problems with Rio’s Athletes Village

The AOC (Australian Olympic Committee )arrived in Rio on the weekend, hoping to move into its village digs on Sunday.

Instead, staff will continue to work from a nearby hotel. The first Australian athletes, boxers and canoeists, also were scheduled to move into the village on Sunday. Contingency arrangements were being made as dawn broke in Rio. “From what we’ve seen,” said a spokesman, “you wouldn’t put people in there yet.” …

Rio Olympics 2016: athletes’ village ‘unliveable’

4for4 Rio Team predictions

4for4 has updated their projection. Note that this was done before the announcement on whether or not Russia will be competing.

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Compare with another projection – Team E-Score Analysis.

Kerri Strug interview

Interesting.

Kerri Strug: ‘I was supposed to land the vault. Anything else would have been unacceptable.’

Strug

I’m reading The Sports Gene. One section talks about how athletes do not feel pain during extreme sports focus.

Chinese divers in Rio

They won six gold medals at the 2012 London Games and seven in Beijing, so a golden sweep of the eight Olympic diving events (men’s and women’s individual three-meter springboard and 10-meter platform, synchronized three-meter springboard and 10-meter platform) in Rio isn’t out of the question for the Chinese. …

China a threat to sweep gold medals in Rio Olympics

China's Qiu Bo ahead of the Men's 10m Platform Final
China’s Qiu Bo ahead of the Men’s 10m Platform Final

Giants at age-79

Bruno Klaus

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age of female gymnasts in Rio

Via papaliukin.

http://papaliukin.tumblr.com/post/147769351159/cristygen-candycoateddoom

See more stats on 4for4.info.

GymCastic – The Russian Situation

I quite enjoyed episode #206 of the audiocast from last week. It’s always entertaining when Spencer from The Balance Beam Situation is on the show.

Angelina