Category: history

Věra Čáslavská dead at 74

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The sad news was announced on Wednesday that the most successful ever Czech Olympic athlete, Věra Čáslavská, died at the age of 74. She had been battling cancer of the pancreas. The gymnast will be remembered not just for her medals but for her protest against the Soviet bloc invasion of Czechoslovakia at the 1968 Mexico Olympics. …

Radio.cz

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Vera

Shuji Tsurumi 1964 P Bars

The last time the Olympics were held in Tokyo.

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At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo Shuji Tsurumi received a gold medal in team combined exercises, and silver medals in individual all-around, pommel horse, and parallel bars.

(via Gymnastics Lab)

Boginskaya, Alexandrov, Chusovitina

Legends.

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Max Whitlock and Louis Smith

As one who often questioned the GBR strategy bringing a specialist to major meets, you can’t argue with the results. Another brilliant Pommel final for Louis. Congratulations.

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Max Whitlock

Max finished with a world class score of 90.641 behind Japanese legend Kohei Uchimura who took the gold (92.365) and Ukraine’s Oleg Verniaiev the silver (92.266). …

Britain’s Nile Wilson was also competing in the all-around final and performed sensationally at just 20 years old. He was faultless throughout which included an outstanding parallel bars routine for a huge 15.700. Nile finished in 8th place amongst some incredible gymnasts and clearly has a bright future ahead of him. …

Max

Max:

“Kohei has been my idol for a long time so I’m very proud for him and Oleg [Verniaiev, silver medal winner], I’ve been competing with him for years. He’s been producing huge scores in the last few years and I’m very honoured to come third to those two.

Max Whitlock wins historic bronze in Olympic all-around final

When his Slovenian coach Klemen Bedenik moved home, Max went with him to Slovania. Age-12.

He was there 3 months.

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