Nadia got great applause when she took the stage for the first time during Men’s AA Finals. They love her in Montreal. Nadia’s image appears all over the city.
She lived here for 18 months after defecting and learned French.
Category: Olympics
Ellie Black looking to the future
Ellie Black is a double Olympian.
5th in Rio.
She certainly could have retired with the best Olympic result AA for a Canadian.
But since she’s still improving her goal — so far — is to stay as long as possible.
Watch the CBC interview:
Ellie is one of three gymnasts who qualified to 3 finals along with Elena Eremina & Mai Murakami.
Nadia competed at the Montreal Forum
Dave Holmes reminded me that the 1976 Olympics were hosted at the Montreal Forum (Forum de Montréal). Dave was there.
Home of the Montreal Canadiens from 1926 to 1996.
1985 Worlds Montreal were hosted in the venue now called the Montreal Biodome.
Kolesnikova, Shushunova, Omelianchik, Baraksanova, Mostepanova, Yurchenko
Montreal 1976 – 1985 – 2017
A great legacy. Nadia 1976 – Worlds 1985 – #MTL2017GYM
Click PLAY or watch a retrospective on Twitter.
3 Olympic Beam Champions
what IF the Olympics were cancelled?
Dvora Meyers speculates:
First, there would be no more “letdown” years. This year’s Championships would be just as important as the one in 2016 and as the one in 2018. This would be similar to basically every other sport that runs on an annual cycle with a Super Bowl or a World Series or some other year-end championship. …
How Can Gymnastics Escape The Curse Of The Olympic Cycle?
remembering Věra Čáslavská
Věra Čáslavská died in 2016 at the age of 74.
A sports school in Prague will bear Caslavska’s name as of the next school year.
Winner of a total of 11 Olympic medals, seven of them gold, Caslavska captured the All-around at the 1964 and 1968 Olympic Games, joining Soviet Larissa Latynina as the only female gymnast to to have won back-to-back titles. No other woman has won as many individual Olympic gold medals. …
1968 Olympics
During the medal ceremonies for Balance Beam, won by Soviet Natalia Kuchinskaya, and Floor Exercise, where she shared the podium with Larissa Petrik, Caslavska turned her head to the right and down as the Soviet anthem was played, a gesture widely interpreted as a political protest. She returned home to Czechoslovakia to find herself spurned by the government, which did not initially allow her to work as a coach and blocked her from receiving donors. …
After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, Caslavska was finally recognized as a national heroine. …
Click PLAY or watch her political statement on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch the IOC video on Facebook.
related – I think people should just stick to their profession, that is, unless they agree with me politically 🙂
top 64 U.S. Olympic gymnasts
GymnasticsVille is counting down the top 64 Olympians all time. If you disagree click over to their site and leave a comment.
The second instalment:
51. Wendy Bruce
50. Betty Okino
49. Kim Zmeskal-Burdette
48. Trent Dimas
47. Michelle Dusserre
46. Courtney McCool
45. Blaine Wilson
44. Mohini Bhardwaj
43. Pamela Bileck
42. Bridget Sloan
Click PLAY or watch Trent’s Olympic gold medal on YouTube.
More videos of those Olympians.
top 64 U.S. Olympic gymnasts
GymnasticsVille has a new feature where they are counting down the top 64 Olympians all time.
The first instalment:
64. Alexander Naddour
63. Phoebe Mills
62. Peter Kormann
61. Jair Lynch
60. Kai Wen Tan
59. Joesph Hagerty
58. Elise Ray
57. Alexander Artemov
56. Kristen Maloney
55. Tasha Schwirret Warren
54. Justin Spring
53. Raj Bhavsar
52. Jamie Dantzscher
Click PLAY or watch Tasha’s Beam on YouTube.
Schwikert Warren helped the U.S. women win a bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic Games. At the 2001 World Gymnastics Championships she won a team gold medal. Schwikert Warren is a two-time U.S. senior national all-around champion and a two-time NCAA all-around national champion.
See more videos – #GymnastRank USA Olympians Nos. 52-64
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watch the Rio Women’s AA
On OlympicChannel.com. (2hrs)
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