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.
Category: Olympics
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. …
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remember Ski Ballet?
1988 and 1992 Winter Olympics.
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Japanese Men training in China
update on Valeri and Brazil
Cedrick Willian on Gym Blog Brazil posted an important update on Valeri.
The original is in Portuguese. Here are some points I gleaned from Google Translate:
– short term goal is Tokyo 2020. Long term is important, as well.
– National Team training camp was Jan 7-17th
– no more weighing gymnasts
– nutritional orientation
– buffet at camp offered juice and dessert (yes, dessert!)
– doctors, physiotherapists, nutritionists, physical trainers and biomechanist involved
– first day medical assessment and specific skills test
– other days training: morning 08:30 to 12:30, afternoon 15:30 to 18:30.
– Saturday morning only and Sunday off
– all apparatus each day. Ballet and choreography rotations
– Brazil travels to WOGA Jan 28th – Feb 10th
– Jr and Sr team members will compete WOGA Classic in February
– the feeling is that the doors are open for everyone who aspires to National Team
The beginning of the democratization of Brazilian women’s artistic gymnastics
Ferrari is back
The 2006 World Champion has not retired. 🙂
She’s planning on competing the Melbourne Apparatus World Cup in February in an attempt to qualify to Tokyo as a specialist.
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Olympian Ágnes Keleti is 98
Ágnes Keleti (born Ágnes Klein, 9 January 1921) is a Hungarian–Israeli retired Olympic and world champion artistic gymnast and coach. While representing Hungary in the Summer Olympics, she won 10 Olympic medals …
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Can she still do the splits? 🙂
Olympians call for Congressional USOC overhaul
Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis and nearly 50 other former Olympians are calling on Congress to overhaul the U.S. Olympic Committee, insisting a major reorganization of the USOC is needed to ensure athlete safety. …
Kathy Johnson Clarke and Julianne McNamara, members of the groundbreaking 1984 Olympic gymnastics team, and Marcia Frederick, the first American woman to win a World championship in gymnastics, are members of the group. …
Hidetaka Miyachi interview
He wants to qualify as a H Bar specialist to Tokyo. Dreams of winning a medal.
Epke Zonderland is the specialist to beat at the moment, I’d say.
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GymCastic, theGymter.net to Olympics 2020
Both the GymCastic podcast and theGymter.net blog were granted a U.S. media accreditation to cover the Tokyo Olympics.
Congratulations. 🙂 🎅
It’s surprising to see the USOC recognize the importance of new media.
I’m looking forward to their perspective from inside the arena.
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