Category: history

new Nadia Comaneci documentary – Winning

One film (78 minutes). Five legendary athletes. The compelling and inspiring story of the journeys of tennis champion Martina Navratilova, golf great Jack Nicklaus, Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci, track and field star Edwin Moses, and Dutch Paralympian Esther Vergeer. …

WINNING

Click PLAY or watch a trailer on YouTube.

Athen’s Olympics Men’s competition was a MESS

ILLYRIA BURKLE summarizes:

– In the all around, almost all the top contenders have a major mistake/fall (Paul Hamm, Ioan Silviu Suciu, Hiroyuki Tomita, Yang Wei, Marian Dragulescu, etc.)

– Yang Tae-Young was mistakenly credited with a 9.9 start value instead of a 10 like he was in the qualifying and team competitions, costing him the gold medal in the all around. Oscar Buitrago Reyes of Colombia, Benjamin Bango of Spain, and the head judge George Beckstead of the United States were all suspended for the mistake. …

read more – 2004 MAG

And who was the Men’s Head Judge?

Adrian Stoica - Romania
Adrian Stoica – Romania

the Ferrari is still improving

Note the long pauses before tumbling in 2008.

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via Gymternet Clan

Simone is in the Gym

Simone Biles says she’s back in the gym

evolution of Asymmetric Bars

No apparatus has changed more.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (10min)

Note: Bars are asymmetric, not uneven.

Nastia v Shawn in Beijing

Right ’til the end I thought Shawn would win the AA.

But — much like Oleg and Kohei in Rio — I was OK with Nastia winning. It was that close.

#RESPECT for Nastia’s Vault in the AA Final. Near perfect.

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Sanne on Rio Beam Gold one year later

Excellent interview. Her sister gave as much support as possible on the big day.

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Khorkina – The Magic of Winning

This month, Svetlana Khorkina is publishing her new memoir ‘The Magic of Winning”. …

Her previous book “Flic-flacs in High Heels” was published 10 years ago and is now out of print. The new book also tells the story of her childhood and gymnastics career and will partially overlap with the new memoir, however, it adds new material on Khorkina’s life in the last 10 years and her current views on the sport. …

There is no information on whether the publisher plans to translate the book to English. …

KHORKINA’S ‘MAGIC OF WINNING’ – ALL THE DETAILS

If you want to order a Russian language copy, click through to that link.