Category: Olympics

Russia loses in Court of Arbitration

Russia will not be able to use its name, flag and anthem at the next two Olympics or at any world championships for the next two years after a ruling Thursday by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

The Lausanne-based court halved the four-year ban proposed last year by the World Anti-Doping Agency in a landmark case that accused Russia of state-ordered tampering of a testing laboratory database in Moscow. The ruling also blocked Russia from bidding to host major sporting events for two years.

Russian athletes and teams will still be allowed to compete at next year’s Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, as well as world championships …

AP

Zou Jingyuan training AA

We know Zou Jingyuan as the greatest P Bar competitor of all-time.

But he’s training the AA and has a goal to count on 3 apparatus for team China at the Olympics.

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MAG All-Japan AA results

Crazy depth.

  1. Kaya Kazuma 173.764
  2. Kitazono Takeru 173.262 (High School)
  3. Tanigawa Kakeru 173.096
  4. Tanigawa Wataru 173.096
  5. Hashimoto Daiki 171.964
  6. Chiba Kenta 171.429

The brothers exactly tied. No bragging rights.

Full results.

Kohei’s 15.7 H Bar

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Mai Murakami – Japan AA Champ

Mai wasn’t happy with her performance in prelims. But the AA final went well.

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Read the Olympic Channel write-up.

Read Lauren’s report.

Mai Murakami wins All Japans

Murakami Mai 112.097
Hatakeda Hitomi 108.663
Soma Ui 107.497

Louter & Kiens out from Federation

The Dutch Federation removed coaches Frank Louter and Patrick Kiens from their National Team responsibilities. Both can coach at their clubs.

Kiens can continue to coach Eythora Thorsdottir and Kirsten Polderman. Louter can continue to coach Sara van Disseldorp and Laura de Witt.

This was unrelated to the ongoing disciplinary investigation.

Vincent Wevers and Nico Zijp stay on with National Team.

Details on Nos Sport. (Dutch)

new Oleg Verniaiev interview

Oleg. Oleg.

Always interesting. Always entertaining.

He’s not competing Europeans* this week, but we do have this.

Goals… Well, as you can see my cycle was not an easy one.

In 2018, I went through two surgeries. In 2019, two surgeries.

I didn’t manage to fully recover so the postponement of the Olympic Games is probably more good news than sad news for me. …

I want to return to the all-around leaders race. …

… there will not just be Dalaloyan and Nagornyy [to compete with]. I think there will be Xiao Ruoteng and Sam Mikulak. This is just from the current guys …

OC: It’s a tough question to ask, but looking from the outside in. What are your thoughts on the abuse situations that have been reported in gymnastics in the United States and Great Britain? What do you feel for athletes who spoke up about this topic and revealed what happened to them?

I find violence inadmissible. When someone yells at you that you are a fool, that you are bad and you get a cuff on the nape or beaten up – it’s wrong and I’m against it. I believe that such coaches should be kicked out or punished. …

I was incredibly lucky with my first coach – Olga Ermakova. She’s in Australia now coaching. …

Exclusive Q&A: Oleg Verniaiev on Olympic success, his Tokyo 2020 goals, Simone Biles and more

https://twitter.com/olympicchannel/status/1336405643813588992

Yuri Titov interview

Three-time Olympian and former president of the FIG Yuri Titov turned 85 in November. He gave an interview to TASS on this occasion and talked about his career and the current generation of Russian gymnasts. …

Titov won Olympic gold as a part of the 1956 Soviet team and multiple silver and bronze medals but never the all-around gold:

“Talking about the Olympics, I consider myself somewhat a loser. At my first Games in 1956 in Melbourne, I got injured a few hours before the opening ceremony. …

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Titov opposed both the 1980 and 1984 boycotts.

Minnesota Gymnastics 60 Minutes

While some schools are moving mountains to get in football and basketball seasons, non-revenue generating sports are on the chopping block. …

Some colleges are testing every player and coach for the virus every day and even that hasn’t stopped outbreaks; many games have had to be canceled or rescheduled. But still, they press on.  

They do it, of course, to keep the TV money coming in from football and basketball. But at the same time, dozens of universities have been eliminating smaller “secondary” sports like gymnastics and tennis and swimming. …

Mike Burns: I think every athletic director who’s dropping programs is using the COVID pandemic as an excuse …

Shane Wiskus: NCAA Gymnastics I believe is a crucial component in preparing gymnasts for, you know, not only success for their team, but success for the United States on the world and Olympic podiums. …

Some colleges axing “secondary sports” like gymnastics and tennis as pandemic continues

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