Category: Gymnastics

How wide is the Beam? Again?

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. 🙂

In fact the Beam is 10 centimetres wide (3.93701 inches) as fixed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG) Apparatus Norms brochure.

what if Simone competed for Russia?

USA still would have won the team competition, even with Simone competing for one of the other teams. Click through for details.

Simone

Ashton Locklear – Bars

The alternates in Rio who did not get to compete should have a friendly at one of the local Gyms. Ashton would win the alternates Gold medal on Bars. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

Tutya Yilmaz – Beam

This is why I love the Olympics.

A fantastic routine from a gymnast from Turkey. A Muslim nation that’s suffered huge turmoil in the weeks leading up to Rio. Congratulations Tutya. That’s one of our highlight routines of the Games.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter. She finished 11th in prelims.

(via Triple Twist)

Olympian Toni-Ann Williams

Toni-Ann, age 20, is the first gymnast to represent Jamaica at the Olympics.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BI1NGS_B0By/

One goal of the Olympics is to inspire kids from around the world. Toni-Ann’s clearly done that. 🙂

Yuri van Gelder expelled

Dutch gymnast Yuri van Gelder has been expelled from the Olympic Games by the Dutch Olympic Committee and will be sent home immediately for violating team rules, including consuming alcohol. …

In 2009, van Gelder was suspended from competition for one year by the KNGU after testing positive for cocaine during a competition. He underwent a three-month drug treatment in Scotland. However, in October 2010, he was withdrawn from the world championships in Rotterdam after admitting subsequent cocaine use.

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van Gelder
van Gelder

He will be replaced in the Rings final by French gymnast Danny Pinheiro Rodrigues.

Japan, Russia, China – Olympic Champions

A crazy competition with many unexpected errors and issues

I’m very happy for Kohei. This was his goal.

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