Category: Olympics

5 female gymnast flag bearers

Amanda Turner:

Artistic gymnasts Ana Sofía Gómez (Guatemala), Catalina Ponor (Romania), and Giulia Steingruber (Switzerland), rhythmic gymnast Neta Rivkin (Israel) and trampolinist Rosie MacLennan (Canada) were selected as standard bearers as the 2016 Olympic Games kick off in Rio.

It is a record number for gymnastics to have five flag bearers at the Olympic Parade of Nations. Gymnasts often skip the Opening Ceremonies as qualification begins on the first day, and hours of queuing and marching in the summer heat is not ideal right before competition. However, the weather in Rio de Janeiro, where it is winter, has been mild. …

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Rosie MacLennan leads team Canada into the stadium during the opening ceremonies at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Friday, Aug. 5, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Reiss Beckford – Hard Way To Success

Episode 24.

Reiss was not allowed to try out for the Rio Olympics as he had not competed for Jamaica for 3 years in advance of these Games. He has an excellent chance to qualify for Tokyo 2020, however.

He trains with Max Whitlock & Brinn Bevan. Coach Scott Hann. Competes for Jamaica.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Laurie Hernandez is fine

International Gymnast magazine had it wrong.

https://twitter.com/intlgymnast/status/761583853932834816

https://twitter.com/intlgymnast/status/761593728813436929

Shang Chunsong is ill

Could not do much at podium training yesterday.

… Shang caught a cold a few days ago and was having a fever,” said Mao.

Huang Yubin, the head coach of the Chinese team, confirmed that Shang had been ill for three days and she was too weak to complete routines on the apparatus.

But Huang said they had no plans right now to replace Shang with a substitute.

“She still has three more days to recover,” said Huang.

Shang, who finished fourth in the women’s individual all-round event at last year’s World Championships, is considered China’s No. 1 medal contender for the all-around event in Rio. …

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Oleg Verniaiev interview

The man with the best chance, I’d say, to defeat Uchimura in the AA.

Post Olympics he’ll do 8 competitions in the German professional league. He loves to compete.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (13min)

(via papaliukin)

Simone, Gabby, Aly to compete the AA

As expected, Simone and Gabby will compete the AA for USA. It looks like Aly Raisman will as well over Laurie Hernandez.

That means Laurie will not compete Bars in prelims.

Most likely line-ups in prelims:

Floor: Gabby, Laurie, Simone, Aly

Vault: Laurie, Gabby, Aly, Simone

Bars: Aly, Simone, Gabby, Madison

Beam: Gabby, Aly, Laurie, Simone

Click PLAY or watch Gabby’s Bars from podium on Facebook.

Youth Olympic Games changes

The Working Group recommendations presented to the Session put forward five strategic goals:

Increase participation and level of competition …

Bring the YOG to cities that cannot organise the Olympic Games …

Expand the reach and impact of the YOG …

Leverage digital platforms to extend the YOG experience …

Enhance the YOG’s role as incubator for innovation …

These recommendations were unanimously accepted by the Session. The implementation of the recommendations will be achieved in consultation with all relevant stakeholders by Q4 2017.

Olympic.org

The next Summer YOG to take place will be the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games of Buenos Aires. The next Winter YOG to take place will be the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games of Lausanne.

Gymnastics will be hosted in a venue yet to be built – Predio Ferial Olímpico.

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Nile Wilson – Olympian

Heart this photo on twitter.

271 RUS athletes cleared to compete

This is more than two-thirds of their original entry list of 389 athletes, despite the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) recommending a blanket ban after a doping scandal.

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Here’s the list of Gymnastics sports athletes approved.

Olympic.org posted the official statement.

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