Category: Gymnastics

Watanabe – FIG WTC – fix the many mistakes made in Paris

NCAA MAG coaches optimistic

Paris Olympic success has men’s college gymnastics coaches ‘optimistic’ for the sport’s future

,,, 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. …

celebrating Ana, Jordan and Sabrina

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.

introducing Airflair

The airflare (or air-flare) is one of my favourite skills on Floor.

… the 1990s, a dancer named Paulo Nunes in Europe had created the variation which is essentially the same move as the modern airflare. …

At that time in Europe it, was referred to as the airtwist. …

By the mid 1990s video arrived by way of EZ-Rock of Rocksteady which introduced the maneuver …

The video showed Nunes as well as a French b-boy who executed a move very similar to the modern airflare. …

Pablo Flores of Climax / Soul Control successfully performed continuous airflares completing the manifestation of the move. It is this modern form of the airflare that Morgan Hamm introduced into gymnastics, after learning it from the b-boy community. …

We await Airflare on POMMELS.

Then Beam. 😀

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