The alternates in Rio who did not get to compete should have a friendly at one of the local Gyms. Ashton would win the alternates Gold medal on Bars. 🙂
Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.
Year: 2016
woman sticks Xiaopeng vault
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. 🙂
Tutya Yilmaz – Beam
This is why I love the Olympics.
A fantastic routine from a gymnast from Turkey. A Muslim nation that’s suffered huge turmoil in the weeks leading up to Rio. Congratulations Tutya. That’s one of our highlight routines of the Games.
Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter. She finished 11th in prelims.
(via Triple Twist)
Aly’s parents at the Olympics
Olympian Toni-Ann Williams
Toni-Ann, age 20, is the first gymnast to represent Jamaica at the Olympics.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BI1NGS_B0By/
One goal of the Olympics is to inspire kids from around the world. Toni-Ann’s clearly done that. 🙂
Bill Murray’s Olympic proposal
Great idea. 🙂
Thanks Barbara Anne.
Yuri van Gelder expelled
Dutch gymnast Yuri van Gelder has been expelled from the Olympic Games by the Dutch Olympic Committee and will be sent home immediately for violating team rules, including consuming alcohol. …
In 2009, van Gelder was suspended from competition for one year by the KNGU after testing positive for cocaine during a competition. He underwent a three-month drug treatment in Scotland. However, in October 2010, he was withdrawn from the world championships in Rotterdam after admitting subsequent cocaine use.
He will be replaced in the Rings final by French gymnast Danny Pinheiro Rodrigues.
Japan, Russia, China – Olympic Champions
A crazy competition with many unexpected errors and issues
I’m very happy for Kohei. This was his goal.
Men’s Gymnastics Team Final
Most are predicting Japan & China top 2. Could go either way. But after falling on H Bar in prelims, something tells me this guy is going to be fired up. The team gold is his highest priority in Rio.
Kohei is doing all 6 in the team competition. Oleg only PH and PB for Ukraine, saving himself for the Men’s AA battle on Wednesday. Smart. He has a very good chance to upset the King.
Format changes from prelims. Today it’s 5-3-3.
5 gymnasts per team, 3 compete and the 3 scores count.
the gymternet hates Al Trautwig
UPDATE – NBC’s Al Trautwig apologizes for comments on Simone Biles’ adoptive parents
Good news. Trautwig eventually did the right thing.
But browsing his twitter feed for the first time makes me less impressed than ever with the non-gymnastics expert on the NBC commentary team. He’s frequently arrogant, negative and combative.
I finally watched some NBC delayed prime time coverage last night. They covered very few routines over a random time line.
Knowledgable gymnastics fans should follow instead the NBC web coverage with Jim Watson, Jonathan Horton and Courtney Kupets Carter. (NBC log-in required.) Or use a VPN to watch via the British coverage.
___ original post from Aug 7th:
This curmudgeonly tweet resulted in angry stream of replies.
Simone Biles was adopted by her grandparents. Simone calls them her parents. Mom & Dad.
Perhaps it’s time to throw out that old black & white TV.
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