Category: Rhythmic

Russian gymnasts NOT banned from the Olympics

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.

BBC

Russia Olympics

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

Russian gymnasts should NOT be banned from Rio

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?

IOC Executive Board member blasts USADA and CCES for calling for blanket Rio 2016 ban on Russian athletes in leaked letter

For the record, the Olympic boycotts of 1980 and 1984 were also terribly unfair to completely innocent athletes.

Mustafina

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.

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