Category: Olympics

Simone the biggest star in Tokyo?

At this point I’m thinking Simone will be the biggest name at the Tokyo Olympics.

Gymnastics should get a bigger Olympic bump in publicity worldwide than ever before.
#marketing

we want Acrobatic Gymnastics in the Olympics

My favourite of the FIG disciplines is Acrobatic Gymnastics.

It’s the ultimate test of what the human body can do without apparatus.

Lourenco Franca started a petition asking FIG and National Sports Governing Bodies to do more to promote the growing sport. Ultimately, to be showcased in the Olympics.

Needless to say, the IOC has dozens of sports wanting to be added. It would require a major change in order to get Acro added. Perhaps Summer Olympics every 2 years — with half the sports at each.

I did sign the petition myself though I find it a bit too harshly worded. FIG has done good work developing the Age Group Acrobatic Gymnastics coaching program with competition rules.

Click through if you’d like to sign it too:

Open letter to FIG from Acrobatics community

Click PLAY or watch men’s group (four) on YouTube.

Nations qualified to Trampoline Olympics 2020

Officially confirmed list of countries who have earned a quota place from the 2019 World Championships for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games:

The eight highest placed male and the eight hightest placed female athletes based on the results of the Individual Trampoline finals of the 2019 World Championships each qualified one quota place for their National Olympic Committee (NOC), with a maximum of one athlete per NOC.

Women
1 JPN
2 CAN
3 CHN
4 FRA
5 GBR
6 RUS

Men
1 CHN
2 BLR
3 RUS
4 JPN
5 FRA

Unused places will be allocated according to the Individual Olympic qualification ranking list of the 2019-2020 Trampoline World Cup Series.

This six-stage series will present another opportunity for the highest-ranked participants to earn a place for their country, while the continental championships in May 2020 will decide more places, one for each continent not yet represented.

Simone US Female ATHLETE OF THE YEAR

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Oh WOW. Have you seen Sterling K. Brown (Randall Pearson on THIS IS US) talk about Simone’s parents.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

day 2 Cottbus Finals

Points towards Olympic qualification for apparatus specialists.

Beam
1. Urara Ashikawa, Japan 13.700
2. Diana Varinska, Ukraine 13.533
3. Li Qi, China 13.400

Floor
1. Anastasiia Bachynska, Ukraine 13.533
2. Kim Bui, Germany 13.500
3. Lara Mori, Italy 13.400

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Vault
1. Igor Radivilov, Ukraine, 14.849
2. Audrys Nin Reyes, Dominican Republic, 14.754
3. Yahor Sharamkou, Belarus, 14.749

P Bars
1. Oleg Verniaiev, Ukraine, 15.400
2. You Hao, China, 15.400
3. Vladislav Poliashov, Russia, 15.366

H Bar
1. Hidetaka Miyachi, Japan 14.933
2. Ilias Georgiou, Cyprus 14.166
3. Alexey Rostov, Russia 14.166

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For details, videos and running points totals, click over to …

Lauren – 2019 Cottbus World Cup | Event Finals Day 2 Live Blog

Blythe – BACHYNSKA, VERNIAIEV, RADIVILOV STRIKE GOLD FOR UKRAINE ON FINAL DAY AT COTTBUS

Spencer – COTTBUS LIVE BLOG – FINALS DAY 2

day 1 Cottbus Finals

Points towards Olympic qualification for apparatus specialists.

Vault
1. Yu Linmin, China, 14.649
2. Teja Belak, Slovenia, 14.216
3. Yesenia Ferrera, Cuba, 14.199

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Bars
1. Fan Yilin, China, 14.800
2. Anastasia Agafonova, Russia, 14.733
3. Yin Sisi, China, 14.566

Floor
1. Kazuki Minami, Japan, 15.100
2. Rayderley Zapata, Spain, 14.800
3. Hayden Skinner, Great Britain, 14.533

Pommels
1. Weng Hao, China, 15.000
2. Kaito Imabayashi, Japan, 14.966
3. Oleg Verniaiev, Ukraine, 14.866

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Rings
1. Liu Yang, China, 15.133
2. Eleftherios Petrounias, Greece, 14.866
3. Artur Avetisyan, Armenia, 14.833

Despite his silver medal, things are looking foreboding for Eleftherios Petrounias of Greece on still rings. The reigning Olympic champion shockingly missed out on qualifying for Tokyo at the world championships …

Petrounias’s sole route to the Games now is through the World Cup series, and with Liu looking so strong and likely to keep the spot, this looks less and less likely.

For details, videos and running points totals, click over to …

Lauren – 2019 Cottbus World Cup | Event Finals Day 1 Live Blog

Blythe – CHINA FOUR FOR FIVE ON DAY ONE OF COTTBUS WORLD CUP FINALS

Spencer – COTTBUS LIVE BLOG – FINALS DAY 1

Daiki Hashimoto wins All Japan

18-years-old!

Super AA final:

1. Daiki Hashimoto 86.031
2. Kazuma Kaya 85.664
3. Kazuyuki Takeda 85.364

There was a weird 0.5 deduction from the AA if you didn’t have a high enough difficulty total.

For example, Shogo Nonomura scored 85.699 but the difficulty penalty knocked his score down to 85.199 and 4th.

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Top scores on each apparatus:

FX Carlos Yulo 15.2
PH Yanato Kanayama (?) 14.933
SR Yuya Kamoto 14.966
VT Daiki Hashimoto 14.933
PB Yuya Kamoto (?) 14.933
HB Yuya Kamoto (?) 14.566

MAGnastics was covering it on Twitter.