Gergely Marosi

World Gymnastics reaction to the Sofia awards ceremony:

The Dutch Gymnastics Federation somehow forgot to enter the rhythmic gymnastics national team for the European Championships. Missing the deadline prevents the gymnasts from taking part at the ECH and qualifying to the WCH. The gymnasts are shocked. nu.nl/sport-overig/6…

@brunorochade Because they must, as per the rules. They are also free not to apply for a neutral status, if they don't want to do that. BTW all the other AIN gymnasts (both from Belarus and Russia) faced the flags.

@emgergo Everyone has their country's flag except Russia, so why would it turn to a flag that isn't its own?

So I was looking at the rulebooks. Statutes, Technical Regulations, Code of Conduct & Rules for Award Ceremony all seem to apply, but are a bit vague. If Rules for Award Ceremony applies, this section applies, and it seems to be violated. (Photo: Anna Nedkova)

The Italian Gymnastics Federation announced that Egle Abruzzini, one of the key figures in the modern history of RG, has passed away. The 1936-born expert has worked on the topmost technical level of RG for 28 years. federginnastica.it/news/si-%C3%A8…

Make that *Gymnastics Ethics Foundation

The Ukrainian Gymnastics Federation will file an official complaint about the award ceremony incident in Sofia to the Gymnastics Ethivs Foundation. They seek disqualification and neutral status rescinding for Ilteryakova. ugf.org.ua/news/oficzijna…

@lostinthelightz NO

@emgergo And the pentagram summons Irina Viner

If you're just familiarising yourself with the Rules for Award ceremonies document, it's something that needs to go into a crackvid. One more line and they have a pentagram here 😃

@goldendiamants By this reasoning, we can basically generate scores by dice throws

@emgergo the fact that it is part of her defense is all-time best rg quote

the GEF and CAS awards are the funniest read, but this is maybe the best phrase to ever come out of the trikomiti event. It contains multitudes. Honorable mentions to the forgotten son and the FIG saying euros are always overscored.

@sunrisegymnast I believe the good solution is a flagpole to the front of the podium. Because if it's there, anyone wanting to demonstrate will have to literally turn their back, so it's more straightforward.

umm es muy ingenuo pensar que entonces simplemente no tienen muy claro el protocolo este de darse la vuelta? 🤨

@clematisrg @mollywatchingrg "Then I saw her face"

@emgergo @mollywatchingrg I am a believer

JESUS HAS RETURNED

@lostinthelightz , do you remember what happened here? Because I do not.

BTW what is it with Sofia and award ceremonies? Last year Taisiia didn't turn around for the Bulgarian anthem. But then she was doing the selfies. youtube.com/live/ppkPrq8z9…

@clematisrg @mollywatchingrg Jesus: I will delay that return

@mollywatchingrg I beg to differ: Jesus will return the day the scoring is completely transparent

@Kagiyama_meow @harunaxmurakami Me thinking about the state of RG after watching RG for near 30 years.

@harunaxmurakami that does NOT sound good. im so scared.

fuck it im getting into rhythmic gymnastics can anyone inform me of the current state of that sport

DROP EVERYTHING, Clematis dropped the RG crackvid on us 🤣

@kmkeirns @dylankomova Or FIG (sorry, World Gymnastics) checks the box with "well, she was on the podium, photographers were able to do podium shots, let's move on"

@kmkeirns @dylankomova As per the official Rules for Award Ceremony: "...the athletes must remain on the podium for a short while in order to provide photographers with the opportunity to take pictures." If that is in effect, not posing shall be an infringement, it's just likely not enforced.

How an "neutral" Russian responded to sharing a podium with Taisiia Onofriichuk. I'm sure Taisiia is unbothered. She won 5 gold medals in Sofia.

@notaswfan It might be that she does her mandatory podium photo with standing there, but the Rules for Award Ceremony states "Once the National anthem is played, the athletes must remain on the podium for a short while in order to provide photographers with the opportunity to take pictures"

@notaswfan But also, it was a thing last year as well (she did the podium ceremony, did not pose for photo with an AIN athlete), and I don't remember any sanction for that