NBC Gymnastics commentators

No Nastia.

Terry Gannon, Play-by-Play (Primetime Show)

  • 7th overall NBC Olympics assignment and second consecutive for gymnastics

Tim Daggett, Analyst (Primetime Show)

  • 10th overall NBC Olympics assignment; 9th time serving as NBC Olympics’ gymnastics analyst
  • Two-time Olympic medalist at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, including gold in the team event

Samantha Peszek, Analyst (Primetime Show)

  • Makes NBC Olympic broadcast debut
  • Member of silver medal-winning U.S. women’s gymnastics team at 2008 Beijing Olympics; member of gold medal-winning U.S. team at 2007 World Championships
  • Three-time NCAA champion at UCLA

John Roethlisberger, Analyst/Reporter (Primetime Show)

  • 2nd Olympic assignment after debuting in Tokyo
  • Three-time U.S. Olympic gymnast (1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta, 2000 Sydney), four-time U.S. all-around champion, and four-time U.S. pommel horse champion

Zora Stephenson, Reporter (Live Daytime and Primetime Show)

  • 3rd Olympics with NBC Sports, previously serving as social media host for 2022 Beijing Olympics and basketball reporter at Tokyo Olympics in 2021; also working as sideline reporter for second week of Team USA Men’s and Women’s Olympic basketball games this summer

Rich Lerner, Play-by-Play (Live Daytime)

  • 4th NBC Olympics assignment after debuting in Rio

Laurie Hernandez, Analyst (Live Daytime)

  • 2nd NBC Olympics assignment after debuting in Tokyo
  • Part of gold medal-winning “Final Five” team at 2016 Rio Olympics, where she also won silver medal on balance beam

Justin Spring, Analyst (Live Daytime)

  • Makes NBC Olympics debut
  • Member of bronze medal-winning U.S. men’s gymnastics team at 2008 Beijing Olympics; four-time NCAA individual champion at Illinois

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Athlete-Centered approach by Hiroaki SATO

Hiro is Japan’s MAG Head Coach. And former personal coach to Kohei Uchimura.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

U.S. gymnasts competing Olympics for other nations

You probably recall the disaster that was Nellie Kim, President of the FIG Women’s Technical Committee, pushing for American Kylie Dickson to compete for Belarus in Rio.

It was one of Nellie Kim’s many ethical disasters.

But I’d argue that — more often than not — having a gymnast from a bigger nation represent a smaller nation DOES help Gymnastics there. For example, I fully expect WAG to boom over the next couple of Olympic cycles in Philippines.

Should these athletes have qualified to Paris?

  1. Phillipines – Aleah Finnegan
  2. Phillipines – Emma Malabuyo
  3. Phillipines – Levi Jung-Ruivivar
  4. Colombia – Luisa Blanco
  5. Haiti – Lynnzee Brown
  6. Syria – Lais Naijjar (MAG)
  7. Bulgaria – Kevin Penev

Read a thoughtful article by Caroline Price in Forbes:

Americans In Paris: Nationality Changes Shaping Olympic Gymnastics

2024 Olympics Paris

JaFree Scott – 3 Tkachev series

The most connected Tkachevs I’ve ever seen shown by a female gymnast.

British Olympic Teams

 Max Whitlock OBE, Joe Fraser, Jake Jarman, Harry Hepworth and Luke Whitehouse.

Reserves James Hall, Courtney Tulloch.

Alice Kinsella, Becky Downie MBE, Georgia-Mae Fenton, Ruby Evans and Abigail Martin.

Reserves Ruby Stacey, Charlotte Booth and Corey Walkes.

And your Team GB Paris 2024 gymnasts are…


Cleo Washington, Sarah Korngold, Owen Field interviewed

Cleo Washington, co-coach of 2017 all-around World Champion Morgan Hurd; Sarah Korngold, current coach of team World Champion Shilese Jones; and Owen Field, coach of team World Champion Leanne Wong and also associate head coach at Florida University.

An informative interview for every coach.

Consensus was that Valeri was excellent when he had the role of Development Coordinator.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Stephen Nedoroscik – Pommels

Nagorny sanctioned by USA

The gymnast most active in supporting Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is Nikita Nagorny.

He’s top of the list to be sanctioned.