Category: Gymnastics

celebrating at the Olympics

My gut reaction — as a former cranky old judge — to Ray Zapata celebrating after hitting Floor and qualifying for the Final was … too much for the Olympics.

I would prefer gymnasts do that after stepping down from the podium.

He had saluted the judges. No deduction.

Many disagreed. Many want to see more honest emotion from gymnasts at the end of their routine, even if still on the podium.

Here’s the argument for letting athletes show their emotions.

ZOU Jingyuan – Rings

ZOU Jingyuan is the greatest P Bar man all time.

BUT we’ll have to put him in the rankings of best RINGS all time, as well.

If China beats Japan, it will be due to their fantastic Rings line-up.

Men’s Olympic Apparatus qualifiers

Floor

  1. Jake Jarman GBR 14.966
  2. Carlos Yulo PHI 14.766
  3. Rayderley Zapata ESP 14.600
  4. Illia Kovtun UKR 14.533
  5. Luke Whitehouse GBR 14.533
  6. Zhang Boheng CHN 14.466
  7. Artem Dolgopyat ISR 14.466
  8. Milad Karimi KAZ 14.433
Jake Jarman

Pommels

  1. Rhys McClenaghan IRL 15.200
  2. Stephen Nedoroscik USA 15.200
  3. Max Whitlock GBR 15.166
  4. Sugino Takaaki JPN 15.033
  5. Oleg Verniaiev UKR 15.033
  6. Nariman Kurbanov KAZ 15.000
  7. Hur Woong KOR 14.900
  8. Loran de Munck NED 14.766

Rings

  1. Zou Jingyuan CHN 15.300
  2. Liu Yang CHN 15.233
  3. Samir Aït Saïd FRA 14.966
  4. Glen Cuyle BEL 14.900
  5. Adem Asil TUR 14.866
  6. Eleftherios Petrounias 14.800
  7. Vahagn Davtyan ARM 14.733
  8. Harry Hepworth GBR 14.700

Vault

  1. Nazar Chepurnyi UKR 14.833
  2. Harry Hepworth GBR 14.766
  3. Aurel Benovic CRO 14.733
  4. Igor Radivilov UKR 14.700
  5. Jake Jarman GBR 14.699
  6. Carlos Yulo PHI 14.683
  7. Artur Davtyan ARM 14.666
  8. Mahdi Olfati IRI 14.583
Nazar Chepurnyi

P Bars

  1. Zou Jingyuan CHN 16.200
  2. Zhang Boheng CHN 15.333
  3. Oka Shinnosuke JPN 15.300
  4. Oleg Verniaiev UKR 15.266
  5. Lukas Dauser GER 15.166
  6. Illia Kovtun UKR 15.166
  7. Ferhat Arican TUR 15.033
  8. Tanigawa Wataru JPN 15.000
Zou Jingyuan

H Bar

  1. Zhang Boheng CHN 15.133
  2. Tang Chia-Hung TWN 14.933
  3. Sugino Takaaki JPN 14.733
  4. Tin Srbic CRO 14.600
  5. Oka Shinnosuke JPN 14.533
  6. Angel Barajas COL 14.466
  7. Su Weide CHN 14.400
  8. Marios Georgiou CYP 14.366

Simone Biles & Mckayla Maroney

Simone’s Weiler + 1.5 pirouette

She’s submitting it for Olympics.

Just in case, I assume. 😀

Simone’s Yurchenko – fingers in

Exactly how we should introduce this Vault with beginners.

Later. MUCH later. There might be reasons to block with fingers facing out.

Oksana Omelianchik – 1985 Floor

One of the greatest routines all time.

Worlds Montreal 1985.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.