Ukraine, Norway, Estonia, Poland, Lithuania, Italy, Netherlands

All boycotting Congress 2022 as FIG is allowing Russian and Belarusian delegates to participate.

Certainly it’s difficult to decide exactly WHICH delegates to ban.

For example, do you ban a Russian citizen who has lived in another nation for decades?

Or do you only ban those committee members and judges representing Russia and Belarus?

IF possible, I would vote for the latter.

Parkour Worlds – interviews

The FIG version of this sport is so new, the best in the world are still getting to understand it.

1st Worlds were a success.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott

You Will Know Me (2016) is worth reading.

It’s an adult murder mystery not appropriate for children.

The Gymnastics coming-of-age story is incidental to the plot.

Author Megan Abbott was not a gymnast — but does a very credible job of writing from the perspective of a Gym Mom at BelStars Gymnastics.

She joined Gymnastics parent forums to listen to what they talked about.

You Will Know Me, follows a tight-knit gymnastics community as a brutal death sends shockwaves through everyone.

Parents Katie and Eric Knox have a 15-year-old daughter, Devon, who is both a gymnastics prodigy and an Olympic hopeful — but now, they worry that everything they’ve sacrificed for her might be at risk.

Can Katie hold her family together even as she’s distracted by and drawn into the crime itself?

Click PLAY or watch an author interview on YouTube.

Canadians to Worlds 2022

I haven’t seen an official announcement, but this looks to be the final line-up.

MAG
Chris Kaji
Felix Dolci
William Emard
Zach Clay
Sam Zakutney
Alternate- Kenji Tamane

WAG
Ellie Black
Shallon Olsen
Denelle Pedrick
Sydney Turner
Emma Spence
Alternate- Laurie Denommee

artistic cycling — in the street

Artistic Cycling is a competitive sport.

But Lea Schaepe, the “Bicycle Ballerina“, is taking it to the streets of Berlin.

Performance art.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.