Category: Olympics

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?

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

full results

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

full results

Olympic history – NADIA

1976 Montreal.

North and South Korea in PyeongChang

Peace through sport.

We Are One is a documentary about the Unified Korean Team came to be and its legacy.

Click PLAY or watch a trailer on YouTube.

top 15 gymnasts all time

As ranked by Mary Emma. 😀

Simone in 2015