Valeri on Team Brazil

I don’t want team to be stressed, says Brazil WAG coach Liukin

related – WHAT TO EXPECT FROM BRAZIL AT DOHA (Portuguese)

Sam’s looking to medal in Doha

Read the interview by Blythe Lawrence:

… If all goes according to plan, Mikulak will be a multiple-event medal threat in the Middle East.

He’s posted one of the highest all-around scores in the world so far this year — an 87.75 as he won his fifth U.S. men’s title back in August — a mark slightly above six-time world champion Kohei Uchimura’s best on the season, according to a database kept by thegymnter.net. That alone makes him a viable candidate for an all-around medal, provided he can deliver six clean routines on the day of the competition.

He’s also made Olympic finals on floor, vault and high bar, where he finished just off the podium in Rio in 2016.

With Gymnastics Worlds Approaching, Sam Mikulak Feels Like This Is His Year For First Individual Medal

YOG highlights reel

Olympic.org put together a multi-sport highlights video. It’s not yet on their YouTube channel as I post.

It looks quite the success.

Click on the image to watch it.

Jim Thorpe’s shoes at the Olympics

Associated Press named him the “greatest athlete” from the first 50 years of the 20th century.

Here’s a great story – triumphing over racism and adversity.

James Francis Thorpe (Sac and Fox (Sauk): Wa-Tho-Huk, translated as “Bright Path” … was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist.

A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe became the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States.

Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals in the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon, and played American football (collegiate and professional), professional baseball, and basketball.

He lost his Olympic titles after it was found he had been paid for playing two seasons of semi-professional baseball before competing in the Olympics, thus violating the amateurism rules that were then in place. In 1983, 30 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) restored his Olympic medals. …

Worlds podium training

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Hurricane Michael Gymnastics clinic

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