One of the highest E-scores in Liverpool qualifications.
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LUO Rui – BARS
Gymnastics Worlds too Restrictive?
Working with the FIG dues paying Bermuda Federation, I can tell you it’s getting near impossible for any gymnast training there to compete at Sr. Worlds.
The career would have to go perfectly through the PAGU qualifying system.
Hardy Fink has attended more Worlds and Olympics than anyone. He feels that the restricted-access World Championship in this quadrennial and the next are a mistake. In an effort to make Worlds shorter, we’ve reduced the opportunities for elite gymnasts from developing nations. And for specialists worldwide.
In the case of Bermuda, for example, should the Federation continue with FIG? I’d still say YES for Commonwealth Games and PanAm Games, but there is an argument for withdrawing from FIG competition completely.
Read Hardy’s detailed analysis:
Worlds 2023 tickets on sale
The MOST IMPORTANT Worlds in any quadrennial is the one where most of the Paris Olympians qualify.
Antwerp.
How to CHENG
Switzerland – Team P Bars
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Gabby Douglas training at WOGA
That’s cool.
I’d say let’s have no expectations. Put no pressure on Gabby.
On the other hand, I can hardly wait to see her Bars again.
training Sole Circles
Be sure gymnasts can’t accidentally hit their hips on the base. Don’t use a mini-tramp with a METAL cross piece, unless it is really well padded.
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Simone won Worlds by over a point
No Canadian Inquiry into Abuse in Sport
I’m surprised.
Minister of Sport Pascale St-Onge seemed to welcome groups representing Hockey, Gymnastics and others. Yet an investigation was not approved.
24 November: Yesterday, a motion was tabled in the Canadian House of Commons to initiate a national inquiry into abuse in sport. We, representatives of Global Athlete and Gymnasts For Change Canada, were in the gallery as this motion was presented. To witness it fail was devastating.
We are deeply disappointed to see politics impacting an issue that should be entirely non-partisan. Child and athlete abuse is not political and every day that federal leaders fail to act is a day that another athlete is at risk of abuse.
We call on our Canadian political leaders to show a unified front in eradicating abuse from sport and to initiate an independent third-party judicial inquiry to deliver the safety, justice, and accountability that every Canadian athlete, child and survivor deserves.
Global Athlete
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