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P&G Thank You, Mom – Rio
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Rio is Ready?
That’s the theme of a video posted by the organizing committee 100 days out.
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Trampolinist Rea Lenders
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Ana Sofia GOMEZ – Beam
Solid bwd 1/1.
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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.
Flávia is small
Isabella Amado – Olympian
An Olympian for the tiny nation of Panama. Congratulations.
She was awarded the Tripartite commission spot.
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.
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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
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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.
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.
Olympic, Paralympic logos announced
Tokyo 2020 have today unveiled the logos for the Olympics and Paralympics, entitled “harmonised chequered emblems” which organisers claim reflect the spirit of the Games. …
Some will like the elegant simplicity. I find them pretty dull and uninspiring.
My favourite was Barcelona.
The first Tokyo I like better.
gymnasts qualifying for Tokyo Olympics
International Gymnastics magazine posted a summary of how Artistic gymnasts will be invited to the 2020 Olympics.
It’s a condensed version of this FIG document.
The main criticism online so far is a reduction of team size from 5 in Rio to 4 in Tokyo.
On the other hand, some top teams like USA will most likely have 6 women in Tokyo rather than only 5 in Rio. The additional two could qualify as specialists. UPDATE – Cordelia clarifies that up to two additional could qualify as specialists or in the AA.
Under the new system Iordache (for example) would already have qualified to Olympics based on her top 3 finish at Worlds 2015. That’s an improvement.
World Cups will be improved. And Continental Championships will become much more important. When is the North American Continental Championships, by the way? 🙂 UPDATE – Cordelia believes the PAGU (Pan Am) Championships will be used for all of the Americas.
Specialists may decide to stay longer in the sport. Berki, for example, might continue to 2020.
It looks like the Olympic Test Event will no longer qualify any competitor. It will be strictly a rehearsal for the Organizing Committee.
Overall the new system looks like an improvement to me. Leave a comment if you foresee unintended negative consequences.
One thing everyone can agree upon is that Artistic Gymnastics should have more spots at the Olympics. It’s one of their highlight sports. I doubt that will happen until some of the Summer Olympic sports are moved to the Winter Olympics to better balance the two.
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