197.80 Arizona State – UCLA 195.425

The Bruins truly need to try to right the ship.

IOC must set minimum Olympic age

It’s stupid and inconsistent to have different age requirements for the Olympic sports.

Especially if you can’t enforce Olympic rules for athletes under age-16.

By Paris the minimum age should be 16. Or even age-18.

The Recent Rise of Child Athletes in the Olympic Games

TOKYO, JAPAN – AUGUST 04: Bronze medalist Sky Brown (age 13) of Team Great Britain (right), Gold medalist Sakura Yosozumi of Team Japan (center) and Silver medalist Kokona Hiraki (age 13) of Team Japan (left) pose after the Women’s Skateboarding Park Finals on day twelve of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Ariake Urban Sports Park on August 04, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

MyKayla Skinner to Ninja Warrior

… she will be competing on the newest season of “American Ninja Warrior” — Season 14 — alongside her husband Jonas Harmer.

The couple will be participating in an all new event: the Ninja Warrior couples’ competition. …

Deseret

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Utah 198.0 on Pride / Olympian Night

Season high.

The Utes celebrated both equal opportunity for all AND Olympians.

Opinion polling has shown an increase in support for LGBT rights in the state. A 2017 Public Religion Research Institute poll showed that 44% of Utah residents supported same-sex marriage, a significant increase from the early 2000s. …

Ski Jumping Judging Bias

Ski jumping competitions involve subjective evaluations by judges from different countries.

This may lead to nationalistic bias, according to which judges assign higher scores to their compatriots.

To test this claim empirically, we exploit within-performance variation of scores from all World Cup, World Championship, and Olympic Games competitions between the 2010/11 and 2016/17 seasons. (15,000 jumps)

Our findings confirm that judges assign significantly higher scores to their compatriots. The magnitude of this nationalistic bias is significantly higher in more corrupt countries.

We do not find that judges assign significantly different scores to jumpers whose compatriots are present on the judging panel. …

March 2021 – Scandinavian Journal of Economics – Nationalistic Bias among International Experts: Evidence from Professional Ski Jumping

Most biased were the Russian judges. Judges from Finland and Norway showed no bias.

Sari Thaler – Floor

The senior finally gets to show off her beautiful Floor routine.

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Canada’s Cory Paterson retired

Super competitor and dependable teammate for so many years on Team Canada and Iowa in the NCAA.

Quebec put together a career retrospective video. Cory will stay involved in the sport in leadership roles.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Suni DID compete 1/2-on, Fwd Layout

As a competitive Vault, that’s crazy. SO difficult to land consistently.

I’d argue it’s even tougher than the Handspring Fwd Layouts we’ve seen a few times in NCAA.

When I saw it in training online I ASSuMEd she was using it as a “timer” — and would add twists later.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter. Spencer would have given  9.8 though she was scored 9.925.

50 Most Artistic Gymnasts

The edition of Inside Gymnastics I most look forward to each year.