Simone Biles Olympic Champion

All hail. I argue she’s the greatest gymnast of all time.

🇺🇸 Biles 62.198
🇺🇸 Raisman 60.098
🇷🇺 Mustafina 58.665

4. Shang Chunsong CHN – 58.549
5. Ellie Black CAN – 58.298
6. Wang Yan CHN – 58.032
7. Jessica Lopez VNE – 57.966
8. Teramoto Asuka JPN – 57.965
9. Thorsdottir Eythora NED – 57.632
10 Steingruber Giulia SUI – 57.565

full results

Ellie Black 58.298

Her best AA score in international competition. Talk about peaking for the Olympics. 🙂

5th all-around. Canada’s best ever AA Olympic finish. I’m celebrating tonight. 🇨🇦 🍺

cheering Bela and Ellie in the AA

Ellie Black and Isabela Onyshko will compete the all-around in Rio. Good luck! 🙂

Brittany Rogers:

“Obviously the results of these Games weren’t what we all wanted,” Rogers said about Canada’s near miss on the team finals. “It definitely lit a fire in me to continue on with elite gymnastics.”

In the near future, Rogers will return to Athens at the end of August and finish up her degree. …

Looking further away, Rogers has a plan for wrapping her gymnastics career.

“I’m not sure what competitions I will be assigned to from the Canadian team as those will be discussed after the Games are over,” Rogers said. “I plan to continue training and help out with the team in Georgia any way I can and be ready for whatever competitions I get assigned to by Gymnastics Canada. My goal is to be able to compete in the World Championships in Montreal in 2017 and perhaps retire on home soil.”

Georgia Dogs

coach at Huntingdon Gymnastics

Huntingdon Gymnastics is one of the top programs in the U.K.

They’ve had many international competitors, both WAG & MAG.

Right now they are looking for a full time Girls Artistic Elite Coach and Head Girl’s Recreational Coach.

Check the details online.

Oleg v Kohei

I’ve not yet had a chance to go back and analyze all 12 routines from the AA Olympic final. Many others have and most feel the ranking was correct.

Gennady Sartinskiy (Oleg’s coach) feels the judging and end result were fair.

Verniaiev Uchimura

Kohei:

Uchimura trailed Oleg Verniaiev of Ukraine by 0.901 points heading into the final apparatus — the high bar — but the six-time world champion kept his nerve while Verniaiev stumbled to hand Uchimura the gold with a score of 92.365. …

“I knew it would come down to the high bar. My performance was good, so if I had lost I wouldn’t have had any regrets. …

Uchimura successfully defends all-around title

It was an Olympic AA we’ll never forget. Quite possibly the best ever in Men’s Gymnastics.

Uchimura will be 31 when Tokyo hosts the 2020 Olympics. He’ll try to continue through that meet, perhaps as a specialist.

NBC started Men’s gymnastics at 11:37 p.m. The gold medal was decided at 12:19 a.m. If you missed it, here’s the FIG write up – Long live the ‘King’: Kohei Uchimura continues reign with second Olympic All-around gold

NY Times on the Women’s Team Final

Another fantastic article from the graphics and data gurus at the NY Times.

raisman-silo

Who says the USA is weak on Bars? Red dots are the American scores.

USA Bars

Check it out – How the U.S. Crushed the Competition in the Women’s Gymnastics Team Final

Via GymCastic. I assume the NYT are using numbers from The All Around’s Albert Minguillón Colorer.

2020 Olympics Gymnastics venue

“The Olympic Gymnastic Centre will be an innovative and iconic venue situated in an excellent location in the Tokyo bay area.

“It will have a total site area of 100,000 metres squared and a seating capacity for 12,000 spectators.”

Tokyo 2020 Gymnastic Centre will no longer be temporary venue

Olympic Gymnastic Centre- outdoor

via Gymternet Clan

Suzanne Yoculan interview

Audiocast with the Skating Lesson:

Losers Make Excuses; Winners Make Adjustments: Suzanne Yoculan on Courtney Kupets and The Final Five (Aug 9, 2016)

Georgia