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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.
Click PLAY or watch their reflections the next day on YouTube.
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. …
end of the Olympic quadrennial
interview with Stella Umeh
24 years after her own Olympics, the Canadian and UCLA superstar reflects on Rio. Code changes. The decrease in “artistry”.
A very interesting discussion.
The Skating Lesson – “I’m having a hard time watching only NBC coverage”: A Conversation with Stella Umeh
Rio Olympic Gymnastics medals
China has been the dominant nation at the past two Olympic Games, but in Rio the USA, led by Biles, was number one with 12 overall medals. Their haul includes four golds, along with six silvers and two bronzes.
Following up on their stunning success in London in 2012, Great Britain surpassed itself with its best-ever results, ending with six medals, including two historic golds, their first in Artistic Gymnastics.
Until the very last moment the Russians weren’t certain to take part in the Games, but they proudly collected eight medals, though just one title.
With only two bronze medals, China dropped to the 11th on the medal table, behind host Brazil.
I understand that medals are the only thing that matters for funding in China. No doubt they’ll be a shake up in the coaching staff.
Looking at the Men’s competition only, GBR was the top nation.
in praise of Wang Yan
She hit every routine in Rio.
Click PLAY or watch her TF Floor on YouTube.
http://papaliukin.tumblr.com/post/149051112234/team-china-massive-congratulations-to-wang-yan
(team-china via papaliukin)
Laurie Hernandez – Beam
From the American cheering section.
Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.
At this point I’d call Laurie the one of the favourites for World Champion 2017.
Olympians should stay off social media
During the Olympic Games.
They should have people filtering communications from the media and general public. I heard of many who were distracted. Including Cata Ponor.
Bea Gheorghisor posted an exhaustive review of the social media issues.
Fact is that Cata’s comeback for Rio was fantastic. It’s clear she was the best choice for Romanian Olympian.
UPDATE – On Gymternet Clan I read that Cata Ponor has deleted her official Instagram and Twitter accounts. Should you see any accounts that are posing as her … they are fake accounts.
related – interview with Larisa Iordache
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