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Lauren Hopkins posted an interesting list – Olympic Medalists by Country and Year
Simona Amânar is a seven-time Olympics medalist and a ten-time World Championships medalist.
Click PLAY or watch Simona’s DTY from the ’96 AA on YouTube.
Here’s the DTY in the Vault final where she won gold. (VIDEO).
When he left Armenia in 1996, Karakhanyon stayed in contact with the national team coaches and judges and was a judge for Armenia at the 2006 World Championships.
By 2011 he was the head of the Armenian delegation at the Olympic qualifying championships for the 2012 London Olympics, and it was there he first saw Gebeshian, who was competing for Armenia because of her dual citizenship. …
Levon coaches at MEGA in Massachusetts.
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The acting head of the Russian anti-doping agency RUSADA — Anna Antseliovich — was reported to have admitted to ‘institutional conspiracy’ of doping Olympic athletes.
RUSADA later said the NY Times reporter misrepresented her words.
Yuliya Igorevna Stepanova, née Rusanova (Russian: Юлия Игоревна Степанова (Русанова); born 3 July 1986) is a Russian runner who specializes in the 800 metres track event. She and her husband accused the Russia sports system of widespread doping fraud. …
On 26 February 2013, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) announced that Rusanova had been banned for two years following abnormalities in her biological passport. All of her results from 3 March 2011 were forfeited. …
Stepanova and her husband Vitaliy Stepanov, a former employee of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency, wrote letters to the World Anti-Doping Agency describing doping in Russia but received little response. Deciding she needed more evidence, she began secretly recording conversations with coaches, athletes, and a doctor. …
As of 2016, they live in the United States. She is training to compete at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics. …
The family is in hiding, in fear of retaliation.
“The so-called doping scandal will encourage us to create in Russia the most advanced system of the fight against this evil,” Putin said during his annual state-of-the-nation address to the Federal Assembly.
related – BBC 100 Women 2016: Russian doping whistleblower gives rare interview
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (2hrs Portuguese)
Nina could have one of the highest start values in the world in 2017.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/BOpnrKOF9Oe/
Nina was 19th AA in Rio, the best rank ever by a Belgian at the Olympics.
related – Belgian Gymnastics – My 2016 Highlights!
(via Irish Daniel)
Toni-Ann Williams (Jamaica)
Irina Sazonova (Iceland)
Ariana Orrego (Peru)
Ellis O’Reilly (Ireland)
Dipa Karmakar (India)
Houry Gebeshian (Armenia)
Marisa Dick (Trinidad and Tobago)
Farah Boufadene (Algeria)
Isabella Amado Medrano (Panama)Olympics of Records: The First Female Gymnasts Who Represented Their Country In Rio 2016
Of those only Dipa has trained exclusively in her home nation. #respect
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