Category: rings

MAG Rings raised 10cm

The MAG Rings will be raised by 10cm, effective 01 January 2022.

The new height will be 290cm (±0.5 cm).

An additional supplementary mat of 2m x 4m x 10cm will be required in addition to the 2017-2021 matting requirements for the apparatus.

This supplementary mat may only be removed by making an official request (for gymnast height), as the Rings cannot be raised further.

FIG via email

R.I.P. Szilveszter Csollany

Szilveszter Csollany, a 2000 Olympic gymnastics champion, died Monday at the age of 51 after spending weeks hospitalized with COVID-19, Hungarian sports officials said.

… a gold medal in the men’s rings competition at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. He also won silver in 1996 in Atlanta and a world championship gold in 2002.

He was a six-time medalist at the European gymnastics championships, and the recipient of Hungary’s “Sportsman of the Year” award in 2000 and 2002.

Csollany had been hospitalized with COVID-19 since early December, and spent several weeks on a ventilator.

NBC – Szilveszter Csollany, Olympic gymnastics champion in 2000, dies after COVID infection

Watch his Olympic Rings routine on YouTube.

fantastic MAG skills & combos 2021

MrBulletPig is BACK.

Gabriel Hannah from the U.K.

He doesn’t post often, but when he does … it’s EPIC.

Guaranteed to include MAG skills you’ve never seen before.

watch it on YouTube as this one cannot be embedded.

Liu Yang – Rings

The Olympic Champ at Chinese National Games.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Liu Yang – Olympic Rings Champ

No deduction for stretching out the neck. 😀

I LOVE those Butterfly elements.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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.

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