If Canadian organizers get the green light from the international gymnastics federation (FIG), one of the world’s major sports events will be coming to Montreal in 2017. Gymnastics Canada has delivered its bid for the 2017 artistic gymnastics world championships and is expecting to hear the outcome later this month after meetings of the international federation in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Canada is hoping to receive provisional approval from FIG conditional upon a positive site visit in November or December. The 2017...

From October 26 - 30, the International Gymnastics Federation (F.I.G.) chaired by President Prof. Bruno Grandi (ITA) will organise in the Uzbek capital Tashkent meetings of its President’s Board and Executive Committee as well as the General Assembly. This 80^th Congress, two years before the next elections to be held in 2016, will shed a first light on the current changes within the governing body of world’s gymnastics.