Helen Kevric
One of the most exciting senior debuts of the 2024 season will take place at the Cottbus World Cup, where Helen Kevric has registered to compete on bars, beam, and floor as she hopes to prove herself for the country’s single open Olympic berth.
Kevric, the reigning junior European and two-time European Youth Olympic Festival all-around champion who also won the silver medal on bars at last year’s junior world championships, is one of the most talented German juniors to come through the pipeline in recent years, and has the talent and skills to make her transition to the senior level a success and she should likely be a lock for any of the program’s international teams this year.
The heartbreaker is that with Germany not qualifying a full team to the Olympic Games at worlds last year, it’s going to be devastating when it comes time to choose the athlete who should fill the program’s non-nominative berth, which the team earned by finishing 13th in qualifications. Both Sarah Voss and Pauline Schäfer earned nominative berths for Paris, so they won’t be part of the chase for this third spot, but with Kevric coming in as one of the hottest new seniors in the world and Elisabeth Seitz returning as a three-time Olympic veteran, I do not want to be in the shoes of the person who has to choose between these two incredibly deserving athletes.
Seitz, who made the uneven bars final at worlds in 2022 and at the Olympic Games the year prior, has clearly proven herself this quad as someone who needs to be in Paris. But with Kevric capable of similar scores on bars along with a generally stronger all-around program, meets like this world cup will be incredibly important for her to prove why she should get the nod over her teammate.
The other German ladies competing here include fellow new senior Marlene Gotthardt and Meolie Jauch, who made her world championships debut as a first-year senior last year. On the men’s side, we’ll see Nils Dunkel and Lucas Kochan, both members of the 2023 worlds team that qualified the program to Paris, along with Milan Hosseini, Maxim Kovalenko, Daniel Mousichidis, and Andreas Toba.
Outside of the German contingent, there are a couple hundred gymnasts expected to compete here, with most of the athletes also on the list for Cairo a week earlier as they attempt to build on their rankings to earn individual Olympic berths. The action in Cottbus will begin with the first day of qualifications on February 22, and we’ve included the full list of athletes is below.
| ALBANIA | |
| Matvei Petrov | |
| ALGERIA | |
| Kaylia Nemour | |
| ARGENTINA | |
| Daniel Villafañe | Isabella Ajalla Sira Macias Mia Mainardi |
| ARMENIA | |
| Artur Avetisyan Artur Davtyan Vahagn Davtyan Gagik Khachikyan Harutyun Merdinyan |
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| AUSTRALIA | |
| James Bacueti Tyson Bull Clay Mason Stephens Mitchell Morgans Vedant Sawant |
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| AUSTRIA | |
| Manuel Arnold Xheni Dyrmishi Vinzenz Höck |
Bianca Frysak Selina Kickinger Charlize Mörz |
| AZERBAIJAN | |
| Murad Agharzayev Rasul Ahmadzada Nikita Simonov Ivan Tikhonov |
Nazanin Teymurova |
| BELARUS* | |
| Mikita Parfianovich Yahor Sharamkou |
Alena Tsitavets |
| BELGIUM | |
| Glen Cuyle Noah Kuavita |
Maellyse Brassart Aberdeen O’Driscoll Erika Pinxten |
| BRAZIL | |
| Yuri Guimarães Arthur Mariano Bernardo Miranda Caio Souza |
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| BULGARIA | |
| Yordan Aleksandrov Dimitar Dimitrov Eddie Penev Bozhidar Zlatanov |
Valentina Georgieva Yoana Yankova |
| CANADA | |
| Rose Woo | |
| CHILE | |
| Joaquin Alvarez Josue Armijo Pablo Figueroa Ignacio Varas |
Makarena Pinto |
| CHINA | |
| Chen Yilu Tian Hao Xie Chenyi Yang Haonan Yang Yanzhi Yin Dehang |
Chen Xinyi Hu Jiafei Zhang Yihan Zhou Yaqin |
| COLOMBIA | |
