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According to International Gymnast Media, Adem Asil has withdrawn from the European Championships that starts tomorrow for the men, and subsequently the Mediterranean Games 💔. This is sad news to hear, and for anyone wondering, he did participate in Podium Training here, so I don’t know if something happened in podium training, or if it was a separate issue that’s prevented him from competing here?

Knowing this, I’m wishing Adem all of the best, regardless of what the circumstances are, and let me know your thoughts as always ❤️.

Welp, this sucks hard 🫠. I will share both the Gymnastics Now piece on the situation, and Heath Thorpe’s own response to this on X.

Knowing this, if anyone can’t read from the image, the Gymnastics Now piece that features more of Heath Thorpe’s response to the situation says:

“I was recently informed (indirectly) that following the Men's Technical Meeting in June, the straddle jump 1/1 would no longer be valued as a B element, nor would it count towards the artistic requirement moving forward.”

“This comes after it received a provisional value at both the Osijek World Cup and the Oceania Championships, and shortly after many athletes began competing it all around the world.
I do not see the rationale behind this decision... it directly contradicts what the Technical Committee has been "advocating" for over the last few years.”

“We keep hearing that "artistry" is desired, yet as soon as athletes innovate, it gets shut down.
All this constant revision and inconsistency is doing damage to the sport and to how athletes perceive "artistry."

“It is sad to see how the opportunity to elevate our sport, has been missed.”

“I am confused 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️”

Along with this, Heath Thorpe’s response on X to this reads:

“The way the MTC provisionally valued the straddle jump 1/1 on floor in April and then changed their minds a few months later?”

“Now it no longer is a B nor does it even fulfil the artistic element requirement?”

“I'm confused 🤷‍♂️”

“I frankly get whiplash from the constant revising and changes to what they consider "artistry"? What other major Olympic sport changes their mind so frequently?”

“What started off this quad as a great intention to elevate the sport, has become an opportunity sorely missed.”

Knowing this, I’m pissed off by the news of this, and it’s another screw up from the FIG/MTC. Like Heath said, this is damaging the sport of MAG, and I’m so upset for him. Like it’s one thing to value it a ‘B’ (when it should be valued more in my opinion) and not a ‘C’ (like it is in the Women’s) so he could at least have the skill named after him officially, but now it’s not even going to fulfil the artistry requirement on floor??? Damn, what a mess, and I’m just so frustrated right now with this decision 😒.

Lastly, let me know your thoughts as always, and if you’re as upset as I am by this decision from the FIG/MTC?

Link to the Instagram post will be here for anyone who needs it:

Along with this, if you’re unable to read from the image, I will type is out below:

“So difficult to find the words for this past week because the outcome hasn't felt like a true reflection of the preparation that has really gone into these championships.”

“Leading into Zagreb I was prepared to do 3 events and leaving feeling unable to my job properly has been heartbreaking. There have been multiple factors that contributed to the final decision being made to not do the team final and it wasn't a decision that was made lightly because I know how much impact a decision like that can have on a team.”

“To remove any doubt, the decision wasn't due to a new injury which I'm extremely grateful for. Navigating this journey at 34, trying to do the level of gymnastics I believe I still can is new territory for myself and the sport. Unfortunately that comes with some pretty significant challenges that as a team we are all trying to learn from and continually adapt to.”

“I couldn't be more proud of this team for stepping up and showing exactly how a team has strength in numbers and what fighters GB really are.”

“Thank you to everyone who has sent such lovely messages of support ♥️”

Knowing this, I’m grateful to learn that she didn’t sustain a new injury, and I can only assume that she withdrew for precautionary reasons with the world championships in two months time, which I think is the right decision in the grand scheme of things for her and her body.

With that in mind, let me know your thoughts, and despite what happened in team finals, it was still absolutely amazing to see Becky back on the international stage at these championships, and I’m sure she’ll come back even better from this like the queen she is ❤️.

I will link her Instagram post here, and as well as this, I will link her floor routine from Rio in floor finals here on YouTube for people to go back and watch it!

Moving on, if you’re unable to read from the image, I will type what she said below:

“10 years ago today. 🥹🥉”

“10 years since one of the most incredible moments of my life — winning an Olympic medal, making history, and being only one of two British female gymnasts to win an individual Olympic medal.”

“It honestly feels like yesterday and a lifetime ago all at once. The years of training, the early mornings, the sacrifices, the highs, the lows, made that moment so much more than just a medal.”

