Category: Olympics

CAN Nationals MAG – day 1

Canada’s goal is to qualify a full team to the Paris Olympics. Top 12 at Worlds 2023.

The have a good talent pool to choose from. Zach Clay’s 14.350 Pommels is a BIG number for this team.

Paris Olympics – Pride House

The Pride House is designed to be a welcoming and inclusive space and will be in operation throughout the period of next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games.

… gender equality, diversity and equal opportunities …

Pride House has been launched alongside the Fair-Play Association, which aims to promote fair play, inclusion, equality and respect for people in sport regardless of gender, sexual orientation, expression or gender identity. …

Olympic ideals. Racists and homophobes should stay away.

Kaylia Nemour to African Championships

One of the best Bars workers in the worlds — from France — had been blocked from qualifying for the Olympics — in France. By France.

Merde.

Born in Saint-Benoît-la-Forêt, France, to a French mother and an Algerian father, Kaylia has finally been cleared to represent Algeria at African Championships 2023.

FIG running out the clock on RUS

I don’t want Russian gymnasts competing in the Paris Olympics.

YES it’s rotten for Russian athletes who don’t support Putin’s war, if there are any.

But banning Russia totally is the least bad scenario for 2024.

FIG President Morinari Watanabe echoed the IOC position that Russians should be allowed to compete as independents, as they did in Tokyo. I disagree.

If any Russians compete in Paris all headlines will be about that controversial decision, degrading the actually Olympic ideals for the nations of the world that did not invade their neighbours.

AND it looks like FIG will continue to delay a final decision until it’s too late for them to be included.

International Gymnastics Federation postpones decision on re-admitting Russia until July

Anastasia Bachynska’s father killed

Anastasia Bachynska is the 2019 European Games floor exercise champion, the 2021 European balance beam bronze medalist, and the 2018 Youth Olympic all-around and floor exercise bronze medalist.

She was also a member of the gold medal-winning team at the 2020 European Championships.

HOW does FIG expect Ukraine to compete against independent Russian athletes at the Paris Olympics?

I support a ban on all RUS athletes in FIG and IOC events until Putin withdraws his army. Russia invaded Ukraine. Ukraine did not invade Russia.

Jade Carey at OSU through 2024

Jade has decided to train for Paris while simultaneously staying at University.

Jade is cool.

I have a lot of faith in both Jade Carey and OSU. My best guess is that this will work.

Hashimoto Daiki wins All Japan. Again.

The Olympic Champion competed despite suffering a lower-back stress fracture and twisted right ankle.

He didn’t need to compete as he’d already qualified for the World Championships in Antwerp from 30 September to 8 October.

Recall Kohei won this meet 10 times in a row from 2008 to 2017.

Shane Wiskus documentary

This documentary has been playing in a series of film festivals.

Leave a comment if you know when it will be available to stream online.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Jordan Chiles interview

Trying for Paris. No comment for anything after 2024.