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Is it very bad that one of my abiding memories of 2025 was Sabrina falling off on a forward roll bb mount?

Rhys competes for both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland so has a foot in both camps so to speak

The wolf spin gets downgraded ;)

I like Ski jumping Biathlon - cross country skiing where you have to stop and shoot at targets at the end of each lap Parallel team slalom cross country skiing - especially the sprint event in heats and the skiathlon where they have o change skis Ski cross - either on skis or snowboards where...

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IIRC organizations had to become compliant with the safeguarding aspects of the 2004? Children's Act if they were offering residential accommodation to children under 18. It became a lot stricter and more expensive for organizations to become compliant. I think they also became liable for OFSTED...

Didn't Becky Downie qualify to an Olympics every 8 years? 2008, 2016, 2024 ... but didn't get selected in 2012, 2020/1 Although I see on SM that she's training again

Well the "doctor" was not really focussed in treating injuries ..... :mad:

Well given who the doctor was........

🍿 🍿 🍿 France and Romania really providing the entertainment at the moment!

Yes she did And as the US qualified in 1st place they would have done FX last.

Was it as a result of the July 1980 decision of FIG to change the minimum age from 14 to 15 that took effect 6 months later 1981? Many countries must have had juniors in the pipeline who they expected to be eligible for 1981/1983 Worlds/1984 Olympics but all of a sudden they weren't.

I remember Mostepanova's birthday moving around a fair bit - not just the year but the month as well - I'm pretty sure that at one time her birthday was December 31st ..... not suspicious at all :rolleyes: In fact IIRC there were several rather young looking gymnasts that had late December...

I saw Olga Mostepanova at the 1980 Coca Cola International - where she must had been only 11! Also if people are saying Olga Bicherova was only 12 at 1981 Worlds baby Bicherova must have been only 9 or 10 at 1979 Moscow News - although she gave her back a nasty jolt on ub.

Silivas wasn't age eligible for the gold she won at 1985 worlds because she was only 13 - the Romanians changed her birth year from 1972 to 1970 and issued her a new passport.