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Bruno Grandi: Potential and personality

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A brief report here from the FIG on the recent symposium held to discuss changes to the Code of Points.

Oh dear.  Why do I always have to be so horrible to Bruno Grandi?  This says absolutely nothing.  Is it at all possible that Jani Taskannen got to report the results of his research here?  If so, the timeframe didn't allow him awfully long to collect and analyse the data - perhaps the FIG needs to do a course in research methods.  And in writing announcements.

Grandi is as wooly as my neighbour's Persian cat, but less cute and about a hundred times more annoying.  He speaks of transparency, then produces an announcement that is about as transparent as the Queen's underwear. What's all this about athletes needing to learn to 'wield the potential and personality of each piece of apparatus'?  Of the need to 'reinvent' and 'simplify' the sport of gymnastics?

No, Professor, it's not the sport that needs to be reinvented and simplified - it's the Code.  Athletes have been 'wielding the potential and personality' of the apparatus for years - but THE CODE doesn't appreciate it.

I hope there's a reality beneath this that reveals a little more thought and action.  Otherwise, I despair.
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