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Diving – ripped entries
A very interesting article recommended by Tom Trapp. Like Artistic Gymnastics, some feel Diving has got too acrobatic. Difficulty weighted too much relative to execution.
There are two types of rippers, they discovered. There are those with the right body type — long, tapering legs and feet and highly flexible shoulders — who hold a streamlined, needlelike position with toes pointed to allow a gradual closure of the water. Then there are those who know how to jackknife themselves underwater to pull the waves down.
“We called that a seething rip,” Abraham says. “There’s no splash, but it looks like the water is boiling. Like there’s a wrestling match going on under there. . . . What’s happening is the divers are going in and curling up. Once their shoulders are in the water, they’re piking, so their trunk rolls, their back is down, and their back creates a lot of suction.” …
Hitting the water without a splash gets big cheers, but has Olympic diving gotten too dry?
evolution of Men’s Artistic Gymnastics
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Uladzislau Hancharou – Trampoline gold
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Max Whitlock and Louis Smith
As one who often questioned the GBR strategy bringing a specialist to major meets, you can’t argue with the results. Another brilliant Pommel final for Louis. Congratulations.
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3 medalists from one nation
Athletics has no rule against it in the Olympics.
It marked the first sweep by any country in the history of the 100m hurdles, the first by American women in any event – and only the seventh ever in athletics overall. …
Personally I like the maximum 2 / nation rule in finals. It’s not good for the sport worldwide to have one nation dominate a sport completely.
Courtney McGregor now 13th on Vault in Rio
The 2016 Rio Olympic Games Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Jury of Appeal, has upheld a protest lodged by GymSports NZ on behalf of it’s athlete, Courtney McGregor. The protest concerned McGregor’s score on the vault apparatus, specifically her second vault.
After Courtney completed her second vault, the score for this vault, and then her average of the two vault scores was shown. Approximately 20 minutes later, the second vault score was amended which consequently brought the average score down.
“We protested on two key points of the competition rules.” said Tony Compier – GymSports NZ CEO. “Firstly, that neither the coach nor the athlete were afforded the opportunity to challenge the down-grading of the score before it was changed. Secondly, the competition rules state that once a score is ‘published’, i.e. shown in the arena, it cannot be changed at a later date.”
The result of the successful appeal is that McGregor is elevated from 16th to 13th position. …
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