| Angel Barajas Jossimar Calvo Dilan Jimenez Juan Larrahondo |
Ginna Escobar Daira Lamadrid |
| COSTA RICA | |
| Lucia Solano | |
| CROATIA | |
| Aurel Benovic Filip Ude |
Ana Derek Tijana Korent Sara Sulekic Tina Zelcic |
| CUBA | |
| Diorges Escobar | |
| CYPRUS | |
| Michalis Chari Ilias Georgiou Marios Georgiou Sokratis Pilakouris |
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| CZECHIA | |
| Ondrej Kalny Radomir Sliz |
Eliska Drncova Aneta Holasova Vanesa Masova Alice Vlkova |
| DENMARK | |
| Camille Rasmussen | |
| DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | |
| Wilfry Contreras Leandro Peña Jeordy Ramirez |
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| ECUADOR | |
| Alais Perea Fabiana Sadun |
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| EGYPT | |
| Abdelrahman Abdelhaleem Mohamed Afify Ahmed Elmaraghy Omar Elshobki Omar Mohamed Ali Zahran |
Judy Abdalla Nada Awad Jana Mahmoud Nancy Taman |
| FINLAND | |
| Oskar Kirmes Robert Kirmes Elias Koski Leo Lehtinen Joona Reiman Pavel Titov |
Maisa Kuusikko Kaia Tanskanen |
| FRANCE | |
| Samir Äit Saïd Cameron-Lie Bernard Benjamin Osberger Mathias Philippe Leo Saladino Cyril Tommasone |
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| GEORGIA | |
| Ioane Jimsheleishvili Levan Skhiladze |
Dorien Motten |
| GERMANY | |
| Nils Dunkel Milan Hosseini Lucas Kochan Maxim Kovalenko Daniel Mousichidis Andreas Toba |
Marlene Gotthardt Meolie Jauch Helen Kevric |
| GREAT BRITAIN | |
| James Hall Harry Hepworth Courtney Tulloch Luke Whitehouse |
Abigail Martin |
| GREECE | |
| Alkinoos Graikos Nikolaos Iliopoulos Apostolos Kanellos Antonios Tantalidis Stefanos Tsolakidis |
Athanasia Mesiri Magdalini Tsiori |
| GUATEMALA | |
| Jorge Vega Lopez | |
| HAITI | |
| Yvenel Stephan | Khloë Timmer |
| HONG KONG | |
| Ng Ka Ki Shek Wai Hung |
Angel Wong Hiu Ying |
| HUNGARY | |
| Krisztian Balazs Botond Molnar Benedek Tomcsanyi David Vecsernyes |
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| ICELAND | |
| Jon Gunnarsson Dagur Olafsson Valgard Reinhardsson |
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| IRAN | |
| Mahdi Ahmad Kohani Mohammadreza Khosronezhad Hossein Nourishourakchali Mahdi Olfati |
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| ISRAEL | |
| Artem Dolgopyat Ilia Liubimov Andrey Medvedev Alexander Myakinin Ron Pyatov Uri Zeidel |
Ofir Netzer |
| JAPAN | |
| Kawakami Shohei Kaya Kazuma Kitazono Takeru Miwa Teppei |
Ashikawa Urara Nakamura Haruka Ushioku Kohane |
| JORDAN | |
| Ahmad Abu Al Soud Adham Al Sqour Ahmad Habeeb Saleem Naghouj |
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| KAZAKHSTAN | |
| Zeinolla Idrissov Milad Karimi Nariman Kurbanov Dmitriy Patanin |
Aida Bauyrzhanova Darya Yassinskaya |
| LATVIA | |
| Dmitrijs Mickevics Ricards Plate |
Anastasija Ananjeva Anna Grauda Grote Katrina Jurevica Valerija Ratobilska |
| LITHUANIA | |
| Robert Tvorogal | |
| LUXEMBOURG | |
| Celeste Mordenti | |
| MALAYSIA | |
| Ally Hamuda Abdullah Muhammad Sharul Aimy Ng Chun Chen |
Rachel Yeoh Li Wen |
| MEXICO | |
| Rodrigo Gomez Isaac Nuñez Alonso Perez Javier Rojo |
Natalia Escalera Cassandra Loustalot |
| MONACO | |
| Joana de Freitas | |
| MONGOLIA | |
| Enkhtuvshin Damdindorj Usukhbayar Erkhembayar |
Namuuntsetseg Davaanyam Baasansuren Purevsuren |
| MOROCCO | |
| Hamza Hossaini Abderrazak Nasser Achraf Quistas |
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| NETHERLANDS | |
| Loran de Munck Bart Deurloo Yazz Ramsahai Casimir Schmidt |
Casey-Jane Meuleman Floor Slooff |
| NEW ZEALAND | |
| Ethan Dick Samuel Dick William Fu Allen Daniel Stoddart |
Isabella Brett Georgia-Rose Brown Reece Cobb |
| NORTH KOREA | |
| Jong Ryong Il | An Chang Ok Kim Son Hyang |
| NORWAY | |
| Sofus Heggemsnes Jacob Karlsen Peder Skogvang Niklas Syverhuset Harald Wibye |
