The FIG has announced that 20 gymnasts have qualified for the Olympic Games following the conclusion of the World Cup competitions in Doha (QAT) this weekend. Two continental qualifiers for Pan America have also been confirmed and the place for the men's host country has also been reallocated. This means that the penultimate qualification options for Paris have also been finalised:
After 100 (!) World Cup winners (60x men + 40x women) were determined on the individual apparatus in the 2023 World Challenge Cup circuit alone, there will be no all-around competition in the 2024 FIG World Cup series in the Olympic year!
This year, the World Cup Circuit (- the first four WC's) also serves as another qualification opportunity for the Olympic Games, with two athletes per apparatus - a total of 8 opportunities (female)...
Women at the Olympic Games?
"Impractical, uninteresting, clumsy and, I have no hesitation in adding, inappropriate" was the opinion of Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games. The role of women at the Games, the French baron wrote in 1912, was primarily to "crown the winners".
Nine years later, in 2021, Monte Carlo hosted its first "Women's Olympic Games" and women's sport in Monaco established itself independently from 1924.
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With the support of its new sponsor Cosmopolitan Aesthetics, the 10th International ZAG Junior Cup will be held in Hanover on June 01/02.
The German Premier League club TuS Vinnhorst, in cooperation with the Lower Saxony Gymnastics Federation (NTB), will be hosting the now well-established international competition for young gymnasts aged 10 to 16 for the tenth time this year. For the third time, it will take place in the...
Meet the men's team announced for the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2024 taking place in Rimini, Italy.
Leading the men’s senior team is Max Whitlock, who’s specialist skill on Pommel Horse and Parallel Bars will help establish the men’s team among the top in Europe. * * The British elite team will also continue to compete:
The national All-around champion Joe FRASER, World Vault Champion and British Floor, High Bar and Vault Champion, Jake JARMAN, British all-around bronze...