Category: Olympics

CAN Olympic Teams for Paris

1st travelling alternates:

  • Rose Woo (Montreal, Que.) – WAG Alternate Athlete
  • Ioannis Chronopoulos (Milton, Ont.) – MAG Alternate Athlete

the Olympics INSPIRE

Every 4 years, all eyes are on the Olympic Games.

All kinds of people — including children — get excited about sport and fitness.

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Fred Richard leads Olympic trials

Fred leads on H Bar and Floor.

Curran Phillips won P Bars with 15.600.

Stephen Nedoroscik Pommels — but only 14.450.

Alex Diab Rings 14.600.

Donnell Whittenburg Vault 14.100 (13.800, 14.500).

Khoi Young didn’t have a good day. Two falls on Pommels. But went 14.950 on Vault.

IOC … something mysterious in the air

Cool hype VIDEO.

Livvy Dunne to Paris Olympics

Rather than treating social (media) companies as an enemy poisoning the value of traditional telecasts, NBC is trying something it never has around the Olympics before, partnering with the platforms to make social media superstars such as gymnast Livvy Dunne …

… TikTok, Snap, YouTube and others such as Meta and the Gen Z sports media company Overtime want to do more in Paris, seeing the Games as a rare unifying global event …

In the past, the idea of NBC giving media credentials to TikTokers and YouTubers would have been unthinkable. …

Dunne, the LSU gymnast who became famous for her social media posts, will be inside the gymnastics arena as part of the NBC team for Snap during big competitions in Paris yet won’t be on the actual telecast. Instead, she will post to her public profile and on Spotlight while also using special augmented reality lenses that Snap developed with NBC. …


WaPo – TikTok, Snap and YouTube are all-in on the 2024 Olympics, with NBC’s help

Swinging Rings in Minneapolis

A past Olympic discipline, the only place left where Flying Rings is a BIG thing is Switzerland.

Brazil’s Olympic Team

Definitely a team medal contender.