Why Olympic Gymnastics Teams Will Have Four Members in 2020
Julia Fincher in the article, The Future Four: Why Olympic Gymnastics Team Will Have Four Members in 2020, states that in 2020 the Olympic Gymnastics committee will be cutting the team sizes down from five to four members. This is a disadvantage and an advantage and can be argued from both sides, this article argues from both points of view. A pro of this is that it would allow six gymnasts per team but, two would only be individuals. A con of this is that they will have to leave a lot of talented gymnasts home instead of bringing them to Tokyo. The two individual gymnasts will substantially be alternates. Fincher supports her statement by describing the causes of the team's …show more content…
Aly Raisman’s input was “Are you kidding me?!? Changing the 2020 gymnastics Olympic team to 4 girls instead of 5? What's next? A team of one member? What a shame.”. Aly’s former coach Martha Karolyi, who retired after the Rio Olympics in 2016, said this about the new team size, “It will hurt the spectacle, what the gymnasts can provide for the whole world, and would eliminate some of the strongest gymnasts just in our country. Even when the team was six we had to leave home some strong ones. I totally don’t feel like I am really happy about that, but decisions will be taken, and we will be with any kind of decision. That’s what we did in the past, even if something doesn’t seem like very smart or very good, but once the rules are set for us, we will go with it.”. Martha explained that the new team size will hurt our countries’ gymnasts because we have so many strong gymnasts with great potential. She also explained that they changed this previously in the 2012 Olympics. Most former Olympians believe that the new team size is going to hurt the element of gymnastics in the Olympics as well. Third, Fincher states that the Olympic rules will be less straightforward in Tokyo than they were in Rio. She explained that “The gold, silver and bronze medal teams from the 2018 World Championships will earn team berths (with four members) to the Olympics”
Julia Fincher in the article, The Future Four: Why Olympic Gymnastics Team Will Have Four Members in 2020, states that in 2020 the Olympic Gymnastics committee will be cutting the team sizes down from five to four members. This is a disadvantage and an advantage and can be argued from both sides, this article argues from both points of view. A pro of this is that it would allow six gymnasts per team but, two would only be individuals. A con of this is that they will have to leave a lot of talented gymnasts home instead of bringing them to Tokyo. The two individual gymnasts will substantially be alternates. Fincher supports her statement by describing the causes of the team's …show more content…
Aly Raisman’s input was “Are you kidding me?!? Changing the 2020 gymnastics Olympic team to 4 girls instead of 5? What's next? A team of one member? What a shame.”. Aly’s former coach Martha Karolyi, who retired after the Rio Olympics in 2016, said this about the new team size, “It will hurt the spectacle, what the gymnasts can provide for the whole world, and would eliminate some of the strongest gymnasts just in our country. Even when the team was six we had to leave home some strong ones. I totally don’t feel like I am really happy about that, but decisions will be taken, and we will be with any kind of decision. That’s what we did in the past, even if something doesn’t seem like very smart or very good, but once the rules are set for us, we will go with it.”. Martha explained that the new team size will hurt our countries’ gymnasts because we have so many strong gymnasts with great potential. She also explained that they changed this previously in the 2012 Olympics. Most former Olympians believe that the new team size is going to hurt the element of gymnastics in the Olympics as well. Third, Fincher states that the Olympic rules will be less straightforward in Tokyo than they were in Rio. She explained that “The gold, silver and bronze medal teams from the 2018 World Championships will earn team berths (with four members) to the Olympics”