Category: Gymnastics

superb Brooklyn Moors

A case study in artistry for judges.

Can they score higher than 10.0 at UCLA? 😀

She’s one of the reserves for the Floor final.

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Ellie Black – Beam

14.1 and into the Final.

6.3 start. Third highest in the competition.

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Samir Ait Said’s Olympic story

Nancy Armour:

In Rio, Ait Said’s left leg snapped on his vault landing during qualifying, the sharp crack echoing throughout the arena. As he rolled over, clutching his leg just below the knee, his foot and the lower half of his shin dangled in the opposite direction of the rest of his leg.

It was not the first time his Olympic dreams had been disrupted by injury. He missed the London Games after suffering three fractures in his right tibia at the European championships. But this was a particularly gruesome injury, one that has ended the career of other athletes.

Even as he lay in a Brazilian hospital, his leg immobilized, Ait Said vowed that he would return for Tokyo. …

Opinion: French gymnast Samir Ait Said’s resilience a reminder of the power of the Olympics

Angelina – Bars

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Lu Yufei – Bars

Super clean.

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Nikita NAGORNYY – H Bar

For some reason editors of the international Olympic video feed decided to show ZERO routines of the reigning World Champion.

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Men’s Olympic finalists – Apparatus

Maximum 2 / nation.

Floor

  1. Artem Dolgopyat ISR 15.200
  2. Nikita Nagornyy RUS 15.066
  3. Ryu Sung-hyun KOR 15.066
  4. Rayderley Zapata ESP 15.041
  5. Kim Han-sol KOR 14.900
  6. Yul Moldauer USA 14.866
  7. Xiao Ruoteng CHN 14.866
  8. Milad Karimi KAZ 14.766

Pommels

  1. Lee Chih-Kai TPE 15.266
  2. Rhys McClenaghan IRL 15.266
    — Kameyama Kohei JPN 15.266
  3. Alec Yoder USA 15.200
  4. Max Whitlock GBR 14.900
  5. Sun Wei CHN 14.833
  6. Kaya Kazuma JPN 14.833
  7. David Belyavskiy RUS 14.733

Rings

  1. Eleftherios Petrounias GRE 15.333
  2. Liu Yang CHN 15.300
  3. Samir Aït Saïd FRA 15.066
  4. Ibrahim Colak TUR 14.933
  5. Arthur Zanetti BRA 14.900
  6. Adem Asil TUR 14.800
  7. Denis Ablyazin RUS 14.800
  8. You Hao CHN 14.800

Vault

  1. Shin Jea-hwan KOR 14.866
  2. Artur Davtyan ARM 14.866
  3. Nikita Nagornyy RUS 14.783
  4. Adem Asil TUR 14.766
  5. Denis Ablyazin RUS 14.733
  6. Carlos Yulo PHI 14.712
  7. Caio Souza BRA 14.700
  8. Ahmet Önder TUR 14.466

P Bars

  1. Zou Jingyuan CHN 16.166
  2. Lukas Dauser GER 15.733
  3. You Hao CHN 15.666
  4. Ferhat Arican TUR 15.566
  5. Sam Mikulak USA 15.433
  6. Joe Fraser GBR 15.400
  7. Petro Pakhniuk UKR 15.333
  8. David Belyavskiy RUS 15.325

H Bar

Zou Jingyuan Worlds 2018
  1. Hashimoto Daiki JPN 15.033
  2. Milad Karimi KAZ 14.766
  3. Tin Srbic CRO 14.633
  4. Brody Malone USA 14.533
  5. Nikita Nagornyy RUS 14.466
  6. Kitazono Takeru JPN 14.433
  7. Tyson Bull AUS 14.433
  8. Bart Deurloo NED 14.400

Kohei fell. A tragedy.

We can only hope he decides to compete Horizontal Bar at Worlds 2021 in his home town.

Full results.

Olympics day 2 – Women’s prelims

USA are the reigning Olympic and World champions and have not lost a major competition in a decade.

#Simone is back five years after her five-medal performance at Rio 2016, where she won four golds and a bronze.