Tokyo Olympics by the numbers

196 gymnasts including 9 Olympic gold medallists from Games reaching as far back as 1992.

UCHIMURA Kohei (JPN / Gold All-Around, 2012 and 2016, Gold Team 2016, and 4 silver medals: All-Around 2008, Team 2008, Floor Exercise 2012, and Team 2012)

Max WHITLOCK (GBR / Gold Floor Exercise and Pommel Horse, 2016, and three bronze medals: All-Around 2016, Pommel Horse 2012, and Team 2012)

Eleftherios PETROUNIAS (GRE / Gold Still Rings, 2016)

Arthur ZANETTI (BRA / Gold Still Rings, 2012, and Silver Still Rings, 2016)

YANG Hakseon (KOR / Gold Vault, 2012)

Epke ZONDERLAND (NED / Gold Horizontal Bar, 2012)

Simone BILES (USA / All-Around, Team, Vault, and Floor Exercise, 2016; also Bronze Balance Beam, 2016)

Sanne WEVERS (NED / Balance Beam, 2016)

Oksana CHUSOVITINA (UZB / Team, 1992; also Silver on Vault, 2008)

3 new MAG skills in Tokyo

Brody Malone (USA) and Ludovico Edalli (ITA) – P Bars
Free Hip to handstand on 1-bar, Heally down.

Ilia Kovtun (UKR) – P Bars
Forward upwise with Stutz or salto backward to 1-bar handstand (like Peters)

Samir Ait Said (FRA) – Rings
Description: Roll backward slowly with straight arms and body to handstand through swallow.

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Suni’s Bars in podium

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Simone’s YDP in Podium

HUGE.

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IOC recognizes International Cheer Union

Six organizations were recognized as the official representatives of their sport for the International Olympic Committee:

– International Cheer Union (ICU)

– International Federation of Muaythai Associations (IFMA)

– International Sambo Federation (FIAS)

– International Federation Icestocksport (IFI)

– World Association of Kickboxing Organisations (WAKO)

– World Lacrosse (WL)

The International Cheer Union was founded 2004.

Membership includes 116 national cheer federations on all continents – reaching over 5 million athletes globally.

Unlike some other major Cheer organizations, ICU is non-profit.

They offer coach education and certification. Officials and judge training.

CheerUnion.org

Simone’s G.O.A.T. emoji

Twitter is launching a new GOAT (aka “greatest of all time”) emoji specifically for the 24-year-old Olympian on Wednesday.

The tiny illustrated goat is wearing a red leotard with a gold medal around its neck.

Biles is the first Olympian to receive a custom emoji from Twitter.

It will populate automatically when Twitter users post messages with the hashtags “#SimoneBiles” or “#Simone” throughout the Olympic Games, which kick off Friday and continue through August 8.

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Men’s Olympic Podium training

UPDATES from Tokyo:

Astonishingly, Dalaloyan says he will be the 4th man on floor and vault in qualifying. Will only compete if one of the three ahead has a problem. We’d assumed he’d not be doing either leg event because of his recent Achilles injury. (Read an interview from Tokyo.)

David Rumbutis (SWE) warmed up quad twist on FX.

A lot of men had trouble landing their HUGE vaults. The Spring Board was a concern for some. But Shek Wai-hung  (HNG) looks ready to medal.

The weak apparatus for host Japan is Rings. Not much difficulty.

As always, it’s a mistake to read too much into MAG podium training. Many gymnasts save their 100% efforts for the competition.

All Around episode #11

Angelina Melnikova, Morgan Hurd, Chen Yile.

Sad.

Only Angelina got through to the Olympics.

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