Hannah Ifeanyi Mari Kanter Maria Tronrud |
| PANAMA | |
| Hillary Heron Lana Herrera Karla Navas |
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| PERU | |
| Nicolas Garfias | |
| PHILIPPINES | |
| Juancho Miguel Besana John Ivan Cruz |
Levi Jung-Ruivivar Emma Malabuyo |
| POLAND | |
| Sebastian Gawronski | Maria Drobniak Marta Pihan-Kulesza Brygida Urbanska |
| PORTUGAL | |
| Guilherme Campos Jose Nogueira |
Mafalda Costa Maria Menezes |
| PUERTO RICO | |
| Nelson Guilbe Jose Lopez |
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| QATAR | |
| Al-Harith Rakan | |
| ROMANIA | |
| Gabriel Burtanete | |
| SERBIA | |
| Ivan Dejanovic Dusan Djordjevic Vlada Rakovic Petar Vefic |
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| SLOVAKIA | |
| Barbora Mokosova | |
| SLOVENIA | |
| Luka Bojanc Nikolaj Bozic Anze Hribar Gregor Rakovic |
Teja Belak Lucija Hribar Tjasa Kysselef Lucka Ravnihar |
| SOUTH AFRICA | |
| Naveen Daries | |
| SOUTH KOREA | |
| Hur Woong Kim Hansol Ryu Sunghyun Shin Jeahwan |
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| SPAIN | |
| Thierno Diallo Pau Jimenez Joel Plata Rayderley Zapata |
Laura Casabuena Laia Font Maia Llacer |
| SWEDEN | |
| Karl Idesjö Luis Il-Sung Melander Filip Lidbeck Kim Wanström |
Nathalie Westlund Jennifer Williams |
| SWITZERLAND | |
| Caterina Cereghetti Anny Wu |
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| TAIWAN | |
| Hung Yuan-Hsi Lee Chih-Kai Lin Guan-Yi Shiao Yu-Jan Tang Chia-Hung Tseng Wei-Sheng |
Lai Pin-Ju Mai Liu Hsiang-Han Ting Hua-Tien Wu Sing-Fen |
| TÜRKIYE | |
| Ferhat Arican Ibrahim Colak Mert Efe Kilicer Kerem Sener |
Ceren Biner Sevgi Kayisoglu Derin Tanriyasükür Bengisu Yildiz |
| UKRAINE | |
| Nazar Chepurnyi Illia Kovtun Oleg Verniaiev |
Yelizaveta Hubareva Diana Lobok |
| UNITED STATES | |
| Asher Hong Colt Walker Khoi Young |
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| UZBEKISTAN | |
| Rasuljon Abdurakhimov Khumoyun Islomov Abdulaziz Mirvaliev |
Dildora Aripova Oksana Chusovitina Odinakhon Robidjonova |
| VIETNAM | |
| Dang Ngoc Xuan Thien Nguyen Van Khanh Phong Trinh Hai Khang Van Vi Luong |
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*Competing as Authorized Neutral Athletes
Article by Lauren Hopkins
The Gymternet 
What would you personally Do, if you had to decide between Seitz and Kevric?
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And what do you think about Emma Malewski, Meolie Jauch or Marlene Gothardt? Do you think one of them have a Chance, too?
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Malewski is injured I think.
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Well, I wouldn’t do anything and leave it up to the gymnasts: the best will go to Paris, quite simply – as long as the federation sticks to its agreement. So the results of two qualification competitions will be the final proof of who is the best. Incidentally, Kevric achieved high scores on all apparatus in her last competitions. Seitz, on the other hand, was only able to perform well on the uneven bars recently, with Kevric achieving a phenomenal best performance of 14.950 on this apparatus in a senior competition, which Seitz was last able to achieve six years ago. With this score, Kevric would have won the bronze medal in Antwerp! The huge talent, who celebrates her 16th birthday in a few weeks, is objectively the only German gymnast who is highly likely to bring home a (uneven bars) medal.
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Emma is still back in gym and is trying to get the spot for the olympic gemessen.
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It’s a tough decision and I really wouldn’t want to be the one making it, but Kevric has time on her side whereas Seitz would be nearly 35 in 2028. We will almost certainly see Kevric in an Olympics at some point.
