tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
GOLD – Hancharou (BLR)
SILVER – Dong (CHN)
BRONZE – Gao (CHN)
full finals results
https://twitter.com/dvorameyers/status/764542774867820544
Hancharou’s goal for this competition was Silver.
Hancharou is only age-20. And Trampolinists can stay at the top of their game for a long, long time. 🙂
Amanda Turner:
After winning a silver medal with the Russian team on Monday, gymnast David Belyavsky managed to make his night even more memorable. In Rio de Janeiro, he proposed to his girlfriend of four years, who naturally said yes. …
She said she plans to stay in Rio until the end of the competition, as Belyavsky qualified to finals on pommel horse and parallel bars, and travel back with him to Russia.
Ksenia Afansyeva will be married in September.
Team mate Ksenia Semyonova is expecting a baby in November, with her partner Denis Ablyazin.
The NCAA rules remind me of the bad old days when professionals could not compete in the Olympics. Sooner or later the NCAA are going to have to come to terms with allowing student athletes to profit from their sports.
American collegiate sport allows EVERYONE to profit … aside from the athletes. 😦
This loophole might speed the process.
Singapore’s Joseph Schooling, set to be a junior at the University of Texas, won the gold medal in the 100-meter butterfly at the Rio Olympics …
The achievement – Singapore’s first medal in Rio — qualified him for an award of about $740,000 from the Singapore National Olympic Council that he will be able to keep without forfeiting his remaining college swimming eligibility.
Prior to the NCAA rules change in 2015, that would not have been possible. …
Under the incentive program’s rules, Schooling will have to give 20% of his award money to the Singapore Swimming Association, but he’ll still be left with a tidy sum. …
Ellie‘s best international competition ever. 5th all-around.
Click the image to watch her final apparatus – Vault – on CBC. Kyle Shewfelt commentating.
NBC Prime did not bother showing any of Ellie’s routines focusing instead on Seda’s terrible day. 😦 Serious Gymnastics fans and coaches should avoid NBC Prime’s edited version of international competitions. All of the available alternatives are more objective & show more routines.
(via Kristi Marks Cloman)
After the team photos, Raisman immediately walked over to her longtime gymnastics coach Mihai Brestyan, of Brestyan’s American Gymnastics Club in Burlington, placed her medal around his neck, and gave him a big hug. …
After winning gold, Aly Raisman immediately put her medal around her longtime coach
related – Dvora Meyers – The Redemption of Aly Raisman
Simone got a Zac Efron leo from Ellen.
With Rosie‘s repeat Olympic Gold medal in Rio, Dave Ross has now coached athletes who have won a total of 7 Olympic medals.
His club is Skyriders, Toronto. He’s the owner of Rebound Products.
Watch the tears flow when Rosie finds herself atop the score board.
Dave coaches Jason Burnett in today’s Men’s Olympic Trampoline competition. Good luck.
And how about this shout out? 🙂
Ukraine athletes ordered not to speak to Russia press, reports Sports Express
How do we feel about that? 🙂
Declare a truce for the two weeks of the Olympics.
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