Just released. … Somewhat boring.
Paris Olympic pictograms
Just released. … Somewhat boring.
Category: Olympics
Jessica Hutchinson – Floor
Jessica Hutchinson competing a variation on her mom’s — Silvia Mitova — Olympic Floor routine.
Great forward layout 2/1 twist.
Jessica’s Grandmother was Olympic gymnast Maya Blagoeva.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Here’s the TV version uploaded to Twitter.
Click PLAY or watch Silvia’s 1992 routine on YouTube.
#respect for the IOC
Though I disagree with the decision to possibly, maybe allow some athletes from Russia and Belarus to perhaps in some-way compete the Paris Olympics — I have to admire whomever wrote this clarification for them.
They answer the hard questions one-by-one without waffling.
That said, the best decision would be to ban those athletes from Paris if Russia does not withdraw by a preassigned date.
There have been precedents in the past when you have excluded complete teams from the Olympic Games, like South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s.
The exclusion of South Africa was based on UN sanctions. Apartheid was also practised in South African sport. These UN sanctions applied to all walks of life. The IOC followed the United Nations with this decision. …
Do the current deliberations mean the IOC will allow athletes with a Russian and Belarusian passport at the Olympic Games Paris 2024?
This is premature. No decision has been taken on the participation of athletes with a Russian or Belarusian passport at the Olympic Games Paris 2024. The topic under discussion is about their participation in international competitions in Asia in the forthcoming summer sport season. …
Who will be responsible for determining whether a Russian or Belarussian athlete actively supports the war? What are the criteria to determine this?
Currently, an exploration of a primary concept for conditions of participation is underway. No decision has been taken. What the details could look like will have to be worked out and decided on. …
What will happen in the case of athletes from Russia and Belarus who have already missed out on qualification?
Some qualification events in several sports have already taken place. The IOC will not ask IFs to adapt their qualification systems retroactively to allocate additional quota to athletes with a Russian or Belarussian passport that have missed out on qualification opportunities due to the war. …
What if an athlete expresses support for the Russian invasion before or during the Olympic Games?
As outlined in the primary concept for conditions of participation, only athletes who fully respect the Olympic Charter would participate. Such behaviour is not compatible with the Olympic Charter. …
First, only those who have not acted against the IOC’s peace mission by actively supporting the war in Ukraine could compete. …
#1 disqualified in all of Russia should be Nagorny.
Read the statement for yourself.
Abliazin, Nagorny, Belyavskiy, Dalaloyan are pro-war
This would seem to eliminate them from any consideration of competing Paris Olympics — even if Russia does qualify a men’s team.
2023 European Games – NO Russia
Poland will host European Games with 10 sports — but no Gymnastics — June 21 to July 2, 2023.
Via Google Translate.
The organizers of the 2023 European Games in Poland will not allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate, despite the position of the International Olympic Committee. The IOC has previously announced its readiness to consider the issue of admitting Russians and Belarusians to the Asian Games and giving them the opportunity to qualify for the Olympics in Paris.
Oleg Verniaiev on the IOC
The compromise (??) by the IOC makes no sense. It’s impossible to decide which athletes in Russia support Putin’s war and which do not.
Disagree with the IOC
I’m disgusted with Thomas Bach and his weak leadership.
As some feared, the International Olympic Committee made Putin a happy dictator.
They want to allow individual athletes with Russian or Belarusian passports to participate in Paris Olympic qualification.
They add that only those who have not acted against the peace mission of the IOC by actively supporting the war in Ukraine could compete.
How about Nikita Nagornyy, for example? Head of the Young Army Cadets National Movement. Nagornyy has been publicly supporting his country’s full scale invasion of Ukraine via social media.
TG Saar, a German gymnastics club, cut him from their Bundesliga team because of his support of Putin’s invasion.
Angelina Melnikova took part in a military march, posing with a Russian army veteran, holding a cardboard box marked with the letter Z, the militaristic symbol associated with supporters of the invasion of Ukraine.
What’s the plan IOC? Are you going to allow Melnikova and not Nagorny?
WHO is going to decide?
Clearly this compromise is going to blow up the face of the Olympic movement. Russians are going to compete, return home, then brag about their support of Putin’s war.
Look what happened in Australia when Tennis decided to allow Russian and Belarusian players. Pro-Russia supporters arrive with Putin and ‘Z’ banners
The press release mentions that Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was banned — while participation of “independent athletes” was allowed at the Olympic Games Barcelona 1992.
It carefully avoids including the fact that South Africa did not compete at Olympic Games from 1964 to 1988, as part of the boycott of apartheid. The South African National Olympic Committee (NOC) was expelled from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1970.
Banning South Africa helped speed the end of apartheid.
Banning Russia might help speed the end of innocent civilians being killed by Putin.
The IOC should ban Russia from Paris. Or allow all athletes to compete Paris as independents. One or the other.
Paris Hilton for Paris Olympics
Paris Olympics ticket lottery
BEST chance to get tickets is to put in your name during January 2023.
IF successful, you can later decide whether or not to pay for your package.
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Adem Asil – Egypt to Turkey
Adem Asil (né: Abdelrahman Elgamal (Arabic: عبد الرحمن الجمل) is an AA superstar and the Worlds 2022 Rings Champion.
He was 15th AA at the Tokyo Olympics.
After finishing 37th AA representing Egypt at the 2017 Worlds, Adem left his parents in Egypt to move to Turkey (Türkiye) because his coach had relocated there.
Be clear that Adem did not move because of problems in Egypt. In fact, Gymnastics in Egypt is booming. They have a terrific National Training Centre.
He began competing under the name Adem Asil in 2021. A reinvention. But his teammates still call him Abdel in the Gym.
It’s a great story. Click over to FIG to read more:
Click PLAY or watch his Qualification routine on YouTube.
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