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Many in Gymnastics sports get asked: “Are you Going to the Olympics?”
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Category: Olympics
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former Romanian Gymnast wins Rio Bronze
Amanda Turner:
Former Romanian gymnast Daniela Druncea won a bronze medal at the Olympics on Saturday as a member of Romania’s rowing team …
Druncea, 25, was a member of Romania’s world championships team that won the bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Stuttgart, and she also competed at the 2006 World Championships. She was an alternate to Romania’s 2008 Olympic team, which also won bronze in Beijing. …
Max Whitlock
Max finished with a world class score of 90.641 behind Japanese legend Kohei Uchimura who took the gold (92.365) and Ukraine’s Oleg Verniaiev the silver (92.266). …
Britain’s Nile Wilson was also competing in the all-around final and performed sensationally at just 20 years old. He was faultless throughout which included an outstanding parallel bars routine for a huge 15.700. Nile finished in 8th place amongst some incredible gymnasts and clearly has a bright future ahead of him. …
Max:
“Kohei has been my idol for a long time so I’m very proud for him and Oleg [Verniaiev, silver medal winner], I’ve been competing with him for years. He’s been producing huge scores in the last few years and I’m very honoured to come third to those two.
Max Whitlock wins historic bronze in Olympic all-around final
When his Slovenian coach Klemen Bedenik moved home, Max went with him to Slovania. Age-12.
He was there 3 months.
Rio Olympics 2016: Max Whitlock reveals the lengths he’ll go in pursuit of excellence
Canada’s Jagwear leos
Did you like the gunmetal Canadian leos?
MacLennan went to Rio with four different suits, custom fit and designed for her at this Jagwear Gymnastic Apparel factory – two of them for competition day. In a Rio Games alight with gymnasts wearing trendy bling-encrusted leotards, MacLennan is, by comparison, conservative with the sparkle. Her competition suits are bejewelled with just 1,400 rhinestones each – arranged tight in a maple leaf on the chest and cascading randomly over the rest of the suit, a little like shooting stars. …
Knowing most of their competition in their discipline would be heavily gemmed, Canada’s artistic gymnasts chose the shinier and more expensive Swarovski Crystals. Since they don’t retail, Jagwear won’t estimate a price for the Olympic suits, but say the crystals alone cost about $300 per suit. …
(via Gymnastics Canada)
Uchimura the greatest gymnast all time
There’s no way he can claim Scherbo’s career was superior. Not any more.
Rosie’s Rio Trampoline Gold
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Nina Derwael – Bars
Hancharou Uladzislau Olympic Tramp Champ
GOLD – Hancharou (BLR)
SILVER – Dong (CHN)
BRONZE – Gao (CHN)
full finals results
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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. 🙂
David Belyavsky engaged
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.
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