And water is wet. 🙂
Click PLAY or watch the year end cover reveal on Twitter.
Read the top 20 list. (Kipchoge, Jutanugarn, Ledecky, LeBron and other also rans.)
Category: history
Georgia-Mae’s homage to Beth Tweddle
Georgia-Mae Fenton!
Beth’s iconic combo but with her own skill …
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Simone Biles Day in Houston
most Worlds & Olympics medals
1 Larisa Latynina Soviet Union 31
2 Svetlana Khorkina Russia 27
3 Simone Biles United States 25
4 Vera Caslavska Czechoslovakia 21
5 Ludmilla Tourischeva Soviet Union 20
6 Gina Gogean Romania 20
7 Lavinia Milosovici Romania 19
8 Aliya Mustafina Russia 19
9 Nellie Kim Soviet Union 17
10 Simona Amanar Romania 17
How long before Simone becomes #1 all time?
World All Around Champions
Simone’s 2.7 lead on the world
1. Simone Biles (USA) | 25.4
2. Melanie de Jesus dos Santos (FRA) | 22.7
3. Angelina Melnikova (RUS) | 22.6
4. Morgan Hurd (USA) | 22.3
5. Flavia Saraiva (BRA) | 22.2
Simone Biles Leads D-Scores At 2018 Gymnastics World All-Around Final
The world’s least respected coach thinks Simone “doesn’t look invincible any more“.
That’s absurd, of course. If the greatest female gymnast all time wants some serious competition she’ll have to challenge the men. I’d love to see MAG vs Simone on a vault table 130cm high.
I’ll be putting my money on Simone. 😀
Olympic Studies Centre, Switzerland
The IOC Olympic Studies Centre collections “include the IOC archives, the official publications of the IOC and the Organising Committee of the Olympic Games as well as books, articles and journals. Our resources cover all the key themes related to the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement and their place within society”.
It’s next door to the very popular Olympic museum in Lausanne.
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Dipa Karmakar has a book
Dipa Karmakar: The Small Wonder (India’s First Ever Female Gymnast to Compete in the Olympics)
Hardcover only, so far.
Worlds finals day 2 recap
JUST THE GOOD STUFF: EVENT FINALS DAY 2
Simone Biles (USA) added gold and bronze medals in finals, tying the all-time record of 20 career world medals .
Five gymnasts take titles as Doha Worlds end …Gymnasts from 17 nations won medals in Doha.
The 49th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships take place 4-13 October 2019 in Stuttgart (GER).
Nina & Beth
Many compare 2018 World Champion Nina Derwael with the great Beth Tweddle who won Bars at 2006 and 2010 Worlds.
Both competed the most connected releases of the day. Both were astonishingly consistent.
Beth did many different routines.
Click PLAY or watch her 2012 Olympics set on YouTube. Fantastic. If only she’d stuck the dismount.
Nina is still improving. Having won Worlds I’m guessing she’ll be training upgrades in preparation for the Tokyo Olympics. She’ll certainly be able to qualify in the AA even if Belgium does not get there as a team.
