Category: Olympics

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. …

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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. …

Globe and Mail

(via Gymnastics Canada)

Uchimura the greatest gymnast all time

There’s no way he can claim Scherbo’s career was superior. Not any more.

King Kohei.

https://www.tumblr.com/labflapper/148774041846/supermura-long-may-he-reign-king-kohei

Hancharou Uladzislau Olympic Tramp Champ

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. 🙂

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.

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Maria Mikhailova

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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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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