Some of you know that BB had her first meet last week and that she was forced into the older category due to politics in our region. In fact we have the old system in it's last year and the new system in it's first year happening at the same time. This year we will have two provincials even, though BB is too young for either. As you can imagine this has caused a lot of battles and problems for club and coaches. Our club is affiliated in both leagues, some are just in the new system.
All that to say that the old federation sent the medals for the meet and it included medals for BB for the age group she should have been in. So she got
gold on floor and vault and silver on the Beam, bars and AA. The coach held a nice medal ceremony and awarded all the girls that won stuff their medals.
There was no medal for tramp as the old system does not do tramp (even though they competed it at the meet!!!) The medals given out at the meet were for under the new system, confused yet???
The parents are totally confused and the gymnasts are very, very confused. I am not sure what the PTB were thinking. Phasing one out before the other came in would've been smart.
BB is very happy as you can imagine!
All that to say that the old federation sent the medals for the meet and it included medals for BB for the age group she should have been in. So she got
gold on floor and vault and silver on the Beam, bars and AA. The coach held a nice medal ceremony and awarded all the girls that won stuff their medals.
There was no medal for tramp as the old system does not do tramp (even though they competed it at the meet!!!) The medals given out at the meet were for under the new system, confused yet???
The parents are totally confused and the gymnasts are very, very confused. I am not sure what the PTB were thinking. Phasing one out before the other came in would've been smart.
BB is very happy as you can imagine!
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