Belgium does a terrific job hosting major meets.
Rhythmic Worlds will go in Valencia from 4-10 September 2023.
Trampoline Worlds to Birmingham 9-12 November 2023 followed by World Age Group Competitions from 16-19 November.
Category: Rhythmic
Tokyo Olympic Gymnastics icons
Shared by photographer Ricardo Bufolin.
most common injury for Olympic gymnasts?
Ankle.
The National Olympic Committee’s head physicians and the medical teams of the Local Organising Committee of the Olympic Games reported daily the occurrence (or non-occurrence) of newly sustained injuries in artistic, rhythmic and trampoline gymnastics on a standardised report form during the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
RESULTS
During the three Olympic Games, 81 injuries were reported in a total of 963 registered gymnasts …
Thirty-eight per cent of injuries led to time-loss from sport. The most frequent injury location and injury type were the ankle (22%) and sprain (35%), respectively. …
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Jessica Bogdanov – acrobatics
Jessica is former Rhythmic gymnast.
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Gymnastics Canada rebrands
From here, we soar.
… pleased to unveil a new brand for the organization as we embark on our 50th Anniversary year …
… new logo, tagline, and social media handles …
Our social media channels have also taken on the new brand and bilingual identity @gymcan1:
FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | YOUTUBE | TWITTER
Clothing featuring the new Gymnastics Canada logo is now available at our online store: http://shop.gymcan.og.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. Easily the best edit they’ve ever produced.
Canada has never had a top notch website nor social media. This looks to me like a big improvement.
FIG Executive Committee decisions
30 November – 1 December 2018 in Baku (AZE)
- unanimously adopted an “Athletes’ Rights and Responsibilities Declaration”
- 39th Rhythmic Gymnastics Worlds to Sofia (BUL), 12 – 18 September 2022
- 1st FIG Artistic Gymnastics Junior World Championships in Györ (HUN), 27 – 30 June 2019
- 1st FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics Junior World Championships in Moscow (RUS), 19 – 21 July 2019
- Dr. Michel Léglise (FRA), President of the FIG Anti-Doping, Medical and Scientific Commission replaced with Dr. Yasunobu Iwasaki (JPN)
Approved the following changes of nationality:
Petrix BARBOSA MAG Gymnast BRA tp POR
Vitalii ARSENIEV MAG Gymnast UKR to GEO
Janna MOUFFOK WAG Gymnast FRA to ALG
Carmel KALLEMAA RG Gymnast EST to CAN
Emiliya Javorova RADICHEVA RG Gymnast BUL to TUR
Aleksandra Radoye MITROVICH RG Gymnast BUL to TUR
Olivia CIMPIAN WAG Gymnast HUN to ROU
why not Gymnastics Saskatchewan?
I lived and coached in Saskatchewan for 10 years. It’s the kind of place you can watch your dog run away … for 2 days. 😀
A perfect place to be doing Gymnastics indoors.
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gorgeous Wolf turn combo
Morinari Watanabe elected to IOC
He’ll continue as FIG President, as well.
IOC SESSION ELECTS NINE NEW MEMBERS
Watanabe was a coach in Artistic and Men’s Rhythmic gymnastics 1983-1990. I learned that from his IOC biography.
YOG International Gymnastics “teams”
Grace Chui found the document which details which Youth Olympic Games athletes have been placed into what combined teams.
A bit of fun. A LOT of confusion, in my opinion.
Hopefully it will help bring a little more attention to the non-Olympic disciplines.
Here’s team Oksana CHUSOVITINA for example:
Acrobatic
AKHOTNIKAVA Viktoryia BLR
FAMENKOU Ilya BLR
Artistic – Men
BRIONES Brandon USA
TOBIN Adam GBR
AFIFY Mohamed EGY
Artistic – Women
ULMASOVA Indira UZB
PEREZ Karla GUA
PAULSSON Tonya SWE
Rhythmic
IAKOVLEVA Lidiia AUS
YAMADA Aino JPN
ROTAERMEL Lilly GER
Trampoline – Men
ESCALLIER Santiago ARG
Trampoline – Women
SAKELLARIDOU Antonia GRE
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