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Hey, the Chinese names are all in the wrong order (not the western order, the wrong order). Thought you’d like to know!

Mario Vukoja.

Good news, Croatia has nominated someone for European Gymnastics president.

Less good news, Gayibov must have sufficiently groveled to Dear President because he’s been nominated for re-election.

It’s USAG and the Swiss Cup results all over again.

Thanks so much!

This color combo is one you see in parts of Indonesia, like in this man’s headscarf from about a hundred years ago:

Ohh, can you share the link to scores?

It is possible I interpreted that order of events wrong. But PanamSports was definitely streaming earlier sessions of the event, including the juniors. I got an email announcing it. They’re probably lucky it took this long to get that strike.

And the belt buckle.

@ollyhogben.bsky.social has noted a couple times that Karina Schönmaier didn’t move to one of the big German training centers until she was a senior. Her club in Bremen was so small that it didn’t have a full vault runway. She’d start her vault run outside. Now she’s the European vault champion.

Yeah, doing this right before the final where Helen had a shot at beating Eli’s best finish just felt wrong, considering that Eli also got invited and went to every single post-Paris event where Helen was honored last year.

I get wanting to retire in front of a home crowd like Kim Bui did, but…

It is my very favorite format, so it was great fun to hear how much you were enjoying it. I love seeing strategy and cunning in sports where you don’t expect it.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard @ollyhogben.bsky.social as excited and delighted as he is right now during this Euros mixed team final.

Nobody tell the FIG secretary general, he’ll faint at the idea.

I’ll second those and add Karina Schoenmaier’s vaults.

Italy wasn’t really on their game but still ran away with it by 5+ points. Romania had too many mistakes to blame it solely on Sabrina. Errors piled up for GBR. Germany started and finished really strong, little bit wobbly in the middle. France was really solid, I don’t think they counted any falls.

I spotted this issue in the rules the other day and thought “well, what are the odds.” Clearly…

The layout here is absolutely wild. They’re using an L-shaped area and given WAG the larger section. They’ve got 2 floors, 4 beams, 4 bars, and 2 vaults. Meanwhile MAG has 2 horses, 2 pbars, and one of everything else.

So far I’ve only seen Pan Am countries that scheduled during Euros, but you’re right, that feels like something Russia would have done. I wonder if they were really expecting the ban to be lifted.

I see we’re going to find out how many non-European countries scheduled their national championships during Euros.

Well, that’s cool, Dang Ngoc Xuan Thien now has the leading pommel score at an FIG meet.

Yeah, she’s already been named to the University Games squad.

Funsies and optimism.

Featuring everyone’s favorite: bureaucracy without oversight.

The little rhythmic meet in Tblisi has a giant teddy bear in lieu of a mascot. I kind of love it.

Yeah, I don’t know very much about the program. I actually wasn’t sure till just now that it wasn’t just an Army thing. But hopefully it’s something the Air Force coaches have discussed with him.

I wonder if there’s any chance of him being accepted into the AF’s World Class Athlete Program.

You should always have a crowd of adoring littles mob you have you've done well on floor at a meet in your home gym.

I’d buy that it’s all of the above.