Beam crash

Rarely do I post wipeouts, not wanting to make light of them.

But I’ll make an exception here.

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excellent Wolf Turn

Judges need be more discriminating — OR FIG WTC should devalue.

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coach Camelia Voinea – Gymnastics drama

Camelia Voinea competed for Romania between 1984 and 1988. The first gymnast to tumble a double layout to punch front on Floor.

Today Camelia coaches her daughter Sabrina, born 2007. Yes, that’s the excellent gymnast who would have won a Bronze medal on Floor in Paris IF her mother / coach had submitted an inquiry on time. Romania — at the time — thought Sabrina would win the Bronze medal, even with the wrongfully assessed 0.1 out of bounds deduction so they didn’t appeal.

Coach Camelia Voinea, we are told, is not up on the Code of Points. She tried to appeal the E-score, at one competition, for example. Not allowed, as every other coach knows.

Always controversial, Camelia is back in the headlines after recent allegations of physical, verbal, and mental abuse by multiple former gymnasts.

To get caught up, listen to the GymCastic podcast interview with former Romanian national team coaches Daymon Jones and Patrick Kiens.

Romanian Gymnastics administration remains a dumpster fire.

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10 takeaways from Tramp Worlds ’25

  • China is back on top
  • Litvinovich got his gold — just not the one everyone expected
  • Mori Hikaru and Tanaka Saki (JPN) Women’s Synchro champions
  • Azerbaijan’s 1st World Championship medals in Trampoline Gymnastics
  • Triples are trending. Yan Langyu (CHN) and Miyano Hayato (JPN) both landed eight in a single routine.
  • Mixed Synchro made a splashy World debut
  • Ethan McGuiness (AUS) wins 2nd World Tumbling title
  • Incredible Ruben Padilla (USA) continued to build his legend as one of the all-time greats
  • Home favorite Melania Rodriguez (ESP) unleashed a rare triple back pike dismount in the all-or-nothing Women’s DMT final to retain her world title
  • Sophiane Methot (CAN) scored a rare perfect 10 for Horizontal Displacement in the Women’s Trampoline final, helping put the Olympic bronze medallist to her first World podium since 2017.

FIG – Ten takeaways from the Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships

Věra Čáslavská documentary

Don’t Look Away

Czech gymnast Věra Čáslavská won a total of 22 international titles between 1959 and 1968 including seven Olympic gold medals, four world titles and eleven European championships.

Čáslavská was known for her outspoken support of the Czechoslovak democratization movement and her opposition to the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.

At the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, she took this protest to the world stage by quietly looking down and away while the Soviet national anthem was played during the medal ceremonies for the balance beam and floor exercise event finals.

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