Category: history

Epke wins Horizontal Bar

After a disastrous ranking at Worlds 2015 we feared Epke would not get the chance to defend in Rio.

He will. 🙂

Team Netherlands did qualify and will almost certainly include Zonderland in their lineup.

I watched the warm-up. Bart DEURLOO, BRETSCHNEIDER and ZONDERLAND are all capable of linking multiple big releases in a final. Here’s how it turned out.

1 ZONDERLAND Epke NED 7.100 + 8.633 = 15.733
2 BRETSCHNEIDER Andreas GER 7.300 + 8.300 = 15.600
3 OROZCO John USA 6.800 + 8.566 = 15.366
full results

Ultra clean Nile Wilson fell twice. John Orozco hit superbly with Liukin for the Bronze. (John was 9/9 in Rio.) But as he’s done so many times in the past, Epke hit the routine best when it counted.

Congratulations. Netherlands may be the happiest nation coming to the Olympics at this point.

documentary – ‘Made in America’

Featuring interviews with Olympic gymnasts like Nastia Liukin, Shawn Johnson and Carly Patterson and footage from the Karolyi Training Camp in Texas, the documentary will show the evolution of the U.S. women’s gymnastics program.

The documentary will premiere online on Wednesday, April 20th on the USAG YouTube channel.

Click PLAY or watch a trailer on Facebook.

Romanian teams will not go to Rio

Neither men nor women.

Seems like a bad dream. 😦 Respect this team and great ROM history.

Russell Mills – 1964 Pommels

This is the winning routine in the 1964 AAU Nationals (the precursor to the USGF and USA gymnastics). Mills also won the NCAA Championships in 1963 and 1964, coached by Don Tonry and . competing for Yale University. When Mills hit his routines, he was unbeatable in the US and probably by anyone in the world at that time. There was no international competition for specialists during the period. The mount here is a back Moore, caught a bit late by the camera.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

some girl named SIMONE …

… won #PacRim2016. All hail the greatest gymnast who ever lived. 🙂

1. Simone Biles – 62.450
2. Alexandra Raisman – 59.900
3. Laurie Hernandez – 59.800

I think we have to start blocking Laurie in the same group with Simone, Gabby, Aly for Olympic Team selection.

Click PLAY or watch Simone’s FX on YouTube.

16.050 = 6.9 + 9.15

Her first tumbling line warm-up is full twisting double layout. Ho hum.

Natalia Yurchenko mini-montage

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BBT7751gieo/?taken-by=gym_art_
 
There are more like that on the gym_art_ Instgram page.

Larisa Latynina – greatest Olympic gymnast all time

Larisa Latynina was ranked the 9th greatest Olympian in any sport by bwin.

… Her total of 18 Olympic medals was a record for 48 years until surpassed by American swimmerMichael Phelps …

Larisa