Author: Rick Mc

Romania still to compete. Iordache scheduled to do the AA, despite foot pain.

1. USA–181.863
2. Russia–180.429
3. China–176.637

GymExaminer:
… guaranteed to advance to team finals: USA, RUS, CHN, GBR, ITA, CAN.

AAinsworthNBC:

1. Komova 2. Raisman 3. Douglas 4.*Wieber* 5. Mustafina – yet Wieber will not be in all-around finals…

Jordyn is 3rd American. Will not go through. 😦

THIS will ignite those who hate the maximum 2 / nation rule.

USA 1st: 180.271, GBR 2nd: 170.656, ITALY 3rd: 168.397, CANADA 4th: 166.996 … so far

Happy for the hosts, Beth Tweddle leads Bars. By a mile. Louis Smith looking good for a Pommel medal, too.

#london2012

Artistic gymnast Luiza Galiulina has been suspended from the Olympic Games after failing a drugs test.

Galiulina, of Uzbekistan, tested positive for the banned diuretic furosemide on Wednesday, the International Olympic Committee said. …

details on BBC

She’s been provisionally suspended.

Danny Sierra on Gymnastike:

10. Russian Resurgence
9. “Officially” Olympians … first time gymnasts
8. Hambuchen’s Return to Form
7. Horton’s High Bar Redemption
6. World Rankings Shook Up
5. Team USA’s Chemistry, Youth and Skill
4. Uchimura proves he’s human, while remaining the favorite

Kohei Uchimura qualified in ninth place, making most of us question everything we know about ourselves and the world around us. We aren’t accustomed to seeing Kohei stumble, yet he did so multiple times in prelims, dropping off high bar and pommel horse.

Still, it’s hard to think of his performance as anything more than a fluke – a momentary lapse in perfection. The medal rounds are where Kohei’s readiness will truly be measured.

2. Philipp Boy’s fighting Olympic spirit
2. Jordan Jovtchev makes the Rings Final at Age 39
1. Great Britain Rises to the Occasion

Actually … – Top Eleven from Men’s Qualifications

Click through for details on each.

Women’s prelims are in progress.

Looking forward to Romania on Floor.

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IORDAN IOVTCHEV from Bulgaria is participating in his 6th Olympic Games!
He is Gymnastics!

Click PLAY or watch a profile on YouTube.

We’ll see him in the Rings Final.

This was his last Olympics. But not his last competition.

I get off a plane to find Uchimura 9th … China 6th, Japan 5th …

What the what!

Men’s Gymnastics is so unpredictable. 🙂

TEAM:
1. USA- 275.342
2. Russia- 272.595
3. Great Britain- 272.420
4. Germany- 270.888
5. Japan- 270.503
6. China- 269.985
7. Ukraine 269.810
8. France 265.759

ALL AROUND:
1. Danell Leyva (USA)- 91.265
2. David Belyavskiy (RUS)- 90.832
3. Fabian Hambuchen (GER)- 90.765
4. John Orozco (USA)- 90.597
5. Kristian Thomas (GBR)- 90.256
6. Mykola Kuksenkov (UKR)- 89.931
7. Marcel Nguyen (GER)- 89.833
8. Emin Garibov (RUS)- 89.798
9. Kohei Uchimura (JPN)- 89.764
10. Daniel Purvis (GBR)- 89.199

FLOOR EXERCISE:
1. Zou Kai (CHN)- 15.833
2. Kohei Uchimura (JPN)- 15.766
3. Flavius Koczi (ROM)- 15.666

POMMEL HORSE:
1. Louis Smith (GBR)- 15.8
2. Cyril Tommasone (FRA)- 15.333
3. Vid Hidvegi (HUN)- 15.1

STILL RINGS:
1. Chen Yibing (CHN)- 15.858
2. Matteo Morandi (ITA)- 15.766
3. Aleksandr Balandin (RUS)- 15.666

VAULT:
1. Denis Ablyazin (RUS)- 16.366
2. Yang Hak Seon (KOR)- 16.333
3. Tomas Gonzalez Sepulveda (CHI)- 16.149

PARALLEL BARS:
1. Yusuke Tanaka (JPN)- 15.866
2. Kazuhito Tanaka (JPN)- 15.725
3. Feng Zhe (CHN)- 15.633

HIGH BAR:
1. Epke Zonderland (NED)- 15.966
2. Zhang Chenglong (CHN)- 15.933
3. Danell Leyva (USA)- 15.866

See the full list on Gymnastike.

CONGRATULATIONS. And GOOD LUCK in the medal fight.

I don’t like handstand walking forward. This dog has terrible “line”. 🙂

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… the dog was not trained to do this, it is his natural peeing procedure ;D

(via inner monoblog)

Freaky good.

Timothy Shieff (born March 24, 1988 in Hartford, Connecticut) is a professional American-English Freerunner and Traceur. He is best known for winning the 2009 Barclaycard World Freerun Championship and participating on the television programme MTV’s Ultimate Parkour Challenge.

Shieff uses the nickname Livewire …

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Thanks Dave Adlard.

American coverage of women’s gymnastics falls squarely into one of two camps: tales of plucky, lovable teens wearing their perma-smiles to the winners’ podium, or exposés of the sport’s seedy underbelly, of eating disorders, abusive training methods, of cruel coaches and broken bodies. …

Not long ago, a pair of gymnast memoirs hit bookshelves and dutifully took up their positions at either end of the sport’s narrative spectrum: Shawn Johnson’s Winning Balance: What I’ve Learned So Far about Love, Faith and Living Your Dreams and Dominique Moceanu’s Off Balance. You can learn a little about gymnastics from the books. You can learn a lot about American culture from the distance between the two. …

read more – Happy Girl, Sad Girl: Shawn Johnson And Dominique Moceanu Tell The Two Stories People Want From Their Sport

Shawn’s going to Dancing with the Stars, by the way.