“Daring Simone Biles” on Snapchat

…  Simone Biles is getting her own Snap reality series …

The 10-episode “Daring Simone Biles” is expected to debut in the third quarter of 2022. The show follows the gymnast, who has won 32 Olympic and World Championship medals, as she takes all-new risks trying things she’s never done before — from beekeeping to DJ’ing. It’s produced for Snap by Propagate Content’s Big Breakfast and Kids at Play. …

Variety

Cirque du Soleil in Saudi Arabia

For some time the de facto dictator has been pushing TOURISM.

Cirque last pitched its tent in the kingdom in 2018. And is back in 2022 raising the ire of some of its artists because of the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Baylor’s 7th-straight NCATA title

NCATA (National Collegiate Acrobatics & Tumbling Association) is an NCAA emerging sport status en route to become a fully sanctioned NCAA championship sport.

The reigning NCATA National Champion Baylor Bears will hang onto the title for another year.

The undefeated Bears clipped the Gannon Golden Knights 273.685-268.965 Saturday night at Michael Knight Arena on the campus of the University of Oregon to claim their seventh-straight championship.

Baylor also added four individual event titles earlier in the day, while Gannon picked up hardware on three events.

Azusa Pacific led the way on five events, and Converse, Limestone and Quinnipiac each topped the field once. …

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world’s best climber 2022 – Janja Garnbret

Janja Garnbret became the first ever female Olympic gold medalist in sport climbing, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest competitive climbers of all time. She is also the world’s first-ever female climber to onsight an 8c (5.14b) graded sport climbing route.

The Olympic title was decided on combined results of 3 quite different disciplines.

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Shang Chunsong – partner Giants

This is an old circus stunt.

But Shang Chunsong is the first female gymnast to do it that I can recall.

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Paris 2024 qualification system

Artistic, Rhythmic and Trampoline Gymnastics.

A total of 318 athletes – 192 in Artistic, 94 in Rhythmic and 32 in Trampoline …

As the host nation, France is allocated a number of guaranteed places, which will be awarded to other countries if French athletes fill this quota through the qualifying process. There are also a few universality places reserved for gymnasts from under-represented countries, which will be selected by a tripartite commission for the Olympic movement a few months before the start of the Games.

NOTE – These new Technical Regulations eliminate about 100 individual participants for 2022 and 2023 compared with last cycle.