The nominative roster for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games is now available for the competition that will take place in Buenos Aires beginning October 6.
With just a couple of weeks to go, we’re excited to begin previewing the meet and telling you all about our favorite must-watch athletes. For now, please enjoy a full list of all gymnasts expected to compete.
| ALGERIA | |
| Sofia Nair | |
| ARGENTINA | |
| Fernando Espindola | Olivia Araujo |
| AUSTRALIA | |
| Kate Sayer | |
| AZERBAIJAN | |
| Samad Mammadli | |
| BELARUS | |
| Aliaksandra Varabyova | |
| BELGIUM | |
| Ward Claeys | |
| BRAZIL | |
| Diogo Soares | Laura Rocha |
| CANADA | |
| Maxime Dolci | Emma Spence |
| CHINA | |
| Yin Dehang | Tang Xijing |
| CHINESE TAIPEI | |
| Yeh Cheng | |
| COSTA RICA | |
| Camila Montoya | |
| CZECH REPUBLIC | |
| Ondrej Kalny | |
| ECUADOR | |
| Pablo Calvache | |
| EGYPT | |
| Mohamed Afify | Zeina Ibrahim |
| FINLAND | |
| Ada Hautala | |
| FRANCE | |
| Mathys Cordule | Carolann Heduit |
| GERMANY | |
| Daniel Schwed | Lisa Zimmermann |
| GREAT BRITAIN | |
| Adam Tobin | Amelie Morgan |
| GREECE | |
| Elvira Katsali | |
| GUATEMALA | |
| Karla Perez | |
| HUNGARY | |
| Krisztian Balazs | Csenge Bacskay |
| ICELAND | |
| Martin Gudmundsson | |
| IRAN | |
| Reza Bohloulzade Hajlari | |
| IRELAND | |
| Emma Slevin | |
| ISRAEL | |
| Uri Zeidel | |
| ITALY | |
| Lay Giannini | Giorgia Villa |
| JAPAN | |
| Takeru Kitazono | Chiharu Yamada |
| KAZAKHSTAN | |
| Ayan Moldagaliyev | |
| LATVIA | |
| Olegs Ivanovs | |
| LITHUANIA | |
| Egle Stalinkeviciute | |
| MALAYSIA | |
| Zarith Khalid | |
| MEXICO | |
| Paulina Vargas | |
| NEW ZEALAND | |
| Sam Dick | |
| NORWAY | |
| Jacob Karlsen | |
| PORTUGAL | |
| Beatriz Cardoso | |
| PUERTO RICO | |
| Michael Torres | Kryxia Alicea |
| ROMANIA | |
| Gabriel Burtanete | Ana Maria Puiu |
| RUSSIA | |
| Sergei Naidin | Ksenia Klimenko |
| SERBIA | |
| Vlada Rakovic | |
| SINGAPORE | |
| Tamara Anika Ong | |
| SOUTH AFRICA | |
| Ruan Lange | Lisa Conradie |
| SOUTH KOREA | |
| Byun Seongwon | Lee Yunseo |
| SPAIN | |
| Alba Petisco | |
| SRI LANKA | |
| Milka Gehani | |
| SWEDEN | |
| Marcus Stenberg | Tonya Paulsson |
| TURKEY | |
| Bora Tarhan | Nazli Savranbasi |
| UKRAINE | |
| Nazar Chepurnyi | Anastasiia Bachynska |
| UNITED STATES | |
| Brandon Briones | |
| UZBEKISTAN | |
| Fayoziddin Mamatkulov | Indira Ulmasova |
| VENEZUELA | |
| Victor Betancourt | |
| VIETNAM | |
| Nguyen Van Khanh Phong | Pham Nhu Phuong |
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Why oh why doesn’t USA send a WAG.
Anyway, excited for a lot of these gymnasts! I think everyone’s wondering if Klimenko can pull a Russian hat-trick, but she’ll face some really strong competition!
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I’m still irritated that they didn’t send a WAG from the US.
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yep, they could win easily. It makes no sense
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Regardless of whether they would win it would be a great opportunity for them to test themselves internationally among a strong field because the US only sends juniors to Jesolo and Pan Ams, and let’s be honest, the competing gymnasts aren’t a real threat. This would have been a more challenging international competition for whomever they sent.
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Exactly! Send a gymnast who won’t turn 16 until the Olympic year for some extra experience.
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They can’t — the only age-eligible gymnasts have to be 2003-born.
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Oh, I forgot that tidbit. I still think they should send someone.
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Seems such a waste for the US not to send a WAG
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When is the deadline for sending a WAG gymnast? Is it too late to name someone for the USA? Maybe Tom Forester is still waiting to see who to send?? Yes, it is total crap. Does anyone else notice that Canada sends gymnasts all over the world to compete all the time and none from the USA. What a shame!
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No, the U.S. isn’t going. The deadline is over, and the U.S. knew back in June when they qualified a spot that they wouldn’t take it. They do send their gymnasts to multiple competitions each year but prioritize team competitions over individual, which is why they send gymnasts to Gymnix and Jesolo and Pac Rims and Pan Ams but not as many individual meets. The U.S. juniors as a whole get just as much, if not more, international experience than juniors from other countries. But the U.S. program prefers to send athletes to team meets because they can get individual competitive experience anywhere and they’ve been competing as individuals since they were five or six, but team experience is quite different and that’s why they prioritize it in their budgets.
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