Olympic champion Hezly Rivera is out of worlds with an ankle injury.
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Newly-married Nina Derwael 🇧🇪 has decided to retire from elite #gymnastics, she announced this morning. The Tokyo 2020 uneven bars champion goes out on top, having just won the European titles on bars and beam.
A surprise: Kaylia Nemour 🇩🇿 has left her French club. Besides Nemour, Avoine-Beaumont has trained some of the best in France over many years, including Youna Dufournet, Carolann Héduit, and reigning junior European champ Elena Colas.
Kirsty Coventry 🇿🇼 has been elected as the new IOC President (in one round of voting, no less!) becoming the first woman to lead the #Olympics movement.
It may not be the contest you picture when you think of the Olympics, but its outcome will have a resounding effect on the future of the Games. The vote happens tomorrow in Greece.
It seems like the idea is still alive and supported by at least some of the candidates, especially when it comes to the Winter Olympics. The Summer Games might be a different matter, but we’ll see.
With the IOC Presidential elections coming up in a week, I’ve done a little piece on the seven candidates and their main proposals — interesting reading if you’re an Olympics junkie. Here’s the gist.
Less has shifted in women’s gymnastics, though notably Tkatchev elements on bars have collectively been downgraded and criteria for artistry deductions has been fleshed out more. Plus there’s now bonus for doing vaults that go in different directions.
Ahead of this weekend’s World Cup in Cottbus 🇩🇪 I put together a primer on what’s changed in the Men’s and Women’s #Gymnastics Codes of Points. A lot has happened on the men’s side, and the number of counting elements being reduced from 10 to 8 is only the beginning of it.
The FIG’s latest bulletin on the Paris Olympics highlights key data: while there were 5 fewer countries represented compared to previous Games, 4 nations earned their first-ever Olympic gymnastics medals—a historic milestone! #Gymternet
The legendary Ágnes Keleti 🇭🇺, who survived the Holocaust and went on to win five Olympic titles during the 1950s, has died a week shy of her 104th birthday. May she rest in peace. 🕊️
Happy birthday to @ollyhogben.bsky.social, commentator extraordinaire and all-around terrific human being! 🥇 Thank you so much for all your encouragement and inspiration this year.
How many hours a week do female elite gymnasts train? I asked a few Olympians. My latest for @gymnastics ⬇️
How close was Rebeca Andrade 🇧🇷 to doing the TTY at #Paris2024? Very close. Yet she’s happy she didn’t. “I’m very proud of that decision…and I think that if I had to go back, I would have made the same decision.”
My latest for @gymnastics ⬇️
Newly retired Igor Radivilov 🇺🇦 has a new job, per the Kyiv Gymnastics Federation: he and wife Angelina Radivilova (née Kysla) are to be head and senior coaches of the Ukrainian women’s team, respectively.