https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/5cd057e93759f4df3ba71bbec0ed4f2e5f14dcab?source=sns&dv=sp&mid=other&date=20241108&ctg=spo&bt=tw_up

Was she a good gymnast?

https://lagazettedemonaco.com/en/news/sport/marc-chirilcenco-on-peut-rever-de-jeux-olympiques-les-faire-cest-autre-chose-en

This is clearly a bad translation and I couldn't find the original. Oh well. Key points:

1. Re: the French team's Olympic debacle - he's implying that the team at INSEP was training less in the months before the Olympics, and they collapsed because they were poorly conditioned.
2. Not surprising that he thinks it's a terrible idea to force gymnasts to move hundreds of miles from their original coaches and families. He believes the families have to be closely involved for the gymnasts to be successful. Can't disagree.

Gymcan will no longer be sending athletes representing their club or province to FIG sanctioned international competitions starting 2025. They will also not be expanding the amount of athletes they take to age group and junior cups.

IMO This creates a negative effects on gymnasts with worlds or world age groups being for some there first international competition. And without having international experience before it is a lot more overwhelming and stressful for the athletes. It also takes away from athletes who maybe won’t make the national team or are on the brink to get the chance to compete against people from other countries and make lifelong connections.

Got this in a GymBC newsletter. Sounds like an abrupt decision from the way it’s worded. Glad to see it, but curious as to what prompted this.

Has anyone received information about tickets yet? Their site says presale starts 11/11 and tickets go on sale 11/14. I signed up for more info but never received any confirmation by email that I’m “subscribed” and haven’t received anything from them yet.

Or does anyone recall any details from last year’s meet that might be applicable?

(Forgive the overly formal post title, figured it would be helpful for searching.)

We have three meets this weekend with some drama to follow:

All meets are in Central European Time

Combs-La-Ville (Junior/Espoir WAG)

2:00 PM CET/8:00 AM US Eastern Saturday
3:00 PM CET/9:00 AM US Eastern Sunday

This is a junior and sub junior level meet in France. The biggest name is going to be Junior European Champion Elena Colas (FRA). USA is sending a team of Isabella Anzola, Gabrielle Hardie, and Camie Westerman. Day 1 is an AA/Team event and Day 2 is Event Finals.

I haven't seen streaming information but live scoring should be available here: https://live.ffgym.fr/home

ETA: Free live streaming will be here: https://www.avousledirect.net/cacv

Swiss Cup (Mixed Team WAG/MAG)

3:45 PM CET/9:45 AM US Eastern Saturday

The biggest name meet is Swiss Cup, which is a MAG/WAG mixed pair competition with the largest prize purse in gymnastics. Respected MAGs Lukas Dauser (GER) and Christian Baumann (SUI) will be retiring there.

The teams to watch here are undoubtedly the mixed team Kaylia Nemour (ALG) / Christian Baumann (SUI), Julia Soares (BRA) / Caio Souza (BRA), and of course you can't ignore Leanne Wong (USA) / Fuzzy Benas (USA).

The top prize is about 23k USD for the pair in addition to appearance money for Nemour and Dauser

https://preview.redd.it/jw9fbde54izd1.png?width=705&format=png&auto=webp&s=7c529904f4d79c8642f1480c1100ef1b3b7b844c

There is a world feed that has a 5€ paywall: https://video.stv-fsg.ch/event/48417/swiss-cup-zurich-2024-international-coverage?

But if you have a VPN you should try the local broadcaster first: https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/-/video/kunstturnen-swiss-cup-in-zuerich

Live Scoring will be on the event website: https://www.swiss-cup.ch/en/swiss-cup-zuerich/teams/

Women's Bundesliga Match 4 (WAG)

4:00 PM CET/10:00 AM US Eastern Saturday

The third meet this weekend is the last regular season women's Bundesliga match. I expect Chemnitz and Stuttgart to take it easy as they are locked into the final but Mannheim, Köln, Karlsruhe are fighting for the last two places. And of course the teams at the bottom of the standings are fighting to keep out of the relegation match.

Streaming is free and not geoblocked: https://sportdeutschland.tv/deutsche-turnliga/2024-1-bundesliga-turnen-frauen-4-wettkampftag-esslingen-weil

Live scoring for Bundesliga meet can be found here, once the meet actually starts click on the link "Detailergebnisse" for individual scores: https://www.deutsche-turnliga.de/bundesliga/frauen/wettkampftag.html

So I could not in good conscience continue having an X account. I deactivated earlier today. Any good gymnastics (especially college gym) Threads accounts? Nothing seems very active.

I saw a video today about the Khorkina transition on uneven bars and they mentioned how Khorkina herself used to straddle her legs on it to avoid hitting her feet on the low bar. It got me wondering if this is still allowed, and if so if it is on the other Shaposh half skills as well. If it is, I'm surprised more gymnasts don't do it since a lot of them flex their feet on their Shaposh half skills to avoid clipping the low bar.

As I try to take a bit of a mental break from ANYTHING political today, CGN posted their rankings for the class of 2025, who are signing next week. Who are you guys most excited to see? Who will be the stars? Who will be one event queens?

It’s really inexcusable at this point. Just say you hate gay people and go.

According to the Canadian MAG calendar, 2025 Junior worlds are going to be in Malaysia. The date is August 1st though to the 5th.

Text from the website:

"Bad news just a few days before the competition. Unfortunately, the twentieth edition of the Arturo Gander Memorial will not see the talent of the Swiss team Matteo Giubellini at the start. In fact, a serious shoulder injury forces him to withdraw from both the Arturo Gander Memorial and the subsequent Swiss Cup in Zurich. He will be replaced by Jan Imhof, another talent of the Swiss team at the court of coach Guelzec in Macolin. Our best wishes for a full and quick recovery to Matteo Giubellini."

Honestly with all the changes of CV for floor for next quad, someone like Rebecca bross would've done quite well in that quad, a similar routine with stronger dance elements would generally fetch quite a huge d score

Front layout + double front + stag .3 Layout half + double front full + front half .4 1 1/2 + 2 1/2 + front full = .4 Triple wolf Switch ring + switch full Gogean EDDCCEDD - 3.2 + 2.0 cr + .2 db + 1.1 cv = 6.5 d score.

It's kinda crazy that this routine would be super competitive next quad