In Tokyo. Click on either image if you want to see the full slate of candidates nominated by the deadline.
Category: Rhythmic
Brienne of Tarth was a Rhythmic gymnast
Gwendoline Christie (born 1978) is an English actress and model. She is known for portraying the warrior Brienne of Tarth in the HBO fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones.
She’s 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m).
looking back on Rio
Ukraine Rhythmic Group – Vogue
The BBC video from Rio is geoblocked.
But you can watch the same routine from the 2016 Guadalajara World Cup.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (Hoops + Clubs)
(via GymCastic)
Margarita Mamun’s father died
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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’
Rhythmic: Russia, Spain, Bulgaria
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, …
Rhythmic: Mamun, Kudryavtseva, Rizatdinova
For the fifth straight Olympics, a Russian rhythmic gymnast–but not the one everyone expected–claimed gold …
5 female gymnast flag bearers
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. …
African Championships Namibia
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.
Kohei on the IOC doping decision
“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.
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