lazy Olympic sport reporting

Every 4 years, the mainstream media tries to cover Olympic Gymnastics. 😁

Brave but foolish. It would be like me trying to write about Short Track Racewalking.

The inevitable mistakes are good for an insider laugh, but we should try not to get irked. Gymnastics needs MORE media coverage, not less.

Professional baseball players are paid millions / year. Gymnasts who train much harder are mostly paid nothing.

Spencer put together his Best.Post.Ever mocking a lamestream article. Don’t miss this one.

SIMONE BILES GOT A NEGATIVE ZERO AT GUMNERSTICS. YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT.

Olympic Sport Climber Shauna Coxsey

Sport climbing is one of five sports to make its Olympic debut in Tokyo and will be contested from 4 to 7 August. …

… three disciplines – speed, bouldering and lead. …

All athletes compete across the three disciplines with the lowest combined scores deciding the final standings.

Shauna Coxsey named as first Team GB sport climber

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Varna World Cup MAG results

  1. Aurel BENOVIC (CRO) 14.950
  2. Artem DOLGOPYAT (ISR) 14.950
  3. Hayden ANDREW SKINNER (GBR) 14.600

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Pommels
1- Illia KOVTUN (UKR) 14.550
2- Edoardo DE ROSA (ITA) 14.450
3- Abdulla AZIMOV (UZB) 14.150

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Rings
1- Vinzenz HOECK (AUT) 14.800
2- Salvatore MARESCA (ITA) 14.700
3- Marco SARRUGERIO (ITA) 14.450

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Vault
1- Nazar CHEPURNY (UKR) 14.700
2- Marine DRAGULESCU (ROU) 14.525
3- Ivan TIKHONOV (AZE) 14.300

P Bars
1- Illia Kovtun (UKR) 15.100
2- Sergei ELTCOV (RUS) 14.950
3- Robert TVOROGAL (LIT) 14.350

H Bar
1- Tin SRBIC (CRO) 14.850
2- Carlo MACCHINI (ITA) 14.650
3- Krisztian BALAZS (HUN) 14.350
4- Robert TVOROGAL (LIT) 14.350

Varna World Cup results

Vault
1- Coline DEVILLARD (FRA) 14.150 (age 20)
2- Uliana PEREBINOSOVA (RUS) 13.950  (age 20)
3- Oksana CHUSOVITINA (UZB) 13.700 … (age 45) ✊

Bars
1- Uliana PEREBINOSOVA (RUS) 14.500
2- Diana VARINSKA (UKR) 14.200
3- Kelly Jay SIMM (GBR) 13.650

Beam
1- Anastasiia BACHYNSKA (UKR) 13.250
2- Marine BOYER (FRA) 13.000
3- Ondine ACHAMPONG (GBR) 12.900

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Floor
1- Dildora ARIPOVA (UZB) 13.150
1- Hann SZUJO (HUN) 13.150
3- Uliana PEREBINOSOVA (RUS) 13.100

Alexa Moreno for Toyota

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whip, whip, triple twist

SO … it is possible to keep form on triple.

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Aerobics Worlds Highlights

Many of us never see FIG Aerobic Gymnastics.

Take the time now to check out extreme aerobic fitness — they never seem to breath hard — as well as unique flexibility elements.

Click PLAY or watch a few highlights on YouTube.

Omar Mohamed & Uche Eke to Tokyo

The top 2 eligible AA competitors from African Championships (maximum 1/nation) earn Olympic spots.

One GOAL of the Olympics is worldwide participation.

Uche Eke is the first Olympian to represent Nigeria in Gymnastics.

I’m astonished an African nation as large and comparatively affluent has been so slow to develop the sport. Hopefully Uche will inspire progress.

Uche is actually from Maryland. Competed for Michigan.

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