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Category: Olympics
Hashimoto Daiki – 4th All Japan title
Hashimoto Daiki breezed to a fourth consecutive All-Japan Gymnastics All-Around Championship on Sunday (14 April) – with both arms cramping up on the last two events. …
… romping to the men’s title with a 176.164 over the two days – four points ahead of Oka Shinnosuke (172.264) and five ahead of Kaya Kazuma (171.596). …
ALL-JAPAN ALL-AROUND CHAMPIONSHIPS 2024: CRAMPED ARMS AND ALL, HASHIMOTO DAIKI TAKES FOURTH STRAIGHT TITLE
Tang Chia-Hung in Paris
Definitely a gold medal contender on H Bar.
Recovered from the injury that cost him most of his 2023 season …
The gymnast known as the “King of Cats” blew past the competition to win the Horizontal Bar title at last weekend’s World Challenge Cup in Osijek (CRO), scoring 15.350 for a new routine that included five different release skills: three Tkatchev elements, a Cassina, and an unusual Walstrom (Yamawaki with full turn).
His 15.350 (which carries a 6.5 difficulty tariff) was higher than the 15.233 Hashimoto Daiki (JPN) received when winning the World title on the apparatus last autumn …
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Liu Yang and Arthur Zaneitti
Lance compares body types and skill choices of two Olympic champions.
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Hashimoto Daiki leads 2024 All-Japan
Hashimoto has already secured his Olympic spot on the Japanese team by winning the all-around competition at the 2023 World Gymnastics Championships in Antwerp, Belgium. However, for the rest of the field, this competition is a critical step towards making the Olympic team.
The depth of the Japanese team is shown by how many athletes are capable of score over the coveted 80 mark; today, 45 Japanese gymnasts scored over 80. Compared to the most recent U.S. national championships where 14 athletes scored over 80 or the most recent British national championship where only three athletes managed that feat, it’s easy to see why the Japanese are so strong in international competition.
Neutral Deductions
2019 junior world all-around champion, Oka Shinnosuke, qualified 2nd.
Grand Paris Express Métro
Paris already has one of the biggest and busiest subway networks in the world.
Simultaneous with Olympics 2024 construction, over 200km more are being built. 68 brand-new stations. The plan is to travel around the city, rather than crossing the congested centre.
It’s called the Grand Paris Express.
Of course there will be an economic boost everywhere easily accessible by the 4 new lines.
Hopefully, Paris will be one Olympic host where the legacy benefits outweighs the incredible cost for a … circus.
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Osijek World Cup highlights
French stars Melanie de Jesus dos Santos and Coline Devillard picked up three of a possible four titles at the World Challenge Cup in Osijek (CRO) 4-7 April, confirming that the French are steaming ahead toward Paris 2024. …
FIG – French Olympic hopefuls flex at Osijek World Challenge Cup
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Mark Robinson v Simone Biles
North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson has been called “the GOP’s next top lunatic”.
Sure he’s homophobic, anti-semitic, an election denier, anti-science, anti-woman — BUT what made Gymnastics fans mad was when he dissed the greatest gymnast of all time.
Something tells me candidate Mark Robinson never did Gymnastics. 😀
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