“Standing on that podium at the age of 16 was something I could only have dreamed of, and I'll forever be grateful that I got to experience it.
10 years on, I'm still incredibly proud of that little girl who chased her dream and somehow made it a reality. ❤️”

“The medal will always be special, but the memories, and everything the journey taught me will stay with me forever.”

“10 years. An Olympic medal. A lifetime of memories 🥹🥉✨”

Knowing this, this was a lovely post from Amy, and I think it’s amazing how much history she made on this day 10 years ago. She was the youngest member of Team GB of all sports at the 2016 Olympics, and she became the first British female gymnast to win an floor medal at an Olympics, as well as only the second individual Olympic medalist from Team GB in WAG to date.

Lastly, I will forever be proud of Amy Tinkler for speaking up about the abuse she suffered at the hands of British Gymnastics back in 2020 (I will link the interview she did with ITV here, but I need to give a trigger warning, as it discusses topics such as body shaming, physical, and emotional abuse that she endured during her time in gymnastics). She was so brave in coming out about her experience, and she’s helped to inspire so much change in the federation, and she’s an amazing role model for so many young gymnasts in the UK.

Anyways, let me know your thoughts, and a happy tenth anniversary to this amazing accomplishment from Amy Tinkler 👏👏.

As I did a leotard compilation for day 1 of the senior women’s competition, I thought I’d do one for the second day of competition as well. With that in mind, I hope everyone enjoyed watching nationals this year, and I want to thank everyone for making this such a lovely space to discuss nationals 🫶. Along with this, I’m looking forward to watching world trials at the end of next month, and I’m excited to see who will be on the worlds team for the US women!

Knowing this, if you’re unable to read off of the images, I’ll type out what each image is of down below so that no one is left out on this post as possible:

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This image shows WOGA’s leotards on day 2 worn by Hezly Rivera, Claire Pease, and Isabella Anzola.

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In this image, we see the leotards from WCC that were worn by Reese Esponda, Dulcy Caylor, and Lavi Crain.

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Next, we see Metroplex’s leotards that were worn by Lila Richardson, and Zoey Molomo.

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After this, we see Charleigh Bullock’s leotard from Capital.

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This image is of Jade Carey’s leotard from Oregon State University.

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In this image, we see Skye Blakely’s leotard from the University of Florida.

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Next, we see Izzy Stassi’s leotard from the University of Oklahoma.

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After this, we see Caroline Moreau’s leotard from Texas Dreams.

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This image shows the leotard that Simone Rose wore from Pacific Reign.

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In this image, we can see the leotard that Tatum Drusch wore from Flips.

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Next, we have the leotard that Greta Krob wore from IGN.

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After this, we have the leotard that Ally Damelio wore from San Mateo.

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Lastly, we have the leotard that Alessia Rosa wore from Hills.

To finish this post off, let me know all of your thoughts, and a massive congratulations to all of the athletes who competed at US Nationals this year for sharing their gymnastics with us, and making it a wonderful competition to watch ❤️❤️.

I’ve been so giddy about Jade’s comeback this year regardless, but words can’t describe how happy I am to see the full in FTDLO return! I was SO SHOCKED when she brought it back at Classics last month (which was the first time she had used the full in technique on her FTDLO in almost 8 years), and it looks even better here!

Moving on, I don’t think she’ll keep the full in technique permanently. I wouldn’t be surprised if she goes back to her old full out technique on Sunday/Monday (as she did say she was alternating between them and seeing what works best for her), so we’ll see what happens. However, despite that, I’ve been enjoying the return of her full in FTDLO , and I’ll be sad to see it end.

As day 1 of the senior women’s competition has concluded, I thought I would make a compilation of all the leotards worn by the competitors today/yesterday.

Knowing this, if you’re unable to read from the writing on the images, I will write what each image is of down below so no one is left out:

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This image shows all of the WCC leotards worn by Reese Esponda, Dulcy Caylor, and Lavi Crain.

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In this image, we see all of the WOGA leotards worn by Claire Pease, Hezly Rivera, and Isabella Anzola.

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For the third image, we can see all of Pacific Reign’s leotard, that were worn by Simone Rose, and Jayla Hang.

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This image shows all of Metroplex’s leotards, that were worn by Zoey Molomo, and Lila Richardson.

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In this image, we can see the leotard that Skye Blakely wore for the University Of Florida.

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For the sixth image, we can see the leotard that Charleigh Bullock wore for Capital Gymnastics.

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For this image, we can see the leotard that Jade Carey wore for Oregon State University.

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In this image, we can see the leotard that Izzy Stassi wore for the University Of Oklahoma.

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Looking at this image, we can see the leotard that Caroline Moreau wore for Texas Dreams.

