Category: Olympics

RUS +1 & Iordache to Tokyo

Listunova’s finish booked an additional quota spot for the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) at the Tokyo 2020 Games in 2021, while Iordache secured the spot in her own name …

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Top 2 gymnasts in the AA who did not compete at Worlds 2019 earn the spots. Maximum one gymnast / nation.

  1. Viktoria Listunova RUS
  2. Vladislava Urazova RUS
  3. Larissa Iordache ROM

Video and LIVE scoring was terrible. I’ve personally never had any good experiences with the SmartScoring company.

European Gymnastics did apologize. Let’s see if it’s possible to fix it in time for day 2.

The Tokyo qualification is official, however, according to UEG.

Angelina was tops in the AA. But she did compete in 2019.

Vladislava Urazova RUS 55.299

Highest AA through the second subdivision.

Click PLAY or watch her Bars on Twitter.

Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos

Euros interview.

Mélanie warmed-up all apparatus, I believe, in podium.

The reigning European all-around champion heads to Basel with new goals: “It’s not my title that I’m defending, it’s really to prepare for the Olympics.”

“Yes, I won the title of European all-around champion, but this time, my preparation is different than what I was used to doing. I am taking another path,” she said, confirming her plans to only compete on the uneven bars.

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Mélanie De Jesus Dos Santos

Hernandez, Hurd, Lee, McClain, Skinner

… Golden, a docuseries about women’s gymnasts vying for a spot on the U.S. team heading to the Tokyo Olympics.

The six-episode series tracks six hopefuls competing for four spots on the U.S. Olympic team.

A premiere date has not yet been confirmed for the show, which is part of a broad array of live and on-demand Tokyo programming heading to NBCUniversal platforms. …

The series will cover a five-month span and milestones like national team training camps, the U.S. Gymnastics Championships, and the U.S. Olympic Team Trials, which start June 24.

Three-time Olympian Dominique Dawes is executive producing …

Deadline

gymnasts arrive Switzerland

In advance of European Championships, teams are arriving.

Russian Men are favourites, even without Artur Dalaloyan who had to withdraw due to partial Achilles tear.

European Championships free online

Livestream free of charge around the globe.

Qualifications will be streamed on gymtv.online thanks to our scoring partner SmartScoring.

A livestream of the senior finals is available on https://www.eurovisionsports.tv/europeangymnastics/ thanks to our partner Eurovision.

You can follow the live scoring on www.smartscoring.com.

Official hashtag of the event: #Basel2021

Wednesday 21 April (Basel local time CET)

10:00 – 12:00 Women’s qualifications – subdivision 1

13:30 – 15:30 Women’s qualifications – subdivision 2

16:00 – 18:00 Women’s qualifications – subdivision 3

18:30 – 20:30 Women’s qualifications – subdivision 4

Thursday 22 April

10:00 – 12:40 Men’s qualifications – subdivision 1

14:00 – 16:40 Men’s qualifications – subdivision 2

17:00 – 19:40 Men’s qualifications – subdivision 3

Friday 23 April

13:30 – 15:30 Women’s all-around FINAL & award ceremony

17:00 – 19:45 Men’s all-around FINAL & award ceremony

Saturday 24 April

13:30 – 14:10 Men’s floor FINAL & award ceremony

14:10 – 15:10 Women’s vault FINAL, Men’s pommel horse FINAL & award ceremonies

15:10 – 15:10 Women’s uneven bars FINAL, Men’s rings FINAL & award ceremonies

Sunday 25 April

13:00 – 14:00 Women’s beam FINAL, Men’s vault FINAL & award ceremonies

14:00 – 15:00 Women’s floor FINAL, Men’s parallel bars FINAL & award ceremonies

15:00 – 15:40 Men’s high bar FINAL & award ceremony

Takeru 87.322 qualifications

Wow. What depth.

  1. Kitazono Takeru 87.332
  2. Miwa Teppei 86.598
  3. Kaya Kazuma 86.298
  4. Tanigawa Wataru 85.497
  5. Takeda Kazuyuki 85.365
  6. Maeno Fuya 85.132
  7. Hashimoto Daiki 84.833
  8. Sugino Takaaki 84.464
Takeru

Uchimura Kohei strengthens Tokyo 2020 specialist case


The two-time Olympic all-around champion once again topped the standings on the horizontal bar

ROC (Russian Olympic Committee)

Due to state-backed doping, approved by Putin (I assume), “Russia” will not be competing in Tokyo.

I am happy the athletes were not banned outright as, of course, many did not dope.

… a Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling from December which barred Russia’s name, flag, anthem and other national symbols in a package of sanctions over what it deemed Russia’s failure to turn over accurate data from the Moscow drug-testing laboratory.

The team in Tokyo will be officially known not as “Russia,” but as “ROC”, for Russian Olympic Committee. …

Russian athletes had similar limits on their uniforms and symbols at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang …

Russia’s flag banned but national colors on Olympic uniforms

Canada’s denim Olympic jacket

OK.

I guess I’m too old to appreciate this look.

Twitter pokes fun at Canada’s denim Olympic closing ceremony look