Gymnastics - Rhythmic Discussion | Qualification to Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Road to Milano Cortina 2026

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Edited August 16, 2025 by Sindo

[Federer91 3,039]

 

[Monzanator 4,797]

Sadly that won't have Liliana Lewińska reinstated for the Olympics (she was the one robbed at the expense of the Russian representing ).

 

Nothing to see here anyway. Gymnastics is one of the last sports where you have judges openly manipulating the results and nobody really cares. Trikomiti should be banned for life but yeah, let's move on.

[Gianlu33 5,303]

After yet another scandal (we now have one every month), Italy will not take part in the first World Cup stages

[ChandlerMne 1,210]

Not so surpised after what i saw in Paris.

So many strange calls last summer.

Judges have way more freedom than they should have.

[mrv86 3,248]

1 hour ago, Gianlu33 said:

After yet another scandal (we now have one every month), Italy will not take part in the first World Cup stages

What happened?

[phelps 8,337]

49 minutes ago, mrv86 said:

What happened?

it's always all about the "USSR-alike" methods used by the coaching duo Maccarani/Tishina at their National Academy

 

now some leaked phone calls have shown the former Federation's president commenting on the girls with sexist expressions and things like that

 

moreover, it's been discovered that also Raffaeli and Baldassari were treated like the team by their coach Julieta Cantalupi, forced to get naked in public after missing some exercise in training or kept for hours closed in a dark and cold small room in punishment after a not satisfactory training section

 

basically, all the Italian stars of the Rhythmic Gymnastics have come to success only after and possibly because of unacceptable humiliation by the coaches, which looks to be the usual attitude also among the youngsters and the "amateur" clubs

 

Italian Rhythmic Gymnastics is a dirty, sick world  

 

now the Group is basically not active and doesn't go to the next world cup stages, Baldassarri has retired and Raffaeli looks to be happy with her new coach (the Goddess herself, Claudia Mancinelli) after Cantalupi ran away like a rabbit to Israel in Autumn 2023 after the first rumors about the scandals came out

[Gianlu33 5,303]

1 hour ago, phelps said:

it's always all about the "USSR-alike" methods used by the coaching duo Maccarani/Tishina at their National Academy

 

now some leaked phone calls have shown the former Federation's president commenting on the girls with sexist expressions and things like that

 

moreover, it's been discovered that also Raffaeli and Baldassari were treated like the team by their coach Julieta Cantalupi, forced to get naked in public after missing some exercise in training or kept for hours closed in a dark and cold small room in punishment after a not satisfactory training section

 

basically, all the Italian stars of the Rhythmic Gymnastics have come to success only after and possibly because of unacceptable humiliation by the coaches, which looks to be the usual attitude also among the youngsters and the "amateur" clubs

 

Italian Rhythmic Gymnastics is a dirty, sick world  

 

now the Group is basically not active and doesn't go to the next world cup stages, Baldassarri has retired and Raffaeli looks to be happy with her new coach (the Goddess herself, Claudia Mancinelli) after Cantalupi ran away like a rabbit to Israel in Autumn 2023 after the first rumors about the scandals came out

In fact, according to some first-hand reports, female athletes mutinied protesting Maccarani's dismissal. And even Raffaelli denied the interceptions, speaking of a very good relationship with Cantaluppi and denying training with humiliating punishments, such as staying in their underwear.

 

A system of omertà and rotten from head to toe.

[copravolley 539]

10 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

In fact, according to some first-hand reports, female athletes mutinied protesting Maccarani's dismissal. And even Raffaelli denied the interceptions, speaking of a very good relationship with Cantaluppi and denying training with humiliating punishments, such as staying in their underwear.

 

A system of omertà and rotten from head to toe.

It`s known who will replace Maccarani?

[mrv86 3,248]

7 hours ago, phelps said:

basically, all the Italian stars of the Rhythmic Gymnastics have come to success only after and possibly because of unacceptable humiliation by the coaches, which looks to be the usual attitude also among the youngsters and the "amateur" clubs

Too bad to hear another case in which athletes are really ashamed and exploited by careless, insensitive bastards, to the point some of them quit the sport they love.

 

Some months ago I helped a former junior Mexican judo competitor to create his own school. One of the main points he wanted to add to the statutes of his association was the existence of a medical and welfare committee, which helped kids with potential abuse from coaches and that this could be replicated at the local level by other schools and the State's judo association. He told me in his own experience, this conducts are often tolerated and silenced by the national federations in order to get more public funding, which of course, is disgusting.