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Category: Olympics
Zhang Boheng’s Gymnastics career
I had no idea that Zhang Boheng faced so many challenges en route to becoming World Champion in 2021 in Kitakyushu, Japan.
His rivalry and friendship with Hashimoto Daiki is one of the great stories of this era.
Read the details on zhoxxyy:
Zhang Boheng: Triumph Over Silver, All-Around Gymnastics Star
FIG rebrands as ‘World Gymnastics’
The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) today announces a major rebrand, introducing its new name: World Gymnastics. …
World Gymnastics engages millions of athletes and fans across 165 member federations, making it one of the most popular participation and spectator sports.
The new brand includes a new logo and visual identity …
In addition to name and brand identity, World Gymnastics will unveil eight distinctive discipline brands, each purpose-built to elevate the identity, visibility and growth of the sport’s diverse disciplines.
The discipline identities for Gymnastics for All, Men’s Artistic, Women’s Artistic, Rhythmic, Trampoline & Tumbling, Acrobatics, Aerobics and Parkour will be showcased over the coming weeks.
FIG unveils new global identity: World Gymnastics
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NEW – Kaylia Nemour book
Kaylia Nemour has released a book in French titled L’Ombre de l’or: La star des Jeux de Paris 2024 livre sa vérité, which translates to “The Shadow of the Gold: The star of the Paris 2024 Games delivers her truth“.
Published December 4, 2025, and is available for purchase, not just preorder.
Amazon ➙ available in both paperback and ebook formats on different Amazon international sites (e.g., US, Germany, Singapore, Belgium).
Believe. Belong. Become. Brisbane 2032.
I’m confident Brisbane and Australia will deliver an epic Olympic Games in 2032.
The “Games vision” of the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, revealed this week, does sound a little wordy, however. 😀
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related – Germany is looking to host again in 2036, 2040 or 2044.
European Gymnastics to allow AIN individuals
Personally, I would have voted against.
Putin is solely responsible for mass murder. He started this war. He could end it tomorrow.
It’s clear FIG wants AIN gymnasts back in official competition including the Olympics.
European Gymnastics has lifted its blanket ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes, clearing the way for them to return to continental competitions for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine.
The decision came on Friday at the 2025 European Gymnastics Congress in Prague.
A vote took place with 46 countries reportedly participating: 27 voted in favor of lifting the ban, 15 voted against, and four abstained. …
European Gymnastics lifts total ban on Russian, Belarusian athletes
Putin’s war has between 400,000 and 1.5 million Ukrainian estimated casualties (killed and wounded) during the Russian invasion of Ukraine from February 24, 2022 till November, 2025.
Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian war
Philippines the fastest improving Gymnastics nation?
I led a week long Olympic Solidarity coaching course in Manila in 2011.
MAG and WAG.
Gymnastics was not well developed at that time. Good facilities just being built.
BUT it was obvious that the Gymnastics Association of the Philippines was passionate and determined to build.
Not too many years later they had a World and Olympic champion in Carlos Yulo.
This is only the 36th largest economy of the world.
Both MAG and WAG Artistic programs have grown quickly. What other nation has done so much in so few years?
They are still improving.
I share my excitement and profound optimism for the Philippines’ turn on the world stage. Long dominated by gymnastics powerhouses, the hosting of a global event by this beautiful island country is a tribute to FIG’s inclusivity and to humanity’s aspirations for independence and global solidarity.
FIG President Watanabe
Men’s Jr Worlds Qualification HIGHLIGHTS
Read the FIG summing-up:
Chinese men strike gold as Junior World Championships get underway in Manila
- Yang Lanbin, Wang Chengcheng and Zheng Ao 1st Jr. Men’s World team title
- Arsenii Dukhno (AIN) leads in the All-Around with 82.065 despite a major error on P Bars and minor problems on H Bar. First on Floor and Vault.
- Karl Eldrew Yulo (PHI), the younger brother of Olympic champion Carlos Yulo, was the gymnast most cheered. Very similar at the same age. Eldrew qualified for Floor, Vault, H Bar and All-Around Finals.
- Danila Leykin (USA) leads on P Bars and H Bar with terrific and interesting routines. USA very excited about finishing Bronze in team.
Watching Podium training, I expected a lot of falls. BUT performances in competition were good, overall.
Falls mostly on:
- Double Front on Floor
- Under-rotated H Bar dismounts
- Pommels, especially dismounts
Many fell on Vault landings, but not many felt unsafe. Most of the nations made good decisions on difficulty.
- Remember the name ➙ Nikita Netreba, Poland.
- Remember the name ➙ Aaron Esner, Netherlands. Tons of potential.
Looks to me like we will have more 1/1 twisting Double Tuck dismounts off P Bars in the future. Evan McPhillips (GBR) and Dukhno, for example. All 3 Colombia gymnasts used Flyaway 1/1 twisting Double Tuck dismounts off the end.
Hey. Could Colombia qualify a full team to the L.A. Olympics? They have 2 very strong all-around gymnasts in Ángel Barajas and Camilo Vera.
I recall well when Taiwan qualified a full men’s team unexpectedly. It could happen again.
- pinning numbers on gymnasts in competition is unnecessary and stupid
- pinning numbers on gymnasts in competition is unnecessary and stupid
- pinning numbers on gymnasts in competition is unnecessary and stupid
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coach Camelia Voinea – Gymnastics drama
Camelia Voinea competed for Romania between 1984 and 1988. The first gymnast to tumble a double layout to punch front on Floor.
Today Camelia coaches her daughter Sabrina, born 2007. Yes, that’s the excellent gymnast who would have won a Bronze medal on Floor in Paris IF her mother / coach had submitted an inquiry on time. Romania — at the time — thought Sabrina would win the Bronze medal, even with the wrongfully assessed 0.1 out of bounds deduction so they didn’t appeal.
Coach Camelia Voinea, we are told, is not up on the Code of Points. She tried to appeal the E-score, at one competition, for example. Not allowed, as every other coach knows.
Always controversial, Camelia is back in the headlines after recent allegations of physical, verbal, and mental abuse by multiple former gymnasts.
To get caught up, listen to the GymCastic podcast interview with former Romanian national team coaches Daymon Jones and Patrick Kiens.
Romanian Gymnastics administration remains a dumpster fire.
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Věra Čáslavská documentary
Don’t Look Away
Czech gymnast Věra Čáslavská won a total of 22 international titles between 1959 and 1968 including seven Olympic gold medals, four world titles and eleven European championships.
Čáslavská was known for her outspoken support of the Czechoslovak democratization movement and her opposition to the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.
At the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, she took this protest to the world stage by quietly looking down and away while the Soviet national anthem was played during the medal ceremonies for the balance beam and floor exercise event finals.
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