Category: Olympics

Paris World Cup HIGHLIGHTS

The Accor Arena in Bercy (FRA), the 2024 Olympic venue, gives us a good preview of the Olympics.

Read the FIG summing up:

USA dazzles in Paris with ten medals, including four gold

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49 WAG gymnasts have competed 3 Olympics

The Medal Count:

… The list of the 49 gymnasts who have competed in the Olympics on three separate occasions can be found here. …

… only four occasions has a gymnast surpassed it. Those gymnasts being Olga Tass  (1960), Oksana Chusovitina (2004), Daniele Hypolito (2008) and Vanessa Ferrari (2021). …

Gymnastics is Experiencing an Influx of 3x Olympians

Israel’s Artem Dolgopyat wins Floor in Munich

Israeli gymnast Artem Dolgopyat, Olympic Floor champion in Tokyo, won gold again on Sunday at the European Artistic Gymnastics Championship in Munich.

Dolgopyat, 25, was born in Ukraine to a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother and immigrated 13 years ago. 

It was in the same Olympic venue as the Munich massacre by 8 members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September.

’92 Olympic Beam Champ Tatiana Lysenko

Tatiana Lysenko is the 1992 Olympic champion on balance beam.

Born in Kherson, Ukraine, Taanait has a Ukrainian-Jewish background.

Her home town is right now occupied by Putin’s troops. Tatiana lives in California.

She won bronze in the all-around at the ’93 Worlds for Ukraine after the breakup of the USSR.

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Thanks Chere Hoffman and Dave Lease for the link.

Gymnastics more competitive worldwide

It’s a good sign that more nations around the world are competitive at the highest levels.

I wonder how long Belarus and ROC / Russia will be out. Until Putin withdraws from Ukraine, I assume.

Komova’s London Floor

Vault – Yeo Seo-jeong

The first South Korean female gymnast to win an Olympic medal.

At the 2020 Olympic Games, Yeo performed her eponymous vault, which had the highest difficulty value in the final.

She finished with an average score of 14.733 and won the bronze medal behind Brazilian Rebeca Andrade and American MyKayla Skinner.

Hashimoto Daiki – Olympic Champion

The Champ reflects back on his win in Tokyo at age-19.

Brazil has never been stronger

When Brazil beat the United States at the 2022 Pan American Gymnastics Championships, Rebeca Andrade said this win was “for the girls that are coming up and the ones who came before us.” …

Among those in the stands were Jade Barbosa, Daiane dos Santos, and Lais Souza. They were three of the most important trailblazers in the history of Brazil’s women’s artistic gymnastics (WAG) program. …

Jade Barbosa (L), Lais Souza (M) and Daiane Dos Santos (R)

On Instagram Barbosa has 740K followers. Lais Souza has 709K even though her last Olympic appearance was 2008. Daiane dos Santos has 330K followers even though the most famous portion of her career came in the 2001-2004 Olympic cycle. Hypolito has 478K, Flavia Saraiva has 1 million, and Rebeca Andrade has 2.2 million. …

The Medal Count – Glory of Brazilian Gymnastics

With Russia out of World Championships 2022, you have to count Brazil amongst those nation that could end up on the team podium.