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If you have qualified 3 athletes/pairs competing at Worlds, in order to qualify 3 to the following Worlds, the top two skaters placements need to be equal to or less than a total of 13 points. If you have 2 skaters or just 1 skaters, you are not able to qualify 3 skaters/pairs If you have 3...

Yea that could be an intimidation tactic. Should be no physical touch -especially one that might not be welcomed.

I met Periodt at the 2000 Olympic Trials, I was second seats from the floor in the corner by beam and parallel bars. She was behind me with her mother. I was a budding photographer as at the time I was the Photo Lab Supervisor at my local CVS while I was starting college. I happened to grab a...

Yes. GGMB even named their closed thread forum "Dead Gina".

OOBN!!!!! I was gymnastboy81, that's how I met Gogean (aka Denn) before I found my way to WWGYM. I was also on American Gymnast (Jay Thornton/ Stephen McCain) message board, also GymWorld, GTTC, GGMB/GymScoop-most lurked as Betty (Brandon) was a dick. I met him once at a meet and he was a...

It should be Malinin, Torgashev, and Naumov

20 years...wow

It is going to be an intense season. Already showing on week 2 that scoring is insanity.

an actual TEAM event. Praise Pod!

This might give us an idea of who might be competing at Winter Cup. No Lavi Crain, Caylor, Pease, Rivera, Hang (surgery)

Schedule (I won't cut and paste because it doesn't format): https://balancebeamsituation.com/2026/01/08/2026-week-2-schedule-links/ Sprout's Quad Meet with Oklahoma, UCLA, Utah, and LSU is obviously the meet of the week. The second session will be interesting with Michigan State, Michigan...

I figured it would be something like Brazil, Canada, China, Italy, Great Britain, USA, Japan, and Germany or France.

Tamayo did not think it was fair that any prize money won didn't go directly to the gymnast, as the gymnasts had to share it with the federation. Additionally, Tamayo was frustrated that Cuba didn't send athletes to meets consistently. He didn't see gymnastics as a way to financially support his...

So late January for countries competing. US is selecting its team based off Winter Cup results. At least its transparent, in the past it was just gymnasts invited.

Lots of Week 1 meets here: https://www.youtube.com/@1GymFan