The Olympics have a series of profiles on individual Olympians. Geared for the general public.
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Ellie Black – Rio Floor
Routines are finally starting to make their way online.
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via Fans of Canadian Gymnastics
TV interview with Team Japan
The best I’ve seen. Oleg is featured.
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Kohei did not say a word to Kato during the AA finals. The Champion was trying to stay focused while competing 18 routines in Rio. Plus Apparatus Finals.
related – Yusuke Tanaka after Glasgow felt he was no longer needed by the team. Kohei disagreed. 🙂
(via a1tumbling)
Rio in numbers
Olympic AA Champions 1972 – 2016
Aliya in Rio
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#FireAlTrautwig
The Busy Fan was surprised to hear of all the hate directed towards Al Trautwig during the Olympics.
After all, he’s the everyman of the NBC Primetime commentary team. The one who’s supposed to make the casual fan feel less stupid in not understanding all the nuance.
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NBC Primetime seems to work for the casual fan. Coaches should watch pretty much any other source of coverage. All are better for us than NBC Primetime.
Personally I always enjoy listening to Tim Daggett. He’s a coach. He knows what he’s talking about. Of the three he does by far the most research in advance of the competition.
Greatest American Olympians 2016
Like this Sports Illustrated cover on Facebook.
via AdWeek – Every One of the ‘Final Five’ Gymnasts Absolutely Crushed the Internet Last Week
NBC Primetime Olympic coverage sucks
NBC’s 2016 Olympics broadcast is the lowest-rated in years.
I’ll say it again. Serious Gymnastics fans should boycott NBC Primetime.
(The NBC live streaming coverage is pretty good, I hear. But I couldn’t watch it myself as I didn’t have a login. NBC was too fearful to offer something like a one time $35 online Olympics package.)
NBC’s TV coverage is the worst in the world
Starting on the wrong foot, NBC delayed the opening ceremony by one hour on the east coast of the U.S. and by four hours on the west coast of the U.S. The bizarre nature of the American delay caused mass confusion on social media, where the ceremony was being tweeted about in real time. …
Fake, Jingoistic, And Stupid: Gymnastics Coverage Is The Worst Part Of NBC’s Olympics
… The coverage is fragmented, with fans seeing a routine or two, then being bombarded with ads. This procedure is repeated two or three more times until NBC cuts away to another sport. …
I don’t blame the commentary. It’s the Network mucky mucks who need to be replaced.
related:
• WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS DESERVES BETTER TV COVERAGE
• NBC criticised for ‘worst ever’ Olympic coverage in America
Gymnastics history – Vault
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