Category: Olympics

Ellie Black does NOT have retirement scheduled

Despite this misleading headline, Ellie is not planning to quit after Tokyo.

HOW ELLIE BLACK ENVISIONS HER SWAN SONG AT TOKYO 2020

Already a two-time Olympian and one of Canada’s best female gymnasts ever, it’s easy to wonder when she might be done.

And Black at just 23-years-old is used to facing questions about when she’ll hang up her grips.

“I don’t even know what I’m doing tomorrow, basically,” Black said with a laugh Saturday. …

“I always say age is just a number,” said Black.

That’s something the Nova Scotia-native proved as she’s continued to get better, year-after-year. …

“As long as I’m enjoying gymnastics and I’m loving what I’m doing, why not keep doing it?”

related – Ellie Black becomes Canada’s most decorated Pan Am gymnast (ahead of Willie Weiler of The Weiler fame)

WHERE will you be during the 2020 Olympics?

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Jordyn Wieber on resilience

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great Olympic Beam mounts

Scott Bregman put together this montage from Olympic footage.

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https://twitter.com/olympicchannel/status/1147097888285179904

British gymnasts to Japan for camp

Russia will be doing the same this summer.

Russia wins 1st WAG Jr Worlds

  1. Russia – 111.654
  2. China  – 109.497
  3. USA  – 109.380
  4. Romania – 104.596
  5. Belgium – 104.464
  6. GBR – 104.114

      1. LISTUNOVA Viktoriia RUS 55.323 (fall on Beam)
      2. URAZOVA Vladislava RUS 55.298
      3. OU Yushan CHN 54.931 *
      4. di CELLO Kayla USA 54.765 *
      5. BARROS Sydney USA 53.974
      6. WEI Xiaoyuan CHN 53.066

* age eligible for Tokyo 2020

  1. Full results.

Stupidly, FIG did not LIVE stream this most important day. But many in the audience were posting routines from their phones.

Olympic Break Dancing?

As part of an effort to appeal to younger fans, the organizing committee for the 2024 Games in Paris announced on Thursday that it would recommend break dancing …

The proposal — which also includes a recommendation that skateboarding, surfing and climbing, which will be introduced next year at the Tokyo Games, remain on the program — will be formally presented to the International Olympic Committee executive board at the end of March. …

NY Times

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Nellie & Nadia together again

At European Games.