Category: Olympics

2020 Olympic Qualification

Spencer takes a stab at explaining the process.

AND it makes sense to me. 🙂

Gymnastics Greatest Stars on YouTube

I watched this classic hundreds of times back in the day.

1991 video with highlights of the best gymnastics from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (90min)

(via GymCastic)

Tokyo Olympics qualifying systems

Alar in the comments has already tried to clarify these:

  • AA World Cup applies only to 2020, not 2018-2020
  • Stuttgart 2019 Worlds All-Around is CI, not CII
  • More than 12 or 20 will qualify through Stuttgart CI All-Around to make up for spaces left from Apparatus Finals that don’t have 3 finalists NOT from the top 12 teams

These charts are somewhat clearer than the most recent FIG videos.

TOKYO 2020 Artistic qualification

FIG once again tries to explain the extremely complicated system for selecting 98 male and 98 female Olympians.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Uchimura v Shirai v Tanigawa

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.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

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.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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.

GymCastic Olympics

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.

304: The GymCastic Olympics 

Nastia, Andreea, Paul, Alexei and Slava Corn

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.

Congratulations.