If not, she should be. 🙂
Is Okasana President of Uzbekistan yet?
If not, she should be. 🙂
Category: Olympics
new Olga Korbut documentary
Trans World Sport
Olga was born in Belarus in 1955.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (15min)
She clarifies why she sold her Olympic medals. With that money she plans to make donations to charity, help her family and fund her retirement.
It includes an interview with her fiancé, Jay.
I enjoyed footage of her coaching in Scottsdale AZ.
(via Olga’s Facebook page)
will the USA participate in the Winter Olympics?
Both White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley have recently said they might not attend.
White House sends mixed signals on U.S. Winter Olympic participation
Nancy Armour:
The U.S. Olympic Committee is not a government organization – it doesn’t receive direct federal funding – and it will make the call on whether to send a team to Pyeongchang. Any other Olympics, for that matter, too.
And yes, I know all about the U.S. boycott of the Moscow Games in 1980. President Jimmy Carter called for it after the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan, but it still was the USOC that had the final say. …
Russian gymnasts on the IOC ban
Aliya Mustafina‘s family is directly affected by the ban – her husband, Aleksey Zaytsev, is an Olympic hopeful in bobsleigh and two of his teammates received doping bans just last week. …
RUSSIAN GYMNASTS SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE IOC’S DECISION
possible 2020 Olympic mascots
Welp …
Click PLAY or compare them on Twitter.
Russian Olympic ban
Though I feel badly for all the innocent athletes, coaches and support officials in Russia, a penalty this severe was necessary if anti-doping is to be enforced.
IT HAS taken seven investigative reports and seven years. But at long last the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided on December 5th to punish Russia for running a state-sponsored doping programme …
Russian athletes hoping to compete will have to do so carrying the Olympic flag and singing the Olympic anthem—if they can prove that they are clean. …
The decision is more embarrassing for Vitaly Mutko, Mr Putin’s deputy and the former minister for sport, who has been barred from the Olympics for life. Mr Mutko is also in charge of next year’s football World Cup, which Russia is hosting. …
Economist – Russia’s overdue Olympic ban is no cure for anti-doping impotence
Russian denials, including those of Svetlana Khorkina, are mostly wrong.
Russia should quit state sponsored doping. Putin must give that order.
related – Guardian – Of course Russian sport is corrupt, but then so are the Olympics
Svetlana Boguinskaia OLY
Here’s what the new post-nominal designation OLY looks like. 🙂
Only Olympians can apply.
demolishing the Sydney Olympic stadium
This stadium was built for the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
Australia will be demolishing and rebuilding the main stadium which hosted the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
The move is part of a A$2.3bn (£1.3bn; $1.8bn) project in New South Wales. …
The government has long planned to redesign the stadium to better suit the local sports played there, but critics say the project will waste money.
How can we justify the Olympics ethically if mega projects like this have such a short lifespan? 😦
triple Olympian Ana Rente is a doctor
Behind the glitz and glamour of the Games, many world-class athletes must work around the clock to fund their Olympic dream.
Three-time Olympian Ana Rente stumbled into a medical career, but although finding time for training is draining the rewards are huge.
The Olympic Channel – EP 12. MEET THE OLYMPIAN BOUNCING BETWEEN TRAMPOLINE AND HER CAREER AS A DOCTOR (8min)
That mini-documentary includes the moment her boyfriend Gustavo proposed at the Rio Olympics.
After placing 16th at Beijing 2008 and 11th at London 2012, Portugal’s Ana Rente has another date with the Olympics, in Rio 2016 this time, and joined by her boyfriend Gustavo Simoes who qualified for men’s artistic gymnastics!
UEG (2016)
Ponor retires at the Mexican Open
One of the all time greats.
Age 30, Cătălina Ponor, is a triple Olympian. (2004, 2012, 2016)
During her career, she won 23 Olympic, World and European medals. More than a half of them (12) were gold.
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