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Blythe Lawrence

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Olympic sports journalist @gymnastics + others. Ghostwriter, Fierce + Make It Happen. Occasional TV sports commentator.

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Olympic champion Hezly Rivera is out of worlds with an ankle injury.

26.09.2025 21:47 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
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Nina Derwael met un terme à sa carrière de gymnaste de haut niveau Ses derniers exploits en or marquent la fin d’un chapitre...

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.

15.07.2025 12:58 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Kaylia Nemour quitte le club d'Avoine-Beaumont - SpotGym.fr D'après une information révélée publiquement par La Nouvelle République, Kaylia Nemour a décidé de quitter son club d'Avoine-Beaumont. La nouvelle a fait l'effet d'une bombe. Peu après l'annonce de La...

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.

14.05.2025 22:11 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Who Is New IOC President Kirsty Coventry? It took just a single round of voting by the 97 IOC members gathered in Costa Navarino, Greece for the 144th IOC session to sweep Coventry into office Thursday.

It’s a momentous day for women, Africa, and the Olympic movement.

20.03.2025 18:14 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Kirsty Coventry Wants To Be The IOC’s First Female President. Insiders Think She Has A Good Shot As the first African to run for the International Olympic Committee’s top job, Kirsty Coventry has made waves in IOC politics, albeit in a different way than in the pool.

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.

20.03.2025 15:29 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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It’s Time For That Rarest Of Olympic Events: Picking An IOC President Thomas Bach’s tenure as International Olympic Committee President is almost at an end, and a new leader of the Olympic movement will be chosen on March 20.

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.

19.03.2025 17:26 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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.

13.03.2025 06:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How Should The Olympics Evolve? IOC Presidential Candidates Have Plenty Of Ideas The seven IOC Presidential candidates vying to replace Thomas Bach as the top Olympics official have no shortage of suggestions about how to improve the Games.

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.

12.03.2025 21:50 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
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What’s changing in the Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Code of Points in the 2025-2028 Olympic cycle? The short answer is not much, but a closer read shows that small changes have been seeded throughout the text.

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.

20.02.2025 02:34 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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What’s changing in the Men’s Artistic Gymnastics Code of Points in the 2025-2028 Olympic cycle? The winds of change have blown through Men’s Artistic Gymnastics, and routines in the 2025-2028 Olympic cycle will look different as a result.

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.

20.02.2025 02:29 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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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

06.01.2025 13:08 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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The Oldest Living Olympic Champion Survived the Holocaust, WWII, and Now the Pandemic Ágnes Keleti—who celebrated her 100th birthday this year—has a message for us all: Keep working.

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. 🕊️

02.01.2025 11:05 — 👍 20    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

22.12.2024 23:59 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Gymnastics FAQ: How many hours a week do Women’s Artistic gymnasts train? The answer depends on a number of things, Olympians say, including age, time of year, and whether there is a big competition on the horizon.

How 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
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Fame, fashion, and fun: inside Rebeca Andrade’s post-Paris world With six Olympic medals and counting, Rebeca Andrade (BRA) is embracing icon status as she continues lifting Brazilian gymnastics to unprecedented heights.

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 ⬇️

13.12.2024 05:33 — 👍 26    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 1

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.

04.12.2024 09:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0