Category: Olympics

predicting the Rio Men’s AA Gymnastics Final

In this projection Purvis is back on team GBR. 🙂

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American Men’s Olympic team

What I like best about Team USA is their psychology. They’ve pulled off miracles in the Olympic team final in the past. It’s possible they’ll do it again.

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Miss Val interview

Entertaining and informative as always, click through to The Skating Lesson’s interview.

Valorie Kondos Field on the Women of Team USA

Sam, Kyla, Jordyn
Sam, Kyla, Jordyn

TIME Magazine’s Olympic issue – Simone

… Just 4 ft. 8 in.–the shortest member of the 555-person U.S. delegation in Rio–Biles pulls off moves too challenging for even her elite rivals, soaring with a preternatural comfort in the air.

She’s “in a caliber with nobody else in the world, really,” says Nastia Liukin, the 2008 Olympic all-around gold medalist, who will cover the Games for NBC. “Nobody is even close to her.” …

Simone Biles Is Taking Her Sport to New Heights

Simone Time

Here’s an older Time cover with Gabby.

Gabby Time

Thanks Dave.

Shallon Olsen in Rio

Shallon did so much difficulty so young that many (including me) feared she wouldn’t last through to the 2016 Olympics.

In fact she’s had very few injuries over the years. 🙂

Click the image to watch a TV news spot on CTV.

Shallon