 3 finish cumulative results from American Cup, Stuttgart, Birmingham and Tokyo Cup.”

Motion: Assign Shane Wiskus to Wild Card position at American Cup (with Sam Mikulak)

… Assign Yul Moldauer to Stuttgart AA World Cup.

Assign Brody Malone to Birmingham World Cup.

Assign Sam Mikulak to Tokyo Cup.

Read the minutes.

That decision was unanimous.

Apparently there were no updated, published documents giving direction to the committee, a big oversight on the part of USAG MPC.

Poor planning. 

Very poor communication. 

Fixing this should be job #1 for new USAG Men’s Vice President Jason Woodnick.

As USAG has declined to comment on the issue publicly, the best coverage I’ve heard was by Kensley Behel on GymCastic podcast episode 413.

Kensley attended Winter Cup and has been in direct communication with USAG.