FIG Yearbook 2024 free online

It presents the activities and achievements of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) in 2024 and covers areas including sport, institutional affairs, media and marketing. …

… including the Olympic Games Paris 2024 …

You can read it online. Or by scrolling down on this web page below.

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SUGIHARA Aiko wins Asian Games 2025

A strong competition.

🥇 SUGIHARA Aiko 🇯🇵 — 54.765
🥈 NAKAMURA Haruka 🇯🇵 — 54.065
🥉 QIN Xinyi 🇨🇳 — 53.599

SUGIHARA Aiko is age-25. She was the 2015 Asian team and all-around champion. This must be a first in WAG.

This time, China won the team competition.

Simone on internet trolls

I feel each sporting organization should set their own qualification rules.

Transgender athletes should have equal rights to participate. But they might be added to the male or female competitions, depending on the sport.

In coed sports where men and women compete directly against one another, it wouldn’t matter.

Certainly politicians are the worst possible people to decide sport qualification rules. Rather than look at what’s fair, they’ll politicize the issue.

All kinds of right wing politicians worldwide have never met a transgender person, but find they can get hateful people to vote for them if they take a stance against.

Simone regrets she engaged with some historically unimportant athlete who’s merely trying to get attention.

We should all support the rights of transgender athletes to get the chance to compete. While severely ignoring trolls.

Enhanced Games are too dangerous

As they stand now, I’m strongly for everyone boycotting the proposed Enhanced Games.

Hopefully it won’t be financially feasible. Who’s going to pay for another multi-sport Games?

They plan to include Gymnastics — which is surprising as our sport has had so little doping compared with others.

Without question, some athletes will suffer health complications and possibly even death as they try to out-dope competitors.

twisting with arms WIDE

Hayami Yumita.

Of course, keeping your arms wide makes twisting more difficult and slower — but it certainly is stylish. 😀

Nadia on Beam

One of Sports Illustrated 100 Greatest Sports Photos of All Time.

Montreal Summer Olympics, Aug. 2, 1976 | Nadia Comaneci of Romania.

photographer Neil Leifer