Beacon, the USAG “therapeutic companion”

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Introducing Beacon: The dog that helps the U.S. gymnastics team after Simone Biles’ mental health problems

inspiring kids to do Gymnastics

Handing out medals to just a few is only one small goal of the Olympic Movement.

Motivating children to do sport — I’d argue — is much more important.

Simone did not win Olympic Floor

What!?

🥇 Rebeca Andrade 🇧🇷 14.166
🥈 Simone Biles 🇺🇸 14.133
🥉 Jordan Chiles 🇺🇸 13.766

Olympic H Bar Final was …

More falls and errors than I expected.

Angel is the youngest competitor in the Men’s competition.

Olympic Beam Champion Alice D’Amato

Too. Many. Falls.

P Bars God Zou Jinguan

Greatest of all time is now even greater all time.

Olympic Apparatus Finals 2

Rings

As expected, China dominated Rings as they have for many years now. France narrowly 4th.

1. Liu Yang, China, 15.300
2. Zou Jingyuan, China, 15.233
3. Eleftherios Petrounias, Greece, 15.100
4. Samir Aït Saïd, France, 15.000

Bars

The most anticipated WAG Final did not disappoint. Most agree that Kaylia was the deserving champion. I’d argue she’s the greatest Bars worker of all time.

1. Kaylia Nemour, Algeria, 15.700
2. Qiu Qiyuan, China, 15.500
3. Sunisa Lee, United States, 14.800
4. Nina Derwael, Belgium, 14.766
5. Alice D’Amato, Italy, 14.733

Vault

Everyone’s favourite gymnast, Carlos Yulo, won both Floor and Vault in Paris. He’s a past world champion on both — but the competition was fierce on both in Paris.

1. Carlos Yulo, Philippines, 15.116
2. Artur Davtyan, Armenia, 14.966
3. Harry Hepworth, Great Britain, 14.949

Read the FIG wrap post.

Olympic Champ Kaylia Nemour, Algeria

Does Kaylia EVER miss.

So great. So consistent.

Olympic Vault Champ – Carlos Yulo

An amazing Final.

AND this should put away any discussion of whether or not Yulo should have switched coaches this cycle.