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Laurent Grech

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LUGSTUB article with no credible assertion of a WP:NSPORTS pass.

Grech competed as the Olympics, but merely competing in the Olympics does not automatically indicate notability per WP:NSPORTS2022.
Grech competed in a team that won silver at the 1913 Paris gymnastics tournament (which was not officially the world tournament - this did not start until 1931). However, Grech does not inherit the notability of his team per WP:NTEAM.
The article refers to Grech receiving an "individual gold medal" at the 1913 tournament. However, as the source provided in the article explains, no individual medals were awarded in 1913. Individual scores (not medals) were retrospectively recognised after 1922. A retrospectively-recognised score years after the event cannot be an indicator of notability because it would not have attracted the kind of coverage that an actual award would have - instead it is just a statistical artefact. Nothing found in my WP:BEFORE. FOARP (talk) 12:47, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Olympics, and France. FOARP (talk) 12:47, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

  I have a question as I'm reading the sports guidelines I find

  1. Owns a mark that placed the athlete in the top 12 in the world for that calendar year in a non-relay event contested or admitted to the senior IAAF World Championships or Olympics, or an equivalent performance over a closely matching imperial distance and Gretch was 6th does that make him notable enough? I am not 100% understanding of this yet

  Scooby453w (talk) 13:02, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

  Grech was 6th in gymnastics all-round, not an athletics event. There were no world rankings as such at the time Grech was competing. FOARP (talk) 13:20, 29 April 2025 (UTC)