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Margarita “Rita” Mamun is our individual Rhythmic Olympic champion.
On 26 August 2016, Rita’s father Abdullah passed away after battling with cancer for the last few months, he died bed ridden at their home Friday afternoon (Moscow time), just 6 days after she won gold at the Olympic Games.
related – Rhythmic gymnastics: Mamun hails victory for ‘two countries’
In Group.
Russia won its fifth consecutive Olympic title in Rhythmic Group Gymnastics Sunday, continuing a golden tradition established 16 years ago in Sydney. The victory, coming 24 hours after Margarita Mamun’s individual title, gives Russia a complete sweep of the gold medals in Rhythmic Gymnastics since 2000.
But the Russians did not dominate the competition from start to finish. The team (Anastasia Maksimova, Anastasia Tatareva, Maria Tolkacheva, Anastasia Bliznyuk and Vera Biriukova) finished behind Spain in Saturday’s qualification round, and trailed the Spanish by 0.2 after the first routine in Sunday’s new life final. …
Like Spain, Bulgaria returned four of its five team members from 2012. With bronze, …
For the fifth straight Olympics, a Russian rhythmic gymnast–but not the one everyone expected–claimed gold …
Amanda Turner:
Artistic gymnasts Ana Sofía Gómez (Guatemala), Catalina Ponor (Romania), and Giulia Steingruber (Switzerland), rhythmic gymnast Neta Rivkin (Israel) and trampolinist Rosie MacLennan (Canada) were selected as standard bearers as the 2016 Olympic Games kick off in Rio.
It is a record number for gymnastics to have five flag bearers at the Olympic Parade of Nations. Gymnasts often skip the Opening Ceremonies as qualification begins on the first day, and hours of queuing and marching in the summer heat is not ideal right before competition. However, the weather in Rio de Janeiro, where it is winter, has been mild. …
I’d love to attend this meet once again. And Namibia is my favourite nation in Africa as a tourist. 🙂
August 27 – 3 September 3rd, 2016.
“It’s absolutely wrong to ban athletes who have not broken the rules. It (this decision) is good,” said Uchimura, a six-times world all-around champion.
“Those who dope can’t complain even if they get banned for life,” the 27-year-old Japanese told the Kyodo news agency.
You can argue that all Russian athletes should be banned. Including gymnasts. Many are taking that position. I respect the argument.
Russian sport is corrupt and deserves sanction up to but not including disallowing athletes and coaches not proven personally guilty. That’s my opinion.
Russia will not receive a blanket ban from Rio 2016 following the country’s doping scandal, an Olympic source has told the BBC.
Instead, the International Olympic Committee will leave it up to individual sport’s governing bodies to decide if Russian competitors are clean and should be allowed to take part.
Russia is corrupt. Systematic doping was approved all the way up to – I assume – the defacto dictator Putin. But I’m still happy Artistic, Rhythmic and Trampoline will get to compete in Rio.
The Russian girls are en route to Brazil now.
Amanda Turner – IOC Declines to Ban Russia from Rio
via Gymternet Clan
Whilst FIG fully supports the IOC’s policy of “Zero Tolerance in Doping”, it strongly feels that not all Russian athletes of all sports should be banned and found guilty for actions in other sports and federations.
Artistic Gymnastics, Rhythmic Gymnastics and Trampoline athletes cannot be judged based on other sports. …
FIG raises serious concerns about possible blanket ban on Russian athletes
Rewriting Russian Gymnastics has been closely following this story – No Russia for Rio? – WADA/McLaren report set to recommend blanket ban
The good news?
For the record, the Olympic boycotts of 1980 and 1984 were also terribly unfair to completely innocent athletes.
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