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Maroney & Komova in Lego

This is BRILLIANT.

… animated reconstruction of highlights of the women’s gymnastics final …

Guardian – Brick-by-brick women’s gymnastics: Team USA’s Fab Five vault to gold – video

“Rio is a vision I have in mind”

… said Uchimura.

He’s not ruling out another 4 years. 🙂

… “That was first time I’d started on the Pommel Horse in the last four years so I was wondering what to do at the very beginning,” admitted Uchimura. As it was he scored 15.066 with a confident routine and by the third rotation had moved out in front thanks to a superb Vault that earned 16.266 points. …

… Uchimura added that he had taken extra motivation from the sight of injured team-mate Koji Yamamuro in his bed that morning. “I was trying to do my best for him as well,” …

FIG – Uchimura in dreamland after sealing Olympic Gold

Danell’s already talking about 2016. … AND 2020! 🙂

What Makes You Flexible

… USA Gymnastics Parody 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Uchimura, Nguyen, Leyva

Kohei is Olympic Champion, not needing his most difficult routines. Most of his strongest challengers had falls or major breaks.

And Kohei put a hand down on Floor Exercise, last routine. And still scored 92.69.

The Silver and Bronze medals were really up for grabs.

2. Marcel Nguyen 91.031
3. Danell Leyva 90.698

4 Kuksenkov
5 Belyavsky
6 Tanaka
7 Thomas
8 Orozco
9 Gonzalez
10 Sasaki

Saskaki, from Brazil, will be one of the guys to watch next Quadrennial.

Kohei Urchimra is the greatest gymnast, male or female, of all time.

photo via NBC Olympics

His teammate Kazuhito Tanaka came in to the AA as a “replacement”. And could have won the Silver medal. (Jordyn?)

… including Scherbo. 🙂

MAG AA Final 11:30am EST

NEXT UP – Friday August 1st.

Danny Sierra:

Gymnastike breaks down the countries, athletes and performances to look out for in the Olympic final. …

Kohei Uchimura of Japan proved already in these Olympics that he is not unbeatable. …

Danell Leyva and John Orozco are on a mission …

Daniel Purvis and Kristian Thomas … look for these two to continue to surprise

David Belyavskiy and Emin Garibov are clean and elegant …

Fabian Hambuchen and Marcel Nguyen …

Mykola Kuksenkov or … 18 years old, Oleg Verniaiev …

Read more and get the links on Gymnastike.

China competed no all-around in prelims. And yet dominated in the Team competition.

Wild guess:

GOLD Uchimura
SILVER Hambuchen
BRONZE Purvis or Leyva

Uchimura was 2nd in Beijing … with 2 falls.

This Pommel dismount gets CREDIT. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Andy Thornton – Five stories to watch in men’s all-around final

Has Uchimura Lost His Magic?

Americans Seek Redemption.

Hype Over Hambuechen.

British Men Not Done.

Russians On The Rise.

Canadian tribute to Peng

CONGRATULATIONS Dominique Pegg, Brittany Rogers, Ellie Black, Victoria Moors and Kristina Vaculik. Canada’s best Olympic team ever.

… they should be proud, said Elena Davydova, one of the coaches here in London who has worked with Vaculik at Oshawa’s Gemini Gymnastics for some 15 years now.

In fact, Davydova said the feeling matched that of hers back in 1980, when she won the all-around gold medal competing for the Soviet Union.

“It was like I just won the Olympics one more time,” she said. …

Canadian gymnasts make history by vaulting to fifth at Olympics