Watch a touching and inspirational BBC interview with Gwynedd Lingard, who competed as a gymnast in the 1952 and 1960 Olympic Games, still coaches six classes a week at Penarth Gymnastics Club.
Category: Olympics
1988 Olympian Svetlana Baitova interviewed
An Olympic gold medalist speaks. It’s a fascinating read.
Q: Do you often dream about gymnastics?
A: I used to, but I rarely do now. I’ve never dreamed about my favorite bars, only about my hated vault. …
Q: how much money were you paid for your Olympic gold in 1988?
A: I received 8,000 rubles and an apartment. It was a decent amount for that time, you could buy the most coveted car of the time – Lada Sputnik. …
… On that national team, any single one of us could win the all-around. And the same was the case with the men’s team. I think that those were the strongest USSR teams in the history. This was true not just in Seoul but also in Barcelona in 1992. …
SVETLANA BAITOVA: VICTORY IS MORE DIFFICULT TO SURVIVE THAN DEFEAT
Click PLAY or watch her Vault on YouTube. The second is Yurchenko Double Twist.
new USA Olympic CEO Sarah Hirshland
“supporting, protecting and empowering”
The United States Olympic Committee on Thursday named a new chief executive to succeed Scott Blackmun, who stepped down under pressure in February as the organization faced escalating pressure in the aftermath of the Nassar gymnastics sex abuse case.
The group’s new leader is Sarah Hirshland, an executive with the United States Golf Association. …
Komova on her comeback, her career
Click over to Luba’s site to read a very interesting perspective. Vika is well spoken.
VIKTORIA KOMOVA ON HER INJURY AND COMING BACK TO GYMNASTICS
VAULT Olympic gold medalists from 2000
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Mary Lou Retton competed Tsuk 1/1, not Kas
#respect
Tsuk 1/1 is much more difficult than the Kasamatsu used by Ellie Black, Oksana and … almost everyone.
Mary Lou did half-on, full-off. (1.5 twists total)
Kasamatsu is quarter-on, three quarter-off (1.0 twists total)
Watch it on YouTube. (Right hand on the horse first, left twist on the salto.)
In addition, she trained Tsuk double full. Seriously.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Almost nobody does the more difficult version of Tsuk twisting. René Cournoyer from Canada is one.
If still confused on Kasamatsu, click over to Uncle Tim’s post – What the H is a Kasamatsu?
YOG medals
Russian Cup Men’s Apparatus Finals
AA
1. Arthur Dalaloyan 83.331
2. Vladislav Polyashov 83.064
3. Ivan Stretovich 82.365
Floor
1 Nikita Nagornyy 14.500
2 Artur Dalaloyan 14.400
3 Kirill Prokopyev 14.366
Pommel
1 David Belyavskiy 14.533
2 Nikolai Kuksenkov 14.466
3 Vladislav Polyashov 13.900
Rings
1 Denis Ablyazin 14.466
2 Artur Dalaloyan 13.900
3 Dmitry Lankin 13.866
Vault
1 Denis Ablyazin 15.000 14.566 14.783
2 Dmitry Lankin 14.900 14.400 14.650
3 Victor Britan 14.733 13.600 14.166
P Bars
1 David Belyavskiy 15.200
2 Dmitry Lankin 14.966
3 Sergei Eltsov 14.933
Click PLAY or watch David’s 6.6 on Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bk5HYzkHOBZ/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=14cwclb5m3ekr
H Bar
1 Alexey Rostov 14.200
2 Artur Dalaloyan 14.166
3 Maxim Sinichkin 13.633
full results
It sounds like Ablyazin will not compete Europeans, instead focusing on qualification to Tokyo as an apparatus specialist.
Kentucky Special Olympics Fab 5
Watch these awesome gymnasts on ESPNW. … And their Olympic gymnast heroes.
European YOG qualifier results
Lauren Hopkins posted a summary of results and full list of the nations who qualified a gymnast to Youth Olympic Games 2018:
European Qualifier Seals Youth Olympic Games Field
1. Anastasiia Bachynska UKR 54.299
2. Carolann Heduit FRA 53.266
3. Daria Belousova FRA 53.066
Click PLAY or watch some unedited Bachynska highlights on YouTube.
In the European Men’s Jr competition:
1. Iurii Busse RUS 80.731
2. Sergei Naidin RUS 80.297.
3. Krisztian Balazs HUN 79.332
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