Category: Olympics

Good Morning Simone

#GetsMeStarted

With about 100 days to go until Team USA starts competition at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, Kellogg has debuted its “What Gets You Started?” campaign, uncovering and celebrating what drives people – everyone from parents to elite athletes – to get up in the morning and uncover the possibilities of each new day.

To help tell this story, Kellogg’s has enlisted Team Kellogg’s, a group of first-time Team USA Olympic and Paralympic hopeful athletes. First-time Olympians have made up more than 55% of Team USA at the past four Olympic Games.

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via Gymternet Clan

can anyone beat Kohei?

Max is hitting. Oleg is hitting. Manrique is rapidly improving.

Click PLAY or watch Kohei’s (not perfect) AA on YouTube. (6 apparatus)

Sooner or later someone will defeat Kohei in the AA. I’d say Uchimura is the man to beat in Rio. But the contenders may be within one fall of him at this point.

At age 27, Kohei is not sticking as consistently as he has in the past.

Rio is Ready?

That’s the theme of a video posted by the organizing committee 100 days out.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

related – aerial photos of Rio 100 days before the Games

Ana Sofia GOMEZ – Beam

Solid bwd 1/1.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Latin American gymnasts – overall – had a very good competition at the Rio Test Event. Despite the probable troubles hosting the Olympics in Rio, it will be good for development of Gymnastics sports in the region.

Isabella Amado – Olympian

An Olympian for the tiny nation of Panama. Congratulations.

She was awarded the Tripartite commission spot.

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Isabella trains at Excalibur Gymnastics, Virginia Beach but has competed for Panama many times already.

Lauren Hopkins explains the process by which she was selected.

via Gymternet Clan

worst Olympic Gymnastics story (so far)

The Olympic year always results in hilariously inaccurate cut-and-paste news reports from general sports media. The worst I’ve seen was written by Devin Neal on an Indian site:

… Currently, Dipa is known to be a phenomenon in the vault event that requires an athlete to sprint towards an apparatus and acrobatically jump over it, do multiple somersaults and execute a ideal landing.

She will be chosen following the selection trial at the Australian Gymnastics Championships, to be held at Melbourne’s Hisense Arena on May 23. …

… she’ll be the first gymnast to represent Jamaica at the Olympics.

Olympic qualifiers: Gymnast Dipa Karmakar bags gold at Rio event

Here’s the PDF version in case that gets taken down.

Olympic qualifiers- Gymnast Dipa Karmakar bags gold at Rio event

NOW Dipa has to survive intense media scrutiny until the Olympics. Best would be to leave India and train somewhere where she could focus.

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In 2004 I recall Kyle Shewfelt hiding out from the Canadian media. Limiting training distractions. 🙂

Austria’s Lisa Ecker to Olympics

This post was updated to correct numerous errors. Oops.

Like Marisa Dick, Jasmin Mader from Austria arrived in Rio just hours before the competition.

But had falls on Bars & Beam.

Jasmin was replacing Elisa Hämmerle who tore her Achilles tumbling in podium training. (I saw that tumbling pass. It did not look like a full Achilles tear. I assumed it was an ankle injury, at the time.)

Lisa Ecker hit 4/4 in the AA for 53.132 to qualify herself & Austria to the Olympics.

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