Category: Olympics

March 8th is International #WomensDay

“Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change”, puts innovation by women and girls, for women and girls, at the heart of efforts to achieve gender equality. …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

SOME progress is being made. Close to half of the athletes in the Tokyo Olympics will be women.

https://twitter.com/lausanne2020/status/1103937376223584256

rules for transgender athletes

A number of prominent athletes have been speaking out on this issue of late.

Marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe:

“Absolutely, any transgender men or women should be able to access sport – it just depends which category.

“We need to protect female sport but we also need to protect transgender women and their rights.

“For all this to advance fairly to everybody, we have to accept it might take a while, work together and stop attacking the other side.”

Paula Radcliffe says tighter transgender rules are needed to avoid ‘manipulation’

Certainly more research needs be done on this important but rarely problematic issue.

The current level of testosterone allowed by the IOC will drop from 10 nanomoles per litre to five for the 2020 Olympics.

MOSTLY this issue is a talking point for right wing extremists who jump on every opportunity to attack minorities. The rhetoric is similar to their attacks on transgender people using public bathrooms.

related – Transgender Minnesotan powerlifter JayCee Cooper was barred from competing at a state championship due to the International Olympics Committee’s ( IOC ) guidelines.

Vanessa Ferrari – new Floor routine

Jess loves it.

Surprisingly retro in terms of music and balletic dance.

I’d say Vanessa is the favourite to earn the ONE Olympic specialist spot available for Floor. Especially if she keeps getting credit for those advanced leaps.

Or will Jade Carey get it?

Click PLAY or watch it (prelims Melbourne) on YouTube.

Coming back from injury, I expect we’ll see the double double back soon.

P.S. I’m still irked Vanessa was ripped off in the 2010 Worlds Floor Final. She clearly should have won that gold.

no smoking at the Tokyo Olympics

A great move. Especially for Japn, a nation that was slow to start restricting smoking.

Organizers on Thursday announced a stringent ban on all tobacco products and vaping devices. Smoking will be banned at all indoor and outdoor Olympic and Paralympic venues, plus within all perimeter areas of the Tokyo Games.

Organizers say the prohibition is tougher than regulations for the last two Summer Olympics in London and Rio de Janeiro. …

Don’t expect to puff away at next year’s Tokyo Olympics

Melbourne World Cup wrap-up

With eight of the 10 titles, Asian gymnasts dominated down under at the FIG Individual Apparatus World Cup in Melbourne (AUS) this weekend, as the individual Olympic qualification continued for Tokyo.

Gymnasts from China, Chinese Taipei, Japan, Korea and the Philippines divided the majority of the honours, with Vanessa Ferrari (ITA) and Igor Radivilov (UKR) winning one title each.

More than 90 athletes from 30 nations traveled to the Melbourne Arena

FIG

World Cup Finals Melbourne day 1

Vault

      1. Yeo Seo-jeong KOR 14.266
      2. Oksana Chusovitina UZB 14.200
      3. Yu Linmin CHN 14.083

Bars

      1. Fan Yilin CHN 14.833
      2. Lyu Jiaqi CHN 14.355
      3. Georgia-Rose Brown AUS 13.366

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Floor

      1. Carlos Edriel Yulo PHI 14.566
      2. Hibiki Arayashiki JPN 14.500
      3. Rayderley Zapata ESP & Dominick Cunningham GBR 14.500

Pommels

      1. Lee Chin-Kai TPE 15.266
      2. Weng Hao CHN 15.233
      3. Tomomasa Hasegawa JPN 14.666

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Rings

      1. Liu Yang CHN 15.166
      2. You Hao CHN 15.133
      3. Arthur Zanetti BRA 14.966

Click PLAY or watch Liu Yang on Twitter.

Breakdance to the Olympics?

Controversial.

Should Breakdance be introduced at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games?

Click PLAY or watch some reaction to the 2018 Youth Olympics announcement on YouTube.

Dvora Meyers – Can Breaking Become An Olympic Sport And Still Keep Its Soul? (2018)

Of course the Olympics have bigger problems. For one, they have to find a way to cut hosting costs.

Brisbane’s 2032 Olympic Games bid will require billions of dollars, feasibility study reveals

Jessica Lopez interview

Sam Peszek has a great catch-up with fan favourite J Lo who finished 6th at the Rio Olympics for Venezuela.

She’s coaching now. But hasn’t ruled out trying for Tokyo 2020.

most common injury for Olympic gymnasts?

Ankle.

The National Olympic Committee’s head physicians and the medical teams of the Local Organising Committee of the Olympic Games reported daily the occurrence (or non-occurrence) of newly sustained injuries in artistic, rhythmic and trampoline gymnastics on a standardised report form during the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympic Games.

RESULTS

During the three Olympic Games, 81 injuries were reported in a total of 963 registered gymnasts …

Thirty-eight per cent of injuries led to time-loss from sport. The most frequent injury location and injury type were the ankle (22%) and sprain (35%), respectively. …

Gymnastics injury incidence during the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games: Analysis of prospectively collected surveillance data from 963 registered gymnasts during Olympic Games

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