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French star, Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos, was disappointed by her results in Tokyo.
But joining Simone’s tour rekindled her enthusiasm for training towards the Paris Olympics.
She wanted a change. And moving to Texas is a BIG change. She’ll train with Cecile and Laurent Landi at World Champions Centre.
Mélanie will skip European Championships 2022.
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A total of 318 athletes – 192 in Artistic, 94 in Rhythmic and 32 in Trampoline.
Via email from FIG:
Artistic Gymnastics
First opportunity to qualify for Artistic will be at Liverpool, United Kingdom, at the World Championships, scheduled to take place from 29 October to 6 November 2022. Top 3 teams each qualify 5 spots for Paris.
At the 2023 Worlds in Antwerp, Belgium the 9 remaining team places will be awarded. And and the 3 next-best-ranked eligible countries will get 1 non-nominative place. In addition, the All-Around Qualifications’ results will enable 8 male gymnasts and 14 female gymnasts to get their Olympic tickets. The Apparatus finals will be an opportunity for the specialists with places for the #1 eligible gymnast in each apparatus final.
The specialists will have another opportunity with the Apparatus World Cup series in 2024. The 2 best eligible women and men on each apparatus from the Olympic Qualification World Cup Ranking List – based on their best three results out of four in the series – will be Paris-bound.
The last qualifying opportunity will come at the 2024 continental championships, with 1 All-Around individual place at stake for contenders at each continental event.
At the London Olympics you could argue that either Gabby Douglas or Viktoria Komova deserved the gold. LIVE at the time, I thought Gabby was slightly better in the AA competition.
17-year-old Komova did not take the loss well.
I was disappointed in her attitude at the time. Poor sportsmanship.
Now I can say this: ⠀ I’m proud of myself! I’m proud of my performance! And I’m glad I went to the Olympics! 🎉 ⠀ This is my sports pride for life ♥️”
read more – Russia’s Viktoria Komova Is Finally Proud Of Her Olympic All Around Silver Medal
No doubt Mélanie will be one of the biggest local stars when Paris hosts the Olympics.
Shocking news.
Many including myself felt Keiji would live forever.
One of Ellie Black’s coaches. A class gentleman beloved by all who worked with him. And one of my first mentor coaches.
Keiji will be missed.
Competitors reflect on Shaun’s legacy at the Beijing Olympics.
They all grew up idolizing him.
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Faced with threats of withdrawals and growing animosity in the Athletes Village, organizers of the Winter Paralympics on Thursday reversed course and expelled athletes from Russia and Belarus.
The about-face came less than 24 hours after the International Paralympic Committee announced it would allow Russians and Belarusians to compete when the Games open on Friday, but only as neutral athletes with colours, flags and other national symbols removed because of the invasion of Ukraine. …
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Russia will appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
While I feel awful for innocent athletes who qualified all the way up until Opening Ceremonies now being dropped, I probably would have voted the same way.
Military response risks nuclear war. Therefore those who do not support Russia invading other nations must protest in every other non-violent way. Putin loves sport and will certainly take this ban seriously.
I have no idea what these amazing athletes are doing.
How do they even keep track of so many multiple rotations?
And who wants to land backwards at full speed?
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