Category: Gymnastics

Russian Olympic Teams

Aliya Mustafina
Ksenia Afanasyeva
Maria Paseka
Daria Spiridonova
Angelina Melnikova
Alts: Evgenia Shelgunova, Natalia Kapitonova, Seda Tutkhalyan

Denis Ablyazin
David Belyavskiy
Nikolai Kuksenkov
Nikita Nagornyy
Nikita Ignatyev
Alts: Ivan Stretovich, Artur Dalaloyan

I saw that on papaliukin:

… as usual we can expect the teams to change a bunch of times.

Click PLAY or watch Angelina’s Floor from earlier in the season on YouTube.

related – Mustafina and Russian gymnastics gear up for Rio at Russian Cup: 3 storylines to watch

Eythora Thorsdottir – Me too

Our Dutch National Champion will be a fan favourite in Rio. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch an excellent montage on YouTube.

Chris Brooks – Olympian

The biggest surprise of the USA Men’s Olympic team selection.

Chris Brooks’ “Career Of Almosts” Becomes An Olympic Dream Come True

Click PLAY or watch his H Bar on YouTube.

Dennis Goossens – Olympian

Belgium decided on their Olympic representative based on criteria score on each apparatus.

Dennis was the winner with 15.800 on Rings (VIDEO).

Dennis Goossens

judges reprimanded

Judges Valeria Lakerbai and Rodrigo Alberto Lagos Ahumada reprimanded.

Two Artistic Gymnastics judges receive a warning by FIG Disciplinary Commission

Too few FIG judges are called to account, in my opinion. We need more accountability, scrutiny and transparency in Artistic judging. Most other judges sports do a better job.

Sam Oldham goes 89.950

Can you leave a guy at home who can score that kind of AA?

Congratulations Sam.