tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
Awesome.
If you haven’t met Gabby Douglas, this interview gives a good idea of her personality. Charming. Humble. Positive.
With absolutely zero pressure to make a comeback, the 2012 Olympic Champ is GOING FOR IT.
She wanted to get back to sport. And Gymnastics seemed a better option than rodeo. 😀
Goal is to have FUN. And do the best she can in competition.
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Ana Padarariu decided to take a break from UCLA, and try for the Canadian Olympic team. She wants to give 100% and will accept whatever happens.
To have FUN. And SMILE.
Good attitude.
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With his 87th career World Cup victory, Kingsbury has the most men’s World Cup wins in any FIS Olympic discipline.
Mikaël Kingsbury is a freestyle skier from Quebec. He is the most accomplished mogul skier of all time. …
He is the first man to have won both the moguls and dual moguls World Championship events (sweeping the two events three times), and has won the most medals at the Freestyle World Championships of any male competitor in history …
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One again, dumb people are planning a multi-sport games with no restrictions on performance enhancing substances.
Gymnastics included.
Here’s what happened last time this idea came up. 😀
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Giarnni’s quest for Paris.
The comeback from posterior cruciate ligament injury.
Inspiring.
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FIG has published a list of gymnasts and support personnel who can return to FIG sanctioned events starting 1st January 2024 only in an individual neutral capacity.
Ad hoc rules are posted here.
So far, the entire list is from Belarus. None from Russia.
It includes Tokyo Olympics trampoline champion Ivan Litvinovich.
Belarus fully supports Putin’s war, but claims not to have their military attack Ukraine directly.
I fear that this is a first step. And that Russian athletes will be added to the list soon.
A mistake, in my opinion.
Of many bad options, least bad is a full ban of Russia by FIG until Putin ends the war.
Morinari Watanabe, the President of the International Gymnastic Federation (FIG), led a minute’s silence in remembrance of a young Ukrainian gymnast called Kateryna Dyachenko and her father who were killed during the siege of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
George Eyser was a German-American gymnast who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics, earning six medals in one day, including three gold and two silver medals.
Eyser competed with a wooden prosthesis for a left leg, having lost his real leg after being run over by a train. Despite his disability, he won gold in the vault, an event which then included a jump over a long horse without aid of a springboard. …
The Paralympic Games began 1948. Most physically challenged athletes now compete there.
Prior to 2008, Eyser was the only person with an artificial leg to have competed at the Olympic Games. In 2008, Natalie du Toit, a South African swimmer who lost her left leg in a traffic accident, participated in the 10 km marathon at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and finished 16th …
Read more ➙ George Eyser: Medals, mystery and the Games’ first amputee
Thanks Jim Holt for remembering Eyser, one of the most amazing Olympic stories of all time.
January 2024.
No Gabby Douglas. But Trinity is there.
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