Category: Olympics

great Olympic Beam mounts

Scott Bregman put together this montage from Olympic footage.

Click PLAY or watch it on the Olympic channel.

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

Click PLAY or watch a preview of the 4 sports on Twitter.

Nellie & Nadia together again

At European Games.

no Mai

Japanese Women’s Team to Worlds:

・Asuka Teramoto
・Nagi Kajita
・Aiko Sugihara
・Hitomi Hatakeda
・Akari Matsumura

Japan has not yet qualified a full team to the Tokyo Olympics. Now they must do so without Mai Murakami, the Worlds #2 from 2018.

Worrisome. 😕

Meanwhile, it’s Olympic Day.

no Kohei, no Kenzo

Japanese Men’s Team to Worlds:

・Kakeru Tanigawa
・Wataru Tanigawa
・Kazuma Kaya
・Daiki Hashimoto (age-17)
・Yuya Kamoto

The team has already qualified to the Tokyo Olympics. So they can test some new faces this year.

TEAMS qualifying to the Tokyo Olympics

The USA, China and Russia have already qualified a full team to the 2020 Olympics. The other 9 spots will be based on Worlds 2019.

Spencer:

I ranked the contending nations based on how each country’s best-scoring group of five senior gymnasts would do in a three-scores-count format using each gymnast’s top score on each event recorded at a major international meet this year. …

RACE TO TOKYO – WOMEN’S TEAM QUALIFICATION

  1. FRANCE – 166.531
  2. ITALY – 165.514
  3. CANADA – 165.496
  4. GREAT BRITAIN – 164.664
  5. NETHERLANDS – 163.847
  6. BELGIUM – 162.963
  7. GERMANY – 162.514
  8. AUSTRALIA – 160.633
  9. JAPAN – 160.464

Yeesh. Australia ahead of Japan. And Japan leaving Mai at home. 😮

UKRAINE – 160.463, BRAZIL – 159.445, HUNGARY – 159.281, ROMANIA – 158.730, SPAIN – 158.446.

Despite the injury to Andrade, I’m optimistic that Brazil can still qualify.