tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
Interesting arm action.
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Olivier Rochon completed the most difficult skill in Korea, but did not land it cleanly enough to medal. He finished 5th.
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Ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir were named Canada’s flag-bearers for the opening ceremony of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games.
White’s winning run Saturday included two of the toughest tricks on the halfpipe — the Double McTwist 1260 that he patented and the frontside double cork 1440. …
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Though I feel badly for all the innocent athletes, coaches and support officials in Russia, a penalty this severe was necessary if anti-doping is to be enforced.
IT HAS taken seven investigative reports and seven years. But at long last the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided on December 5th to punish Russia for running a state-sponsored doping programme …
Russian athletes hoping to compete will have to do so carrying the Olympic flag and singing the Olympic anthem—if they can prove that they are clean. …
The decision is more embarrassing for Vitaly Mutko, Mr Putin’s deputy and the former minister for sport, who has been barred from the Olympics for life. Mr Mutko is also in charge of next year’s football World Cup, which Russia is hosting. …
Economist – Russia’s overdue Olympic ban is no cure for anti-doping impotence
Russian denials, including those of Svetlana Khorkina, are mostly wrong.
Russia should quit state sponsored doping. Putin must give that order.
related – Guardian – Of course Russian sport is corrupt, but then so are the Olympics
Creating the new show CRYSTAL.
Looks very cool. 🙂
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Quebec City Dec 13-17, 2017.
Then short stops at cities in the N.E. with ticket prices as low as $33.
A new trailer is out. NSFW
This might seem a goof. Like The Bronze. But it’s not so far off the truth.
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With regard to the situation on the Korean Peninsula, the (IOC) Summit expressed its appreciation that the IOC has been in close contact for many months already with the governments and National Olympic Committees (NOCs) concerned. The Summit took note that none of them has called the Olympic Games PyeongChang 2018 into question.
The safety and security of the athletes are of course the top priority for everyone in the Olympic Movement …
There are at least 150,000 Americans living in South Korea. The USA is not likely to do anything to endanger those citizens.
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