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.

Flavia is tough

With insufficient time to do a full concussion check after a Bars fall, Flavia went straight back to compete.

summing up the Olympic AA Final

Simone

With a four-apparatus total of 59.131 points, the 27-year-old joined legends Larisa Latynina (URS) and Vera Caslavska (TCH) Thursday as the only women to capture two Olympic titles in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics.

… silver medallist Rebeca Andrade (BRA) and bronze medallist Sunisa Lee (USA) …

… Andrade gave her a run for her money. She lead after two apparatus and finished only 1.199 points behind Biles — the smallest margin of any of Biles’s World or Olympic or All-Around victories since 2015.