On 13 July 2009 he revealed that he used cocaine three days before the Dutch championships in Rotterdam. Van Gelder said he very much regretted his "lapse" and called himself "incredibly stupid". He has since had to return his national championship gold medal, and was suspended by the Dutch Gymnastics Union.[3] IOC regulations implied that because of the suspension he would not be admitted to the Olympic Games in 2012. He was also fired from his job with the Dutch military, as they have a 'zero tolerance' drugs policy.[4]
He was pulled out of the 2010 Worlds a few days before start, with the team citing personal medical reasons and refusing to answer questions about drugs.[5]
In 2011, there was an appeal, by LaShawn Merritt, at the CAS against the general rule that after a suspension the athlete is not allowed to participate in the next Olympic Games. The appeal was granted and thereby Van Gelder still had a chance to qualify. For this, he had to achieve a good result at the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, but he was unsuccessful.
2016 Olympic Gamesedit
Van Gelder performing at the Olympics in the qualification
At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he reached the finals on rings. On 8 August 2016 (one week before the finals), he was dismissed from the Dutch team as a disciplinary measure, because against team rules he had not returned to the Olympic Village until early the next morning after consuming alcohol off-premises.[6] As a variation on his nickname "lord of the rings", the Dutch media immediately referred to Van Gelder as "lord of the drinks".[7] A request of a preliminary injunction requiring that the National Olympic Committee would attempt to reinstate Van Gelder's position in the finals was rejected.[8]
yuri, gelder, this, dutch, name, surname, gelder, gelder, born, april, 1983, dutch, gymnast, whose, best, discipline, rings, nickname, lord, rings, gelder, 2008, personal, informationnickname, lord, ringscountry, represented, netherlandsborn, 1983, april, 1983. In this Dutch name the surname is van Gelder not Gelder Yuri van Gelder born 20 April 1983 is a Dutch gymnast whose best discipline is the rings His nickname is Lord of the Rings Yuri van GelderVan Gelder in 2008 Personal informationNickname s Lord of the RingsCountry represented NetherlandsBorn 1983 04 20 20 April 1983 age 41 Waalwijk North Brabant NetherlandsHeight1 61 m 5 ft 3 in DisciplineMen s artistic gymnasticsClubFlik Flak s HertogenboschEponymous skillsFrom planche lower horizontally and slowly to hanging scale rw and press to swallow 2 s or from swallow same to planche or planche to planche 1 Medal record World Championships 2005 Melbourne Rings 2007 Stuttgart Rings 2006 Aarhus Rings European Championships 2004 Ljubljana Rings 2008 Lausanne Rings 2009 Milan Rings Contents 1 Career 1 1 Suspension 1 2 2016 Olympic Games 2 References 3 External linksCareer editBorn in Waalwijk Netherlands Van Gelder took the gold in the men s rings at the 2005 European Championships held in Debrecen Hungary He became world champion in the same discipline at the 2005 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Melbourne Australia He won bronze at the 2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Aarhus Denmark At the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart Germany he won a silver medal 2 Suspension edit On 13 July 2009 he revealed that he used cocaine three days before the Dutch championships in Rotterdam Van Gelder said he very much regretted his lapse and called himself incredibly stupid He has since had to return his national championship gold medal and was suspended by the Dutch Gymnastics Union 3 IOC regulations implied that because of the suspension he would not be admitted to the Olympic Games in 2012 He was also fired from his job with the Dutch military as they have a zero tolerance drugs policy 4 He was pulled out of the 2010 Worlds a few days before start with the team citing personal medical reasons and refusing to answer questions about drugs 5 In 2011 there was an appeal by LaShawn Merritt at the CAS against the general rule that after a suspension the athlete is not allowed to participate in the next Olympic Games The appeal was granted and thereby Van Gelder still had a chance to qualify For this he had to achieve a good result at the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships but he was unsuccessful 2016 Olympic Games edit nbsp Van Gelder performing at the Olympics in the qualification At the 2016 Summer Olympics he reached the finals on rings On 8 August 2016 one week before the finals he was dismissed from the Dutch team as a disciplinary measure because against team rules he had not returned to the Olympic Village until early the next morning after consuming alcohol off premises 6 As a variation on his nickname lord of the rings the Dutch media immediately referred to Van Gelder as lord of the drinks 7 A request of a preliminary injunction requiring that the National Olympic Committee would attempt to reinstate Van Gelder s position in the finals was rejected 8 References edit Men s Artistic Gymnastics 2017 Code Of Points FIG page 87 Yuri van Gelder haalt zilver op WK permanent dead link Retrieved 9 September 2007 1 dead link Stouwdam Henk 13 July 2009 Dutch gymnast Yuri van Gelder tests positive for cocaine Nrc nl Archived from the original on 18 September 2009 Retrieved 13 November 2011 International Gymnast Magazine Online Dutch Pull Van Gelder from Rotterdam Intlgymnast com 12 October 2010 Retrieved 13 November 2011 Rio Olympics 2016 Yuri van Gelder sent home after drinking on night out BBC August 9 2016 Retrieved August 9 2016 RTL Nieuws Yuri Lord of the Drinks mikpunt van spot RTLNieuws nl 8 September 2016 ECLI NL RBGEL 2016 4504 Court of Gelderland 12 August 2016External links editOfficial website Yuri van Gelder at the International Gymnastics Federation Yuri van Gelder at Olympedia nbsp Yuri van Gelder at Olympics com Yuri van Gelder at TeamNL archive in Dutch Awards Preceded byPieter van den Hoogenband Dutch Sportsman of the year2005 Succeeded byTheo Bos Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Yuri van Gelder amp oldid 1209505731, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
