01. Mai 2005  
Budapest / Hungary  
Artistic Gymnastics

FIG Symposium finished in Budapest

'The Squaring of the Circle...?'

This weekend in Budapest, the FIG President and Executive Commission are met with the Men’s and Women’s Technical Committees, the Presidents of the Continental Unions' Technical Committee and one of their members, as well as a group of distinguished experts from around the world,
including Marta Karolyi (USA), Leonid Arkayev and Andrei Rodionenko (RUS), Jesus Carballo sr. (ESP), Kurt Knirsch (GER), Ivan Cuk (SLO), Bruno Franceschetti (ITA), Viktor Doylidov (BLR), and David Kerwin (GBR).
The FIG will vote on whether or not to implement the new judging system at the 2005 FIG Council meeting, to be held May 27-28 in Helsinki. ....

Download the Opening Technical Presentation: >> CLICK HERE

F.I.G. website, 2005, May 1st::

>> F.I.G. Report from the Budapest' Symposium
F.I.G. website:
BUDAPEST SYMPOSIUM
'Let us reason together!'
Moutier / Budapest, April 29, 2005: ---Sometimes, you have to read between the lines … to take words to a second or even third dimension to really get the sense of a text. That’s what the notified gymnasts did while going through two documents recently published by the IOC.

The first is a “paper” that sums up the Executive Committee’s discussions at its recent meeting in Berlin at SportAccord. On the 47th line, we can read, “On the sports front, it was reported that after constructive discussions with the IOC, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) and The … ...made substantial changes to their judging systems.”

The second is a circular dealing with revision to the Olympic Programme, revision that will take place at the IOC’s General Assembly in Singapore in July. We read on page 2, “If one or more sports is not admitted to be part of the Olympic Programme because they do not obtain a majority (more than 50% of the votes), this sport … ...will not be on the programme for the 2012 Games.”
In other words, if a sport, let’s say gymnastics, fails to get half the votes plus 1, it will disappear from the Olympic roster for 2012. Absolute majority. Secret ballots. Anything could happen.

Let’s look at this from the perspective of Budapest and the FIG Symposium that opens today. Two warning bells are ringing. The first says that situations such as arose in Artistic at the Athens OG should not happen again. The second is the price to pay if the FIG doesn’t get going on some serious reviewing.
Source: F.I.G. website
In his welcoming speech yesterday, the FIG President Grandi reiterated his desire for the elimination of the 10.00 judging ceiling.

>> The full text of Grandi's welcoming speech is available
at the FIG website, www.fig-gymnastics.com