Category: Olympics

Double Olympic Champ Rosie MacLennan

IOC posted a terrific interview with Rosie. She’ll be contending for Gold medal #3 in Tokyo

“Dave (Ross) and I talked about routines after Rio, and he was like, ‘I just want to see you do cool things, whatever about the medals’.

That brings the joy again,” said MacLennan, who will compete in the Japanese capital 81 years after her grandfather was denied a place at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1940 by the outbreak of the Second World War.

JOYOUS MACLENNAN CONTINUES TO BOUNCE THROUGH BARRIERS FOR CANADA

Morgan: Wear your MASK

Ya wimp. 😀

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Ágnes Keleti at 100

Ágnes Keleti is a Hungarian–Israeli retired Olympic and world champion artistic gymnast and coach.

While representing Hungary in the Summer Olympics, she won 10 Olympic medals including five gold medals, three silver medals, and two bronze medals, and is considered to be one of the most successful Jewish Olympic athletes of all time.

A new book has been released in advance of her 100th birthday.

Tokyo Test Meets

The friendly invitational was successfully hosted in the 1964 Olympic venue with 22 athletes. A good start.

Before the Olympics, more testing of protocols is necessary.

Hidemasa Nakamura, the Tokyo Olympic games delivery officer, told an on-line briefing that plans are now in the works for more test events starting in March. However, he did not say what form these might take or if non-Japanese athletes would be involved. …

Tokyo Olympic officials, the International Olympic Committee, and the Japanese government are trying to convince the world that the postponed Games can open on July 23 despite so much uncertainty in the ongoing pandemic. …

Japan has been relatively successful containing COVID-19 with about 1,800 deaths attributed to the virus. The problem will be opening the borders to regions where the virus is rampant.

AP

Worlds 2021 in Japan

Both Artistic and Rhythmic – October 2021.

This dual allocation comes after the decision by the Danish Gymnastics Federation in July to withdraw from hosting the 2021 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Copenhagen.

Solidarity v Friendship

Mainly we’re happy Japan was able to host a major international meet during this pandemic. Congratulations.

Solidarity 423.600
Friendship 421.300

Of those who competed all-around.

Nikita Nagornyy 86.600
Kazuma Kaya 86.200
Wataru Tanigawa 85.300

Angelina Melnikova 56.700
Zhang Jin 54.900
Hitomi Hatakeda 54.200

Full results.

China arrives Japan

With an abundance of caution.

‘Friendship and Solidarity’ meet

November 8, 2020.

Instead of representing their countries, Uchimura and others compete on one of two teams – team “Friendship” or team “Solidarity” – in a showcase of international camaraderie.

No All-Around or individual accolades will be awarded; rather, the top three scores on each piece of apparatus per team will count toward the final team score. …

One goal is to prove that staging a high-profile event in Tokyo is possible in the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic. …

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