Her dream delivered, Houry Gebeshian shifts focus to helping the Armenian women’s programme
Category: Olympics
Russia finally admits to doping
Russia is for the first time conceding that its officials carried out one of the biggest conspiracies in sports history: a far-reaching doping operation …
Over several days of interviews here with The New York Times, Russian officials said they no longer disputed a damning set of facts that detailed a doping program with few, if any, historical precedents.
“It was an institutional conspiracy,” Anna Antseliovich, the acting director general of Russia’s national antidoping agency, said …
Russians No Longer Dispute Olympic Doping Operation
They still claim Putin did not know.
Russia was stripped of speedskating and biathlon events it was due to host this winter. Russia had previously been denied hosting world bobsled and skeleton championships.
Simone Biles AP Female Athlete of the Year
This is big.
In a vote by U.S. editors and news directors announced Monday, Biles received 31 votes out of a possible 59 votes.
U.S. Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky, who won four golds and a silver in Rio, finished second with 20 votes. Serena Williams, who won Wimbledon for the seventh time to tie Steffi Graf’s record of 22 Grand Slam titles, and three-time NCAA women’s basketball Player of the Year Breanna Stewart tied for third with four votes each. …
Rosie has no plans to retire
She won a second Olympic gold medal in Rio, which no one else in the world has done since trampoline was included in the 2000 Summer Games The 28-year-old from King City, Ont., also became Canada’s first summer athlete to win two individual gold medals.
So, now what?
Not retirement it seems.
“There are routines and skills that I haven’t done yet and I’d really like to compete. I’m still loving my sport and loving my training,” MacLennan said. …
Carly will be Nastia’s bridesmaid
(via WOGymnastika)
Sanne Wevers Dutch Sportswoman of the Year
Eleftherios Petrounias Greek sportsman of the year
Olympic God
Behind the scenes VIDEO of that photo shoot.
Year End Awards
Fabian Hambüchen was named sportsman of the year following a highly successful Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
The 29-year-old, who retried at the end of the Rio Games, won his first Olympic gold medal on the horizontal bar having collected silver and bronze at the last two Olympics in London and Beijing. …
Zoltan Jordanov, coach of Giulia Steingruber, was awarded the ‘Swiss Olympic Lifetime Coach Award‘. As well as Coach of the Year. He’s retiring.
Max Whitlock did not win BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2016. That went to Andy Murray.
Simone Biles was named Overseas Sports Personality of the Year.
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Extreme Trampoline New Zealand closes
New Zealand trampolinist Dylan Schmidt finished 7th in Rio.
Bad news. 😦
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