The man with the best chance, I’d say, to defeat Uchimura in the AA.
Post Olympics he’ll do 8 competitions in the German professional league. He loves to compete.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (13min)
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Author: Rick Mc
Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.
Simone, Gabby, Aly to compete the AA
As expected, Simone and Gabby will compete the AA for USA. It looks like Aly Raisman will as well over Laurie Hernandez.
That means Laurie will not compete Bars in prelims.
Most likely line-ups in prelims:
Floor: Gabby, Laurie, Simone, Aly
Vault: Laurie, Gabby, Aly, Simone
Bars: Aly, Simone, Gabby, Madison
Beam: Gabby, Aly, Laurie, Simone
Click PLAY or watch Gabby’s Bars from podium on Facebook.
Youth Olympic Games changes
The Working Group recommendations presented to the Session put forward five strategic goals:
Increase participation and level of competition …
Bring the YOG to cities that cannot organise the Olympic Games …
Expand the reach and impact of the YOG …
Leverage digital platforms to extend the YOG experience …
Enhance the YOG’s role as incubator for innovation …
These recommendations were unanimously accepted by the Session. The implementation of the recommendations will be achieved in consultation with all relevant stakeholders by Q4 2017.
The next Summer YOG to take place will be the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games of Buenos Aires. The next Winter YOG to take place will be the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games of Lausanne.
Gymnastics will be hosted in a venue yet to be built – Predio Ferial Olímpico.
Nile Wilson – Olympian
Heart this photo on twitter.
People Are Awesome
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271 RUS athletes cleared to compete
This is more than two-thirds of their original entry list of 389 athletes, despite the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) recommending a blanket ban after a doping scandal.
Here’s the list of Gymnastics sports athletes approved.
Olympic.org posted the official statement.
Team Russia – podium training
OUR RUSSIAN SEASON posted a summary. Plenty of errors. But good potential if they hit.
Hong Un Jong – Yurchenko 3/1
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does USAG do enough to protect kids?
The Indianapolis Star posted a lengthy article detailing numerous cases where the reporters feel the National Sports Governing Body could have done more, sooner.
Timing is lousy since most of the world is distracted by something happening in Rio right now. This is an important issue. Better would be to have posted a week ago. Or right after the Olympics.
Publishing now does smack of Olympic opportunism.
USA Gymnastics’ response to Indianapolis Star’s report
For information on how USA Gymnastics handles allegations of sexual misconduct, please click here.
which nations overscore their gymnasts?
The Gymternet has an interesting guest post trying to estimate which nations inflate FIG scores most.
Austria is the biggest offender.
Surprisingly, Russian scores at home are about right. (That seems impossible to me. They do inflate.)
Click through to read that analysis for yourself – The Truth About Domestic Overscoring
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