tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
Alar in the comments has already tried to clarify these:
These charts are somewhat clearer than the most recent FIG videos.
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FIG once again tries to explain the extremely complicated system for selecting 98 male and 98 female Olympians.
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Kohei was still in 3rd place AA arriving at the 12th and last apparatus. Fortunately it was Horizontal Bar. Kohei is one of the very best in the world.
He nailed it.
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GYMNALYSIS linked to a great recap of the top 3 at the 2018 NHK Cup. English subtitles by Gymnastics Soul.
Kohei was MORE motivated after his AA loss at All Japans.
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After withdrawing from Worlds 2017 injured, this year Uchimura’s goal is the team competition in Doha. He wants to see how Japan compares with China in the lead-ups to Tokyo 2020.
If you’ve never listened to any of the previous 303 audiocast episodes, this just might the one to try.
#hilarious
… select our all-time, all-star Olympic teams without any stupid limitations like geographical borders or the concept of time—don’t worry, the power goes immediately to our heads and turns us crazy …
A lot of their ideas sounded GREAT to me. For example, spectators get augmented reality goggles on arrival at an Olympic venue that is used year round for research. Headsets identify athlete, history, previous scores, social media links, etc.
Camera angle choices include those from the individual judges tables.
Check it out.
Honoured last night at the 22nd annual International Gymnastics Magazine Hall of Fame (IGHOF) ceremony in Oklahoma.
All are super famous aside from Slava who’s been one of our best FIG Executive Committee volunteers since 1992. She would have been an excellent President of FIG but consistently declined to run.
1. EGYPT
2. RSA
3. ALGERIA
1. Farah Hussein Egypt 49.700
2. Farah Salem Egypt 49.050
– Nancy Taman Egypt 48.950
3. Angela Maguire RSA 46.550
Junior
1. Jana Mahmoud Egypt 47.450
2. Lisa Conradie RSA 47.300
3. Zeina Ibrahim Egypt 45.050
12/12 clean, impressive routines.
1. Kakeru Tanigawa 172.496
2. Kenzo Shirai 172.164
3. Kohei Uchimura 171.664
It had to happen, sooner or later. Kohei has finally lost an AA competition, the first since 2008.
At 19 years and two months, Tanigawa became Japan’s youngest national champion. …
“I still can’t believe it. Uchimura-san had been Japan’s top gymnast and I’ve respected him so I didn’t think I can beat him,” Tanigawa said.
The 1904 Summer Olympics … was celebrated in St. Louis, Missouri … from August 29 until September 3, 1904, as part of an extended sports program lasting from July 1 to November 23, 1904 …
It was the first time that the Olympic Games were held outside Europe.
European tensions caused by the Russo-Japanese War and the difficulty of getting to St. Louis kept most of the world’s top athletes away. Only 62 of the 651 athletes who competed came from outside North America, and only 12–15 nations were represented …
The St. Louis organizers treated the Games in a manner similar to the previous Olympiad, with competitions reduced to a side-show of the St. Louis World’s Fair …
The participants totalled 651 athletes – 645 men and six women representing 12 countries. …
One of the most remarkable athletes was the American gymnast George Eyser, who won six medals even though his left leg was made of wood ….
Eyser competed with a wooden prosthesis for a left leg, having lost his real leg after being run over by a train. Despite his disability, he won gold in the vault, an event which then included a jump over a long horse without aid of a springboard. …
Apparatus: Clubs, Horizontal Bar, Parallel Bars, Pommel Horse, Rings, Rope Climb, and Vault.
The AA Champ was Julius Lenhart.
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