Good news, Croatia has nominated someone for European Gymnastics president. Less good news, Gayibov must have sufficiently groveled to Dear President because he’s been nominated for re-election.

This color combo is one you see in parts of Indonesia, like in this man’s headscarf from about a hundred years ago:

@ollyhogben.bsky.social has noted a couple times that Karina Schönmaier didn’t move to one of the big German training centers until she was a senior. Her club in Bremen was so small that it didn’t have a full vault runway. She’d start her vault run outside. Now she’s the European vault champion.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard @ollyhogben.bsky.social as excited and delighted as he is right now during this Euros mixed team final.

Nobody tell the FIG secretary general, he’ll faint at the idea.

I see we’re going to find out how many non-European countries scheduled their national championships during Euros.

Well, that’s cool, Dang Ngoc Xuan Thien now has the leading pommel score at an FIG meet.

Featuring everyone’s favorite: bureaucracy without oversight.

You should always have a crowd of adoring littles mob you have you've done well on floor at a meet in your home gym.

This time of year I always realize that I would have blown the family fortune on tulips if I’d been a wealthy person in Holland in the 1630s.

When I was digging up information on Doha, I saw that the scoring system in the directives was listed as “Bornan or SmartScoring or any.” I think the last one is @kensleybehel.com getting USAG to write down 2-vault scores on a piece of paper so she could take a picture and share it with people.

And you’re missing some quality entertainment if you don’t get to the rhythmic side of it.

The EG website describes the Euros mixed pairs event as having a cross-battle format. This doesn’t appear in the event directives or on the Turnfest website. So either it’s going to be a seeded, bracketed elimination tournament (which I’m cool with) or the EG website person is confused.

Numbers of athletes and medals for LA 2028 have been released. Here’s the gym quotas. Note that a mixed team event is on the docket. (!!!)

As a society we don’t talk enough about Heath Thorpe’s high bar.

I dug this up for someone elsewhere but it is always a good day to watch Martina Maggio’s 2022 Worlds qualifying vault.

Martijn De Veer (NED) has announced that he dislocated his ankle in training and it required surgery. He is out of commission for the foreseeable future.

Somebody thought this was a good idea.

Did Skinner do or say anything in 2012 that was problematic? Because I saw someone say they’ve hated her since 2012 and it struck me as odd to have that kind of loathing for a 15-year-old.

Nariman Kurbanov (KAZ) was on hand at a regional chess tournament to open the third round of play.

The interim president of PAGU arrived in Panama to inspect the venue for the 2025 Senior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Presumably she’s making sure the facility isn’t open-air.

WADA has launched a survey seeking responses from people who have experienced unintentional doping, in hopes of creating better systems to prevent it. Open to athletes, support personnel, medical professionals, and researchers.

I mean, aside from everything else about this quote, this official has clearly never watched acro, a discipline his organization governs.

Hugging Nagornyy is one of the most tone-deaf things Watanabe has done as FIG president, and I’m including his 2021 reelection campaign poem.

Can we get Kurbanov to give the Canadian guys some pointers?

If your scale doesn’t look like this, I don’t want it

Mixed events, in a nutshell:

Someone save me from people who only watch one Olympic sport and think the Sydney Games on the whole were a dumpster fire.

Soooo… this wasn’t the order in the results book.

I may be sick, but that didn’t stop me from *checks notes* entering a 52.9 on vault for Kai Uemura.

Practically every meet on the FIG calendar this year (except two rhythmic meets from last weekend) has a results book on the website. What on earth. Is this competency? In MY gym governance?

You know, it’s remarkable how that arena in Antalya is bright and open and still has all the warmth of a nuclear fallout shelter.

Good to be king.

I’m looking forward to the MTC meeting minutes where their representative reports whatever nonsense went on in Antalya. Otherwise I’m happy to forget this meet ever happened.

Severance fandom right now:

If I never have to deal with scoring from a meet in Antalya again, it’ll be too soon.

I’ve really enjoyed getting into rhythmic but then things like this leotard happen and I question my sanity.

My Instagram follows are divided between gymnastics/sport governance and sewing/other crafts. This morning I was really thrown off when a sewing person posted about boxing and the Olympics. Sir, I follow you for the insane hand-crafted jeans, what are you doing over here in sport governance?

For those of you who (like me) were lamenting the inability to post floor routines here, Flashes has you covered! iOS only at the moment, but I suspect this means longer videos are coming soon to Bluesky as a whole.

The results of the IOC ballot. Watanabe wasn’t dead last, but this wasn’t remotely close.

It’s an absolute crime that Abu Al Soud got a 9+ E score today and THERE WAS NO BROADCAST.

Antalya World Cup MAG FX QF Taylor Burkhart (USA) - 14.267 (5.4/8.767/+0.1) Burkhart qualified into 1st for Saturday’s final. (Let’s see if posting a longer video works on Flashes…)

Kirsty Coventry becomes the first woman to head the International Olympic Committee. Winning on the first round, she becomes the IOC's 10th president.

@bsky.app any chance of getting longer videos here? 60 seconds is really tough on sport fandoms.

We're on IOC time, which usually means not the schedule. Vote now set for 4:30 p.m. local/10:30 a.m. ET.

Thread on how the IOC presidential election works, specifically the nuts and bolts of the voting itself.

Fun facts about the US and balance beam. 2024 was the first Olympics since 2000 with no US beam medal. 2000 was the first time since 1980. The US has won 15 Olympic beam medals, tied with the USSR (if you don’t count Lysenko’s with the 1992 unified team). Romania has won 10. China has won 8.