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Did you guys see that Kim Bui got elected to the IOC Athlete's Commission?

She got the second-most number of votes (top 4 got elected) behind freaking Allyson Felix. What a legend!

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German gymnast Kim Bui concludes her seventeen year career at the 2022 European Championships in Munich, Germany.

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OH pauline was READY for an excuse to wear that dress i just know it

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Let’s talk about German Gymnastics... again...

I recently wrote a post about the longevity and thought put into managing gymnasts to foster longer careers that goes on in the German program. Over the last year there has been a lot of hand wringing about the fact that Germany only sent one gymnast, Pauline Schäfer-Betz (age 24 at the time), to the 2021 World Championships rather than sending a bunch of young seniors “for experience.” Now mind you Schäfer won a world silver medal at that event and it was perhaps not an outrageous idea on the part of the Germans that sending teenagers who weren’t potential medalists to Japan in the middle of a global pandemic was not looking out for their welfare.

Ever since there has been a lot of “concern” about the decline of German gymnastics as the core of their team were all over 25 years old (Schäfer now 25, Elisabeth Seitz 28, and Kim Bui 33). Where were all the young gymnasts to replace them. Those noises got a bit louder recently when Bui announced that she was retiring after the 2022 European Championships. The decline of German gymnastics was upon us.

This week the German senior women won a historic team bronze medal, the first ever for their country at European level, Helen Kevric (age 13) won the Jr. European All Around Championship (a title that has previously been held by just about every great gymnast you name). Elisabeth Seitz at 28 years old, a participant in 3 Olympic Uneven Bars finals won Germany’s first European uneven bars gold medal since the unification of the country and on the other end of the age of the spectrum 18 year old Emma Malewski won the country’s first beam gold medal since the unification of the country.

The entire day in Munich was a celebration of the wonderful remarkable career of Kim Bui as she took a standing ovation and the entire Olympiahalle cried. But I want to draw attention to something else that happened the last day of the women’s championship. The German federation withdrew Helen Kevric from three events, events that she was very likely to medal on, as a precautionary measure because they were concerned about pain she’d felt in her foot on a landing two days before. A national gymnastics federation decided that three junior European medals weren’t worth the injury risk to a 13 year old girl who has an incredibly bright and hopefully long future ahead of her in the sport. And I can honestly not think of many other national federations that would make the same choice.

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