12 teams of four and 50 individual qualifiers are competing in 3 qualification subdivisions.
Olympics day 1 – Men’s prelims
Category: Olympics
Xiao Ruoteng – Floor
Zou Jingyuan – P Bars
documentary on CAN Olympic team
Up in the Air
NOTE – The 47 minute documentary is now available online free, for those who appear to be in Canada. 😇
Click over to CBC to watch.
OR … click PLAY or watch a preview on Twitter.
Novak Djokovic can do splits
Novak Djokovic is the #1 ranked tennis player in the world.
And won the bronze medal in this splits contest with Nina Derwael at the Olympics. 😀
Tokyo Olympics by the numbers
196 gymnasts including 9 Olympic gold medallists from Games reaching as far back as 1992.
UCHIMURA Kohei (JPN / Gold All-Around, 2012 and 2016, Gold Team 2016, and 4 silver medals: All-Around 2008, Team 2008, Floor Exercise 2012, and Team 2012)
Max WHITLOCK (GBR / Gold Floor Exercise and Pommel Horse, 2016, and three bronze medals: All-Around 2016, Pommel Horse 2012, and Team 2012)
Eleftherios PETROUNIAS (GRE / Gold Still Rings, 2016)
Arthur ZANETTI (BRA / Gold Still Rings, 2012, and Silver Still Rings, 2016)
YANG Hakseon (KOR / Gold Vault, 2012)
Epke ZONDERLAND (NED / Gold Horizontal Bar, 2012)
Simone BILES (USA / All-Around, Team, Vault, and Floor Exercise, 2016; also Bronze Balance Beam, 2016)
Sanne WEVERS (NED / Balance Beam, 2016)
Oksana CHUSOVITINA (UZB / Team, 1992; also Silver on Vault, 2008)
6 new WAG skills in Tokyo
Ava Stewart, CAN – Bars
Double salto forward piked dismount
Sanne Wevers. NED – Beam turn
Lieke Wevers, NED – Floor turn
Lieke Wevers, NED – Floor turn #2
Simone Biles, USA – Vault
Double salto forward piked dismount
Jade Carey, USA – Floor
Double layout with 3/1 twist
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Simone’s podium training
Suni’s Bars in podium
Simone’s YDP in Podium
HUGE.
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Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.
Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.
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