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For the tenth image, we can see the leotard that Tatum Drusch wore for Flips.

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For this image, we can see the leotard that Greta Krob wore for IGN.

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We can see in this image the leotard that Alessia Rosa wore for Hills.

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For the last image, we see the leotard that Ally Damelio wore for San Mateo.

With that in mind, I hope you like this leotard compilation that I’ve made for you, and let me know your thoughts as always ❤️❤️.

With the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games on tonight in the UK, and with that the end of the Commonwealth Games for the next 4 years. I wanted to round out my 2026 Commonwealth Games posts with a compilation of all of the leotard looks I could find from Qualifications all the way to Event Finals!

Knowing this, I will explain below what each image is of (I did write them on the images as well, but I understand some of them are hard to read so I’ll add them down below so no one’s left out)!

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The first image includes team leotards for Australia, Canada, South Africa, Scotland, Singapore, and Wales in Qualification/Team Finals.

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The next image includes Team England’s leotard in Qualification/Team Finals, that was also worn by Abi Martin in Vault Finals, and Shantae-Eve Amankwaah in Floor Finals!

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This image includes leotards from Team India, Malta, Namibia, and New Zealand who competed as individuals in Qualification.

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In this image, we see Alana Walker’s leotard in Qualification for Jamaica, as well as Dailia Burke’s leotard in Qualification for Trinidad And Tobago.

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This image shows leotards worn by Tiana Sumanasekera, and Nuyara Fernando for Sri Lanka in Qualification.

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This image includes Breanna Scott’s All Around Final leotard, that was also worn by Ruby Pass in Bars finals, Georgia Godwin in Floor finals, and by Kate McDonald in Floor finals.

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The next image shows Georgia Godwin’s leotard in All Around Finals, and Kate McDonald’s leotard in Beam finals.

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This image shows us Team Canada’s leotards in All Around Finals, as well as Team Malaysia and Team Scotland’s.

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This image includes Team
England’s All Around Finals Leotard, that was worn by Ruby Stacey in Vault finals, and was reworn by Shantae-Eve Amankwaah in Bars finals, and then was worn by Alia Leat in Beam Finals, before lastly being reworn by Abi Martin in Floor finals.

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This image shows us Team South Africa, Team Singapore, and Team Wales’ All Around Finals leotard.

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In this image, we see Philippa Busuttil’s All Around Finals leotard for Malta, as well as Courtney McGregor’s All Around Finals Leotard for New Zealand.

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This image shows one of Australia’s Event Finals leotards (or how I like to call it, the ✨golden✨ leotard), that was worn by Georgia Godwin in Vault Finals, Kate McDonald in Bars finals, and Breanna Scott in Beam finals.

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This image shows two of Canada’s Event Finals leotards, that were worn by Lia Monica Fontaine in Vault Finals, Ellie Black in Beam finals, Lia Monica Fontaine in Beam and Floor finals, and Lia Redick in Floor finals.

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This image includes the leotard Abigail Roper wore when she won the bronze medal on vault for Wales, that her twin sister Emily Roper also wore in the final (but I was unable to find a good image of Emily Roper in the Vault final).

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We can see in this image the leotard that Courtney McGregor wore in Vault finals for New Zealand, and we can see the leotard that Protistha Samanta wore in Vault finals for India.

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In this image, we see Ellie Black’s leotard in Bars finals for Canada, the leotard Yeoh Li Wen wore in Bars finals for Malaysia, the leotard Alana Walker wore in Bars finals for Jamaica, and the leotards Emily Roper and Jemima Taylor wore in Bars finals for Wales.

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This image shows Amanda Yap’s leotard in Beam finals.

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This image shows us what leotard Philippa Busuttil wore in Beam finals for Malta.

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We can see in this image the leotard Ruby Evans wore in Beam Finals for Wales.

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The final image shows Ruby Evans’ leotard in Floor finals.

The full link to the post will be here if you want to check it out: (and she used the instrumental of the Welsh anthem for her music on the post, which my heart 🥹❤️)

Ruby Evans’ Instagram post about winning the floor title at the 2026 CWG’s

Moving on, for anyone who can’t read from the image, this is what she said:

“COMMONWEALTH FLOOR CHAMPION 🏆”

“So many emotions that I just can't explain, it's a dream come true.💭”

“Hearing the Welsh anthem and the dragon rise yesterday was a feeling I'II never forget 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿”

“And a memorable leotard inspired by daffodils 🌼”

“Big thank you to everyone around me who has helped me achieve my dream 🐉🌟”

Knowing this, I’m still quite emotional as a Welsh gym fan by this result! I’m so proud of Ruby Evans for how much she has grown Welsh Gymnastics in recent years, and for how she has made Wales known on the international stage! We have never had an Artistic Gymnastics CWG’s champion from Wales before (Latalia Bevan was close when she won the silver on floor in Gold Coast 2018, and some say she was robbed of the title but that’s all I will be saying on that), and I still can’t quite believe it happened. This has opened Artistic Gymnastics up to a whole new audience in Wales, and I’m so proud of her for winning the first gold medal of these games for Wales in any sport so far!

