China’s Dong Yu won her country’s first Youth Olympic Games gymnastics gold medal today after putting up a dominant display in the girls’ trampoline event at the Bishan Sports Hall.
Her win will come as a huge relief to her national teammates after they failed to win the gold in the first two YOG gymnastics competitions.
Tan Sixin, China’s national balance beam champion, had finished second in Thursday’s Girls Individual All-Around competition while Zhu Xiaodong took the bronze in the Boys’ Individual All-Around on Wednesday. …
However, it was heartbreak for American Savannah Vinsant, 17,who had qualified for the final in second place. The 2009 world trampoline champion (15-16 years) finished her 10-skill routine outside of the trampoline and was duly penalised.
She eventually finished fifth in the eight-girl final. …
1. Viktoria Komova RUS 61.250
2. Tan Sexin CHN 58.500
3. Carlotta Ferlito ITA 55.350
Viktoria Komova made simple work of trouncing the competition today to win her first youth olympic title with ease. Komova topped her qualifying score with 61.250.
Silver went to Tan Sexin of China with 58.500 and Bronze to Carlotta Ferlito of Italy (55.350) who narrowly edged Natsumi Sasada of Japan (55.100). Sasada – who wears her heart on her sleeve was smiling and waving to the camera whenever it found her then burst into tears on seeing Ferlito’s final score …
… One of the highlights of these Youth Olympic Games has been the emergence of the young Guatamalan Ana Sofia Gomez Porras, who scored 54.050 to finish fifth. Coached by Romanians Adrian and Elena Boboc, Porras showed good difficulty and execution throughout the competition, and certainly shows a lot of promise for the future. …
Japan’s Yuya Kamoto captured the first gymnastics gold of the Youth Olympic Games on Wednesday in Singapore, winning the men’s all-around title at Bisham Sports Hall.
Kamoto’s score of 86.35 was lower than his first-place 87.20 in Monday’s qualification, but still a full point above silver medalist Oleg Stepko (Ukraine). …
At the USA Gymnastics Championships last weekend two special events were scheduled for Olympic Teams past:
1) Bronze medal awarded to the 2000 American Women’s Olympic Team
2) Reunion of the 1980 American Olympic Teams MAG and WAG (boycotted)
Blythe Lawrence:
… The press got to meet with members of both the 2000 U.S. women’s Olympic team, who competed in Syndey yet felt like failures, and members of the 1980 men’s and women’s teams, who didn’t compete in Moscow but have recognized that just being selected for the team makes them winners.
The difference, I think, is in age. Twenty years from now, the 2000 Olympians may have a different perspective. …
Like the rest on the 1980 team, Ron Galimore never made it to Moscow. The closest he got to Olympic glory was a trip to Washington designed to honor the hundreds of athletes who weren’t allowed to take the trip they really wanted to take. …
2008 Olympic bronze medalist Raj Bhavsar said Friday he will retire from competitive gymnastics and join Cirque du Soleil as a performer for the troupe’s show next year in Los Angeles.
Bhavsar, 29, was an alternate for the 2004 Athens Olympics and was selected as an alternate in 2008 but was elevated to the bronze medal-winning team when 2004 gold medalist Paul Hamm withdrew because of injury.
Bhavsar returned to gymnastics in 2009 to debut a skill on parallel bars that was named in his honor, one of two in the code of points that bears his name. He also won two world championship medals and was the 2002 NCAA all-around champion at Ohio State. …
Wednesday night, the 2000 U.S. Olympic team — Tasha Schwikert, Elise Ray, Kristen Maloney, Dominique Dawes, Jamie Dantzscher, Amy Chow — received in Hartford the bronze medals they had earned in Sydney. …
The U.S. was awarded the bronze in April after a lengthy investigation by the IOC and International Gymnastics Federation concluded that China’s Dong Fangxiao, who was supposedly 17 in 2000, was actually 14. …
