Category: Olympics

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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#Paris2024 🏃🏽‍♂️🤾🏻‍♀️ equality

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.

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

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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.

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Yevgeny Nikolko R.I.P.

Age-76.

Yevgeny Nikolko, Coach of Aleksei Nemov, Passes Away

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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

Ya wimp. 😀

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