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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Category: Olympics
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.
‘big star’ crush on Simone
Anna Gasser is an Austrian snowboarder and big air 2018 Olympic Champion.
A former gymnast, she knows just what it takes to do what Simone has done.
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Bridget Sloan interview
She talks about choosing Florida … over Utah and Georgia. Bridget Sloan won 3 Championships with the Gators. Everyone expected her to go to Georgia.
She speaks about her coach Marvin Sharp for the first time.
When she first heard about his suicide in 2015 — while a College Gymnastics superstar — she was confused and angry. Bridget broke her phone in frustration.
Her Mom thought she should come home to Indiana. Bridget refused.
Her parents felt betrayed too.
In fact, she felt guilty that she’d had such a good career with Marvin Sharp. Good memories over the 20 years. Bridget was not a victim of her coach. She looked up to Marvin as a second father.
At the time Bridget decided to stay quiet. She did speak to Sam Peszek about it at the time. Sam had also trained with Marvin Sharp after the Olympics.
Listen on the I Have Cool Friends podcast.
Simone’s Undefeated ESPN cover story
At this point in time Simone thinks she’ll retire after the Tokyo Olympics.
Read the interview in Undefeated:
Most dominant athlete of 2018: Simone Biles
This was the year that the greatest gymnast of all time showed that not a damn thing will ever stand in her way
CREDIT: Danielle Levitt for ESPN
Hair by Janay Lewis
Makeup by Devin Harvey
Wardrobe Styling by Jennifer Bigham
Prop Styling by Leigh Gill
Madame T scarf by Pleats Please by Issey Miyake Asymmetrical star stud earrings by Sheryl Lowe
Faux Fur Jacket by Topshop
the young Jon Horton
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STILL trying to understand Olympic qualification
MAGnastics tried a hypothetical scenario using results of Men’s Worlds 2018 to decide most of the Olympians:
- Team Qualification (12)
- Individual AA Qualification
- Individual Apparatus Qualification
Using 2018 rankings Olympians include: Adam Steele, Ireland, Tin Srbic, Croatia, Ri Se Gwang, North Korea, Eleftherios Petrounias, Greece, Lee Chih Kai, Taipei, Artem Dolgopyat, Israel, etc.
Click through to see how it turned out:
Demonstrating Olympic Qualification Using 2018 Worlds as an Example
World Cup qualifiers are not included.
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