Recent content by ArnoldRimmer

May not need to be a full team to make them ineligible for the continental spot anyway. If Australia miss top 12, they'd very likely get a 13th-15th spot and an AAer from worlds, so that's 2. And they would have a decent chance of qualifying someone through the world cup EF route also. Those...

Definitely. But can you imagine the dafter members of the gymternet if it ended up her v Barbosu again?

Very long shot, but probably the vault world cup route. It may be to her advantage that other strong vaulters from countries not guaranteed a team are decent AAers too, like Navas, Raz and Heron. Is Moreno carrying on, do we know? I think the big difficulty the procedure designers face is that...

I suppose in theory NZ could use the spot, but it doesn't currently look like they've got anyone of the standard the Olympic committee requires does it?

Have to admit I read other people's summaries before ploughing through it myself! And now Im going to shamelessly crib someone's post from Reddit. Criteria 1 - Top 3 teams from 2026 Worlds Criteria 2 - Next 9 teams (not named in Criteria 1) at 2027 Worlds Criteria 3 - 1 athlete from each NOC...

Artistic https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/LA28/GAR-LA28-Qualification-System.pdf Tramp https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/LA28/GTR-LA28-Qualification-System.pdf Rhythmic...

I have a feeling there was no youtube footage of it for years.

Evergreen tweet.

Yeah it's cos Grishina underperformed so much on bars. She had what looked like a bankable low 15s set, after having flirted with the harder one she couldn't do consistently if memory services, but her best in London was 14.7. I think all the other Russian TF lineup routines were hit solid at...

Maybe if they were healthy! But that is not what happened.

Same, and on a similar point I wonder whether the 2012 team would've won if Marta had been permitted the 04 and 08 regimes. They were pretty walking wounded even without the final selection camp and the alternates had about one working leg between them. Probably even she couldn't have fucked...

Indeed not. I didn't see McCool until Athens, and on later discovering the gymternet it was quite an education to look back and see how confident people were in her prospects earlier in 04. But it's incredible to think she got 9.112 from a 9.6 SV and at least a 2 tenth break on the Onodi. I...

Back in the 00s, it wasn't nearly so long since I'd done not particularly high level French and Spanish at school, and before reliable translation software. Sometimes I used to read news articles online and see how much I could make out of them, or the language forums on GW. Lost the habit...

I don't think it's the same thing either. To me it seems obvious there's a continuum between bare factual statement that Listunova remains banned and full out debate over what the rules should be. My point was about where the middle ground stuff would go. But I'm also aware others may draw a...

Maybe what we need to do is hash out exactly what goes where. Who is and isn't permitted to compete is a huge issue in Russian gymnastics at the moment. Discussion on X gymnast is/not banned, if anyone has taken it to CAS etc could legitimately be covered in either thread, since the root cause...