Category: Gymnastics

“handstand pop” Bars skills

Cool.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Bars innovators

A history of the Asymmetric Bars.

Doris Fuchs Brause
Marcia Frederick
Maria Filatova
Olga Korbut
Nadia Comaneci
Natalia Shaposhnikova
He Kexin
Svetlana Khorkina
Nina Derwael

Bars: An apparatus of daring and flight

FIG should improve Vault landing mats

Does anyone have statistics on this?

I feel certain we are seeing more severe injuries on Vault landings, on average, than on any other apparatus.

I’d recommend FIG require a mat more like the safer one used by Trampoline sports on double-mini.

Eurotramp Double-Minitramp landing mat

Leave a comment if you have an opinion.

Alec Yoder: An Olympic Story

Deanna Hong posted the mini-documentary on Aug 4th.

Clearly the U.S. MAG selection process bungled it.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Cirque reopened in Vegas

Mystère and “O” have launched. Already sold out.

I joined a group of Ninja competitors who were in Vegas for competition. I’ve seen Mystère many times and found the current performers as impressive as ever. It’s one of their best shows for acrobatics.

There’s a timeline to reopen many of the other shows including touring troupes.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

dangerous Olympic Finals warmups

The FIG needs to allow a touch warmup before someone “entertainingly” breaks their neck on live TV. …

The Olympic Gymnastics Event Finals Are Unsatisfying and Unsafe

… there isn’t a one-touch warmup in the apparatus finals of world and Olympic competition. It was eliminated in 2001 by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG). …

… gymnasts, both past and present, hate this rule, why does it remain in place? The answer is simple and cynical: TV broadcasts. When USA Gymnastics petitioned in 2010 to have the one-touch reinstated for the apparatus final, FIG rejected this proposal …

Gymnasts Say They Need Apparatus Warmups Back. That Should Be Enough

YES the Apparatus Finals are too slow.

Why?

Judging. 😕

It should be easy and quick to evaluate 8 athletes for whom you know the routines.

HASHIMOTO wins H Bar

The 19-year-old all-around champion added to his gold medal collection.

  1. HASHIMOTO Daiki JPN 15.066
  2. SRBIC Tin CRO 14.900
  3. NAGORNYY Nikita ROC 14.533

Full results.

Beam – Olympic Champion GUAN Chenchen

Well deserved.

  1. GUAN Chenchen CHN 14.633
  2. TANG Xijing CHN 14.233
  3. BILES Simone USA 14.000

Ellie Black was 4th.

Full results.

Zou Jingyuan wins P Bars

  1. Zou Jingyuan CHN 16.233
  2. Lukas Dauser GER 15.700
  3. Ferhat Arican TUR 15.633

Full results.

E-score judging was questionable. There were missed connections, but no falls in the final.

Greatest P Bar routine of all time.

Dauser was excellent. But shouldn’t be allowed to stand atop the Parallel Bars in celebration.

Rings – Liu Yang Olympic Champ

  1. LIU Yang CHN 15.500
  2. YOU Hao CHN 15.300
  3. PETROUNIAS Eleftherios GRE 15.200

Full results.