Category: Olympics

the ‘Shalane Flanagan Effect’

Did you catch the story of Shalane Flanagan winning the New York City Marathon?

… She’s the first American woman to win in 40 years, and she did so in a blistering 2 hours 26 minutes.

But perhaps Flanagan’s bigger accomplishment lies in nurturing and promoting the rising talent around her, a rare quality in the cutthroat world of elite sports. Every single one of her training partners — 11 women in total — has made it to the Olympics while training with her, an extraordinary feat. Call it the Shalane Effect …

NY Times 

Kyle Shewfelt OLY

Olympians can register to add OLY to their name as a post-nominal designations.

Olympic FX – Helsinki 1952 & Rio 2016

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

Winter Olympics 2018 #LoveOverBias

The P&G Thank You, Mom campaign is back.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSWyrR4gXkw

Sanne now has the Beam from Rio

Nice.

qualifying to the Tokyo Olympics

In detail.

It was Ono No Komachi who added text to that photo. 🙂

Olympic Winter Games 2018 Korea

With regard to the situation on the Korean Peninsula, the (IOC) Summit expressed its appreciation that the IOC has been in close contact for many months already with the governments and National Olympic Committees (NOCs) concerned. The Summit took note that none of them has called the Olympic Games PyeongChang 2018 into question.

The safety and security of the athletes are of course the top priority for everyone in the Olympic Movement …

COMMUNIQUE OF THE OLYMPIC SUMMIT

There are at least 150,000 Americans living in South Korea. The USA is not likely to do anything to endanger those citizens.

IOC grants for Thais Fidelis, Bernardo Actos, Flávia Saraiva

IOC program grants support to 12 promising Brazilian athletes to assist them in preparing for Tokyo 2020

Flavia

qualifying to compete the Tokyo Olympics

See if this additional infographic helps.

https://www.tumblr.com/khorkina-na-na/166673615133/so-a-lot-of-people-are-still-confused-so-heres

2020 Olympic Qualification for Dummies

Because the FIG hates us!

The only person I know who actually understands the incredibly complicated, ever changing improvement in how gymnasts qualify to the Olympics is Cordelia.

elisaminimeneghini on Tumblr put together an infographic to try to simplify.

I still couldn’t explain it to anyone.

https://www.tumblr.com/elisaminimeneghini/166642192279/so-i-made-a-thing-to-help-with-the-confusion-and-i