Category: Trampoline

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. …

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Giulia
Giulia
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Rosie MacLennan leads team Canada into the stadium during the opening ceremonies at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Friday, Aug. 5, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Charlotte Drury update

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Charlotte Drury spent nearly seven years preparing for the Rio Olympics, and now she’s not sure if she’ll even watch them. …

The broken bone in her right ankle and the black boot covering it are a constant reminder of how close she came to representing the United States as its top trampoline gymnast.

“It was devastating, it still is devastating,” Drury said recently. …

Can you survive the crushing feeling of seeing your Olympic dream die?

Charlotte

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.

African Championships 2016

Trampoline World Rankings

Dmitry
Dmitry

MEN’s INDIVIDUAL TRAMPOLINE
1 RUS – USHAKOV Dmitry
2 BLR – HANCHAROU Uladzislou
3 CHN – DONG Dong
4 RUS – MELNIK Mikhail
5 POR – GANCHINHO Diogo
6 RUS – YUDIN Andrey
7 CHN – TU Xu
8 POR – ABREU Diogo
9 CHN – GAO Lei
10 FRA – MORANTE Allan

WOMEN’s INDIVIDUAL TRAMPOLINE
1 BLR – PIATRENIA Tatsiana
2 RUS – PAVLOVA Yana
3 CHN – LI Dan
4 BLR – HARCHONAK Hanna
5 CAN – MACLENNAN Rosie
5 RUS – KORNETSKAYA Anna
5 GEO – GOLOVINA Luba
8 CHN – ZHONG Xingping
9 GBR – DRISCOLL Katherine
10 POR – RENTE Anna

Trampoline Pundit

Tatsiana
Tatsiana

Rosie’s recovery from concussion

Olympic champion Rosie MacLennan details the process by which a trampolinist gets back to 100%.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

(via Phoenix)

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.

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Olympic gold medal gymnast Kohei Uchimura poses for a photo after a training session at the National Training Center in Tokyo, Japan, February 26, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
Olympic gold medal gymnast Kohei Uchimura poses for a photo after a training session at the National Training Center in Tokyo, Japan, February 26, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai

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.

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.

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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