Category: Olympics

University of Texas swimmer $740,000

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.

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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. …

Olympic swimmer Joseph Schooling scores big in butterfly with $740,000 in win over Phelps

Ellie Black 5th AA in Rio

Ellie‘s best international competition ever. 5th all-around.

Click the image to watch her final apparatus – Vault – on CBC. Kyle Shewfelt commentating.

Ellie Vault

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)

breakfast of Olympic Champions

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Aly on Mihai

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

U.S. gymnast Alexandra Raisman with coach Mihai Brestyan after stumbling while competing in the balance beam during a women's team qualification round, at the Olympic Arena, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 7, 2016. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
U.S. gymnast Alexandra Raisman with coach Mihai Brestyan after stumbling while competing in the balance beam during a women’s team qualification round, at the Olympic Arena, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 7, 2016. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)

related – Dvora Meyers – The Redemption of Aly Raisman

Trampoline coach Dave Ross

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.

Simone more happy for Aly

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And how about this shout out? 🙂

Ukraine athletes & the Russian Press

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.

Rosie MacLennan repeats as Olympic Champion

Wow. I’m so thrilled for Rosie. 🙂

In the notoriously unpredictable sport of trampoline–just one bad bounce can send a world-class athlete into last place–it’s much easier to fly into the top ranks of the sport than to stay there. Rosannagh, or Rosie, MacLennan of Canada proved it wasn’t impossible, however, when she became the first trampoline athlete to win two golds at an Olympics. …

Finishing third was Li Dan of China, the 2015 world champion. In fourth place was He, the gold medalist in Beijing and bronze medalist in London.

Chinese athletes have a streak of winning medals in women’s gymnastics going back to 2004.

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full results

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Olympics brings religions together

Update – Several commenters have noted that Aliya’s father is of Tatar descent, where many are Muslim. But that Aliya has not declared her personal religious beliefs. The team in the past has visited the Russian Orthodox church before competitions.

Awe-inspiring performances in a close match-up between American gymnasts Simone Biles and Aly Raisman, and Russian Aliya Mustafina, are a cross-section of faith, race and nationality …

Olympic women’s all-around champions: A Christian, a Jew and a Muslim

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