Only gymnasts were allowed to vote. And who wouldn’t support Oksana?
But with only 16th World Championships, does she have the experience? 😀
Category: history
Nadia back in Montreal at Worlds
Nadia got great applause when she took the stage for the first time during Men’s AA Finals. They love her in Montreal. Nadia’s image appears all over the city.
She lived here for 18 months after defecting and learned French.
Oksana Chusovitina is up NEXT
Ponor is serious about retiring this time
Sad. She looks in great shape in #MTL2017GYM.
Upgraded her tumbling on Floor …
But anyone can miss in competition. Anyone.
Nadia competed at the Montreal Forum
Dave Holmes reminded me that the 1976 Olympics were hosted at the Montreal Forum (Forum de Montréal). Dave was there.
Home of the Montreal Canadiens from 1926 to 1996.
1985 Worlds Montreal were hosted in the venue now called the Montreal Biodome.
Kolesnikova, Shushunova, Omelianchik, Baraksanova, Mostepanova, Yurchenko
Montreal 1976 – 1985 – 2017
A great legacy. Nadia 1976 – Worlds 1985 – #MTL2017GYM
Click PLAY or watch a retrospective on Twitter.
Kohei injured in 3rd subdivision
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
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 🙂
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