Category: Olympics

Darja Varfolomeev – Olympic Champion

Black Olympic Floor podium

I’m old enough to remember when Gymnastics coaches thought gymnasts of African heritage were usually too tall, too heavy to be great at our sport. They actively recruited children of Asian heritage.

We were wrong.

Andrade, Biles and Chiles captured gold, silver and bronze in the womenโ€™s floor final. It was the first Olympic gymnastics podium with three Black women. …

The podium also represented 20 Olympic medals with Biles owning 11, Andrade six and Chiles three.

SIMONE BILES ON FIRST ALL-BLACK OLYMPIC GYMNASTICS PODIUM: โ€œWE KNEW THE IMPACT IT WOULD MAKE.” – EXCLUSIVE

inspiring kids to do Gymnastics

Handing out medals to just a few is only one small goal of the Olympic Movement.

Motivating children to do sport โ€” I’d argue โ€” is much more important.

Simone did not win Olympic Floor

What!?

๐Ÿฅ‡ Rebeca Andrade ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท 14.166
๐Ÿฅˆ Simone Biles ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ 14.133
๐Ÿฅ‰ Jordan Chiles ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ 13.766

Olympic H Bar Final was …

More falls and errors than I expected.

Angel is the youngest competitor in the Men’s competition.

Olympic Beam Champion Alice D’Amato

Too. Many. Falls.

P Bars God Zou Jinguan

Greatest of all time is now even greater all time.

Olympic Apparatus Finals 2

Rings

As expected, China dominated Rings as they have for many years now. France narrowly 4th.

1. Liu Yang, China, 15.300
2. Zou Jingyuan, China, 15.233
3. Eleftherios Petrounias, Greece, 15.100
4. Samir Aรฏt Saรฏd, France, 15.000

Bars

The most anticipated WAG Final did not disappoint. Most agree that Kaylia was the deserving champion. I’d argue she’s the greatest Bars worker of all time.

1. Kaylia Nemour, Algeria, 15.700
2. Qiu Qiyuan, China, 15.500
3. Sunisa Lee, United States, 14.800
4. Nina Derwael, Belgium, 14.766
5. Alice Dโ€™Amato, Italy, 14.733

Vault

Everyone’s favourite gymnast, Carlos Yulo, won both Floor and Vault in Paris. He’s a past world champion on both โ€” but the competition was fierce on both in Paris.

1. Carlos Yulo, Philippines, 15.116
2. Artur Davtyan, Armenia, 14.966
3. Harry Hepworth, Great Britain, 14.949

Read the FIG wrap post.