tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
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.
Olympic Channel
… 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
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.
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
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Wow. What depth.
Uchimura Kohei strengthens Tokyo 2020 specialist case
The two-time Olympic all-around champion once again topped the standings on the horizontal bar
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
OK.
I guess I’m too old to appreciate this look.
Twitter pokes fun at Canada’s denim Olympic closing ceremony look
via theGymter.net
Will Graves interviewed Justin Spring, Mike Burns, Shane Wiskus, and many others putting together an article before the end of the College season.
Iowa dropped Men’s Gymnastics.
Two months later, Minnesota dropped the men’s team.
The losses will leave just five men’s gymnastics programs in the Big Ten and just 11 at the Division I level overall, not including the three service academies.
And it leaves the USA Gymnastics men’s program in the precarious position of trying to reclaim a spot among the world’s elite while dealing with a diminishing talent base.
There are 11,000 boys or men enrolled in USA Gymnastics, down from over 13,000 in 2007. With only 6.3 scholarships available per school at Division I …
Football and men’s basketball pay a massive chunk of the bills. Athletic directors are increasingly concerned about what the shifting economics mean to Olympic sports. Nearly 80% of the 558 U.S. athletes at the Rio Games in 2016 came out of an American college program. …
Olympic Gold: Men’s Gymnastics Struggling to Survive
Minnesota will host the 2021 NCAA National Collegiate Men’s Gymnastics Championships on April 16-17.
