GymCastic has a great podcast wrap-up. Very entertaining.
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Category: Olympics
WAG Team Final in 1-minute
Well.
How do you sum-up one of the most surprising Worlds Team Finals in history?
Ellie Black gets emotional
Watching Ellie’s interview was the first time I cried today.
Ukrainian gymnasts in the dark
A timely reminder of why gymnasts from Russia and Belarus were banned from the Liverpool Worlds.
Putin is bombing Ukraine’s power grid, causing grief and suffering for civilians.
IOC should announce what date Russia will be banned from the Paris Olympics, unless Putin’s war is ended.
MAG Team Finalists Worlds 2022
Unofficial
Shout out for Hungary, finishing 12th. They definitely threatened to be the miracle team of 2022. LOTS of potential. Look out in 2023.
Jim Redmond R.I.P.
A great moment in sport parenting.
At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Derek Redmond tore his hamstring in the 400 metres semi-final. Waving off medical assistance, Derek felt obliged to finish the race hopping on 1-foot and, with assistance from his father, managed to complete a full lap of the track as the crowd gave him a standing ovation.
Father Jim Redmond was one of the Olympic torch bearers in London for the Summer Games. Redmond Senior died in October 2022, aged 81.
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Suni ~ Sportswoman of the Year
… Sunisa Lee was named the Women’s Sports Foundation’s Individual Sportswoman of the Year at its Annual Salute to Women in Sports event on October 12 in New York.
… The winner was determined by a public vote and finalists were selected based on their athletic performances between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022. …
Viktoria Listunova – 4 apparatus
Viktoria won the AA at Spartakiad 2022.
Great Bars.
Scores were inflated as they often are in domestic Russian meets.
We have to hope Putin ends his invasion of Ukraine soon so Viktoria will have a chance to qualify for Paris.
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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
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