Friendship through sport at the Stuttgart World Cup.
Olympic Charter: “… a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play …”
Thank Cordelia Price for posting it from the live video stream.
Category: Olympics
Baku World Cup results
Olympic qualification points on the line.
Vault
🥇 Jade Carey USA 14.766
🥈 Oksana Chusovitina UZB 14.450
🥉 Alexa Moreno MEX 14.249
Bars
🥇 Lyu Jiaqi CHN 14.266
🥈 Anastasia Iliankova RUS 14.133
🥉 Georgia-Rose Brown AUS 13.566
Diana Varinska had 13.566 as well, but lost out in the tie-break.
Click PLAY or watch Lyu Jiaqi on Facebook. LOVE the double twist. Surprised at the loose form. And always disappointed in routines where gymnasts switch one hand at a time.
Beam
🥇 Emma Nedov AUS 14.100
🥈 Marine Boyer FRA 14.100
🥉 Mana Oguchi JPN 13.200
Click PLAY or watch Emma’s Beam on Facebook.
Floor
🥇 Jade Carey USA 14.600
🥈 Lara Mori ITA 13.866
🥉 Vanessa Ferrari ITA 13.733
Jade Carey – Floor
Baku Final
1. Jade Carey USA 14.600
2. Lara Mori ITA 13.866
3. Vanessa Ferrari ITA 13.733
Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter. No sound, but that’s a good way to evaluate her choreography rather than musicality.
She won Vault, as well. Olympic qualifying points!
Brazil wins DTB Cup challenge
As many predicted, Brazil’s top team finished ahead of a very good Russian team.
Right now you have to add Brazil to the list of Olympic team medal contenders.
Though there was no AA competition, Rebeca went 56.932 today.
1 – Brazil, 164.396
2 – Russia, 159.496
3 – Netherlands, 153.763
4 – France, 150.462
🇧🇷❤️🥇 https://t.co/rT33RexMIU—
BRAGymnastics (@BraGymnastics) March 16, 2019
Valeri should be smiling.
UCLA student athletes talk mental health
An excellent initiative promoted by Anna Glenn. Especially considering the recent suicide of triple world champion cyclist Kelly Catlin at Stanford. She was only 23.
Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.
Netherlands – the bumpy road to Doha
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)
Tokyo Olympics pictograms
Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.
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. …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
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.
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