Competitors reflect on Shaun’s legacy at the Beijing Olympics.
They all grew up idolizing him.
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Canada’s Cory Paterson retired
Super competitor and dependable teammate for so many years on Team Canada and Iowa in the NCAA.
Quebec put together a career retrospective video. Cory will stay involved in the sport in leadership roles.
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British coach of the Year – Scott Hann
Congratulations.
Of course his gymnast, Max Whitlock, was male athlete of the year. Max is the most successful British Olympic gymnast of all time.
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National Girls and Women in Sports Day
In the USA since 1987, launched by Ronald Reagan, National Girls and Women in Sports Day … to acknowledge the accomplishments of female athletes, recognize the influence of sports participation for women and girls, and honour the progress and continuing struggle for equality for women in sports.
Women’s Gymnastics is in a unique position to lead this struggle. It’s one of the highest visibility sports where the women are more popular than men with the general public.
Teramoto Asuka retired
The 2012 (9th) and 2016 (8th) Olympian missed the Games in 2021 due to injury.
Thanks for all the good years.
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.
Celebrating Kohei Uchimura
Blythe Lawrence:
… back-to-back Olympic all-around golds in 2012 and 2016 (the first man to do so since Sawao Kato in 1972), six consecutive world all-around titles collected between 2009 to 2015 (in a sport where no other man has more than two), and 21 world medals (including individual titles on floor exercise, parallel bars, and horizontal bar.) …
“He’s my hero,” echoed Carlos Yulo, the reigning world champion on vault, who on his best days shares Uchimura’s crystal-clear sense of execution and extreme difficulty.
The Philippines-born 21-year-old, who trains in Japan, credits watching Uchimura compete at the London Olympics as a key moment in his childhood. …
In pursuit of perfection, ‘King’ Kohei created pure art
Music professor Lasse Nettum created an original piece to accompany Uchimura’s horizontal bar routine from the 2011 World Championships.
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related – Magnastics – A History of Uchimura Kohei’s Winning Streak
Happy 101st Ágnes Keleti
A treasure.
Oksana … and the rest
… timeline of Oksana Chusovitina’s career lined up alongside the careers of every Olympic All-Around Champion from 1992-present …
The Medal Count – The Longevity of Oksana Chusovitina Visualized
Kohei announced his retirement
… The announcement was made through his management company.
He will hold a press conference in the coming days where he will detail his decision in his own words …
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