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IMAGINARY SUMMER OLYMPICS - Poll #30 - Athletics - Men's 10,000m; Athletics - Women's 10,000m; Swimming - Men's 100m Backstroke; Gymnastics Artistic - Men's Horizontal Bar; Gymnastics Artistic - Women's Balance Beam


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IMAGINARY SUMMER OLYMPICS - Poll #30 - Athletics - Men's 10,000m; Athletics - Women's 10,000m; Swimming - Men's 100m Backstroke; Gymnastics Artistic - Men's Horizontal Bar; Gymnastics Artistic - Women's Balance Beam  

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  1. 1. Event #121 - Athletics - Men's 10,000m

    • Hannes Kolehmainen FIN 1912
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    • Paavo Nurmi FIN 1920 1928
    • Ville Ritola FIN 1924
      0
    • Janusz Kusociński POL 1932
      0
    • Ilmari Salminen FIN 1936
      0
    • Emil Zatopek TCH / CZE 1948 1952
    • Vladimir Kuts URS / UKR 1956
      0
    • Pyotr Bolotnikov URS / RUS 1960
      0
    • Billy Mills USA 1964
      0
    • Naftali Temu KEN 1968
      0
    • Lasse Viren FIN 1972 1976
      0
    • Miruts Yifter ETH 1980
      0
    • Alberto Cova ITA 1984
      0
    • Brahim Boutayeb MAR 1988
      0
    • Khalid Skah MAR 1992
    • Haile Gebrselassie ETH 1996 2000
    • Kenenisa Bekele ETH 2004 2008
    • Mo Farah GBR 2012 2016
    • Selemon Barega ETH 2020
      0
    • I WILL PASS THIS EVENT
      0
  2. 2. Event #122 - Athletics - Women's 10,000m

    • Olga Bondarenko URS / RUS 1988
      0
    • Derartu Tulu ETH 1992 2000
    • Fernanda Ribeiro POR 1996
      0
    • Xing Huina CHN 2004
      0
    • Tirunesh Dibaba ETH 2008 2012
    • Almaz Ayana ETH 2016
    • Sifan Hassan NED 2020
    • I WILL PASS THIS EVENT
      0
  3. 3. Event #123 - Swimming - Men's 100m Backstroke

    • Arno Bieberstein GER 1908
      0
    • Harry Hebner USA 1912
      0
    • Warren Kealoha USA 1920 1924
      0
    • George Kojac USA 1928
      0
    • Masaji Kiyokawa JPN 1932
      0
    • Adolph Kiefer USA 1936
      0
    • Allen Stack USA 1948
      0
    • Yoshi Oyakawa USA 1952
      0
    • David Theile AUS 1956 1960
      0
    • Roland Matthes GDR / GER 1968 1972
    • John Naber USA 1976
      0
    • Bengt Baron SWE 1980
      0
    • Rick Carey USA 1984
      0
    • Daichi Suzuki JPN 1988
      0
    • Mark Tewksbury CAN 1992
    • Jeff Rouse USA 1996
      0
    • Lenny Krayzelburg USA 2000
      0
    • Aaron Peirsol USA 2004 2008
    • Matt Grevers USA 2012
    • Ryan Murphy USA 2016
      0
    • Evgeny Rylov ROC / RUS 2020
    • I WILL PASS THIS EVENT
  4. 4. Event #124 - Gymnastics Artistic - Men's Horizontal Bar

    • Hermann Weingartner GER 1896
      0
    • Anton Heida USA 1904
      0
    • Edward Hennig USA 1904
      0
    • Leon Stukelj YUG / SLO 1924
      0
    • Georges Miez SUI 1928
      0
    • Dallas Bixler USA 1932
      0
    • Aleksanteri Saarvala FIN 1936
      0
    • Josef Stalder SUI 1948
      0
    • Jack Gunthard SUI 1952
      0
    • Takashi Ono JPN 1956 1960
      0
    • Boris Shakhlin URS / RUS 1964
      0
    • Akinori Nakayama JPN 1968
      0
    • Mikhail Voronin URS / RUS 1968
      0
    • Mitsuo Tsukahara JPN 1972 1976
    • Stoyan Deltchev BUL 1980
      0
    • Shinji Morisue JPN 1984
      0
    • Vladimir Artemov URS / RUS 1988
      0
    • Valeri Liukin URS / RUS 1988
      0
    • Trent Dimas USA 1992
      0
    • Andreas Wecker GER 1996
      0
    • Alexei Nemov RUS 2000
      0
    • Igor Cassina ITA 2004
    • Zou Kai CHN 2008
      0
    • Epke Zonderland NED 2012
    • Fabian Hambuchen GER 2016
    • Daiki Hashimoto JPN 2020
      0
    • I WILL PASS THIS EVENT
  5. 5. Event #125 - Gymnastics Artistic - Women's Balance Beam

