Category: ethics

Men’s pirouetting deductions

The rules on Men’s Horizontal Bar are stupid. 1 1/2 pirouetting elements are overvalued so almost every gymnast uses them.

Deductions are not as severe as in WAG, but they are severe. It’s very easy to suffer a 0.3 or 0.5 deduction.

pirouette MAG deductions

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FIG graphics via papaliukin

The problem had been that FIG judges were not enforcing these rules. Instead of a 0.3 deduction, they’d take only 0.1, for example.

But at Worlds 2015 evaluation suddenly became more severe. I asked judges at Worlds if a message had been sent to start enforcing these rules more accurately. They had not.

Here’s one of the best you’ll ever see. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Nobody likes messy late regrasp skills. Not even this cat.

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It’s obvious that those overused elements should be devalued. Unfortunately they’ve not been devalued in the most recent DRAFT Code of Points. We’ll suffer another 4 years. 😦

Ukraine athletes & the Russian Press

Ukraine athletes ordered not to speak to Russia press, reports Sports Express

How do we feel about that? 🙂

 
Declare a truce for the two weeks of the Olympics.

Olympics brings religions together

Update – Several commenters have noted that Aliya’s father is of Tatar descent, where many are Muslim. But that Aliya has not declared her personal religious beliefs. The team in the past has visited the Russian Orthodox church before competitions.

Awe-inspiring performances in a close match-up between American gymnasts Simone Biles and Aly Raisman, and Russian Aliya Mustafina, are a cross-section of faith, race and nationality …

Olympic women’s all-around champions: A Christian, a Jew and a Muslim

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the gymternet hates Piers Morgan

Piers Morgan

Congratulations Max on your historic performance in one of the toughest Olympic Finals all time. 🙂

the gymternet hates Al Trautwig

UPDATE – NBC’s Al Trautwig apologizes for comments on Simone Biles’ adoptive parents

Good news. Trautwig eventually did the right thing.

But browsing his twitter feed for the first time makes me less impressed than ever with the non-gymnastics expert on the NBC commentary team. He’s frequently arrogant, negative and combative.

I finally watched some NBC delayed prime time coverage last night.  They covered very few routines over a random time line.

Knowledgable gymnastics fans should follow instead the NBC web coverage with Jim Watson, Jonathan Horton and Courtney Kupets Carter. (NBC log-in required.) Or use a VPN to watch via the British coverage.

___ original post from Aug 7th:

This curmudgeonly tweet resulted in angry stream of replies.

Al Trautwig

Simone Biles was adopted by her grandparents. Simone calls them her parents. Mom & Dad.

Perhaps it’s time to throw out that old black & white TV.

 

Amanars – Hong un Jong & Aly

Click PLAY or watch our defending Olympic Champ on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Aly’s (much improved) on YouTube.

Both got 15.766. Clearly the judges over-scored Aly in comparison. 😦

related – Hong un Jong’s Cheng VIDEO

(via Personal Musings and Jordyn’s Left Eyebrow)

Korean friendship – Hong Un Jong and Lee Eun Ju

One of the goals of the Olympic movement.

North and South Korean Gymnasts Take Adorable Selfies Together in Rio
Hong Un-jong is the defending Olympic Vault champion from North Korea. Lee Eun Ju is South Korea’s Olympian in Rio.

See this photo on papaliukin
http://papaliukin.tumblr.com/post/148473014554/my-favorite-photo-already-korea-as-one

more photos

related – Rio 2016 Olympics: Lebanese athletes refuse to travel with Israel team 😦

Hero De Janeiro – Andreas Toba

Magnetic imaging of his knee showed a tear in his front cruciate ligament as well as meniscus damage in the knee, the German Olympic Sports Federation said.

Toba will have to be operated on and will fly back to Germany once he is no longer in pain, gymnastics team official Sven Karg said.

The gymnast ruptured the cruciate ligament during the floor exercise but astonishingly still competed on the pommel horse afterwards …

Europe Online

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Fabian Hambüchen feels FIG rules are pushing too much difficulty. I agree. Especially on Vault.

ALL Russian Paralympians banned from Rio

IPC president Sir Philip Craven:

“The Russian Paralympic Committee are unable to ensure compliance with and enforcement of the IPC anti-doping code and the world anti-doping code within their own national jurisdiction and they can not fulfil its fundamental obligation as an IPC member.

“As a result, the Russian Paralympic Committee is suspended with immediate effect.”

BBC

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