ROME – The Italian gymnastics season is safe. The Federal Governing Council has approved the new calendars. The movement will restart on 10 October.
Here is the press release published by federg gym.it.
“From September, Gymnastics starts again with all its competitive activities.
Trying to recover almost the entire season , interrupted in late February by the pandemic emergency.
At the meeting of the Federal Executive Council, held yesterday afternoon in a video conference, the changes to the technical standards were approved, in particular the 2020 and 2021 calendars.
Silver competitions will give the signal for the great gymnastic revival.
The return to normal of the platforms and the beginning of the so-called Phase 3, then with autumn the big events will arrive.
Gymnastics, the most important appointments.
The third round of the Rhythmic Serie A is set for the weekend of 10 and 11 October.
While that of male and female art on the 17th and 18th of the same month.
The Final Six of small tools will be celebrated on Sunday 25 October, while the epilogue of the big players, GAM and GAF, will be staged on 22 November.
In between the two Absolutes: the Rhythmic, individual and together, between October 31 and November 1; male and female art, with the women's Gold Specialty, a week later, on 7 and 8 November.
A super competition every seven days, therefore, for a sports marathon that will drive the many fans of the two Olympic sections crazy.
And if the stands were still barred from public access, do not worry because the Federation will give appropriate media coverage to all the main events, live or delayed, in the clear on its YouTube channel and, for subscribers, on DAZN.
The Italian Trampoline Championships will take place in Milan between 27 and 29 November, those of Aerobics, with the Serie A, in Porto Sant'Elpidio, on 12 and 13 December.
Before Christmas, the Gold competitions will also be held, in order to let the legitimate winners find all the seasonal titles, originally offered at the beginning of 2020, under the tree.
And we will have the anticipated new year's barrels at the Rimini Fair.
Where between Friday 4 and Tuesday 8 December, taking advantage of the bridge of the Immaculate Conception, the people of the GpT will unleash, a lot of other Silver (and not only) in the inevitable Gymnastics in Festa.
It was not easy to compress such an intense and varied calendar in a time span of about two months.
With the interlocking, among other things, of three European championships.
Rhythmic in Kiev, Ukraine from 26 to 29 November, male Art from 9 to 13 December, female from 17 to 20 of the same month, both in Baku, Azerbaijan.
The work of the Technical Departments and the respective team managers has been extraordinary in this sense.
And it will still take some time to locate the locations.
Without any and unfortunate new health emergencies, the FGI would thus recover its activity, saving the programs of the current year, for the benefit of the historical continuity of its championships, the visibility of sponsors, media partnerships and television agreements.
But above all as a demonstration of the tenacity of an ultra-centennial movement that never gives up! ".
Source: Blitz Quotidiano