100 per cent of the metals required to manufacture the approximately 5,000 gold, silver and bronze medals have been extracted from small electronic devices that were contributed from people all over Japan. …
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Category: Olympics
Olympic Qualification process
On GymCastic Spencer provided the best explanation yet on how the Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualification works.
After one listen you might actually, almost understand it.
“You are beautiful. You are lovely. Go out there and enjoy this.”
Imboden & Berry reprimanded
Interesting.
I’m surprised and somewhat pleased that these two fantastic athletes were not banned from competition.
I’d like athletes to feel free to speak their minds, … but preferably not during a National Anthem. Perhaps a post-competition press conference — instead — could allow and encourage more free speech than in the past.
The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee Tuesday formally reprimanded but did not suspend or otherwise punish the two U.S. athletes who protested on the medal stand earlier this month at the Pan American Games.
In letters to fencer Race Imboden and hammer thrower Gwen Berry, USOPC CEO Sarah Hirshland said that while she “applaud(ed)” each athlete’s “decision to be an active citizen,” calling it “admirable,” she noted that they must “abide by the policies we agree to in order to ensure the Games succeed in their purpose for many years to come.”
She wrote that the two athletes were considered to be in “a probationary period for the next 12 months. …
great Olympic Beam mounts
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U.S. Olympic trial tickets
This will sell out. Fast.
Hurd, Chen Yile, Melnikova
Part 1 of the Olympic Channel documentary is up.
Chen Yile is an amazing artist!
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Daria Bijak finally got her Olympic tattoo
Daria was a fantastic elite. And on of my favourite College gymnasts when she competed at Utah.
The story of why she delayed getting inked is interesting.
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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