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Sad news. Martina Dominici has tested positive for a banned substance during the Pan American Championships. She will probably miss Tokyo and lose the medals she earned at the Pan Am Champs. I'll have to check whether will still be able to qualify another gymnast to Tokyo via World Championships. If this is not possible, then I believe Argyro Afrati will qualify to Tokyo because Maria Kharenkova will probably refuse the quota since she's recovering from injury.

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I once rooted for judoka Rafaela Silva to be our flagbearer, but she was caught for doping and I promised I would never root for anyone again. However, I'll break my promise here. I believe football player Formiga should be our flagbearer. She's 43 and she will take part at her seventh Olympics. She deserves to be honored.

And you deserve to be banned. If you think it's okay to call a woman "he", you're absolutely no different from those nazi and fascist scum who can't respect those who are different from you. Do you think you're advocating for justice for "defending" Stowers? You're just a hateful human being. That's who you are. Do you think you have the right to misgender someone? You're not entitled to anything. Disgusting.

You probably have no idea how disgusting you sound. It doesn't change the fact that, indeed, you are hateful and this comment is outrageous.

That explains why Indonesia bragged about qualifying in women's artistic gymnastics. The "logical" explanation is that FIG will give the tripartite quota to , even though the gymnast would qualify on her own according to the rules, so that would get a continental quota instead. That's not what the rules enforce, though. The Indonesian gymnast is pretty good, so I'm not exactly mad about this. But that must hurt for , even though their female gymnast is nowhere near the level of quality of any of the qualified gymnasts, while the Indonesian girl is even better than some of the ones who qualified according to the rules.

and would be amazing! Both are my sentimental favorites here, along with Matvei Petrov from as I mentioned before. And I'm torn about what to expect from . On one hand, Iordache is an extremely talented gymnast who deserves an individual medal. On the other hand, Romania butchered and destroyed their women's program, so they don't have my sympathy and don't deserve an Olympic medal this year, at least not until they fix their program. So, my heart says yes, but my brain says no.

Matvei Petrov in gymnastics. Not impossible, but unlikely. However, he had a HUGE score in the latest World Challenge Cup stage, so he definitely has a chance.

First-ever continental medal for in artistic gymnastics. Alana Walker, at the 2021 Junior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She was born in the US and lives in New Jersey, though.

Women's artistic gymnastics qualifiers: Teams: 5 gymnasts 3 gymnasts 2 gymnasts 1 gymnast

Thank you! So, that means that in men's artistic gymnastics, the qualified teams and gymnasts are: Teams: 5 gymnasts 3 gymnasts 1 gymnast The Mexican federation has not published the complete results yet, but I believe this is how it goes.

Does anybody know where I can find the documents to check how qualifications work for artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline, please?

The latest information is that they're still debating about which individual from Australia will take the quota since the second-place gymnast protested the results. Nothing has been said about groups, but I believe the results have not been contested. It's been widely assumed at this point that no matter what happens the quotas will still go to Oceania in order to respect the universality principle.

It's still very hard to predict at this point. First, we don't know if Eleftherios Petrounias will qualify. If he does, he will probably be Olympic champion again. Second, if Petrounias qualifies, we still need to know if Liu Yang for will be part of the team or if he will be given the individual quota. Third, we also need to know if You Hao will make the Chinese team. Then the plot thickens: Zanetti has not competed in a long time. Lodadio has been missing in action too. Çolak has not been doing well, but Asil is on fire. Then there are those gymnasts who could surprise and score huge like Souza, Klessing, Radivilov, Nagornyy and Ablyazin. If you ask me now, I'd say Said will not win a medal, but it's too close to tell and depending on who qualifies, he might have a better chance. The best case scenario is Liu Yang qualifying while Petrounias and Hao somehow miss qualifications.

After the final stage of the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series they will have no excuse not to publish everything. If I'm right, they will probably publish it on June 28, along with the official tripartite invitations. The only one we don't know about, actually, is in women's artistic gymnastics. There will be no tripartite invitations in trampoline.

You have no idea. Spaniards, in special, love the drama. Most of them sided with the Mexicans and took their sweet time to complain about everything. They are very active on Twitter on normal days, but combine the Euro Champs and the Pan Ams on the same weekend and you have tons of attention and a feast for drama queens.

Yes, she was really tired. Now she needs to focus on her preparation for the Olympics and no matter what happens there, she will be part of history forever. It was a long day with tons of inquiries and an overall sluggish performance by the judges, partially because of those very same inquiries. The judging panel seemed to be completely lost sometimes and most of the inquiries were accepted. Judging rhythmic gymnastics is one of the most stressful activities one could volunteer to do, but at the same time I wonder if it's not time to completely ban judges from the same continent from judging a continental competition. Now, about the Olympic qualification system, it was a total mess. There a lots of complaints about which judges were attributed to each function, since the D3 panel is one that could completely change the outcome of a competition depending on who is judging. I won't get into details, but there are Brazilians accusing Mexico of manipulating scores in individual competition, and there are Mexicans accusing Brazil of manipulating scores in the group competition. In special, one of the accounts I follow on Twitter is a battlefield right now with tons of nasty comments, and this really makes me sad because, in all honesty, people should be celebrating Rut Castillo's achievement instead of exchanging accusations. I'm super happy for her, she was superb, she didn't have a single bad moment during qualifications and she deserved the Olympic qualification. It was the performance of a lifetime, yet people seem to be ignoring that. Anyway, I want to wrap it up by congratulating Sol Fainberg too for two medals today. The last medal earned by Argentina was 20 years ago, so Sol made history here and she deserves to be praised and remembered too. @mrv86and my Mexican friends here, congratulations for the historic achievement and the best of luck in Tokyo. If Rut finishes 22nd or better, she will have the best performance of a Latin American gymnast in the history of the Olympic Games and I'll be cheering for her.

According to Brazilian TV, it was officially confirmed yesterday that qualified to the Olympics. I'm not sure which country this affects, but probably if I understood things right.

Well, Mexico did qualify, but in individual rhythmic gymnastics. This is the first time Mexico qualifies in this sport, either in individual or group, so it's a historic moment and one their gymnastics federation has been waiting for 37 years. Also, Mexico qualified for the first time also in trampoline, so the country has qualified in all gymnastics disciplines! Now, I'm pretty sure this doesn't heal the shock of losing a sure medal.

I'm sure she will! She's fantastic! I want her to win a medal here. She has a good chance tomorrow, especially in clubs and ribbon.

Thank you! Prior to the beginning of the event, I thought Brazil would qualify an individual and Mexico would qualify the group. Then Rut Castillo had the best competition of her life and the Mexican group did not qualify -- even though their level is still fantastic -- and everything I thought I knew about gymnastics is a lie now. I seriously hope the Mexican group doesn't feel discouraged by this result. This is one of the best groups in the world, period. I think that the five balls routine is still not as mature as it could have been, and it hurt the group's chances a little bit, but as the (very unprofessional) Brazilian commentator mentioned, 2024 will be this group's time to shine. Also, I hope Mexicans realize how monumental it is for Mexico to qualify in rhythmic gymnastics for the very first time. Brazil has never qualified an individual, at least not in the "true" sense. All of our individual performances at the Olympics resulted from invitations. Also, it is also a huge achievement not to qualify through a naturalized individual. Of course, it's okay to qualify through someone who went through the process of naturalization. I'm not judging this. But qualifying an individual born and raised in Mexico, who trained in Mexico, in this sport, is absolutely incredible. Kudos to Mexico and to Rut Castillo!

qualified in groups!

Not a particularly good routine from the group...

Beautiful! I'm so proud!

in rhythmic gymnastics!