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Wait, gymnastics? Pakistan has not sent gymnasts to any of the World Championships in recent years! The only time I've even heard about a Pakistani gymnast was at the Southeast Asian Championships in the mid 2000s.

That's an optimistic way of seeing things. The pommel horse is his worst event, but if he scores around 13, who knows? It might be enough for him to go over 80 if he has a solid performance in the other apparatus. Since both Gonzalez and Calvo haven't performed in the all-around for a very long time, who knows what could happen, right? I believe Brazil expects Diogo Soares to score around 80-82. I don't see many gymnasts with enough potential to reach a score higher than 82, so let's wait and see.

He scored 77.350 at the 2019 Universiade and 74.865 at the 2019 World Championships. I strongly believe the qualifying scores will be at least over 80, maybe even in the 82-84 range.

FIG didn't release any official statement, but Pranati Nayak has qualified whether Milka Gehani gets an invitation or not. This whole debacle is only noteworthy for Indonesia, because if Gehani gets an invitation, then Rifda Irfanaluthfi qualifies too.

Guess I was right in the end: FIG is twisting the rules so they can invite to the Olympics and, at the same time, guarantee that qualifies for the first time in gymnastics. This would also probably explain why Sri Lanka was not offered a tripartite quota in rhythmic gymnastics; FIG was saving this twist until the end so they could be "generous" and give Sri Lanka an invitation in artistic gymnastics instead, despite their gymnast qualifying by her own merits.

Nope, unfortunately. Even if she competes at the next stage of the series, she won't be able to catch the first-placed gymnast.

What the!? This is horrible!!! It's Bidani right there, a medalist at the World Championships, training under such conditions! MAJOR respect for him!

Not that many people might be interested, but the Aerobic Gymnastics World Championships have concluded. and won their first-ever medals! Historic gold medals for both nations. won a silver medal, their best result in the history of the world championships. won a medal after 11 years. Finally!

Matvei Petrov in men's artistic gymnastics. Trampoline quotas will probably remain empty due to no nations being able to fulfill the criteria.

Márcia Lopes received the tripartite invitation.

Vietnam has almost 100 million people. In a huge country like this, it baffles me that the only sport to have decent chances at an Olympic medal doesn't receive enough funding to test athletes, apparently.

It is not. *Currently* Russia has only qualified through the all-around World Cup series. The apparatus WC series has not been concluded yet and the quotas have not been announced/accepted by the NOCs yet. If Russia declines the apparatus WC quota, then they will have only one gymnast qualified through the all-around WC series and could, theoretically, still accept the quota from the European Championships. Italians are anxious and eager for the continental quota, I know, but it depends on whether Russia will choose to take it or not.

You're counting one extra quota for Uzbekistan earned at the Asian Championships, but this is wrong. The quotas were awarded to and , actually -- and you got them right. Also, the men's team has been announced: Giarnni Regini-Moran, Joe Fraser, James Hall, and Max Whitlock.

Omar Mohamed. And Uche Eke qualified for Nigeria. No idea. I'll look for information about it.

and added Olympic quotas. It's the first time Nigeria has qualified in any discipline of gymnastics.

Still no word from FIG. We'll probably not have any official confirmation until June 7. By then, all of the quotas from the continental championships will have been distributed in artistic gymnastics, so all that would be left for FIG to decide is whether they will hold the Doha World Cup or not. But I don't think anything official will surface at least until June 14, that's when the Pan Am rhythmic and trampoline championships will have ended.

Here: https://twitter.com/thegymterdotnet Also, keep an eye on the South African gymnastics federation website. They usually post full results of important meets. @JoshMartini007 might be interested too.

Nah, it's to be expected. Of course, one can question whether his decision to switch to Albania was a fair move or not, but Russia was determined not to support him anymore, so he had nothing to lose. Besides, he had never been very successful in Russia. His best result until he switched to Albania was one single bronze medal at the World Cup series. As an Albanian, not only he added another bronze medal at the World Cup series to he résumé, he also won the pommel horse gold medal at the 2020 Europeans, so he's kind of high profile now. He could even become the first-ever gymnast to go to the Olympics with a wildcard and still make it to one of the finals. Maybe even a medal if the final is as crazy as the one at the 2021 Euros was.

Zeina Ibrahim qualified with a decent score, on par with the ones who qualified at the World Championships. Naveen Daries also qualified, but with a very low score. Apparently, she fell once in evert apparatus. I really though had it in the bag for the second quota, but I was wrong. Too bad. Both and had already qualified gymnasts at the World Championships. Too bad for Algeria, Nigeria and Cameroon, but hopefully these nations will not get discouraged.

I usually never come to this topic because I get easily disgusted, but now that I'm here, I have to ask: accusation without any sort of supporting evidence would not be categorized as, or akin to, a crime per se? False reports or accusations of rape eventually lead to the prosecution of those who falsely claimed to be the victims. Shouldn't it be the same here? Isn't it common sense? Or are we simply going to ignore this as part of the political game and move on as if he has every right to do it?

FIG has been silent for months now. One of the "inside" persons told me that it will probably be held in late June, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

Yes, but my point was about women's artistic gymnastics, not men's. In men's artistic gymnastics, with Larduet out, qualifies instead. In women's artistic gymnastics, since dropped out of the Games, qualifies. Now, if also drops out, qualifies, but the gymnast might be injured now, so is the next one in line.

It just occurred to me that there might be a chance of Meg Ryan qualifying even if North Korea suddenly decides to compete. A few days ago, someone asked Manrique Larduet, from Cuba, how his preparation was going. He replied that he's not training and will not go to Tokyo, despite having qualified. Cuba didn't send any gymnasts to the artistic, rhythmic and trampoline Pan Ams that will take place in Brazil in two weeks. So, at this point, there's absolutely no reason to believe that Cuba is planning to send Marcia Videaux to the Olympics. Larduet would have been their best shot at a medal, and even then he would be a dark horse at best. Videaux has no chance of getting a medal, so why send her at all now? Now, if both and fail to send female gymnasts to Tokyo, this means that and would qualify. But the Georgian girl is injured, if I'm not mistaken, so it could open up a chance for to qualify. We'll all know how it will go soon, hopefully.

Well, they voted for that genocide, so this is what they get. I've barely left home in the last 13 months because those stupid a******s who voted for Bolsonaro keep flooding the streets and spreading the virus. What can you expect from them? And you know that most Brazilians are too dumb/stubborn to reflect about their bad choices, so they will blame everything and everyone but themselves and the one who they chose to represent them.

Vaccination is still slow around here, overall, and it wildly varies among the different parts of the country. For example, a city 15 minutes away from Rio has vaccinated all of their teachers and professors, but vaccination for teachers and professors who live in the city of Rio had been suspended. Only next week it will restart, and I hope to receive my first shot in around three weeks. Needless to say, the general public is not too happy about athletes getting vaccines, so they're keeping this as low profile as possible.