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. 🇨🇦 🍺
Category: Olympics
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.
Olympic Team Champions 1952 – 2016
2020 Olympics Gymnastics venue
“The Olympic Gymnastic Centre will be an innovative and iconic venue situated in an excellent location in the Tokyo bay area.
“It will have a total site area of 100,000 metres squared and a seating capacity for 12,000 spectators.”
Tokyo 2020 Gymnastic Centre will no longer be temporary venue
via Gymternet Clan
Suzanne Yoculan interview
Audiocast with the Skating Lesson:
Losers Make Excuses; Winners Make Adjustments: Suzanne Yoculan on Courtney Kupets and The Final Five (Aug 9, 2016)
Boorman had never coached Elite before
The real secret of the American model isn’t a Ranch in Texas. It’s the HUGE base. Thousands of clubs. Tens of thousands of competitive gymnasts. A fantastic Collegiate competitive program.
Aimee linked to this excellent article – Aimee Boorman, Simone Biles’ Coach: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
If you have a big enough program, superstars like Simone and Shawn will have a chance to be identified at a young age.
American coaches on the Floor in Rio
Aimee Boorman, Simone Biles’ personal coach, stayed on the floor throughout the night because she is the head coach of the team. Mihai Brestyan, Aly Raisman’s coach, took the other credential while the team vaulted.
He swapped out for uneven bars, where Laurent Landi – Madison Kocian’s coach – came in for her and to spot the rest of the gymnasts. …
Credential relay presents yet another challenge for U.S. gymnastics
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