“McKayla” good, “MyKayla” bad 😀

It’s easy for the general public to get confused.

summing up the Men’s Olympic AA Final

Oka Shinnosuke (JPN) is the new Olympic All-Around champion in Men’s Artistic Gymnastics, winning his second gold in three days and extending the Japanese winning streak in this event to a record four Olympic Games.

Seemingly immune to the pressures of an Olympic final, Oka was as steady as he was spectacular through six routines inside Bercy Arena on Wednesday. While the 20-year-old did not post the highest individual score on any apparatus, he proved the most consistent, which made the difference on what proved a challenging night for the pre-competition favourites. …

The men’s All-Around final was expected to be a showdown between 2021 World All-Around champion Zhang and Olympic and World champion Hashimoto, but mistakes from both early on changed the narrative.

Men’s Olympic AA RESULTS

A crazy day — with many of the podium contenders having falls and errors.

We thought the title would go to either ZHANG Boheng or defending champ HASHIMOTO Daiki.

But it was new superstar OKA Shinnosuke who put together a winning series of routines.

1. Oka Shinnosuke, Japan, 86.832
2. Zhang Boheng, China, 86.599
3. Xiao Ruoteng, China, 86.364
4. Illia Kovtun, Ukraine, 86.165
5. Joe Fraser, Great Britain, 85.532
6. Hashimoto Daiki, Japan, 84.598
7. Jake Jarman, Great Britain, 84.565
8. Oleg Verniaiev, Ukraine, 84.399
9. Krisztofer Meszaros, Hungary, 83.899
10. Matteo Giubellini, Switzerland, 83.332
11. Yumin Abbadini, Italy, 83.198
12. Carlos Yulo, Philippines, 83.032
13. Casimir Schmidt, Netherlands, 82.498
14. Paul Juda, United States, 82.197
15. Fred Richard, United States, 82.166
16. Florian Langenegger, Switzerland, 81.864
17. René Cournoyer, Canada, 81.733
18. Nils Dunkel, Germany, 81.697
19. Mario Macchiati, Italy, 81.497
20. Félix Dolci, Canada, 81.097
21. Jesse Moore, Australia, 80.430
22. Frank Rijken, Netherlands, 80.298
23. Diogo Soares, Brazil, 78.698
24. Milad Karimi, Kazakhstan, 76.065

Olympic Champion OKA Shinnosuke

I recall OKA Shinnosuke being amazing, winning the 2019 Junior Worlds.

Now age-20, he’s our new Olympic Champion.

Full results of the Men’s AA competition.

Simone – 120 paper cutouts

Cool.

“Golden Girls” are Olympic Champions 😀

when will AI help coaches?

Online VIDEO and YouTube in particular was the greatest technological innovation for coaches.

But what has Artificial Intelligence done for coaches, so far?

Coaching is so individualized, it might be one of the last domains for using AI.

Google is being criticized for this TV ad run during the Olympics. But I’m OK with it.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone is awesome.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

USA, Italy, Brazil

🥇 United States 171.296
🥈 Italy 165.494
🥉 Brazil 164.497

Congratulations.

Canada and especially GBR had excellent competitions. In fact, this was a very strong Team Final.

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Read Spencer’s LIVE blog.

Men’s Gymnastics #1 story on WaPo

Wow.

The Stephen Nedoroscik redemption to clinch an Olympic medal is resonating with the great unwashed general public. Let’s build on this moment MAG.