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The 2016 Kellogg’s Tour of Gymnastics Champions, which begins on Sept. 15 in Spokane, Wash., will visit 36 cities, both large and small, across the nation before wrapping up Nov. 13 in Boston, Mass. The Tour will showcase gymnasts from the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games, along with well-known names from the sport.
Thanks Cordelia.
The battle for the final places in Gymnastics at the 2016 Olympic Games continued Thursday as Rhythmic took centre stage at the Rio Olympic Arena, following competitions in Artistic and Trampoline earlier in the week. With 15 of the 26 slots for the individual competition already attributed at the 2015 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, in September, the last tickets were snapped up at this second and final Olympic qualification. …
Staniouta wins, Ashirbayeva tops list of Rhythmic Olympic qualifiers at Test Event
full results of Test Event
Click PLAY or watch Who will make the Chinese Team? on YouTube.
See more videos like this on the Artistics Gymnastics YouTube channel. Yes “Artistics”.
It includes similar edits for USA, Russia, Italy, GBR, Netherlands, Japan and Canada.
There are some errors, some omissions. Still it’s an easy way to get a quick overview of some of the top contenders.
via Gymternet Clan
After finishing 2nd on Rings at the Olympic Test Event, World Champion Eleftherios Petrounias flew directly home to Greece.
The official countdown to this year’s Rio de Janeiro Olympics began on Thursday when the torch was lit at the site of the ancient Games …
On a glorious spring day with the sun burning hot above the ancient stadium in Olympia, an actress playing a high priestess lit the torch from the rays of the sun at the temple of Hera, using a parabolic mirror.
Greek gymnastics world champion Eleftherios Petrounias started the domestic relay after receiving the flame …
https://twitter.com/OlympicFlame/status/723103475597467648
via Gymternet Clan
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
My favourite choreography at the Rio Test Event.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (preliminaries)
The judges liked it too. Even with average tumbling, Leah ended up with the Bronze medal in the final. Some felt Isabela Onyshko (4th) should have had that medal instead.
Belgium just missed team qualification for London. These ladies got the job done this time. 🙂
Read the Belgian Gymnastics blog summary.
Julia Fincher collected social media posts – Gymnasts’ emotional reactions to the Rio Test Event
Two of my favourite gymnasts qualified to Rio. 🙂 I’m emotional, too.
… Tokyo 2020 Emblems Selection Committee … four shortlisted designs are the most outstanding among all entries received. …
I think I like option B of the four being decided upon.
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