Category: Olympics

summing up the Olympic AA Final

Simone

With a four-apparatus total of 59.131 points, the 27-year-old joined legends Larisa Latynina (URS) and Vera Caslavska (TCH) Thursday as the only women to capture two Olympic titles in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics.

… silver medallist Rebeca Andrade (BRA) and bronze medallist Sunisa Lee (USA) …

… Andrade gave her a run for her money. She lead after two apparatus and finished only 1.199 points behind Biles — the smallest margin of any of Biles’s World or Olympic or All-Around victories since 2015.

Simone, Rebeca, Suni

Legends all.

1. Simone Biles, United States, 59.131
2. Rebeca Andrade, Brazil, 57.932
3. Sunisa Lee, United States, 56.465

Some would argue that Alice D’Amato won the Bronze medal. It was very close.

Let’s go back and judge those routines again with 20/20 hindsight.

4. Alice D’Amato, Italy, 56.333
5. Kaylia Nemour, Algeria, 55.899
6. Ellie Black, Canada, 54.799
7. Qiu Qiyuan, China, 54.766
8. Helen Kevric, Germany, 54.598
9. Flavia Saraiva, Brazil, 54.032
10. Naomi Visser, Netherlands, 53.965
11. Kishi Rina, Japan, 53.965
12. Alice Kinsella, Great Britain, 53.799
13. Ruby Pass, Australia, 53.798
14. Manila Esposito, Italy, 53.599
15. Nakamura Haruka, Japan, 53.099
16. Ou Yushan, China, 52.898
17. Ana Barbosu, Romania, 52.465
18. Georgia-Mae Fenton, Great Britain, 51.766
19. Ava Stewart, Canada, 51.632
20. Filipa Martins, Portugal, 51.232
21. Lili Czifra, Hungary, 51.099
22. Amalia Ghigoarta, Romania, 50.732
23. Luisa Blanco, Colombia, 50.199
24. Sarah Voss, Germany, 49.999

… I found this competition stressful. Especially after Simone had a major error on Bars.

She stayed relaxed.

Download the full results.

FIG Live Scoring – Womens Artistic Gymnastics – All-Around FinalDownload

competitors for 1 minute

“McKayla” good, “MyKayla” bad 😀

It’s easy for the general public to get confused.

summing up the Men’s Olympic AA Final

Oka Shinnosuke (JPN) is the new Olympic All-Around champion in Men’s Artistic Gymnastics, winning his second gold in three days and extending the Japanese winning streak in this event to a record four Olympic Games.

Seemingly immune to the pressures of an Olympic final, Oka was as steady as he was spectacular through six routines inside Bercy Arena on Wednesday. While the 20-year-old did not post the highest individual score on any apparatus, he proved the most consistent, which made the difference on what proved a challenging night for the pre-competition favourites. …

The men’s All-Around final was expected to be a showdown between 2021 World All-Around champion Zhang and Olympic and World champion Hashimoto, but mistakes from both early on changed the narrative.

Men’s Olympic AA RESULTS

A crazy day — with many of the podium contenders having falls and errors.

We thought the title would go to either ZHANG Boheng or defending champ HASHIMOTO Daiki.

But it was new superstar OKA Shinnosuke who put together a winning series of routines.

1. Oka Shinnosuke, Japan, 86.832
2. Zhang Boheng, China, 86.599
3. Xiao Ruoteng, China, 86.364
4. Illia Kovtun, Ukraine, 86.165
5. Joe Fraser, Great Britain, 85.532
6. Hashimoto Daiki, Japan, 84.598
7. Jake Jarman, Great Britain, 84.565
8. Oleg Verniaiev, Ukraine, 84.399
9. Krisztofer Meszaros, Hungary, 83.899
10. Matteo Giubellini, Switzerland, 83.332
11. Yumin Abbadini, Italy, 83.198
12. Carlos Yulo, Philippines, 83.032
13. Casimir Schmidt, Netherlands, 82.498
14. Paul Juda, United States, 82.197
15. Fred Richard, United States, 82.166
16. Florian Langenegger, Switzerland, 81.864
17. René Cournoyer, Canada, 81.733
18. Nils Dunkel, Germany, 81.697
19. Mario Macchiati, Italy, 81.497
20. Félix Dolci, Canada, 81.097
21. Jesse Moore, Australia, 80.430
22. Frank Rijken, Netherlands, 80.298
23. Diogo Soares, Brazil, 78.698
24. Milad Karimi, Kazakhstan, 76.065

Olympic Champion OKA Shinnosuke

I recall OKA Shinnosuke being amazing, winning the 2019 Junior Worlds.

Now age-20, he’s our new Olympic Champion.

Full results of the Men’s AA competition.

Simone – 120 paper cutouts

Cool.