In a bid to make the country a gymnastics force, Kym Dowdell, member  and former vice-president, International Gymnastics Federation Technical Committee, is in Mumbai to put in place a competitive framework for Indian gymnastics, which can act as springboard for the nation’s great LEAP of faith to gymnastics glory. Dowdell stressed putting down a multi-pronged base, from where India can start producing gymnasts of calibre.  She spoke to the press on Friday at Worli’s LEAP Gymnastics facility. LEAP is a JSW Group initiative.

Dowdell said, “The newly developed competitive framework aims to increase participation, performance levels and assist new clubs to develop a gymnastic curriculum. We have something called the compulsories, which is about progressive development and consistent evaluation for all gymnasts in competition. The optional program will allow Indian gymnasts to further develop and demonstrate their skills in optional routines at three different grades. The final high-performance program is for the development of high-performance gymnasts who at an appropriate time, transition from either the compulsory or optional grades to high-performance.”