Olympics day 1 – Men’s prelims

12 teams of four and 50 individual qualifiers are competing in 3 qualification subdivisions.

LIVE scoring.

Xiao Ruoteng – Floor

One of the routines with GOOD form in the qualifying round.

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Zou Jingyuan – P Bars

Prelims.

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documentary on CAN Olympic team

Up in the Air

NOTE – The 47 minute documentary is now available online free, for those who appear to be in Canada. 😇

Click over to CBC to watch.

OR … click PLAY or watch a preview on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/EllieBlack_/status/1417229086318022660

Novak Djokovic can do splits

Novak Djokovic is the #1 ranked tennis player in the world.

And won the bronze medal in this splits contest with Nina Derwael at the Olympics. 😀

6 new WAG skills in Tokyo

Ava Stewart, CAN – Bars
Double salto forward piked dismount

Sanne Wevers. NED – Beam turn

Lieke Wevers, NED – Floor turn

Lieke Wevers, NED – Floor turn #2

Simone Biles, USA – Vault
Double salto forward piked dismount

Jade Carey, USA – Floor
Double layout with 3/1 twist

Details.

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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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