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The ceremony to recognize the World Champions of 2025 was held at the National Training Center in Beijing today. Hong Yanming and Zhang Qingying were added to the Wall of Champions. Zou Jingyuan was also honored for winning PB again. Zhang Qingying said that two years ago she was sitting at...

Ana Barbosu was voted best Romanian WAG gymnast of 2025 by the FRG executive committee. Kind of weird that they do a whole top ten ranking of them, but interesting that Voinea wasn't even 2nd. She's ranked 3rd behind a junior (Blanaru won bronze on VT at Jr. Worlds.) During the meeting of the...

I've watched Matthews' floor a couple of times now; I don't think it's that bad. She's really good at moving her body. Maybe there is some growing bias against this style because she's been doing the same thing for four years now and people would like to see her try something new. I was getting...

I’ll never trust Chirilcenco after Dufournet.

FIG was founded in Liège, Belgium - French speaking. The first two presidents of the FIG (who together spanned the first 50+ years of its existence) were a French-speaking Belgian and a Frenchman. IOC was founded by Baron Pierre de Coubertin in France. Both are headquartered in Lausanne...

I hate it, but it looks like a number of other Olympic sports federations were already heading in the "World Sport" direction, so the FIG is just following suit. https://www.olympics.com/ioc/international-federations World Aquatics, World Athletics, World Boxing, World Curling, World Lacrosse...

"Tara, Tara, Vrem Campioane!" Country, Country, We Want Champions!

While on the subject of Mixed Team events, this is in the FIG's December 2025 bulletin Page 34 Page 35 https://www.gymnastics.sport/publicdir/bulletin/Bulletin269/

It could be something like send a minimum of 2 WAG/MAG since that’s what’s required for scores, but you can have up to X amount to field a full team. Or it could just be 2 WAG/MAG total and I’m reading too much into the wording lol.

On the graphic USAG posted it says 2 men and 2 women compete in each round. I take that to mean all four compete each round. It doesn't say that teams are only made up of only 2 men and 2 women total though, just that 2 MAG/WAG per team compete each round. That "per team compete" makes me think...

Rebecca Bross is a doctor of physical therapy. Epke Zonderland is also a doctor.

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Skimming through their instagrams, it looks like Denis remarried in 2022, had another son in 2023, and is still pretending Yaroslav doesn’t exist. I hope he has a lot of success in gymnastics and Semenova can rub it in Denis’ face some day.

20 years since Netty was in doubt.