Category: Olympics

Olympic Q-Series – 6 sports

None of the World Gymnastics (FIG) disciplines included. Yet.

But an interesting concept. These sports will get MUCH MORE ATTENTION in advance of the Olympics.

The Olympic Q-Series (formerly the Olympic Qualifier Series) is a multi-sport, festival-style event that serves as the final qualification pathway for athletes to secure direct quota places for the Olympic Games. 

2028 Olympic Q-Series (Road to LA28)

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) recently confirmed that the series will expand to four global stops in 2028: 

  • Tokyo, Japan: May 4–7, 2028
  • Shanghai, China: May 11–14, 2028
  • Montreal, Canada: June 1–4, 2028
  • Orlando, USA: June 8–11, 2028 

Sports Featured for LA28:
The expanded program includes six sports:

  • 3×3 Basketball
  • Beach Volleyball
  • BMX Freestyle
  • Sport Climbing
  • Flag Football (making its debut)
  • Skateboarding 

Sanne Wevers is BACK

Our 2016 Olympic Beam champion, fan favourite, Sanne Wevers, now age-34, is going to try a comeback.

French AA champ to Algeria

21-year-old Djenna Laroui has announced she’ll be changing citizenship from France to Algeria, where she’ll join Olympic Bars champion Kaylia Nemour who did the same in 2022.

We wish her well.

The French Federation has to consider why some of their best gymnasts want to represent other nations.

Like the men from Columbia and Philippines, Algeria has a chance to qualify a TEAM to the L.A. Olympics.

April Fool’s – WOMEN competed Parallel Bars in the Olympics

Men’s Parallel Bars with one rail raised. 😀

What modern gymnast would believe that story?

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Canada wins Women’s Pokal 2026

I’d argue that Canada has never had better potential in team competition than in the 2028 Olympic cycle.

Ellie Black and Lia Monica Fontaine are super strong in the AA.

And the Great White North has depth in elite and (potentially) returning College gymnasts.

Gabrielle Black, Victoriane Charron, Alyssa Guerrier-Calixte, Charlotte Raymond and Lia Redick combined to give Canada a 4.664-point margin of victory over silver medal-wining France in the senior women’s Team Challenge. Australia placed third.

IG – Canadian women, U.S. men take senior team titles at DTB Pokal in Stuttgart

International Gymnix 2026 results

  1. Canada 160.100
  2. Japan 155.800
  3. Canada 2 152.567

🥇 Lia Monica Fontaine, Canada, 54.233
🥈 Lia Redick, Canada, 53.900
🥉 Nishiyama Misa, Japan, 53.200

With Ellie Black and Lia Monica doing the AA, Canada has a terrific team projected for the L.A. Olympics.

Junior Cup Team

  1. Japan 150.867
  2. USA 150.533
  3. Italy 149.200

🥇 Ogawa Risora, Japan, 50.567
🥈 Amariah Moore, United States, 50.533
🥉 Minamino Yume, Japan, 50.467

Gymnastics History at the Olympics

Gymnastics has been an esteemed and integral part of the Olympic Games since its reinstatement in 1896.

With a harmonious blend of strength, flexibility, and artistry, gymnastics showcases the pinnacle of human athleticism and grace.

The Olympics host a variety of gymnastics disciplines including Artistic, Rhythmic, and Trampoline, each offering a unique and captivating display of skill and agility.

That bland introduction was written by AI. 😀

1924 will forever be linked with sport as the year the Olympic Games made a splash in Paris (FRA) for the second time. …

The Paris Olympics, the last Games before Women’s Artistic Gymnastics was introduced on the Olympic programme, were hugely influential in the development of the sport, with reverberations that would impact Gymnastics for decades to come.

  • 22 perfect “10s” in the rope climbing event
  • Albert Seguin (FRA) perfect 10 in sidehorse Vault
  • Leon Stukelj (YUG), one of the first to be photographed doing an iron cross on the Still Rings.
  • Gymnastics was filmed, some of the first footage of our sport

Paris 1924: Three ways these Games shaped Artistic Gymnastics

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what do you know about Olympic Champion Oka Shinnosuke?

I didn’t know that our reigning Olympic champion suffered an ACL tear during the 2022 All-Japan Championships.

In fact, I feel most of us don’t know much about Oka Shinnosuke compared with rivals Daiki Hashimoto and Zhang Boheng.

Oka Shinnosuke is a fascinating example of contrasts: a gymnast who fears heights, a quiet leader with a fiery gaming temper, and a “compact car” with a “Ferrari engine.”

His journey from the “Chin” of failure to the “Kin” of Olympic gold is a testament to the power of locked in focus and the pursuit of beautiful gymnastics. …

read more – Oka Shinnosuke: 12 Facts About the Small Giant of Gymnastics