… video graphic of Summer Olympic Medal counts by country from 1896 – 2012. The Y-axis is the percentage of gold medals and the X-axis is the total medals won.
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Acrobatic Gymnasts on the beach
CHINA Olympic Gymnastics promos
Blossom linked to videos from 2008 and 2012.
The 2008 video is over-the-top, but entertaining.
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The 2012 equivalent is OK … but includes a non-Chinese gymnast. … Can you spot her?
China cheating again? 🙂 … Perhaps we need start the rumour that Zou Kai is actually underage. He looks about age-14 NOW.
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top gymnasts 2009-2012 Quad
According to hrrrmttt .
Aliya Mustafina
Aly Raisman
Viktoria Komova & McKayla Maroney
Sui Lu & Jordyn Wieber & Ksenia Afansyeva & Deng Linlin
Gabby Douglas & Rebecca Bross
Click through to check the math.
Most Successful Individual Gymnasts from the 2009-2012 Quadrennium
bookie dupes Sam Oldham’s granny
Bookmakers refuse to pay out grandmother’s medal bet despite Sam Oldham’s gymnastics bronze at London 2012
The grandmother of Olympic gymnastics bronze medallist Sam Oldham has lost out on a 200/1 bet that her grandson would win a medal after bookmakers refused to pay out because it was a team – rather than an individual – medal. …
The Independent Betting Adjudication Service (IBAS) is discussing the matter with the cheap cheats — Betfred.
Here’s a photo of the wager itself.
Is all this bad press worth £1000, Betfred?
I don’t think so. Sam’s a National hero.
Aliya collects $311,488 + Audi
Sergei Sobyanin, Mayor of Moscow, today awarded money … to Muscovites that won medals at the Olympics!
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Aliya was awarded 4 million rubles for the Gold, 2.5 million for the Silver, and two 1.7 million ruble certificates for her bronze medals! That comes to a total of 9.9 million rubles.. worth $311,488 USD. Wow! And let’s not forget about the Audi! Congrats Aliya!
It’s not only the American Olympians making serious coin. 🙂
home made wall bars
I stopped by Bounce in Hartland, Michigan, to check out these amazing home made wall bars. In person.
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related – construction photos posted on Facebook.
Some European coaches can do ALL their strength and flexibility improvement work on wall bars. They are not nearly as popular in North America.
women can’t run the Marathon
That’s what they told Kathrine Switzer. She disagreed, the first woman to run Boston in 1967.
… on that bus were co-race directors Will Cloney and Jock Semple. …
Jock was well known for his violent temper. He seethed for awhile, and then he erupted. He jumped off the bus and went after me. I saw him just before he pounced, and let me tell you, I was scared to death. He was out of control. I jumped away from him as he grabbed for me, but he caught me by the shoulder and spun me around, and screamed, ‘Get the hell out of my race and give me that race number.’ I tried to get away from him but he had me by the shirt. It was like being in a bad dream. Arnie tried to wrestle Jock away from me but was having a hard time himself and then Tom, my 235-pound boyfriend came to the rescue and smacked Jock with a cross body block and Jock went flying through the air.
At first, I thought we had killed him. I was stunned and didn’t know what to do, but then Arnie just looked at me and said, ‘Run like hell,’ and I did as the photographers snapped away and the scribes recorded the event for posterity. …
… Switzer was the women’s winner of the 1974 New York City Marathon, with a time of 3:07:29 (59th overall).Her personal best time for the marathon distance is 2:51:37, at Boston in 1975. …She was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 2011 for creating a social revolution by empowering women around the world through running. …
Switzer was named Female Runner of the Decade (1967-77) by Runner’s World Magazine and received an Emmy for her work as a television commentator.
Taiso Gymnastics, Saskatoon
Trevor sends a link to this Taiso Gymnastics 2011-12 compilation. More goofing than Gym. Some wipeouts. Some laughs.
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That’s the home gym of Canadian National Team members Jayd Lukenchuk and Anderson Loran.
McKayla Maroney – bodyguard
… “It has been a bit frightening. We have had marriage proposals; my daughter is 16,” her mother, Erin, Maroney told Mail Online.
“We have hired specialist security guards to make sure McKayla is never on her own. We don’t want another Shawn Johnson situation to happen.”
Johnson was another Olympic gold medalist who was stalked by 34-year-old Robert O’Ryan. …
Is this really necessary? 😦
(via Couch Gymnast)
