Skateboarding, sport climbing, surfing and breaking were confirmed as additional sports proposed by the Paris 2024 Organising Committee. …
Olympic.org
Finally. An equal number of Olympic male and female competitors.
#Paris2024 🏃🏽♂️🤾🏻♀️ equality
Category: Olympics
Larisa Iordache will compete Europeans
It’s been a long road back to gymnastics for Larisa Iordache, who ruptured her Achilles while warming up floor before competing in qualifications at world championships in 2017 and spent the next three years facing surgeries, rehab, and a global pandemic before finally getting to return to the floor for the first time at Romania’s national championships in November. …
Iordache Added to Euros Team After Triumphant Comeback
Shane Wiskus on 60 Minutes
Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.
behind the scenes in Tokyo
NHK Television has a half hour (slow paced) look at how Olympic organizers successfully ran an international meet.
It confirms that Russian gymnasts don’t much understand sport science.
The only place I’ve seen it is on the International Gymnast magazine Facebook page.
Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.
Deutschland Olympic squad
Yevgeny Nikolko R.I.P.
Shane Wiskus to USOTC
… Wiskus and his father, Mike, will load a truck and trailer for a trip they weren’t ready to make. Wiskus is moving to Colorado Springs, where the U.S. Olympic Training Center will become his new gymnastics home.
The senior … will join an elite training group of nine men preparing for the Olympic trials in June.
He will finish his degree in business and marketing education via distance learning, and with the Gophers preparing to hold some meets virtually, he can still compete for them remotely from Colorado.
Should the NCAA championships be held as scheduled April 16-17 at Maturi Pavilion, Wiskus could finish his Gophers career with one final performance at the Pav.
A member of the U.S. national team, Wiskus expected to eventually relocate to Colorado Springs for post-college training. He just wishes it didn’t have to happen so soon. …
Gophers gymnast Shane Wiskus leaving state, moving to Colorado Springs to train
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
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.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 