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The European Championships has been canceled. If qualifications documents are to be followed, Salome Pazhava qualifies as an individual and the group will get a quota.

@Olympian1010, @MHSN, if you guys have access to old links where these results were supposed to be, or come across broken/dead links, you can always try to open the links through the Internet Archive (web.archive.org). Through this, and after months exploring obscure forums online, I was able to find all of the results of every stage of the World Cup series in artistic and rhythmic gymnastics since 1999. I also found many results from the rhyrhmic gymnastics Grand Prix series since 1994. I asked FIG for help but they never replied (even after 5 e-mails), but the Internet Archive helped me a great deal and I believe I've found some information even FIG doesn't have anymore.

I forgot about a host and motto. I'm afraid it might seem that I lack creativity, but I would choose as the host city the place where I currently live, Joinville (I'm moving back to Rio in a couple months, though). Joinville has a population of nearly 600 thousand people and it hosts the Joinville Dance Festival every year. It was once the largest dance festival in the world, and remains the largest in Brazil. It's also the only place in the world outside of Russia where there's an official Bolshoi Ballet Academy. It would be perfect for the "Discolympics". As for the motto, I'm in doubt. It could be: 1) Listen to your passion 2) Move to the rhythm of your passion 3) Let sport touch your heart 4) Your heart beats to the rhythm of sports 5) One heart, two passions (i.e., sport and music)

This is TeamGym. The problem is that currently there's no international federation representing the sport, only the European federation, which organizes European Championships since 1996.

Trampoline, tumbling and parkour would not be included. It's for the best, of course.

If the continental championships are canceled too, the rules are confusing and kind of up for debate, but from I understand the eligible qualifiers would be, in order: Women: Seojeong Bachynska Magistrati Kaeslin Schermann Fidelis Nedov Crisan Gutierrez Men: Mussayev Dolgopyat Mozzato Borello Jessen Schmidt Gonzalez Muntean Van den Keybus

The all-around World Cup in Birmingham has been canceled. This means that the all-around world cup series cannot serve as one of the qualifying stages for the Olympics anymore. EDIT: I had the wrong version of the document. The correct version is clear about the qualification rules. The qualifiers are: Women (+1 quota): Men (+1 quota):

So, Petrounias wants the qualifications for Baku World Cup to count as finals, and he thinks he can still outscore Liu Yang. Excerpt from a recent interview for the International Gymnast website: IG: You were in a good position to win in Baku before the finals were canceled. What is your perspective on the disappointing circumstances, and especially how they affect your plans to qualify for Tokyo? EP: Yes, it is true that I am in very good shape and the 15.10 (score in qualifications) isn’t the best score I can get. I really believe I can do better. With a stuck dismount it can be 15.30-plus! I think the FIG (International Gymnastics Federation) has to count this qualification as a final because it was the closest competition to a final. Otherwise they have to organize a new World Cup in order for the athletes who are chasing the Olympic ticket to have the right chance. After that I think it will not impact my plans because we’re still on the road to Tokyo and the dream is alive. IG: Considering the recent changes to the FIG schedule because of the pandemic, which competitions do you hope to attend in the coming months, and what will you need in terms of points and wins to qualify for Tokyo? EP: As I said, if Baku counts, I need one more win in Doha (World Cup of Doha, originally set for March 18-21 but rescheduled to June 3-6). I will be there to get what I deserve and have worked for, in order to go to Tokyo and defend my title on rings. I’m ready for it.

I like this idea, but I feel that this is basically the Pan American Games with a few invited nations. I would expand this idea to something like Latin Heritage Games, including other nations that have an official language based on Latin (Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, Catalan, Romanian). It would be nice to see and 29 other countries where French is an official language (including and a number of African nations). With the inclusion of Vanuatu, all six (or five, depending on how you look at it) continents would be represented, too.

And add Portugal and Spain? LOL. No way. The Ibero American Athletics Championships is a joke. There was an artistic gymnastics championships in the 1980s as well, but it lasted just 3 or 4 editions and it was mostly terrible as well. I would just leave things as they are.

