Part 3 of the documentary following Team Netherlands and their quest for Tokyo 2020.
INJURIES are one of the biggest challenges.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (posted Feb 13th)
Category: Olympics
Tokyo Olympics pictograms
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A bit dull compared with some Olympics past.
FIG Parkour Age Group Programme under development
FIG:
With the adoption of the new discipline of Parkour by the FIG Congress in December 2018, it became necessary to develop coach education programmes also for this discipline. …
The Parkour specialists that were invited to be members of the working group were Charles Perrière of France, the President of the FIG Parkour Commission, FIG Athletes’ Representative Micaela Buono Pugh of Argentina and Francisco de la Riva Vasquez of Belgium. …
It was an extraordinarily interesting meeting about a sport, many of whose participants believe in the values that Parkour should be discovered and cannot be taught and that the activity should not be competition oriented. But with the expectation that this will be an Olympic sport in 2024, things will change dramatically as athletes will most certainly be specifically trained from a young age.
The challenge was to find a solution that provides structure yet has ample room for freedom, innovation, discovery and creativity. The structure is necessary to assure the safe, healthy, gradual and systematic development of athletes towards future high-performance excellence. …
If FIG is going to run obstacle course competitions, obviously they need offer coach education.
March 8th is International #WomensDay
“Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change”, puts innovation by women and girls, for women and girls, at the heart of efforts to achieve gender equality. …
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SOME progress is being made. Close to half of the athletes in the Tokyo Olympics will be women.
rules for transgender athletes
A number of prominent athletes have been speaking out on this issue of late.
Marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe:
“Absolutely, any transgender men or women should be able to access sport – it just depends which category.
“We need to protect female sport but we also need to protect transgender women and their rights.
“For all this to advance fairly to everybody, we have to accept it might take a while, work together and stop attacking the other side.”
Paula Radcliffe says tighter transgender rules are needed to avoid ‘manipulation’
Certainly more research needs be done on this important but rarely problematic issue.
The current level of testosterone allowed by the IOC will drop from 10 nanomoles per litre to five for the 2020 Olympics.
MOSTLY this issue is a talking point for right wing extremists who jump on every opportunity to attack minorities. The rhetoric is similar to their attacks on transgender people using public bathrooms.
related – Transgender Minnesotan powerlifter JayCee Cooper was barred from competing at a state championship due to the International Olympics Committee’s ( IOC ) guidelines.
Vanessa Ferrari – new Floor routine
Jess loves it.
Surprisingly retro in terms of music and balletic dance.
I’d say Vanessa is the favourite to earn the ONE Olympic specialist spot available for Floor. Especially if she keeps getting credit for those advanced leaps.
Or will Jade Carey get it?
Click PLAY or watch it (prelims Melbourne) on YouTube.
Coming back from injury, I expect we’ll see the double double back soon.
P.S. I’m still irked Vanessa was ripped off in the 2010 Worlds Floor Final. She clearly should have won that gold.
no smoking at the Tokyo Olympics
A great move. Especially for Japn, a nation that was slow to start restricting smoking.
Organizers on Thursday announced a stringent ban on all tobacco products and vaping devices. Smoking will be banned at all indoor and outdoor Olympic and Paralympic venues, plus within all perimeter areas of the Tokyo Games.
Organizers say the prohibition is tougher than regulations for the last two Summer Olympics in London and Rio de Janeiro. …
Melbourne World Cup wrap-up
With eight of the 10 titles, Asian gymnasts dominated down under at the FIG Individual Apparatus World Cup in Melbourne (AUS) this weekend, as the individual Olympic qualification continued for Tokyo.
Gymnasts from China, Chinese Taipei, Japan, Korea and the Philippines divided the majority of the honours, with Vanessa Ferrari (ITA) and Igor Radivilov (UKR) winning one title each.
More than 90 athletes from 30 nations traveled to the Melbourne Arena
World Cup Finals Melbourne day 1
Vault
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- Yeo Seo-jeong KOR 14.266
- Oksana Chusovitina UZB 14.200
- Yu Linmin CHN 14.083
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Bars
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- Fan Yilin CHN 14.833
- Lyu Jiaqi CHN 14.355
- Georgia-Rose Brown AUS 13.366
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Floor
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- Carlos Edriel Yulo PHI 14.566
- Hibiki Arayashiki JPN 14.500
- Rayderley Zapata ESP & Dominick Cunningham GBR 14.500
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Pommels
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- Lee Chin-Kai TPE 15.266
- Weng Hao CHN 15.233
- Tomomasa Hasegawa JPN 14.666
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Rings
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- Liu Yang CHN 15.166
- You Hao CHN 15.133
- Arthur Zanetti BRA 14.966
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Click PLAY or watch Liu Yang on Twitter.
Breakdance to the Olympics?
Controversial.
Should Breakdance be introduced at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games?
Click PLAY or watch some reaction to the 2018 Youth Olympics announcement on YouTube.
Dvora Meyers – Can Breaking Become An Olympic Sport And Still Keep Its Soul? (2018)
Of course the Olympics have bigger problems. For one, they have to find a way to cut hosting costs.
Brisbane’s 2032 Olympic Games bid will require billions of dollars, feasibility study reveals
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