Olympic Break Dancing?

As part of an effort to appeal to younger fans, the organizing committee for the 2024 Games in Paris announced on Thursday that it would recommend break dancing …

The proposal — which also includes a recommendation that skateboarding, surfing and climbing, which will be introduced next year at the Tokyo Games, remain on the program — will be formally presented to the International Olympic Committee executive board at the end of March. …

NY Times

Click PLAY or watch a preview of the 4 sports on Twitter.

Canada’s NEW Food Guide

Reduced emphasis on Dairy.

Canada Food Guide.

Jeremy Mosier also recommends the Harvard Healthy Eating Plate.

Related – Coaching Association of Canada – Sports Nutrition

Jr Worlds / European Games preview

Jr Worlds are in Győr, Hungary

European Games in Minsk, Belarus.

Spencer:

Junior worlds is the inaugural junior world championship organized by the FIG. The idea is to provide an opportunity for those athletes who are not yet age-eligible …

The European Games is a multi-sport event that’s totally different from that multi-sport European Championship thing they did last year …

DAY 1 – Thursday, June 27

The first day kicks off the qualification at both events …

Click through for details:

EUROPEAN GAMES AND JUNIOR WORLDS PREVIEW

Nush – stoop shoot to el-grip Jaeger

Always with the cool, original skills. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

 

dancer My Name is Ding – The Git Up

Georgia’s Blanco Brown loves both kinds of music: Country and Western. 🙂

The singer posted a tutorial on how to do his viral dance.

Click PLAY or watch the version by My Name is Ding on Instagram. He really owns it.

Thanks Jamie.

in praise of Gymnastics volunteers

There are many, many thankless jobs to be done.

Athletes and coaches appreciate volunteers.

GymTactics YouTube channel

Some of the best WAG basics tutorials are posted by coach Jason Mortimer from Bounce Gymnastics in Michigan.

Subscribe to the GymTactics YouTube channel.

Click PLAY or watch a sample on YouTube. Jason teaching a stretched body Handspring Vault as required by the American J.O. judging regs.

Silvia Coronado y Guillem Martínez are awesome

Acrobatic mixed pair representing Spain during training at European Games in Minsk.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

62 nations at Jr Worlds

This weekend in Hungary.

Unfortunately this meet conflicts with European Games in Minsk, Belarus.

The championships will be evaluated and if deemed successful, the junior world championships will be added to the FIG calendar, to take place every other year. …

There will not be a separate Team and All-around final, like at most major events: instead, the points gathered during qualification for the apparatus finals will be added together to determine the Team and All-around awards.

The men’s qualifiers take place on Thursday (thus meaning All-around and Team gold medals handed out that day) and the women’s on Friday.

Saturday sees the men’s Floor Exercise, Pommel Horse and Still Rings medals, along with the women’s Vault and Uneven Bars.

Sunday hosts the men’s Vault, Parallel Bars, and Horizontal Bar, and the women’s Balance Beam and Floor Exercise apparatus finals.

FIG – Junior Worlds: an exciting new experiment

Chow with China