Author: Rick Mc
Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.
Netherlands SILVER medal Olympics team
does “cupping” work?
Michael Phelps, Natalie Coughlin, Alex Naddour and many other Olympians try anything to gain every slight improvements in performance.
There’s little scientific proof ‘cupping’ helps Olympic athletes. Could it still give them a boost?
Kohei is happy
He’ll be at ease during the AA final. No pressure.
Our defending Olympic Champion is still the man to beat.
“Final Five” most dominant team ever?
Armour: Simone Biles, U.S. women gymnasts could be best of all time
The much-anticipated nickname of the 2016 U.S. Olympic women’s gymnastics team was unveiled moments after the Americans defended of their team gold this afternoon at the Rio Olympic Arena.
Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas, Madison Kocian and Laurie Hernandez settled on the nickname after a team vote last week. …
According to USA Gymnastics Senior Vice President Rhonda Faehn, the “Final Five” nickname was selected because Rio will be the final Olympics featuring five team members; the sizes have been reduced to four starting at the 2020 Olympics.
Coincidently, it also happens to be the number of U.S. Olympic teams that retiring national team coordinator Martha Karolyi has overseen …
spoiler – USA women dominate Olympic Team final
1- USA 184.897
2- RUS 176.688
3- CHN 176.003
4- JPN 174.371
5- GBR 174.362
6- GER 173.672
7- NED 172.447
8- BRA 172.087
https://twitter.com/uncletimmensgym/status/763123284426629120
https://twitter.com/uncletimmensgym/status/763136512808529920
Legends 🙂
https://twitter.com/coach_gallardo/status/763135429939986432
How wide is the Beam? Again?
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In fact the Beam is 10 centimetres wide (3.93701 inches) as fixed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG) Apparatus Norms brochure.
Laurie Hernandez – Human Emoji
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what if Simone competed for Russia?
USA still would have won the team competition, even with Simone competing for one of the other teams. Click through for details.
Ashton Locklear – Bars
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. 🙂
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