Stella Zakharova, now age-60, born in Odesa, Ukraine, was an Olympic and World Championship gold medalist in team competitions for the USSR.
NEW Canadian Men’s Podcast
Felix Dolci and his teammates started a new podcast you can watch and listen to on YouTube.
SUBSCRIBE to help promote the launch. It’s called “The Rise Experience”.
The Canadian men were the big surprise at Worlds 2023, finishing 4th in qualifications to send a full team to Paris. This podcast will document their Olympic preparations.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
FIG WTC Antwerp Worlds Report
2023 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Antwerp, BEL
Womenβs Artistic Gymnastics Technical Committee Report
IOC partly complicit in Putin’s war
Ukrainian politician Π ΠΎΠΌΠ° ΠΡΠΈΡΡΠΊ posted this image on Facebook.
He’s not happy the International Olympic Committee decided to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete at the 2024 Olympics in Paris under a neutral flag.
It may have been first posted by VisegrΓ‘d 24 on Twitter.
5 Rhythmic Groups qualify for Paris
From Worlds 2023 in Spain.
China
Italy
Ukraine
Brazil
France
related – 2023 in review: a year of curve balls and comebacks in Rhythmic Gymnastics
Safronov (USSR) did Kasamatsu first
And Safronov competed the Kasamatsu Vault at University Games 1973.
It was named after Shigeru Kasamatsu who competed it at 1974 Worlds.
Uncle Tim posted the details:
1973: The Menβs Competition at the University Games
Canada’s “Future of Sport” commission
Canadaβs Minister of Sport, Carla Qualtrough, this afternoon announced a national commission to address safe-sport issues, but stopped short of calling a national inquiry.
… Β a suite of measures, including a Future of Sport in Canada Commission that will hold a summit and produce two reports during its 18-month mandate.
An independent commissioner and two special advisers will head the commission.
Among other measures announced were moving the new Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner (OSIC) and its abuse-free program out of the Sports Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada (SDRCC), increasing the capacity of AthletesCan, elevating Sport Canada’s athlete advisory committee to a ministerial committee, modernizing Sport Canada’s funding framework and developing a sport integrity framework, with policies around match manipulation and safeguarding children.
Toronto Star
Oklahoma intersquad
’tis the season for showing routines to the general public.
Li Ning statue in Switzerland
A statue of Li Ning, China’s ‘Prince of Gymnastics’, was unveiled 2017 in Montreux, Switzerland, as part of a celebration marking the 150th anniversary of the Swiss Montreux Gymnastics Committee.
It joins statues of rock vocalist Freddie Mercury, jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, and actor Charles Chaplin.Β Good company.
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Russian wrestlers cleared for Paris
Zaurbek Sidakov, Zaur Uguev and Abdulrashid Sadulayev are 3 of the eight athletes already named as eligible by IOC.
Attending a war rally with Putin did not disqualify.
Article from September 19, 2023:
Three Olympic champions from Russia were cleared to compete at the world wrestling championships this week because they were judged to have been pressured to appear at a pro-war rally in Moscow last year.
The United World Wrestling governing body explained Tuesday why Zaurbek Sidakov, Zaur Uguev and Abdulrashid Sadulayev were among the Russian wrestlers who passed vetting to compete as neutral athletes in Belgrade, Serbia.
All three won Olympic gold medals at the Tokyo Games held in 2021 and were paraded on stage at a flag-waving rally at Luzhniki Stadium in March 2022. It was attended by President Vladimir Putin three weeks after he ordered the military invasion of Ukraine.
The athletesβ presence there seemed likely to bar their return to competition with neutral status ahead of the Paris Games. The International Olympic Committee advised the governing bodies of each individual sport in March to exclude those who publicly supported the war.
However, a vetting process for the three wrestlers concluded βtheir participation in certain events is not (of) their own will,β United World Wrestling said in a statement.
The governing bodyβs vetting panel did bar 30 athletes, coaches and support staff from Russia and its military ally Belarus from coming to the Sept. 16-24 championships. …
Wrestling body says why Russian champions competed at worlds despite pro-war rally
