Rhys McClenaghan – Olympic Champion

In the most competitive apparatus final, Rhys takes home the Gold medal to Ireland.

Double defending Olympic Champ, Max Whitlock, had the highest difficulty, but it wasn’t enough to podium this time.

1. Rhys McClenaghan, Ireland, 15.533
2. Nariman Kurbanov, Kazakhstan, 15.433
3. Stephen Nedoroscik, United States, 15.300
4. Max Whitlock, Great Britain, 15.200
5. Oleg Verniaiev, Ukraine, 14.966
6. Sugino Takaaki, Japan, 14.933
7. Hur Woong, South Korea, 14.300
8. Loran de Munck, Netherlands, 13.733

Olympic Vault Final – Simone, Rebeca, Jade

The medalist order most predicted.

No controversy today.

1. Simone Biles, United States, 15.300
2. Rebeca Andrade, Brazil, 14.966
3. Jade Carey, United States, 14.466
4. An Chang Ok, North Korea, 14.216
5. Valentina Georgieva, Bulgaria, 13.983
6. Ellie Black, Canada, 13.933
7. Yeo Seojeong, South Korea, 13.416
8. Shallon Olsen, Canada, 13.366

Yurchenko Double Pike should be valued much higher, in my opinion.

Olympic Floor Champ – Carlos Yulo

1. Carlos Yulo, Philippines, 15.000
2. Artem Dolgopyat, Israel, 14.966
3. Jake Jarman, Great Britain, 14.933
4. Illia Kovtun, Ukraine, 14.533
5. Milad Karimi, Kazakhstan, 14.500
6. Luke Whitehouse, Great Britain, 14.466
7. Rayderley Zapata, Spain, 14.333
8. Zhang Boheng, China, 13.933

Judges will be arguing the rank order of the top three — look at those scores!

Personally, I’m happy to see Yulo and Philippines leave Paris with a Gold medal.

Who WON the Olympics? 😀

explaining why Kaylia Nemour competes for Algeria, not France

Click through to a Twitter thread detailing the timeline of how France mismanaged enough to drive one of their top athletes to compete for another nation.

Litvinovich Defends Olympic Tramp Title

Ivan Litvinovich won in Tokyo and Paris.

He plans to train for 2028.

He is a two-time World champion (2019, 2021).

One of the Belarus athletes IOC considered had not supported Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

Read the FIG wrap-up post.

Simone: “I love my black job”

Old former President Trump spoke last week to Black journalists telling them that immigrants are taking “Black jobs.”

He should learn to read a room. That’s not what that group wanted to hear.

Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), was one of the many uninformed who criticized Simone for withdrawing from the Tokyo Olympics for safety reasons related to mental health.

“I love my black job”: Simone Biles takes apparent dig at Trump

I fear that American ReTrumplicans are going to disparage the L.A. Olympics 2028.

Trump helped with that bid — but it seems on brand for him to hate the Olympics as he hates most everything, aside from the rich.



IOC statement on Women’s Boxing

Two female boxers being criticized online are competitors in good standing with the IOC. They’ve competed for many years and meet all eligibility criteria.

Certainly the International Boxing Association bungles many things, this being simply the most recent. If I was on the IOC I’d vote to drop that sport from Olympic competition.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Women’s Olympic Trampoline Final

Bryony Page now has GOLD, SILVER, and BRONZE Olympic medals.