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Category: Olympics
Sui Lu interview
Sui Lu, our London Olympics silver medalist on Beam reflects on that 2012 final. And her life since. 🙂
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Simones win Olympic gold
Simone Manuel and Simone Biles.
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Swimmer Simone Manuel has become the first African-American woman to win a gold medal in an individual Olympic swimming event. …
Following the race, she was overcome with pride and emotion.
if men wore bikinis for volleyball
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Simone Biles Olympic Champion
All hail. I argue she’s the greatest gymnast of all time.
🇺🇸 Biles 62.198
🇺🇸 Raisman 60.098
🇷🇺 Mustafina 58.665
4. Shang Chunsong CHN – 58.549
5. Ellie Black CAN – 58.298
6. Wang Yan CHN – 58.032
7. Jessica Lopez VNE – 57.966
8. Teramoto Asuka JPN – 57.965
9. Thorsdottir Eythora NED – 57.632
10 Steingruber Giulia SUI – 57.565
Ellie Black 58.298
Her best AA score in international competition. Talk about peaking for the Olympics. 🙂
5th all-around. Canada’s best ever AA Olympic finish. I’m celebrating tonight. 🇨🇦 🍺
cheering Bela and Ellie in the AA
Ellie Black and Isabela Onyshko will compete the all-around in Rio. Good luck! 🙂
Brittany Rogers:
“Obviously the results of these Games weren’t what we all wanted,” Rogers said about Canada’s near miss on the team finals. “It definitely lit a fire in me to continue on with elite gymnastics.”
In the near future, Rogers will return to Athens at the end of August and finish up her degree. …
Looking further away, Rogers has a plan for wrapping her gymnastics career.
“I’m not sure what competitions I will be assigned to from the Canadian team as those will be discussed after the Games are over,” Rogers said. “I plan to continue training and help out with the team in Georgia any way I can and be ready for whatever competitions I get assigned to by Gymnastics Canada. My goal is to be able to compete in the World Championships in Montreal in 2017 and perhaps retire on home soil.”
Oleg v Kohei
I’ve not yet had a chance to go back and analyze all 12 routines from the AA Olympic final. Many others have and most feel the ranking was correct.
Gennady Sartinskiy (Oleg’s coach) feels the judging and end result were fair.
Kohei:
Uchimura trailed Oleg Verniaiev of Ukraine by 0.901 points heading into the final apparatus — the high bar — but the six-time world champion kept his nerve while Verniaiev stumbled to hand Uchimura the gold with a score of 92.365. …
“I knew it would come down to the high bar. My performance was good, so if I had lost I wouldn’t have had any regrets. …
It was an Olympic AA we’ll never forget. Quite possibly the best ever in Men’s Gymnastics.
Uchimura will be 31 when Tokyo hosts the 2020 Olympics. He’ll try to continue through that meet, perhaps as a specialist.
NBC started Men’s gymnastics at 11:37 p.m. The gold medal was decided at 12:19 a.m. If you missed it, here’s the FIG write up – Long live the ‘King’: Kohei Uchimura continues reign with second Olympic All-around gold
Canada training for 2020
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NY Times on the Women’s Team Final
Another fantastic article from the graphics and data gurus at the NY Times.
Who says the USA is weak on Bars? Red dots are the American scores.
Check it out – How the U.S. Crushed the Competition in the Women’s Gymnastics Team Final
Via GymCastic. I assume the NYT are using numbers from The All Around’s Albert Minguillón Colorer.
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