His win has guaranteed him a place on Japan’s 2018 World Championships team …
And of course, a big shoutout to Kenzo Shirai for another National AA medal, this time repeating the silver he won in 2016 …
Category: history
1904 Summer Olympics, St. Louis MO
The 1904 Summer Olympics … was celebrated in St. Louis, Missouri … from August 29 until September 3, 1904, as part of an extended sports program lasting from July 1 to November 23, 1904 …
It was the first time that the Olympic Games were held outside Europe.
European tensions caused by the Russo-Japanese War and the difficulty of getting to St. Louis kept most of the world’s top athletes away. Only 62 of the 651 athletes who competed came from outside North America, and only 12–15 nations were represented …
The St. Louis organizers treated the Games in a manner similar to the previous Olympiad, with competitions reduced to a side-show of the St. Louis World’s Fair …
The participants totalled 651 athletes – 645 men and six women representing 12 countries. …
One of the most remarkable athletes was the American gymnast George Eyser, who won six medals even though his left leg was made of wood ….
Eyser competed with a wooden prosthesis for a left leg, having lost his real leg after being run over by a train. Despite his disability, he won gold in the vault, an event which then included a jump over a long horse without aid of a springboard. …
Apparatus: Clubs, Horizontal Bar, Parallel Bars, Pommel Horse, Rings, Rope Climb, and Vault.
The AA Champ was Julius Lenhart.
Yul wins Nationals 2018
“Yul’s been amazing. He won the all-around by almost four points.
He obviously was the difference between our winning and being second.
He’s an incredible kid; humble, works hard all the time, I have to slow him down to keep him healthy at times. But when it’s go time he is a fierce competitor and I’m just so impressed when he goes out there and has days like today.”
– Mark Williams
(via Logan Bradley)
Alex McMurtry – Bars
So. Much. Amplitude.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Shockingly, Alex fell on Beam during Super 6.
Still, she’s one of the greatest College gymnast all-time. One of my favourites. What a career!
… one of 10 gymnasts in the 37-year history of NCAA Gymnastics to complete a career “gym slam,” a perfect 10 on each of the four events. …
McMurtry’s nine perfect scores eclipsed the school record of eight held by former UF All-American Bridget Sloan …
new interview with Simone
Coincidentally released close to the NBC Dateline exposé. … Squirrel!
Includes Yurchenko triple twist on to pit mats, double double off Beam, front full to full-in and Moors, double double off Bars.
Laurent wants to improve Bars. He ordered 10 pairs of grips!
Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.
National Championships … the morning after
1. UCLA 198.0750
2. Oklahoma 198.0375
3. Florida 197.8500
4. LSU 197.8375
5. Utah 196.9000
6. Nebraska 196.8000
Here’s the moment where Peng clinched the win for UCLA.
Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.
• it was an honour to see so many superb athletes at one place, one time
• J.O. / NCAA is the best Gymnastics league in the world
if Elite was cancelled tomorrow, hardly anyone in this system would notice
• Floor is much better LIVE than on YouTube
• RESPECT for those young women who compete far more than minimum difficulty
Skinner, Lee, Nichols, etc.
• Judging rules are stupid. Goal is marketing / publicity, not accurately ranking routines. Somehow they mostly got the ranking right.
Actually, @Yarotska and friends judged online. They had OU 197.4, UCLA 197.35. But conceded that it could have gone either way.
• Oklahoma was easily the best team. Yet UCLA found a way to win despite having a poor opening Vault rotation.
Chris Waller chewed out the Bruins in the locker room. They responded.
• I feel badly for LSU. They do pretty much everything right. Yet haven’t won it all yet.
• I feel great for Nebraska. And even better for Georgia. #respect
Click PLAY or watch Nebraska coach Dan Kendig on Twitter.
• Spencer (Balance Beam Situation) is the #1 College pundit in my opinion. Yet the dinosaurs of the NCAA denied him a media credential. ☹️
I long ago gave up trying for NCAA credentials. It’s far too much hassle.
• It seems to me fewer gymnasts were taped up this year. And were there fewer season ending injuries in the NCAA in 2018?
• Byes are idiotic. I’m looking forward to the new post-season structure starting 2019.
I’m not looking forward to 4 years in Fort Worth. That’s a disincentive for me to attend.
After the horror of the Nassar crimes, having meets like this to celebrate is one way for the sport to start healing.
related – Lauren’s Live Blog | Super Six
Rachael Denhollander – 100 most influential people
Rachael Denhollander is one of Time’s 100 most influential people.
Gymnasts and Allies are ‘Great Leaders’
“The Gymnasts and Their Allies” are some of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders over the past year.
When the sentencing trial of Larry Nassar began, few people knew the former USA Gymnastics doctor’s name, much less the details of his crimes.
Then, the young women he sexually assaulted—more than 150 of them—told their stories.
Their seven days of harrowing testimony shook the world of sports and beyond. Nassar was sentenced to up to 175 years in prison. The president of Michigan State University, Nassar’s former employer, resigned, as did the board of USA Gymnastics and the CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee.
As Olympian Aly Raisman said, “We are here, we have our voices, and we are not going anywhere.”
India McPeak – standing 1/1
She did it. At Regionals.
Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/goBhardorgohome/status/982770600434216960
Sam Peszek is the only other gymnast to compete this skill in NCAA.
Simone: I am better than I was in Rio
Yikes. All her competitors are suddenly training for the silver AA.
Olympic star Simone Biles better than ever
Click PLAY or watch some training footage on YouTube.
