Category: Olympics

message from Allan Bower

USA Gymnastics managed to create another NEGATIVE news story selecting their most consistent AA gymnast as Olympic Team alternate — BUT not funding nor inviting him to the Worlds 2021 Trials camp.

Friends and family stepped up on GoFundMe.

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Spanish Olympic gear

Marina González.

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top 10 MAG Olympic medalists

Alexei Nemov ROC
Endo Yukio 🇯🇵
Tsukahara Mitsuo 🇯🇵
Ono Takashi 🇯🇵
Vitaly Scherbo 🇧🇾
Nakayama Akinori 🇯🇵
Viktor Chukarin URS
Boris Shakhlin URS
Nikolay Andrianov URS
Kato Sawao 🇯🇵

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Giorgia Villa injured

Worst possible timing.

Many are questioning the wisdom of Italy competing on hard surfaces so close to departure for the Olympics.

Angelina’s Olympic prep has changed

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Angelina Romanovna Melnikova talks to the Olympic Channel about her evolution since the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio, she was 16 years old and now 5 years later she finds herself captain of a team of newcomers. She is ready to take on her new responsibilities as a leader to help the younger generation succeed.

Oleg tested positive for meldonium

Oleg says he only once tested positive for the recently banned drug.

But was banned for 4 years.

He’ll appeal the ban.

Meldonium was added to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) list of banned substances effective 1 January 2016 because of evidence of its use by athletes with the intention of enhancing performance. …

 A high prevalence of meldonium use by athletes in sport was demonstrated by the laboratory findings at the Baku 2015 European Games. 13 medallists or competition winners were taking meldonium at the time …

Meldonium use was detected in athletes competing in 15 of the 21 sports …

Most of the athletes taking meldonium withheld the information of their use from anti-doping authorities by not declaring it on their doping control forms as they should have. Only 23 of the 662 (3.5%) athletes tested declared the personal use of meldonium. However, 66 of the total 762 (8.7%) of athlete urine samples analysed during the Games and during pre-competition tested positive for meldonium. …

USAG MAG Team funding

Though the American men’s team Olympic selection was slightly less controversial and slightly more transparent than WAG, it was still criticized.

For one thing, FUNDING didn’t align with team selection they way you would have expected.

With Men’s NCAA in decline … AND questionable support for the Men’s National team, you have to be concerned for future competitiveness of the U.S. Men’s team.