The FIG has renamed itself World Gymnastics

[IratePanda]

World Gymnastics - Homepage

World Gymnastics - Homepage

www.gymnastics.sport

Mais pourquoi?

 

[Seyonne]

Good. Glad to see they are finally addressing the important issues.

 

[IratePanda]

Good. Glad to see they are finally addressing the important issues.

Right?

 

[MaryClare]

Are they going to abandon French completely? Because Yurchenko is down as Iourtchenko on her athlete record!

I am fairly sure that they dropped the French language requirement for officials quite some time ago and now it is only English that is required. Although official documents are normally published in English and French as standard.

 

[Passion]

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, World Rowing, World Rugby, World Sailing, World Skate, World Squash, World Taekwondo, World Triathlon

I will continue calling it the FIG until the day I die though.

 

[Sasha]

I'm sort of indifferent to the change, but was it motivated just by the fact that the FIG dropped French? If so, that seems like a silly reason to do a full rebrand.

 

[Angelika]

You can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig...

 

[RedBirdie]

So stupid.

 

[rlayt]

 

[RAFIKI]

I will continue calling it the FIG until the day I die though

Same. FIG is so much easier to say. Also, I’m still using ROM instead of ROU.

 

[phoenix7]

Didn't they run a survey on this, with only one plausible answer? They had at least one ridiculous alternative - Health and Wellbeing or something.

 

[phoenix7]

Ah yes, here's the survey

Health and Fitness was under consideration https://gymnaverse.com/threads/fill-out-the-figs-survey-open-through-2024-01-17.2899/

Personally, I think they should have gone with, World Peace and Universal Prosperity, but they have gone with the safe option.