Olympic champion Hezly Rivera is out of worlds with an ankle injury.
26.09.2025 21:47 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1Olympic champion Hezly Rivera is out of worlds with an ankle injury.
26.09.2025 21:47 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1Newly-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.
15.07.2025 12:58 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1A 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.
14.05.2025 22:11 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0It’s a momentous day for women, Africa, and the Olympic movement.
20.03.2025 18:14 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Kirsty 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.
20.03.2025 15:29 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0It 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.
19.03.2025 17:26 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0It 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.
13.03.2025 06:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0With 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.
12.03.2025 21:50 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0Less 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.
20.02.2025 02:34 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Ahead 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.
20.02.2025 02:29 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0The 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
06.01.2025 13:08 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1The 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. 🕊️
02.01.2025 11:05 — 👍 20 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0Happy 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.
22.12.2024 23:59 — 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0How many hours a week do female elite gymnasts train? I asked a few Olympians. My latest for @gymnastics ⬇️
22.12.2024 06:27 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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.
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