UPDATE – Kohei was injured on Vault, his first apparatus. He competed P Bars but did not appear for his H Bar routine.
Click PLAY or watch a tribute from before the meet on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/olympicchannel/status/914884295336120320
Category: history
3 Olympic Beam Champions
Men’s Floor is UGLY
Think back on the great floor gymnasts of all time. Kurt Thomas, Ioannis Melissanidis and Kyle Shewfelt are a few of my favourites.
Artistic gymnasts with excellent tumbling.
Dwight Normile asks … What’s Happened to Men’s Floor?
remembering Věra Čáslavská
Věra Čáslavská died in 2016 at the age of 74.
A sports school in Prague will bear Caslavska’s name as of the next school year.
Winner of a total of 11 Olympic medals, seven of them gold, Caslavska captured the All-around at the 1964 and 1968 Olympic Games, joining Soviet Larissa Latynina as the only female gymnast to to have won back-to-back titles. No other woman has won as many individual Olympic gold medals. …
1968 Olympics
During the medal ceremonies for Balance Beam, won by Soviet Natalia Kuchinskaya, and Floor Exercise, where she shared the podium with Larissa Petrik, Caslavska turned her head to the right and down as the Soviet anthem was played, a gesture widely interpreted as a political protest. She returned home to Czechoslovakia to find herself spurned by the government, which did not initially allow her to work as a coach and blocked her from receiving donors. …
After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, Caslavska was finally recognized as a national heroine. …
Click PLAY or watch her political statement on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch the IOC video on Facebook.
related – I think people should just stick to their profession, that is, unless they agree with me politically 🙂
Zamo interview
Now age-35, Elena “Zamo” Zamolodchikova was one of the greatest ever Soviet gymnasts.
Read a new interview – ELENA ZAMOLODCHIKOVA ON COACHING, JUDGING, AND THE CURRENT STATE OF RUSSIAN GYMNASTICS
confirmed – Simone is training
top 64 U.S. Olympic gymnasts
GymnasticsVille has a new feature where they are counting down the top 64 Olympians all time.
The first instalment:
64. Alexander Naddour
63. Phoebe Mills
62. Peter Kormann
61. Jair Lynch
60. Kai Wen Tan
59. Joesph Hagerty
58. Elise Ray
57. Alexander Artemov
56. Kristen Maloney
55. Tasha Schwirret Warren
54. Justin Spring
53. Raj Bhavsar
52. Jamie Dantzscher
Click PLAY or watch Tasha’s Beam on YouTube.
Schwikert Warren helped the U.S. women win a bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic Games. At the 2001 World Gymnastics Championships she won a team gold medal. Schwikert Warren is a two-time U.S. senior national all-around champion and a two-time NCAA all-around national champion.
See more videos – #GymnastRank USA Olympians Nos. 52-64
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Nellie Kim interview
Interesting.
Nellie’s world view certainly does not align with my own. I’m happy she’s no longer leading the FIG WTC.
NELLIE KIM ON JUDGING, FAVORITE GYMNASTS AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN RUSSIA AND U.S.
Charlie Tamayo interview
I really enjoyed GymCastic #267: Growing Up In Cuba with Charlie Tamayo
The first male gymnast to win a World medal for Cuba tell us what it was like to grow up in the Cuban gymnastics system. …
Especially the story of how and why a Cuban superstar defected to the USA.
Click PLAY or watch Charlie training Tamayo on YouTube.
Charlie is one of the new coaches at Georgia this season.
GymCastic is now 5 years old. Time flies when you are having fun.
Nemov training for 1996 Olympics
Compulsories and Optionals. When Artistic Gymnastics was artistic.
Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.
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