Moving on, I love how much you can tell she loves being Welsh, I love how you could tell how much it meant to her being on top of that podium, and becoming the first artistic gymnast to hear the Welsh anthem on a CWG’s podium and seeing the Welsh flag raised, and I applaud her for doing interviews in the Welsh language (full or partial), as she’s promoting the language to a whole new audience outside Wales, some of whom have never heard of the Welsh language until Ruby spoke in it! Along with this, it’s such a beautiful language to listen to, and it’s a language that I as a Welsh person should try to learn more of as I only know basic/conversational phrases, but that’s besides the point!

Lastly, I want to give another huge congratulations to Ruby Evans on this amazing achievement for Welsh Gymnastics! I hope she has been thoroughly celebrating this result with all her teammates and loved ones, and I hope this gives her a massive confidence boost for the upcoming euros next month ❤️❤️.

I saw this image from the Olympic Channel’s social media pages, and I knew I had to share this on the sub with everyone! Words cannot describe how proud I am of these girls ❤️. These girls have been absolute breakout stars of this tournament, and they’re an example of gymnasts that have peaked later in their careers (with the sisters both being 20 turning 21 in September, and are both currently studying Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Essex in England)! They have both had wonderful competitions at these CWG’s, and I can’t wait to see what future opportunities this performance will give them when it comes to making Team GB squads!

Knowing this, I want to give another huge congratulations to Abigail Roper for bringing home the bronze medal on vault for Wales (the first vault medal won by a Welsh woman at the CWG’s in thirty two years after Sonia Lawrence’s silver in 1994), and to Emily Roper for winning the bronze medal on bars for Wales (and making history along with her sister Abigail by becoming the first Welsh artistic gymnasts to bring home separate individual medals at the same CWG’s in CWG HISTORY)! ❤️❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🥉🥉.

Edit: I have an updated stat for you, as well as Emily making history for Wales with Abi by becoming the first Welsh artistic gymnasts to win two separate individual medals at the same CWG’s in CWG’s history. Emily Roper has made history of her own by becoming the first EVER Welsh gymnast to win a CWG’s bars medal! These girls weren’t even aware of these stats before today, and I’m absolutely proud of them for the history they’ve made, and the performances they’ve put in for Team Wales at these CWG’s ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿.

OKAY, to start, OUR AMERICAN SRI LANKAN QUEEN IS LOOKING AMAZING! I love her podium training leo, and she looks so happy to be here, which I’m thrilled to see for her!

Moving on, UMMM HER OPENING CEREMONY OUTFIT ALERT 🚨. She looks so good in her Sri Lankan attire, and her smile is absolutely infectious 💕.

After this, I LOVE that she got to meet the one and only ✨Danusia Francis✨, and I’m so happy to see Janelle here with her for this competition!

Lastly, I’m wishing Tiana the best of luck as she competes on beam in the second subdivision of the women’s competition on Saturday! The women’s competition will be starting at 10 AM UK/Irish time on Saturday, which is the equivalent to 5 AM ET time, and 4 AM CT time, as well as 2:30 PM in Sri Lankan time! She has been described as one of the medal hopes for Sri Lanka at this competition, and I truly hope she can do her country proud here, regardless on if she makes beam finals or not/wins a medal or not ❤️❤️🇱🇰🇱🇰

I have to say, the women’s leos are absolutely gorgeous, and they look so good on everyone! I especially love the dragon details that are on our main leos (which is the national symbol of Wales), and I love the image of the Roper twins together, as I think they look absolutely stunning here ❤️🥹.

Lastly, I will link the instagram post below if you want to check it out for yourself, and I can’t wait to see the men and the women out in action next week, and words cannot describe how excited I am to see Ruby Evans, as well as the rest of the squad represent Wales on the international stage ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Da-pXSrDNTw/

Edit: I also wanted to add that I love the Celtic patterns that they added on the sleeves to our secondary leos, as it represents our Celtic heritage, and I think it adds a beautiful layer to the leo!