This might sound crazy, but I would love to see an event where every sport depends on music or songs. I have no idea how to call it. The sports I can think of are: Acrobatic gymnastics (FIG) Aerobic gymnastics (FIG) Aesthetic group gymnastics (IFAGG) Artistic cycling (UCI) Artistic gymnastics (even if it's just women's floor) (FIG) Artistic roller skating (FIRS) Artistic swimming (FINA) Dancesport (WDSF) Equestrian (Dressage and Vaulting) (FEI) Figure skating (why not?) (ISU) Rhythmic gymnastics (FIG) Wheel gymnastics (IRV) Only 8 (edit: 9) international sports federations involved. It could work out just fine.

Nope, unless FIG revamps their entire qualification system. In fact, I've been thinking about a system that still be fair amidst this whole crisis, and I believe something like this could work: First, do away with 2 extra gymnasts per nation. Reduce it to only 1 extra gymnast per nation. Then, apply the following rules: A) Top 8 teams at the 2019 World Championships: 1 extra quota B) All around: 1 quota to best 3 nations in all-around competition at the 2019 World Championships, except if extra quota has already been received as one of the top 8 teams. Selection based on individual performances during qualification. C) Apparatus: 1 each top qualifier at the WC series as it currently is. Only applies if nation has not qualified an extra gymnast otherwise. D) Tripartite invitation: 1 quota E) Continental participation: 0-1 quota (this only applies if all 5 continents are not represented otherwise) F) Wildcard: 0-1 quota (preference for host country, if extra quota has not been received otherwise) This would generate the following results: Men's qualifiers: A) B) C) D) E) None F) Women's qualifiers: A) B) C) D) E) None F) Not the ideal scenario, but this would make for excellent performances at the Olympics.

As they say, one person's meat is another one's poison. Bad thing for the Greek, good thing for the Chinese (and possibly us Brazilians too, since Zanetti can still earn a medal on rings).

Yes. There's no easy way out of this mess now. In my opinion, prize money and medals should be distributed based on the results of qualifications. Not the ideal scenario, but it's still better than nothing for the gymnasts. Points for Olympic qualification, though, is a way more complicated matter. If they award points based on qualifications, there will still be hope for Petrounias. If they cancel the results altogether, Petrounias will be out of the Olympics. Not to mention Kheika, Urara and other gymnasts who heavily relied on this stage to make it to the Olympics.

The event has been canceled, unfortunately.

It looks like the event finals were canceled. This is the most absurd thing I've heard in my life if this turns out to be true.

Habiba Marzouk ️of has qualified to the Olympic Games. Amazing result. She's really, really good! Her back flexibility is nothing short of amazing. Probably the strongest ever rhythmic gymnast from Africa.

I don't know if it makes any difference, but Jesolo is not an official FIG event. It's just like a "friendly" meet. But of course they apply FIG rules to the scoring system, it's just that it's not officially sanctioned or promoted by FIG.

Also, the artistic gymnastics all around world cup in Stuttgart has been canceled. This is insane. I would be okay with a closed doors event, but canceling it is one of the worst things that could happen to the Olympic qualification system.

IFAGG is a mess. FIG looks like a super professional federation compared to IFAGG. Not many people even know aesthetic groups gymnastics exist as a sport. Even I can't really take it seriously, to be honest.

The second world cup in aesthetic group gymnastics in has been canceled.

2% mortality rate beats 0%. I'd be hysterical if I had to go to an event and risk contracting a virus that could kill me instead of staying home and not risking anything.

How the hell is a continental federation with four member nations allowed to even host its own Olympic qualifier?

Not a good start for the all-around world cup series, unfortunately. Mostly unimpressive performances today. Hurd was solid, but far from her best form, and I'm really not impressed with DiCielo (as expected she was terribly overscored). Hatakeda hit her routines, but 53.8 is nothing to write home about. Even Hurd scoring 55.832 is nothing spectacular, really. She would have placed 7th last year at the world championships and I believe 57 will be the threshold for a medal in Tokyo. Gadirova has lots of potential and she would have earned the bronze medal if she did not have to count a fall. She's very promising. Everybody else is just meh. Biles, Lee, Andrade, Xijing and two Russians (among Listunova, Urazova and Melnikova) are capable of scoring higher than what Hurd scored today. And what happened to Villa? The girl looks exhausted in her first competition this year. Unbelievable.

I've just discovered paralympic powerlifting and I'm in love with this sport. It's so exciting to watch! I never trusted weightlifting after so many doping scandals, so I could never get into it, but powerlifting is absolutely amazing!