VGThuy
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So I was thinking, after all the discussion and celebration of Sanne Wever's creative approach to the balance beam, including her mount. What can the FIG do to encourage gymnasts to go above and beyond in terms of risks and creativity like they used to do? I'd love for the FIG to somehow discover a way to encourage these sorts of mounts on beam again and take that approach to other elements on all apparatuses:
Six Minute Montage of Beam Heaven
Maybe there isn't anything the FIG to do, but rather, whoever is leading the charge has to take it upon themselves to go beyond the code and encourage others to follow suit in order to beat them in their own game a la the Soviets. It seems when the Romanians started dominating in the 90s under Belu and Bitang and then now with the U.S. dominating under the Karyoli way, and with the code changes during that period and then the open-ended scoring system, they as a whole were not willing to take that mantle...though the Dutch are at least pushing the sport in a different direction approaching beam and floor in a wholly different way than any other federation.
Six Minute Montage of Beam Heaven
Maybe there isn't anything the FIG to do, but rather, whoever is leading the charge has to take it upon themselves to go beyond the code and encourage others to follow suit in order to beat them in their own game a la the Soviets. It seems when the Romanians started dominating in the 90s under Belu and Bitang and then now with the U.S. dominating under the Karyoli way, and with the code changes during that period and then the open-ended scoring system, they as a whole were not willing to take that mantle...though the Dutch are at least pushing the sport in a different direction approaching beam and floor in a wholly different way than any other federation.
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