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Gabby Douglas
First American gymnast to win solo and team all-around gold medals at one Olympics
Category: Olympics
Athen’s Olympics Men’s competition was a MESS
ILLYRIA BURKLE summarizes:
– In the all around, almost all the top contenders have a major mistake/fall (Paul Hamm, Ioan Silviu Suciu, Hiroyuki Tomita, Yang Wei, Marian Dragulescu, etc.)
– Yang Tae-Young was mistakenly credited with a 9.9 start value instead of a 10 like he was in the qualifying and team competitions, costing him the gold medal in the all around. Oscar Buitrago Reyes of Colombia, Benjamin Bango of Spain, and the head judge George Beckstead of the United States were all suspended for the mistake. …
read more – 2004 MAG
And who was the Men’s Head Judge?
the Ferrari is still improving
Note the long pauses before tumbling in 2008.
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sport science for Rhythmic Gymnasts
Nastia v Shawn in Beijing
Right ’til the end I thought Shawn would win the AA.
But — much like Oleg and Kohei in Rio — I was OK with Nastia winning. It was that close.
#RESPECT for Nastia’s Vault in the AA Final. Near perfect.
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Sanne on Rio Beam Gold one year later
Excellent interview. Her sister gave as much support as possible on the big day.
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AFTER you win an Olympic medal
Bryony Page reflects back on her surprise medal in Rio. Very entertaining.
Awkward Bouncer – 6 Unexpected things that happened on the evening I won the Olympic Silver Medal.
related – Olympic Champion Hancharou and Vice-Champion Page inspire gymnasts
At the UEG’s Trampoline training camp in Cascais (POR)
chatting with USA elites
… a quick nine-question roundtable and got some entertaining answers from everyone involved. Read what Morgan Hurd, Jordan Chiles, Trinity Thomas, Sunisa Lee, Ragan Smith, Emma Malabuyo, and Riley McCusker had to say …
At the Chalk Bowl with Team USA
Asuka inspired by Kohei
… Rio 2016 was definitely her best major competition to date, as she placed eighth in the all-around and fourth in the team final (the best finish for the Japanese women’s team since 1964).
“After the Rio Olympics, I was kind of burned out, physically and mentally,” Asuka recently told us. “But [my passion] came back and now I’m training for the World Championships in Montreal.” …
“I was actually thinking of retiring after Rio,” Asuka admits, “but as I saw Kohei [Uchimura] become the first pro gymnast in Japan, and he is still making progress…I started thinking [that I should do the same]. I started thinking [about bringing] the women’s team up on the stage just like men’s team. So I decided to keep competing until Tokyo 2020.” …
Anna Rose Johnson – ASUKA TERAMOTO AIMING FOR TOKYO 2020
Compulsories Vaults from 1972-1996
The Tsuk tuck quadrennial was tough. You had to completely finish the 1/2 turn on to the horse or take deduction.
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