Category: Olympics

Rebeca Andrade potential upgrades 

Our Tokyo Olympic silver medalist in the all-around has plenty of room to increase difficulty.

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Danusia Francis’ planned Olympic Routines

Nush finally made the Olympics — but was injured at the worst possible time.

Happily, she hopes to recover in time for Commonwealth Games Birmingham 2022.

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Viktoria Listunova interview

Did you see Vika Listunova hold up a photo at the Olympics?

It was Gennady Nikolaevich, one of her coaches who died with Covid.

 “I’m grateful to my coach who recently passed away, I really miss him, it’s hard without him.” …

Q: By the way, do the athletes get vaccinated against COVID-19?

A: On our team, all the coaches and athletes that are older than 18 are vaccinated.* Viktoria can’t yet get vaccinated because of her age. …

Vika had the coronavirus in January. She had to stop training for almost 1.5 months. After that, she came to the training camp, trained for 2.5 months and found strength to win the European Championships.  …

LISTUNOVA’S COACH: SHE’S JUST AN INCREDIBLE KID

NEW Gymnastics History site

Gymnastics-history.com

Uncle Tim is an historian and archivist.

Happily he’s found the time to launch a site dedicated to the history of Artistic Gymnastics.

Check it out.

U.S. Olympic TV coverage

… here are the biggest takeaways from the #RespectHerGame report:

  • Women got more overall coverage: Athletes in women’s sports received a staggering 59.1% of screen time in primetime Olympic coverage.
  • But men overwhelmingly control their stories: Men make up 82% of live Olympic commentators.
  • Men’s sports is still viewed as the default: Athletes in men’s sports are referred to as “male [athlete|sport]” just two percent of the time, while athletes in women’s sports are given the “female” qualifier 13.6% of the time.
  • Women are more exposed and sexualized than their male counterparts: Athletes in women’s sports wear revealing outfits in competition more than their male counterparts (69.9% compared to 53.5%), and are 10 times more likely to be objectified by camera angles (5.7% compared with 0.6%).
  • Women are still infantilized: Athletes in women’s sports are seven times more likely to be referred to using gender diminutive language (such as “girl” or “lady” or “chick”) as their counterpart in men’s sports. …

For women at the Olympics, more coverage doesn’t equal respectful coverage

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Doris (Fuchs) Brause interview

Doris competed the 1956 and 1960 Olympics. Was a traveling alternate for 1964 and an alternate in 1968.

Her sister Inge was also an international gymnast.

Click PLAY or watch a 2012 interview on YouTube.