Rio Olympic draws

Japan in the 1st of three sessions for MAG. China in the 1st of five in WAG.

Rio

VIDEO playlists from Rio Test Event

2016 Women’s Artistic – Rio Test Event (399 videos)

2016 Men’s Artistic – Rio Test Event (608 videos)

2016 Rhythmic – Rio Test Event (155 videos)

2016 Trampoline – Rio Test Event (85 videos)

I noticed FIG somehow missed this CLUBS routine.

Thanks FIG. Your media team is awesome. 🙂

Rio 2016

Rhythmic – Shang Rong

At the Olympic Test Event the routines that impressed me most were from the two Chinese girls. (They were not the winners.)

Click PLAY or watch SHANG Rong on YouTube. (Same routine from a different competition.)

Artistic, Rhythmic, Trampoline gymnasts to Olympics

Here’s the men’s Artistic list. And the women’s Artistic list. Those invited to compete Individual Rhythmic. And, finally, Rhythmic Group.

Athletes must next be approved by their National Olympic organizations.

Staniouta wins Rhythmic Test Event

Melitina continued her domination of the individual competition in Rio. This final did not count towards Olympic qualification. That was decided during preliminaries.

1 Staniouta Melitina BLR
2 Ashirbayeva Sabina KAZ
3 Ruprecht Nicol AUT

full results

My personal favourite was the youngest competitor, Shang Rong from China.

GER, UZB, GRE to Rhythmic Group Olympics

The final list of Rhythmic Groups invited to the Rio Olympics has been posted.

Based on the Test Event competition 3 teams were added:

1. Germany 33.183
2. Uzbekistan 32.832
3. Greece 31.982

full results

The highest one score in the competition was 16.766 for the Republic of Uzbekistan Hoop / Clubs routine.

Click PLAY or watch the same one at Worlds 2015 on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWEYjWFo9Gg

I still don’t like the flesh-coloured mesh used in Rhythmic leotards. But they do look better from a distance.

Melitina Staniouta wins Rio Rhythmic Test

The battle for the final places in Gymnastics at the 2016 Olympic Games continued Thursday as Rhythmic took centre stage at the Rio Olympic Arena, following competitions in Artistic and Trampoline earlier in the week. With 15 of the 26 slots for the individual competition already attributed at the 2015 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, in September, the last tickets were snapped up at this second and final Olympic qualification. …

Staniouta wins, Ashirbayeva tops list of Rhythmic Olympic qualifiers at Test Event

full results of Test Event

Olympics promo video for Spain

Awesome.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

(via GymCastic)

Olympic Test Meet podium training

rio-2016-olympic-mascot-album-4-227x300MAG competition starts Saturday. MAG podium training Thursday. WAG podium Friday. Schedule.

I’ll be tweeting LIVE @GymCoaching.

FIG mini-site | Olympic site

Final places for the 2016 Olympic Games in play at the Test Event April 16-22 in Rio