Category: Olympics

Doha World Cup Men’s Final – day 2

Vault
1 Yang Hak Seon Korea 15.266
2 Igor Radivilov Ukraine 14.916
3 Artur Davtyan Armenia 14.695

P Bars
1 Zou Jingyuan China 6.6 9.100 15.700
2 Vladislav Polyashov Russia 6.5 8.566 15.066
3 Mitchell Morgans Australia 6.0 8.566 14.566

H Bar
1 Tin Srbic Croatia 6.1 8.300 14.400
2 Hidetaka Miyachi Japan 6.2 8.100 14.300
3 Randy Leru Cuba 6.1 7.900 14.000

full results

Check the current leaders for apparatus Olympic qualification.

Igor Radivilov is #1 on Vault.

my favourite Gymnastics photo … maybe ever

Friendship through sport at the Stuttgart World Cup.

Olympic Charter: “… a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play …”

Thank Cordelia Price for posting it from the live video stream.

Baku World Cup results

Olympic qualification points on the line.

Vault
🥇 Jade Carey USA 14.766
🥈 Oksana Chusovitina UZB 14.450
🥉 Alexa Moreno MEX 14.249

Bars
🥇 Lyu Jiaqi CHN 14.266
🥈 Anastasia Iliankova RUS 14.133
🥉 Georgia-Rose Brown AUS 13.566

Diana Varinska had 13.566 as well, but lost out in the tie-break.

Click PLAY or watch Lyu Jiaqi on Facebook. LOVE the double twist. Surprised at the loose form. And always disappointed in routines where gymnasts switch one hand at a time.

Beam
🥇 Emma Nedov AUS 14.100
🥈 Marine Boyer FRA 14.100
🥉 Mana Oguchi JPN 13.200

Click PLAY or watch Emma’s Beam on Facebook.

Floor
🥇 Jade Carey USA 14.600
🥈 Lara Mori ITA 13.866
🥉 Vanessa Ferrari ITA 13.733

Jade Carey – Floor

Baku Final

1. Jade Carey USA 14.600
2. Lara Mori ITA 13.866
3. Vanessa Ferrari ITA 13.733

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter. No sound, but that’s a good way to evaluate her choreography rather than musicality.

She won Vault, as well. Olympic qualifying points!

Brazil wins DTB Cup challenge

As many predicted, Brazil’s top team finished ahead of a very good Russian team.

Right now you have to add Brazil to the list of Olympic team medal contenders.

Though there was no AA competition, Rebeca went 56.932 today.

1 – Brazil, 164.396
2 – Russia, 159.496
3 – Netherlands, 153.763
4 – France, 150.462

Valeri should be smiling.

UCLA student athletes talk mental health

An excellent initiative promoted by Anna Glenn. Especially considering the recent suicide of triple world champion cyclist Kelly Catlin at Stanford. She was only 23.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Netherlands – the bumpy road to Doha

Part 3 of the documentary following Team Netherlands and their quest for Tokyo 2020.

INJURIES are one of the biggest challenges.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (posted Feb 13th)

FIG Parkour Age Group Programme under development

FIG:

With the adoption of the new discipline of Parkour by the FIG Congress in December 2018, it became necessary to develop coach education programmes also for this discipline. …

The Parkour specialists that were invited to be members of the working group were Charles Perrière of France, the President of the FIG Parkour Commission, FIG Athletes’ Representative Micaela Buono Pugh of Argentina and Francisco de la Riva Vasquez of Belgium. …

It was an extraordinarily interesting meeting about a sport, many of whose participants believe in the values that Parkour should be discovered and cannot be taught and that the activity should not be competition oriented. But with the expectation that this will be an Olympic sport in 2024, things will change dramatically as athletes will most certainly be specifically trained from a young age.

The challenge was to find a solution that provides structure yet has ample room for freedom, innovation, discovery and creativity. The structure is necessary to assure the safe, healthy, gradual and systematic development of athletes towards future high-performance excellence. …

Firsts for FIG coach education activities in February 2019

If FIG is going to run obstacle course competitions, obviously they need offer coach education.