STILL trying to understand Olympic qualification

MAGnastics tried a hypothetical scenario using results of Men’s Worlds 2018 to decide most of the Olympians:

  • Team Qualification (12)
  • Individual AA Qualification
  • Individual Apparatus Qualification

Using 2018 rankings Olympians include: Adam Steele, Ireland, Tin Srbic, Croatia, Ri Se Gwang, North Korea, Eleftherios Petrounias, Greece, Lee Chih Kai, Taipei, Artem Dolgopyat, Israel, etc. 

Click through to see how it turned out:

Demonstrating Olympic Qualification Using 2018 Worlds as an Example

World Cup qualifiers are not included.

Petrounias

Men’s NCAA Preseason Coaches Poll

Oklahoma Sooners (419 points)
Stanford Cardinal (390 points)
Illinois Fighting Illini (366 points)
Minnesota Golden Gophers (353 points)
Michigan Wolverines (324 points)
Ohio State Buckeyes (323 points)
Nebraska Cornhuskers (313 points)
Penn State Nittany Lions (301 points)
Iowa Hawkeyes (267 points)
Navy Midshipmen (225 points)

The majority of teams’ seasons will get underway the weekend of January 11 (with meets like the West Point Open and Rocky Mountain Open). The conclusion of the 2019 campaign will come at the NCAA Championships in Champaign, IL on April 19-20.

Make sure to follow all of the action this season on the CGA’s social accounts: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

2019 CGA Preseason Coaches Poll

Region5USAG High Tech Camp

Click PLAY or get a glimpse on Twitter.

Benefits of Gymnastics for kids

From our sister site RecGymnastics.com:

Guest post by Alex from Amilia.com:

Gymnasts who perform at the highest level and win world championships or Olympic medals are awe-inspiring physical specimens who wow with their flexibility, strength, balance and coordination. Even if your child doesn’t aspire of practice gymnastics at that high a level, those foundational physical qualities can positively impact their lives away from the practice facility and, over time, even help them academically.

With the average child spending seven hours a daylooking at screens, the importance of putting youngsters in a program that makes physical fitness and interpersonal communication a priority is crucial for their continued development. As they inch closer to their teenage years, prioritizing physical activity and social interactions with other kids their age will put them in a great position to blossom into strong, capable young adults.

Let’s take a closer at the biggest gymnastics’ benefits for kids, starting with:

Lasting Health Benefits

Strong Social Benefits

Commitment and Discipline

Motor Skills, Balance and Coordination

Improved Strength

Click over to RecGymnastics.com to read the whole post:

5 Benefits of Gymnastics for Your Child

Alex G. is VP of Marketing and Customer Success at Amilia, a company offering an all-in-one gymnastics registration software solution for gym schools and cheer clubs.  

USAG files for bankruptcy protection

… This filing will enable USA Gymnastics to continue to support its athletes, to fully operate and meet its responsibilities to the entire membership and to expeditiously resolve the claims made by the survivors of sexual abuse perpetrated by Larry Nassar. …

The survivors’ claims against USA Gymnastics are covered by insurance previously purchased by USA Gymnastics, and the amount of available insurance proceeds available is not affected by the Chapter 11 filing. Apart from these insurance proceeds, USA Gymnastics has no other significant assets that could be used to pay claims. USA Gymnastics believes that the Bankruptcy Court is the best forum in which to implement appropriate procedures to equitably determine and allocate the insurance proceeds among claimants, allowing compensation to survivors to proceed more quickly than litigation filed in multiple courts around the country. …

USA Gymnastics files for reorganization under Chapter 11 of Bankruptcy Code

Georgia-Mae’s homage to Beth Tweddle

Georgia-Mae Fenton!

Beth’s iconic combo but with her own skill …

Daniel

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

Yusuke Saito sings the Code

One way to learn the named skills in the Men’s Code of Points. 😀

Click PLAY or watch Gymnastics technique ♫ on YouTube.

Yusuke competes for Tokushu Gymnastics Club in Japan.