tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
Update. Seems Tommy’s Mom, Virginia Ramos, has stated that there’s no engagement.
Original (wrong) post below:
Engaged.
Their children MUST be gymnasts.
Tommy Ramos is a Puerto Rican graduate of Architecture from Penn State. She retires with 5 Olympic medals.
Romanian news sites report they plan a cruise post-Olympics. And a small wedding in Romania.
The Russian became the first rhythmic gymnast to win two Olympic all-around titles, defending her gold medal from Beijing on Saturday. It caps a spectacular four years for Kanaeva, who also won the last three world titles, and gives Russia the last four Olympic individual titles. The Russians have a chance for another four-peat in Sunday’s group event, too.
Kanaeva posted the highest score in three of the four events and finished with 116.90 points. That was more than two points ahead of teammate Daria Dmitrieva. Liubou Charkashnya of Belarus won the bronze medal. …
It’s been a very good games for the smaller nations. So far the most successful countries are:
1 Grenada
2 Jamaica
3 Bahamas
4 New Zealand
5 Slovenia
6 Trinidad and Tobago
7 Denmark
8 Hungary
9 Estonia
10 Australia
… Jamaica, with its 50-athlete delegation and which has 10 medals to its credit. … one medal for every five athletes sent or 1:5. …
CBC – Medals per capita, GDP: Ranking the real Olympic superpowers
Thanks Jason.
A sneak peek of China’s Rio squad (VIDEOS):
Chinese National Junior Championships were held in Hangzhou in June, for girls 12-15. …
14-15 All around champion Zhu Siyan. She also won UB and FX.
12-13 AA champion Yuan Xiaoyang. She also won vault.
12-13 FX champion Liu Ying
12-13 UB champion Fan Yilin
12-13 UB 2nd place Luo Huan
And the already known
Lou Nina
Mei Jie
Wang Wei
Liu Zhilin
… Xie Wenwei. She.can.dance.period.
Obviously, Team China needs Vault / Tumblers if they want to compete for a Team medal in 4yrs.
Click PLAY or watch age 12-13 Vault Champ Yuan Xiaoyang on YouTube.
5.2 + 8.325 = 13.525
5.0 + 8.1 – 0.1 = 13.0Avg 13.262 – 1st
See more videos from that competition on the piibunina YouTube channel.
He’s so honest.
From a rsport.ru interview translation posted on “Fanatic“:
– Everyone is talking about the difficult nature of Aliya. When you started working with her, did you expect her to grow into a great gymnast and a champion?
– You know, I did not want to take her. I came, and they told me “Here’s this girl Mustafina who was left without a coach. She trains at CSKA (Central Sports Army Club) in the “not too promising” group”. …
…
– Would you say that she had been the most difficult student in your career?
– No, I had too difficult a time with Bilozerchev ( He is blaming himself here). I had to work with Boginskaya – another one who was a real treat (sarcastically). Do you think Komova is easy? For some reason there is a stereotype that Mustafina is the villain while Grishina is supposedly the perfect child. Absolutely not! And Komova works very hard, but all of them can get sulky. They also understand how nothing is given (how you must work for everything)!
And Aliya came over to me after the bronze medal in the all-around, and says: “Do you know what the journalists said? Valentina Rodionenko told them that I had no chance to win anything here, except on bars”. What could I say to say to that? The interview was given before the Olympics. Why? I wish/I should have gone and apologized in her (Rodionenko’s) place/ behalf….
Here’s another translation of the article.
Alexandrov is the best interview in gymnastics these days.
Has Valentina Rodionenko finally been muzzled? … I hope so.
Language warning.
In London, McKayla collected a Silver with this.
1. IZBASA
2. MARONEY
3. PASEKA
4. BERGER
5. CHUSOVITINA
6. PENA ABREU
Many want a Code of Points where a fall in the final drops you off the podium.
Lauren Hopkins on Couch Gymnast:
If the 2012 Olympic Games used the proposed (2016) code rather than this quadrennium’s code, the standings would look something like this:
1. Sandra Izbasa (ROM) – 14.433
2. Maria Paseka (RUS) – 14.050
3. Janine Berger (GER) – 13.8844. McKayla Maroney (USA) – 13.766
5. Oksana Chusovitina (GER) – 13.360
6. Brittany Rogers (CAN) – 12.960[(SV V1 + SV V2) / 2] + [10.0 – (V1 + V2 deductions)] = Score
… It’s also interesting to note that had this “execution over difficulty”-based vault finals code existed in 2008, Alicia Sacramone would have won gold with her Rudi and DTY.
related – korbutflip – Vault standings if the 2013 COP were in place
The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook:
FIG EXECUTIVE COMMITTEEAugust 5 – 7, 2012 – London (GBR)
After reading and discussing the 2013 – 2016 Codes of Points, the Executive Committee has approved the documents for Men’s and Women’s Artistic and Trampoline Gymnastics.
The Acrobatic and Aerobic Codes will be approved by the Presidential Commission after their respective committee meetings. Upon request by the Executive, the Code for Rhythmic will undergo further modification prior to approval by the Presidential Commission …
The next FIG Executive Committee meeting is scheduled in Cancun (MEX), October 23 – 24, 2012.
A voting delegate from each FIG nation will be funded to vote in the elections.
A tribute.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
I love the music, originally the score for the wonderful film Bless the Beasts and Children (1971). It was nominated for both an Academy Award and Grammy.
There were many “perfect 10s” in international competition before those Olympics, actually. But that’s when the perfect 10 gained the attention of a worldwide TV audience.
The Fierce Five will be financially rewarded for their Gold Team medal in London. No worries.
What about Team Russia?
… The silver that Afanasyeva won with her teammates got her a brand new Audi A7 Sportback car worth 2 million 390 thousand rubles, roughly around $75,000 USD. …
I expect the girls will do very, very well in Putin’s Russia.