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There have already been younger gymnasts who have taken part in the Olympics, so why not take advantage of the opportunity if Kevric continues to show superior performance. Seitz is undoubtedly one of Germany’s best gymnasts, a living legend after all these years. Unfortunately, fortune has turned against her and has denied her an Olympic medal (tragic, but of course not an isolated case, I am thinking for example of her much more famous compatriot Franziska van Almsick, the world record swimmer, whose triumphs and tragedies have been the subject of more tears than a swimming pool can hold). In recent months, however, one could get the confusing impression that the 30-year-old Seitz is doing everything possible to ensure that certain mainstream media report on her conspicuously often so that attention is drawn almost exclusively to her. There are no reports or even a discussion about the fact that the young Kevric has matured into an exceptional competing talent who is de facto superior to her. What’s more, the young gymnast is practically hushed up. Instead, egomaniacal slogans are circulating that give the impression that Seitz’s Olympic participation has already been decided. I wonder what the aim of this is. Do they want to unsettle the young gymnast and encourage her to give up voluntarily? In the end, it was decided that the single free place for participation in the Olympics would be decided by two competitions, as announced by the federation. However, the national coach was strangely vague, as if the decision could be based on other considerations. Kevric is registered for the World Cup in Cottbus in the penultimate week of February, and there is great excitement as to how she will present herself in her first international senior competition with the partly new programs.
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Addendum/update: Helen Kecric was named in the FIG’s list of participants with three apparatus, Kevric herself seemed to confirm this indirectly with a link on her IG account (https://www.picuki.com/media/3291751723746826965). On February 13, the FIG published the currently valid list, on which Kevric is now only represented with two apparatus (https://www.gymnastics.sport/asset.php?id=fidb_15320). Today (February 16), the DTB (German Gymnastics Federation) announced its participants for Cottbus (https://www.dtb.de/weitere-nachrichten/nachrichten/artikel/starke-besetzung-beim-turnier-der-meisterr). According to this article, Kevric will not be taking part, she is not even mentioned.
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Addendum/update: the FIG initially named Kevric for the World Cup in Cottbus for three apparatuses, on Kevric’s IG account this seemed to be indirectly confirmed (https://www.picuki.com/media/3291751723746826965). On February 13, the FIG released its current list of participants (https://www.gymnastics.sport/asset.php?id=fidb_15320), on which Kevric is now only listed for two apparatuses. Today (February 16), the DTB (German Gymnastics Federation) announced two German gymnasts for Cottbus in an article (https://www.dtb.de/weitere-nachrichten/nachrichten/artikel/starke-besetzung-beim-turnier-der-meisterr). In addition to the shamefully small contingent for the competition in their own country, Kevric will not be nominated by the DTB for Cottbus. What’s more, the most promising gymnast (of Germany) is not mentioned in the article at all.
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I totally agree with you. I really don’t understand, why the didn’t even mention a World about Kevric. I think at least they have to give a shorts Statement about the reasons of cancelling her. But we know nothing.
That’s not a good way to promote German Gymnastics.
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It’s not just that a cloak of silence has been spread over Kevric, what I find even worse is that she herself has fallen completely silent. She had regularly reported on her competitions via her IG channel, the last time on her sensational EYOF success in the summer of 2023. Then came the turning point in the fall – we remember her Bundesliga appearance in Ketsch (near Karlsruhe). She received the highest score for every routine she performed in the adult women’s competition. At that time, she was one of the top gymnasts in Europe, and her uneven bars routine had even taken her to the top of the world rankings. But she didn’t write a single word about it! (Needless to ask whether this can still be “normal” or right). Nor did anyone from her circle around the “Turnforum Stuttgart” or the federation mention it. “Silly” question: Wouldn’t it have been the most natural thing to talk about your most successful gymnast at this point? Or that at least she herself would have expressed her joy? After Ketsch, any normal-minded observer would have naturally assumed that Kevric would accompany her team through the next stages to the final, but she didn’t perform anywhere. Instead, there was an iron silence. I ask myself, how stupid and/or naive would I have to be not to ask questions about what’s going on here? For example: who benefits from Kevric being “taken out of circulation” so to speak? Write letters to their coaches, to the officials of the Gymnastics Forum in Stuttgart, to the federation, call these people and ask them questions!
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PS, I’ve just seen that Helen has posted two pictures – from her last performance almost half a year ago from that “Bundesliga” competition in Ketsch (which I wrote about above). A picture of the uneven bars, where she received a score that would have put her on the podium at the World Championships. Beyond that, she doesn’t write a word. It just seems to me as if she wants to quietly draw attention to the fact that she still exists …
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I agree with you. I do not understand, why they are Do this. Last weak I Reader an articel about which German gymnast could get the last Spot. The articel was most about Seitz including a statement of the “Bundestrainer”, that He thinks Seitz has a good Chance (what is actually right), but the Problem was, that they only mentioned Kevric in a shorts subordinate clause.
t think thats really sad!
