Olympic champion Hezly Rivera is out of worlds with an ankle injury.

Newly-married Nina Derwael 🇧🇪 has decided to retire from elite #gymnastics, she announced this morning. The Tokyo 2020 uneven bars champion goes out on top, having just won the European titles on bars and beam.

A surprise: Kaylia Nemour 🇩🇿 has left her French club. Besides Nemour, Avoine-Beaumont has trained some of the best in France over many years, including Youna Dufournet, Carolann Héduit, and reigning junior European champ Elena Colas.

It’s a momentous day for women, Africa, and the Olympic movement.

Kirsty Coventry 🇿🇼 has been elected as the new IOC President (in one round of voting, no less!) becoming the first woman to lead the #Olympics movement.

It may not be the contest you picture when you think of the Olympics, but its outcome will have a resounding effect on the future of the Games. The vote happens tomorrow in Greece.

With the IOC Presidential elections coming up in a week, I’ve done a little piece on the seven candidates and their main proposals — interesting reading if you’re an Olympics junkie. Here’s the gist.

Ahead of this weekend’s World Cup in Cottbus 🇩🇪 I put together a primer on what’s changed in the Men’s and Women’s #Gymnastics Codes of Points. A lot has happened on the men’s side, and the number of counting elements being reduced from 10 to 8 is only the beginning of it.

The FIG’s latest bulletin on the Paris Olympics highlights key data: while there were 5 fewer countries represented compared to previous Games, 4 nations earned their first-ever Olympic gymnastics medals—a historic milestone! #Gymternet

The legendary Ágnes Keleti 🇭🇺, who survived the Holocaust and went on to win five Olympic titles during the 1950s, has died a week shy of her 104th birthday. May she rest in peace. 🕊️

Happy birthday to @ollyhogben.bsky.social, commentator extraordinaire and all-around terrific human being! 🥇 Thank you so much for all your encouragement and inspiration this year.

How many hours a week do female elite gymnasts train? I asked a few Olympians. My latest for @gymnastics ⬇️

How close was Rebeca Andrade 🇧🇷 to doing the TTY at #Paris2024? Very close. Yet she’s happy she didn’t. “I’m very proud of that decision…and I think that if I had to go back, I would have made the same decision.” My latest for @gymnastics ⬇️

Newly retired Igor Radivilov 🇺🇦 has a new job, per the Kyiv Gymnastics Federation: he and wife Angelina Radivilova (née Kysla) are to be head and senior coaches of the Ukrainian women’s team, respectively.