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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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.

NBC loves women’s Gymnastics

everyone knows Helen Kevric now

The new German superstar.

AA and Bars finalist in Paris.

Men’s TEAM FINAL recap

… a classic come-from-behind victory as top qualifier People’s Republic of China collapsed in the final moments of the competition.

Hashimoto Daiki, Kaya Kazuma, Oka Shinnosuke, Sugino Takaaki, and Tanigawa Wataru accumulated a golden score of 259.594 points after China erased a three-point advantage on Horizontal Bar, its final apparatus.

The USA was magnificent to edge Great Britain and Ukraine for bronze, its first Olympic medal in the men’s team event in 16 years. …

… gold was China’s to lose heading into the final rotation. Stellar routines from superstars like Liu Yang on Still Rings, Zou Jingyuan on Parallel Bars, and All-Around excellence from Zhang Boheng put them in a great position. Heading into the sixth and final rotation, China was still 3.2 points ahead.

Then came Horizontal Bar, where a botched dismount from Xiao Ruoteng erased some of China’s advantage and two falls from Su Weide ate up the rest of it, leaving a stunned China to accept silver. 

Daiki Hashimoto & Zhang Boheng

The two best in the sport are so respectful of one another.

It’s inspiring.

Here Daiki is calling for the Olympic Team Final crowd to settle down before China’s final routine on H Bar.