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I find it scandalous and, incidentally, a reflection of this declining society. You’re probably referring to this fuzzy, sleazy and uninformative in-house announcement from the DTB (https://www.dtb.de/weitere-nachrichten/nachrichten/artikel/road-to-paris), which practically everyone would have to interpret as freely as they could. Just one quote: “After a first test in February, the gymnasts who will represent Germany at the home World Cup in Cottbus and the DTB Cup in Stuttgart will be determined.” Has anyone heard anything about this first test – which was supposed to have taken place recently? Why did the DTB announce Kevric and Gotthard for Cottbus only to cancel them a little later? With the statement that the national coach wanted to give two other gymnasts a chance? Doesn’t the FIG also feel like a third-rate theater? Investigate the background of the national coach! What could influence his freedom of decision? Do you have the impression that a clear and fair line is being followed here that is not oriented towards certain interests?
In fact, there is more media interest in Kevric abroad than here in Germany. They know that the German gymnasts only have one place on the list for Paris 2024 alongside Schäfer and Voss, and a kind of mafia-like battle seems to have been instigated for this place. According to the reports, the business-minded Seitz is being massively favored in the media, mainly by the so-called public television station SWR. To the detriment of Kevric, her most important competitor and de facto Germany’s best gymnast. Google “SWR Seitz” and “SWR Kevric” and you’ll find out. We read about Kevric: “Germany only has one additional starting place for the Games in Paris. Next year, the injured and talented athletes, such as the highly talented Helen Kevric from Stuttgart, will compete for it.” This report is almost six months old. For example, it is not reported that Kevric is currently performing on all apparatus compared to Seitz and is one of the ten best uneven bars gymnasts in the world with just under 15 points. This is a score that Seitz last achieved on her favorite apparatus seven years ago and then never again.
Since her coup in Ketsch, Kevric has been practically hushed up in the media with regard to the Olympics and has not taken part in any competitions since October 14, 2023 for no apparent reason. The last we saw of the apparently completely healthy Helen were the two appearances at the Sporthilfe Junior Athlete of the Year 2023 awards ceremony and “Helen as Cup Girl” in the Bundesliga final (cup presentation). Deal: fobbed off and sedated with representational duties?
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From a newspaper article from February 21, 2024 regarding the World Cup Cottbus/Kevric debut: “In Cottbus, the last starting places for the Olympics in Paris are at stake for the apparatus specialists among the gymnasts.” Accordingly, 317 gymnasts want to come to Cottbus to qualify for the Olympic Games. There are only a few starting places left for the gymnastics competitions in Paris. The newspaper reports that the last chance to fill them will be via the World Cup series, especially for apparatus specialists.
Then an important sentence: “Only those athletes whose countries have not already qualified as a team or have reached the maximum quota of three individual starters may take part in this competition.” According to this, the World Cup series is “not relevant” for the German Gymnastics Federation (DTB) with a view to Paris. Reason: The men would have qualified as a team at the World Championships in Antwerp, while the women would have already “exhausted” their quota of three individual starters.
However, the newspaper does not go into how the “infamous” third quota place is to be allocated. Nor does the editor ask why the men’s coach has sent six gymnasts to Cottbus, although, as has already been made clear, there is no need to do so. In the case of Kevric, however, there should in principle be a great interest in giving the de facto best German gymnast competition experience, which she continues to be denied (who was sent to Cottbus by the national coach instead of Kevric has already been mentioned above; and the two gymnasts, as we now know, ended up far behind the qualification for a final participation).
The newspaper article ends with a succinct statement: “The initially announced debut of Helen Kevric, the world’s best junior gymnast who has been eligible to compete since the beginning of the year, has been canceled without giving a reason.” Unfortunately, the newspaper editors seem to be either incompetent or simply not interested in getting to the bottom of the matter.
