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Jordan Chiles interview
Trying for Paris. No comment for anything after 2024.
Vanessa Ferrari will try for Paris
Vanessa Ferrari, age-32, is a legend in our sport.
Having competed the past 4 Olympics, she’s training for #5.
Gymnastics venue – Paris, Olympics
Accor Arena (originally known as the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, 1984–2014, later Bercy Arena, 2014–2015 and AccorHotels Arena, 2015–2020), also known as Bercy in competitions where commercial names are prohibited, such as in the Olympic Games), will host Artistic Gymnastics at the 2024 Games.
It hosted European Gymnastics Championships 2000, as well.
Jordan Chiles. All class.
And a great teammate.
Jade Carey and Jordan Chiles reveal training plans for return trip to Olympics
The two Tokyo 2020 Olympic medallists have each excelled in their sophomore campaigns. In a month, they’ll turn their attention to a return trip to the Games.
RUS will not compete Europeans
I understand the argument that some athletes suffer when their governments are banned from internationals sporting activities.
And I feel badly for those athletes.
That said, it would be even worse for the world if RUS and BLR were allowed to compete in Paris.
DTB Pokal Team Challenge MAG
USA wins the team competition in both JR and SR.
1. United States 258.800
2. Japan 253.950
3. Turkey 247.350
4. Italy 245.750
5. Switzerland 243.900
6. France 243.250
7. Great Britain 240.550
8. Canada 240.000
9. Brazil 239.600
10. Germany II 239.250
11. Israel 234.400
12. Germany I 231.550
Though this is an invitational, many of the best gymnasts in the world were there.
Only CHN, JPN, and GBR have qualified for the Paris Olympics. Nine more teams will be selected at Worlds 2023.
Read Lauren’s LIVE blog.
Asian Championships 2023 Singapore
Asian Artistic Championships WAG and MAG will go June 10-18, 2023 in Singapore. It’s a qualifier to Worlds 2023 in Belgium (Sept 30-Oct 8th).
Full list of participating nations to be announced April 6th.
Gymnastics: Singapore will host the Asian Artistic C’ships in June
related – official press release
Valeriy Goncharov interview
In 2004, Valeriy Goncharov became Ukraine’s second-ever male gymnast to earn Olympic gold, capturing the top spot on parallel bars in Athens. …
Just 15 when the Soviet Union crumbled, Goncharov represented Ukraine at three Olympic Games (2000-08), winning seven Olympic, World and World Cup medals in a senior career that began at the 1997 World Championships and spanned more than a decade. …
Oklahoma assistant coach Valeriy Goncharov:
One day (Rustam Sharipov) called me and said, ‘Listen, there is an open position in Oklahoma, and I think it’s a really good opportunity. It’s one of the best places I’ve worked. I’m going to text you a phone number and you should call Mark (Williams) right away.’ …
You still have a large contingent of family and friends in Ukraine, how difficult has that been this past year?
Every day it’s like half of me is here, and half of me is there, worrying about all the people I know, I care about. Nothing has really changed since the beginning, and things don’t seem to be getting better, unfortunately.
I’ve had the same routine every day for a year now. I wake up, call my friends, call my family, to know what’s going on. It is very difficult. …
Do you have any thoughts about the IOC saying it could be possible for Russian and Belarussian athletes could compete in the 2024 Olympics under a neutral flag?
You know, a recent case I just saw, Ukrainian and Russian soccer teams met by accident in Turkey, and it was a huge fight. A physical fight. Just because they saw each other in a hotel.
I think it’s difficult to imagine, in the situation we are in now, how we could compete together. How we could share the Olympic dream. I don’t know, maybe it could happen, but right now I have a lot of doubts. …
Inside Gymnastics – FROM UKRAINE WITH LOVE, PART TWO: VALERIY GONCHAROV
Rustam Sharipov interview
A member of the gold-medal-winning Unified Team in 1992, Rustam Sharipov returned in 1996 to claim Ukraine’s first men’s gymnastics gold, with a parallel bars win in Atlanta, where the Ukrainian men’s team also claimed bronze. …
Ohio State head coach Rustam Sharipov:
You became a U.S. citizen in 2008 and have lived in the United States for more than 20 years now, but you have family still living in Ukraine.
Yes, my parents are still there, my brother is still there, my nephew. I’m glad they are fine so far, but it’s hard every day …
The IOC recently said they’d consider letting athletes from Belarus and Russia compete under a neutral flag in 2024. As a Ukrainian Olympian, what are your feelings about that?
When this war first began, I sort of agreed about keeping politics and sports separate, but then I saw Russian athletes start actively supporting the war, supplying stuff for the war, and creating young military kids who are going to ‘protect’ their country…That’s when I completely changed.
This idea that letting Russia and Belarus compete will help bring the war to an end? That’s, excuse me, B.S. …
The other thing that really bothers me is that the Russians, their life didn’t change. They have everything they need to prepare for competitions, while Ukraine athletes…Some are dying, and most don’t have a place to practice, no coach, no gym. But the IOC says they should compete on the same field? That’s not fair. …
Inside Gymnastics – FROM UKRAINE WITH LOVE, PART ONE: RUSTAM SHARIPOV
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