    • Nina Bocharova URS / UKR 1952
      0
    • Agnes Keleti HUN 1956
      0
    • Eva Bosakova TCH / CZE 1960
      0
    • Vera Caslavska TCH / CZE 1964
      0
    • Natalia Kuchinskaya URS / RUS 1968
      0
    • Olga Korbut URS / BLR 1972
    • Nadia Comaneci ROU 1976 1980
    • Simona Pauca ROU 1984
      0
    • Ecaterina Szabo ROU 1984
      0
    • Daniela Silivas ROU 1988
      0
    • Tatiana Lysenko EUN / UKR 1992
      0
    • Shannon Miller USA 1996
      0
    • Liu Xuan CHN 2000
      0
    • Catalina Ponor ROU 2004
    • Shawn Johnson USA 2008
      0
    • Deng Linlin CHN 2012
      0
    • Sanne Wevers NED 2016
    • Guan Chenchen CHN 2020
      0
    • I WILL PASS THIS EVENT

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  • Poll closed on 07/25/2022 at 06:00 PM

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Athletics, men's 10000m...that's difficult because a lot of great champions have run this race through last 100+ years and as you know, it's almost impossible to compare performances from so different periods...

I was really stuck in between Nurmi and Zatopek (even if Gebresilassie and Bekele also deserved to be mentioned), but finally I opted for :CZE Emil Zatopek because of his unmatched triple (5k, 10k, marathon) in a single edition of the Olympics.

 

Athletics, women's 10000m...I thought about Tulu for a while, but Dibaba was a more complete runner than her compatriot, so I ended up pickin' :ETH Tirunesh Dibaba...

 

Swimming, men's 100m Backstroke...maybe Roland Matthes deserves a better treatment, but he pays for sure the place where he comes from...therefore, I chose :USA Aaron Peirsol, surely a better swimmer overall if we look beyond the single distance.

 

Gymnastics, women's Balance Beam...that's easy...despite all controversies, she's still unmatched, the true queen of this event...:ROU Nadia Comaneci.

 

Gymnastics, men's Horizontal Bar...modern athletes might have more technically difficult exercises and might be more exciting to watch, but I just have to pick :JPN Mitsuo Tsukahara, a man that left one of the most important footprints in the history of the sport (and the only one to win twice this specific discipline).

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I am 10 minutes late and the poll was closed, but I would go with Cassina on the high bar and Korbut on the balance beam.

 

Cassina is stylish and elegant, and his focus on flashy release moves was ahead of his time. I like his form too. Zonderland would be my second choice, but he has very poor form and the deductions for late pirouettes and untidy body shape are very apparent, so Cassina is ahead of him in my book. But Zonderland is fantastic too, especially because he has such high difficulty!

Korbut was the first one to perform a back sommersault on beam. This completely changed the way girls performed on beam. Not only they needed to be elegant, they also now had to throw difficult acrobatic skills. Ponor would be my second choice. Very confident on most of her skills, a style of her own, but I just can't choose anyone but Korbut here because that would just feel wrong.

And the ones I would definitely say no, I'd never pick them: Wevers and Hashimoto.

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3 hours ago, thiago_simoes said:

I am 10 minutes late and the poll was closed, but I would go with Cassina on the high bar and Korbut on the balance beam.

 

 

Thanks for the in-depth analysis. Brilliant as always.

 

I promise I will let you know a bit earlier when the next gymnastics poll appears!

 

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Results

 

ATHLETICS - Men's 10,000m

 

1. Haile Gebrselassie ETH (T)

2. Mo Farah GBR (T)

3. Paavo Nurmi FIN

 

It is fortunately quite rare here that I need to break the tie for the 1st place. In such cases I choose the one I voted for by myself. So there is a gold for Gebrselassie after a tense finish against Mo Farah, sth like he sprinted out Paul Tergat in Sydney.

 

ATHLETICS - Women's 10,000m

 

1. Tirunesh Dibaba ETH

2. Sifan Hassan NED

3. Derartu Tulu ETH

 

SWIMMING - Men's 100m Backstroke

 

1. Aaron Peirsol USA

2. Matt Grevers USA

3. Mark Tewksbury CAN (T)

 

GYMNASTICS ARTISTIC - Men's Horizontal Bar

 

1. Epke Zonderland NED

2. Mitsuo Tsukahara JPN

3. Fabian Hambuchen GER

 

GYMNASTICS ARTISTIC - Women's Balance Beam

 

1. Nadia Comaneci ROU

2. Sanne Wevers NED

3. Olga Korbut BLR (T)

 

Thanks for your votes and comments!

 

 

 

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