Source: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/sport/mehr-sport/turn-weltcup-in-cottbus-fuer-viele-letzte-chance-auf-olympia-in-paris-19533071.html
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The next announcement for Kevric’s senior debut: https://www.enbw-dtbpokal.de/aktuelles/detailansicht/news/turn-team-deutschland-fuer-enbw-dtb-pokal-steht-fest-drei-stuttgarterinnen-dabei/ (however, the EnBW DTB Cup is not part of the World Cup series, where the last chances to participate in Paris would be awarded)
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“Helen Kevric will make her senior women’s debut in Stuttgart:” https://www.dtb.de/weitere-nachrichten/nachrichten/artikel/dtb-auswahl-fuer-den-enbw-dtb-pokal
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Saturday, March 16, 2024, 9:44 p.m
»The spectators in Stuttgart will once again not see top talent Helen Kevric on Sunday. The 16 year old [16? 15!] was actually supposed to compete in the Mixed Cup for Germany, but injured his right ankle slightly during training on Saturday [i.e. today, Saturday, March 16, 2024]. “We don’t want to take any risks,” said national coach Wiersma.”
The newspaper report about Kevric’s alleged cancellation due to an injury is a lie. Whoever came up with the lie was already clear beforehand that Kevric would not be doing gymnastics – as can be seen from a visualized list of names that Kevric’s gymnastics colleagues Lisa Wötzel, Marlene Gotthardt, etc. presented or are presenting on their private IG medium:
Thursday, March 14th, 2024 – Fri, March 15th, 2024
https://www.picuki.com/media/3323439351792268890
Here, for example, on Gotthardt’s IG account, you can find the picture with the names of the gymnasts who are scheduled to take part in the women’s team challenge on Saturday, March 16, 2024, as follows:
Marlene Gotthardt, Meolie Jauch, Janoah Müller, Claudine Soliman, Lisa Wötzel
The four gymnasts knew by Thursday at the latest who should do gymnastics on Saturday afternoon – and who shouldn’t. So apparently before the national coach was quoted in the press on Saturday night about this minor injury to the right ankle, which – according to Wirsma – Helen only sustained in training on Saturday morning. What is really tragic about these clumsy, easily transparent lies that are being served up to the public here is something else: Helen wanted to do gymnastics, otherwise why would she have shown a screenshot of the DTB website on the same day (March 14th, 2024 – see above) that says her name?!
It’s the same game as before at the World Cup in Cottbus, Helen had also shown the list of participants with her name there – whether out of pride, or to modestly point out that it’s also about her, or, so to speak, for the preservation of evidence or all together, let’s put it aside. The reason why she was apparently excluded from participation at the last moment was outrageously never explained by those responsible. http://Www.faz.net : “The originally announced debut of Helen Kevric, the world’s best young gymnast, who has been eligible to start since the beginning of the year, has been canceled without giving any reasons.” Where else is there that the best gymnast in the country is so compromised, denied?
This time, an association announcement is trying – with permission: downright stupid to present an injury scenario invented from the outset. What is being done here on the backs of the young people is bursting with mafia-like unscrupulousness. On the one hand, the fascination that Kevric exerts on a wide expert audience is used effectively in advertising (ticket pre-sales, etc.), on the other hand, it is to be ignored. Of course, the latter has clearly been about the awarding of the one starting place for Paris for quite some time, especially about the media-propagandistically solely supported Olympic participation of the commercially capable Elisabet Seitz.
It speaks volumes how conspicuously communication about the reasons for Kevric’s cancellations is avoided by everyone who somehow has something to say publicly. Starting with those responsible such as Sports director Gutekunst and national coach Wiersma, then on to the hall speakers and livestream commentators, up to the own gymnasts in the so-called “team”. Neither on her “social media” chatter channels, nor in the interview with the so exemplary Kim Bui, the renewed “cancellation” of the indeed “world’s best young gymnast” finds even a mention, let alone the slightest regret. However, the girls can not be so envious at all in order to still be able to look in the mirror in the future. It seems more like a mafia has imposed an omerta.
The aforementioned Wirsma appropriately gives the next statement of himself, from which one can be curious to see what truth is ultimately behind it: “However, the national coach is not worried about the team chemistry because of the competitive situation. “I don’t think it’s a big deal for the gymnasts, because it’s pretty clear how we do it. The one who achieves the highest score and thus comes closest to the medal ranks gets the ticket,” he said.” [https://www.sport1.de/news/olympia/2024/03/turnen-dtb-pokal-als-startschuss-fur-kampf-um-olympiaticket]. The goal of Wiersma must be the success of the athlete at the Olympic Games, which derives her own reputation or the justification for the job of the national coach. At least that’s what one should believe. But perhaps the national coach has come to terms with an alternative (financial?)?
On the other hand, one would like to call the teenager Helen to show courage and character against the machinations of adults, and not just to fight on the uneven bars in order to be able to achieve their dreams and goals. She could only win in the end.
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