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Year: 2016
Uchimura the greatest gymnast all time
There’s no way he can claim Scherbo’s career was superior. Not any more.
Rosie’s Rio Trampoline Gold
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Thanks Brett.
tumbling out of the Biles
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Nina Derwael – Bars
Hancharou Uladzislau Olympic Tramp Champ
GOLD – Hancharou (BLR)
SILVER – Dong (CHN)
BRONZE – Gao (CHN)
full finals results
https://twitter.com/dvorameyers/status/764542774867820544
Hancharou’s goal for this competition was Silver.
Hancharou is only age-20. And Trampolinists can stay at the top of their game for a long, long time. 🙂
David Belyavsky engaged
Amanda Turner:
After winning a silver medal with the Russian team on Monday, gymnast David Belyavsky managed to make his night even more memorable. In Rio de Janeiro, he proposed to his girlfriend of four years, who naturally said yes. …
She said she plans to stay in Rio until the end of the competition, as Belyavsky qualified to finals on pommel horse and parallel bars, and travel back with him to Russia.
Ksenia Afansyeva will be married in September.
Team mate Ksenia Semyonova is expecting a baby in November, with her partner Denis Ablyazin.
University of Texas swimmer $740,000
The NCAA rules remind me of the bad old days when professionals could not compete in the Olympics. Sooner or later the NCAA are going to have to come to terms with allowing student athletes to profit from their sports.
American collegiate sport allows EVERYONE to profit … aside from the athletes. 😦
This loophole might speed the process.
Singapore’s Joseph Schooling, set to be a junior at the University of Texas, won the gold medal in the 100-meter butterfly at the Rio Olympics …
The achievement – Singapore’s first medal in Rio — qualified him for an award of about $740,000 from the Singapore National Olympic Council that he will be able to keep without forfeiting his remaining college swimming eligibility.
Prior to the NCAA rules change in 2015, that would not have been possible. …
Under the incentive program’s rules, Schooling will have to give 20% of his award money to the Singapore Swimming Association, but he’ll still be left with a tidy sum. …
Ellie Black 5th AA in Rio
Ellie‘s best international competition ever. 5th all-around.
Click the image to watch her final apparatus – Vault – on CBC. Kyle Shewfelt commentating.
NBC Prime did not bother showing any of Ellie’s routines focusing instead on Seda’s terrible day. 😦 Serious Gymnastics fans and coaches should avoid NBC Prime’s edited version of international competitions. All of the available alternatives are more objective & show more routines.
(via Kristi Marks Cloman)
Men’s pirouetting deductions
The rules on Men’s Horizontal Bar are stupid. 1 1/2 pirouetting elements are overvalued so almost every gymnast uses them.
Deductions are not as severe as in WAG, but they are severe. It’s very easy to suffer a 0.3 or 0.5 deduction.
FIG graphics via papaliukin
The problem had been that FIG judges were not enforcing these rules. Instead of a 0.3 deduction, they’d take only 0.1, for example.
But at Worlds 2015 evaluation suddenly became more severe. I asked judges at Worlds if a message had been sent to start enforcing these rules more accurately. They had not.
Here’s one of the best you’ll ever see. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Nobody likes messy late regrasp skills. Not even this cat.
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It’s obvious that those overused elements should be devalued. Unfortunately they’ve not been devalued in the most recent DRAFT Code of Points. We’ll suffer another 4 years. 😦
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