Pre-Olympics Discussion (Injured athletes, named teams, other news) starting 5/9/24

[RedBirdie]

I wouldn't be surprised if Rose Woo, Emma Spence, and Sydney Turner all appealed.

 

[irichluck21]

WAG Canada is clearly looking at a team finals mindset.
Black and Tran will do AA, looking like Olsen VT, Stewart UB, Lee BB/FX
I would assume Stewart will do AA in TQ with the question mark of who does bars in TQ, Olsen or Lee?

 

[RedBirdie]

Lee has to do bars. No way can Olsen go up.

 

[Hatsumomo]

I wouldn't be surprised if Rose Woo, Emma Spence, and Sydney Turner all appealed.

Yeah, I was a bit surprised Woo wasn't named

 

[JDB]

Evita Griskenas took a lot of time off to recover from a nagging injury and resumed training in May. She didn't compete at nationals but she's planning to compete in Paris.

Evita Griskenas: From Injury to Olympic Hopeful in Paris 2024

Less than six months ago, Evita Griskenas could not even walk, and now she is hoping to bring home a medal at this year’s Olympic games.

wgno.com

 

[Passion]

 

[arabiandoublefront]

Team Romania was named: Amalia Ghigoarta, Lilia Cosman, Ana Barbosu, Sabrina Voinea, and Andreea Preda.

 

[JaJa]

Missing Larisa

 

[irichluck21]

Missing Ponor and Izbasa

 

[J175]

Can you fill us in on the European RG situation?

The European continental qualifying spot went to Vera Tugolukova, representing Cyprus.

Basically, it seems to be alleged that the Cypriot head of the Superior Jury, who is also the President of European Gymnastics' Rhythmic Technical Committee, abused the powers of the Superior Jury to rig the competition in favour of the Cypriot gymnast. Poland, whose gymnast just missed out on the spot, have stated their intention to appeal to CAS.

This is the second Olympics in a row that the continental qualifying in Rhythmic has (allegedly) been affected by a judging scandal, after Oceania in 2021 (as a result of which this year's Oceania Championships were held in Budapest alongside Euros), so if these allegations are true the IOC is likely to be seriously unimpressed.

 

[RedBirdie]

Zsofia Kovacs has been named to the Hungarian team.

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

Zsofia Kovacs has been named to the Hungarian team.

Not a shock, but good for her.

 

[Puffin]

Zsofia Kovacs has been named to the Hungarian team.

She competed at Rom Gym last weekend and took silver on UB with 14.2 (although her "qualifying" score for UB finals was 10.6)