Category: history

Nile Wilson retired

‘Gymnastics’ you are the best sport in the world! You’re my 1st Love , my addiction, You set me free , you gave me purpose & you gave me experiences I could not even have dreamed of!

Unfortunately my body just couldn’t keep up..& that’s okay 🙏🏼

It is my time to move on & I can’t wait for the next chapter ☺️

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Too bad.

The 2016 Olympic high bar bronze medalist is a fan favourite AA star.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

He posted it on his YouTube vlog, as well. Coach Baz Collie is included.

R.I.P coach Eugene Galperin

Brad Peters:

It is with great sadness to say that we have lost the greatest gymnastics coach, technician , mentor of our time.

He made a huge impact on all of us in this sport, world wide.

From the Soviet Union, Canada, Korea, USA and other countries his techniques and training methods created Olympic Gold medalist Kyle Shewfelt and Olympic Team members Brad Peters, Lorne Bobkin and a long long list of highly successful coaches who studied his methods.

He was so passionate and was also a wonderful human being who cared about the well being of his athletes first above everything.

I will miss him.

He will be missed.

Thank you Eugene for everything you gave to us.

Click PLAY or watch a 2016 tribute on YouTube.

Yuri Titov interview

Three-time Olympian and former president of the FIG Yuri Titov turned 85 in November. He gave an interview to TASS on this occasion and talked about his career and the current generation of Russian gymnasts. …

Titov won Olympic gold as a part of the 1956 Soviet team and multiple silver and bronze medals but never the all-around gold:

“Talking about the Olympics, I consider myself somewhat a loser. At my first Games in 1956 in Melbourne, I got injured a few hours before the opening ceremony. …

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Titov opposed both the 1980 and 1984 boycotts.

Chellsie’s hardest skills

Chellsie Memmel was 2005 World Champion. But she’s still working new skills today at age-32.

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Gabby at Buckeye

Ah, back in the day.

When FloGymnastics posted this to YouTube, free for all, I was keen to see if it included Gabby’s Bars double twisting double layout.

It’s not there.

That was a FUN skill she worked if and when she got through the Bars workout with time remaining.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Rhythmic Gymnastics Europeans 2020

Russia, Bulgaria, Italy and Spain were some of the nations that did not compete.

Linoy Ashram became the first non-Russian European champion since 1997 with victory in Kyiv.

  1. Linoy Ashram (ISR)
  2. Alina Harnasko (BLR)
  3. Anastasia Salos (BLR)
https://twitter.com/UEGymnastics/status/1333067671169011716

In another historical first, Turkey won the team competition.

  1. Turkey (tiebreaker)
  2. Ukraine
  3. Azerbaijan
https://twitter.com/UEGymnastics/status/1332706763154579457

Yevgeny Nikolko R.I.P.

Age-76.

Yevgeny Nikolko, Coach of Aleksei Nemov, Passes Away

https://twitter.com/intlgymnast/status/1330961468494372864

remembering coach Aleksandr Kiryashov

Famed Russian artistic women’s gymnastics coach Aleksandr Kiryashov passed away on November 15. He was 72.

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Double Olympic Champ Rosie MacLennan

IOC posted a terrific interview with Rosie. She’ll be contending for Gold medal #3 in Tokyo

“Dave (Ross) and I talked about routines after Rio, and he was like, ‘I just want to see you do cool things, whatever about the medals’.

That brings the joy again,” said MacLennan, who will compete in the Japanese capital 81 years after her grandfather was denied a place at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1940 by the outbreak of the Second World War.

JOYOUS MACLENNAN CONTINUES TO BOUNCE THROUGH BARRIERS FOR CANADA