Category: Olympics

IOC on Russia & Belarus

why Suni wants Paris 2024

Lee wants to try to replicate her performances on the mat, too. She’s described experiencing imposter syndrome after taking home the individual all-around crown, a feeling almost certainly tied to teammate Simone Biles’ withdrawal from the event at the last minute.

… still wants to show herself and the rest of the world that her success in 2021 wasn’t a fluke. …

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most Olympic Medals

10=) Bjørn Dæhlie (NOR) – Cross-country skiing/12 medals (8🥇 & 4🥈)
10=) Birgit Fischer (GER) – Canoeing/12 medals (8🥇 & 4🥈)
9) Paavo Nurmi (FIN) – Athletics/12 medals – (9🥇 & 3🥈)
8) Takashi Ono (JPN) – Gymnastics/13 medals (5🥇& 4🥈& 4🥉)
7) Edoardo Mangiarotti (ITA) – Fencing/13 medals (6🥇& 5🥈& 2🥉)
6) Boris Shakhlin (URS) – Gymnastics/13 medals (7🥇& 4🥈& 2🥉)
5) Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR) – Biathlon/13 medals (8🥇& 4🥈& 1🥉)
4) Nikolai Andrianov (URS) – Gymnastics/15 medals (7🥇& 5🥈& 3🥉)
3) Marit Bjørgen (NOR) – Cross-country skiing/15 medals (8🥇& 4🥈& 3🥉)
2) Larisa Latynina (URS) – Gymnastics/18 medals (9🥇& 5🥈& 4🥉)
1) Michael Phelps (USA) – Swimming/28 medals (23🥇& 3🥈& 2🥉)

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Jessica Hutchinson’s ’23 Floor

Jessica will compete a modified version of her mom’s (Silvia Mitova) 1992 Olympic routine.

Nile Wilson’s TED Talk

Nile informative and entertaining, as always.

He’s going to be on ITV’s Dancing on Ice next season. That should be entertaining, as well. 😀

Olympic gymnast and medalist Nile Wilson draws on his own personal challenges with mental health as a trailblazer in sports to shed some light on the challenges many professional athletes face on their journey to becoming champions.

.. Yet, Nile is so much more than just a gymnast – a YouTuber with over 1.5 million subscribers and 350 million total views; a social media influencer; a highly successful entrepreneur; an advocate for mental health awareness; and a powerful voice within his sport over the historic treatment of gymnasts. …

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Olympic Studies Centre, Switzerland

In Lausanne, Switzerland.

And online. Open to everyone 24 hours / day:

Library.Olympics.com

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Russian athletes ~ Paris Olympics

Personally, I can’t see any way to fairly allow some athletes who represent Russia to compete in Paris 2024, while disallowing others.

For example, Nikita Nagornyy could SAY he does not support Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Compete Paris. Then return to Russia to continue his work for Putin, laughing at IOC president Thomas Bach.

That would be worst case scenario. The IOC would be humiliated.

The IOC should give Putin a deadline to withdraw from Ukraine, or have his nation and Belarus officially banned.

Russian athletes who do not endorse their country’s war in Ukraine could be accepted back into international sports, competing under a neutral flag, IOC president Thomas Bach said in an interview published Friday. …

IOC looks for ways Russian athletes ‘who do not support war’ could compete as neutrals

Rosie MacLennan has retired

Twice Olympic Trampoline champion, one of the greatest ever.

Now age-34.

Skyriders was my second home.

Dave was my coach for 22 years and he constantly expanded what I believed to be possible, letting internal motivation lead.

I got to train with @karen_cockburn_ my role model and mentor who became my training partner and friend. 

@jasonburnett_ always cheered me on and challenged me to be better. I had many incredible teammates over the years.
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I am grateful for the support over my 26 years of trampoline …

Miracle on Beam ~ Japan 2022

In the last quadrennial, I’d say the biggest shocker was Taiwan qualifying a full team to the Tokyo Olympics in Men’s Gymnastics.

In Liverpool, without question the biggest surprise was a team from Japan of relative unknowns.

In the qualifications, Japan had the highest team Beam score: 3rd (Shoko Miyata), 5th (Hazuki Watanabe), and 7th (Ayaka Sakaguchi).

And they didn’t compete the reigning World Champion on Beam, Urara Ashikawa.

In the team final, heading to the final apparatus, it looked like Japan would finish 3rd — automatic qualification to Paris.

The wheels finally fell off on Bars. Canada took the bronze team medal. Winning it on Beam.

Canada’s first team medal at Worlds was the 2nd biggest surprise in Liverpool.

Read more about Japan’s miracle meet on The Medal Count:

The Japanese Program is Absolute Madness

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