Month: October 2018

YOG International Gymnastics “teams”

Grace Chui found the document which details which Youth Olympic Games athletes have been placed into what combined teams.

A bit of fun. A LOT of confusion, in my opinion.

Hopefully it will help bring a little more attention to the non-Olympic disciplines.

Here’s team Oksana CHUSOVITINA for example:

Acrobatic
AKHOTNIKAVA Viktoryia BLR
FAMENKOU Ilya BLR

Artistic – Men
BRIONES Brandon USA
TOBIN Adam GBR
AFIFY Mohamed EGY

Artistic – Women
ULMASOVA Indira UZB
PEREZ Karla GUA
PAULSSON Tonya SWE

Rhythmic
IAKOVLEVA Lidiia AUS
YAMADA Aino JPN
ROTAERMEL Lilly GER

Trampoline – Men
ESCALLIER Santiago ARG

Trampoline – Women
SAKELLARIDOU Antonia GRE

See all the “teams”.

YOG Men’s Vault prelims

1. Brandon Briones USA 14.033
2. Felix Dolci CAN 13.950
3. Gabriel Burtanete ROU 13.733
4. Sam Dick NZL 13.716
5. Diogo Soares BRA 13.683
6. Jacob Karlsen NOR 13.679
7. Fernando Espindola ARG 13.566
8. Nazar Chepurnyi UKR 13.550

Full results.

Norik Avdalyan’s soccer goal back flip

Norik Avdalyan was playing for Kazan against Cheboksary in Russia’s National Student League …

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Here’s another one. Joonas Jokinen in Switzerland 2011. I’m assuming neither coach was amused.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Lisa Mitzel to TOPS Camp

Lisa Mitzel won 4 consecutive NCAA Championships with University of Utah.  And went on to coach at Stanford.

Today she’s a psychologist and author of:

“Focused and On Fire: The Athlete’s Guide to Mental Training & Kicking Butt”

“Focused and Inspired: Keeping Our Athletes Safe in a Win-at-All-Costs Word”

YOG Rings finalists

1. Takeru Kitazono JPN 13.700
2. Brandon Briones USA 13.533
3. Yin Dehang CHN 13.500
4. Felix Dolci CAN 13.466
5. Adam Tobin GBR 13.300
6. Olegs Ivanovs LAT 13.100
7. Diogo Soares BRA 12.966
8. Lay Giannini ITA 12.900

Felix

Giorgia Villa leads YOG vault

Finalists:

1. Giorgia Villa ITA 14.083
2. Anastasiia Bachynska UKR 13.816
3. Emma Spence CAN 13.791
4. Amelie Morgan GBR 13.449
5. Csenge Bacskay HUN 13.416
6. Lisa Zimmermann GER 13.299
7. Kate Sayer AUS 13.200
8. Emma Slevin IRL 13.200

https://twitter.com/TeamIreland/status/1049363090930847745

Emma was Ireland’s Opening Ceremony Flag Bearer. And I can remember when her club in Galway — Renmore — was still set-up, take-down. They’ve come a long way! 🙂

Brandon Briones leads MAG FX prelims

9.200 E-score!

1 BRIONES Brandon USA 4.700 9.200 13.900
2 NAIDIN Sergei RUS 5.000 8.800 13.800
3 TOBIN Adam GBR 4.900 8.733 13.633
4 GIANNINI Lay ITA 4.500 9.066 13.566
5 CHEPURNYI Nazar UKR 5.000 8.666 -0.1 13.566
6 BALAZS Krisztian HUN 5.000 8.533 13.533
7 KITAZONO Takeru JPN 4.900 8.600 13.500
8 SCHWED Daniel GER 4.600 8.883 13.483

Full ranking.

T.V. exposé on dangerous Trampoline Parks

CBC Marketplace is an award-winning Canadian television series, broadcast on CBC Television since 1972. The series is a consumer advocacy newsmagazine …

Marketplace visited 12 trampoline parks across the country to see what was being done to mitigate risks to minors in this unregulated industry. Many children were witnessed breaking the parks’ “rules” without employee intervention.

Staff at Energyplex Family Recreation Centre, for example, watched as multiple children belly-flopped into the same foam pit where Chelsea broke her back doing the same stunt. No one intervened.

At other parks, Marketplace documented flips, stunts and double-bouncing — all considered risky behaviour by health authorities. Children were observed jumping head first into foam pits, and at times, areas of the parks had no supervising staff to enforce safety rules.

At one park, a baby crawling across a tumble track collapsed after being bounced by an older child. At another, a mother held her crying toddler after he did a somersault and landed on his neck. …

Hidden camera reveals trampoline parks ignoring dangerous behaviour

Trampoline Parks are TOO dangerous

meet Takeru Kitazono

Japan’s competitor at Youth Olympic Games. He leads the Pommel qualifications.

1. Takeru Kitazono JPN 14.133
2. Yin Dehang CHN 13.866
3. Sergei Naidin RUS 13.666
4. Daniel Schwed GER 13.233
5. Hajlari Bohloulzade IRI 13.166
6. Adam Tobin GBR 13.000
7. Diogo Soares BRA 12.733
8. Ayan Moldagaliyev KAZ 12.725

He’s very ambitious.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

related – MAG Former Youth Olympic Stars- Where are They Now?

Giulia Steingruber interview

Giulia will not be back to competition before 2019. But she is making good recovery from the ACL tear and meniscus damage.

Giulia Steingruber injured her knee in July and is missing the rest of the season because of it. She gave an interview to Aargauezeitung about dealing with the injury and her goals and dreams.

The translation from German was done by Emma Bateman. …

STEINGRUBER: I’M NOT A YOUNG GYMNAST ANYMORE

Congratulations Giulia Steingruber