Teenager Urara Ashikawa (Beam) and veteran Mai Murakami (floor) both won gold for Japan on the final day of the world artistic gymnastics championships in Japan.
Click PLAY or watch her Floor on Twitter.
Category: history
Kohei – Philosopher King
The greatest of all time reflects on his career. He’s proudest of 2011 Worlds Tokyo, his 3rd title.
He feels Gymnastics should be more ART than sport.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Circus 1966
Cirque du Soleil really did reinvent the circus. For one thing, they eliminated animals.
Click PLAY or watch an old school American circus on YouTube.
Nagorny Russian GQ Athlete of the Year
Second year in a row for this title.
related – NAGORNY: I WAS ABLE TO LEAVE MY MARK ON THE HISTORY OF ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS
Chuso is REALLY retiring
Never say never. But Oksana sounds definite in a new, long interview:
… I guess an athlete just feels when the time they will not want to train and compete anymore comes. I felt that my concluding Olympics would be in Tokyo. I knew that after Tokyo, the moment when I wouldn’t want to come to the gym anymore would happen.
That’s exactly what happened. …
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Always interesting and entertaining, click through for the story of how Oksana met her husband. And how her Mom reacted.
Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.
100 MOST INFLUENTIAL – Simone Biles
Click through to see the 2021 video and tribute from Serena Williams.
Though she just won the Olympics weeks ago, Suni made the list too. 🙂
Handspring FWD layout 1/2
Cristina Bontas documentary
Cristina Bontas was an Olympic Champion with Romania in Barcelona.
A coach today, she’s an unforgettable character.
Watch it on YouTube. (2018). The video can’t be embedded.
Cheng Vaults
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
NEW Gymnastics History site
Gymnastics-history.com
Uncle Tim is an historian and archivist.
Happily he’s found the time to launch a site dedicated to the history of Artistic Gymnastics.
Check it out.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 