Artistic Gymnastics 2016 Discussion Thread

[vinipereira 3,240]

Apparently Larisa Iordache underwent surgery (again) after an injury, having to rest a few weeks before returning to full training. Some early reports/rumours are saying that Catalina Ponor is expected to represent Romania at the Rio Olympics.

[thiago_simoes 1,423]

There are new versions of the Code of Points for 2017-2020. On the women's side there are many changes and all of them are very substantial. We will usually see lower scores from now on.

On vault, Dipa Karmakar will benefit A LOT from the changes. 

[Agger 1,663]

Yay. Marie Skammelsen is the first danish junior in more than 20 years to qualify for an all-round final at the European Championships. She also qualified for the final in vault. Another sport with hopes for the future! 

[heywoodu 15,141]

Eythora Thorsdottir won the Dutch all-around title with a national record of 58.058 points (which would have placed her 5th at last year's world championships), ahead of Celine van Gerner (56.883). They seem to be quite sure of the Olympics (barring injury of course), just like Sanne Wevers who won the balance beam title.

 

Bart Deurloo beat Epke Zonderland on the horizontal bar (15.250 vs 15.200) in the qualifications, final is tomorrow. 

Edited June 25, 2016 by heywoodu

[dcro 10,210]

27 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Eythora Thorsdottir won the Dutch all-around title with a national record of 58.058 points (which would have placed her 5th at last year's world championships), ahead of Celine van Gerner (56.883). They seem to be quite sure of the Olympics (barring injury of course), just like Sanne Wevers who won the balance beam title.

 

Bart Deurloo beat Epke Zonderland on the horizontal bar (15.250 vs 15.200) in the qualifications, final is tomorrow. 

 

Well, scores can often get inflated at the national championships in judged sports (sort of a moral booster).

[heywoodu 15,141]

2 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Well, scores can often get inflated at the national championships in judged sports (sort of a moral booster).

Yes, that's what I was thinking as well, but still, it's good to see she beat every score she or any other Dutch gymnast ever set in Dutch championships as well  

[dareza 911]

40 years ago.

 

 

[thiago_simoes 1,423]

Em 01/06/2016 at 16:33, Agger disse:

Yay. Marie Skammelsen is the first danish junior in more than 20 years to qualify for an all-round final at the European Championships. She also qualified for the final in vault. Another sport with hopes for the future! 

 

In 1998 a Danish athlete earned gold at the Junior Europeans. I can't remember his name, though.

[hckošice 14,829]

RIP

Czech Olympic champion gymnast Vera Caslavska dies aged 74

 

Czech gymnast Vera Caslavska, whose seven gold medals made her the country's most decorated Olympic athlete, has died aged 74 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, the head of the Czech Olympic Committee said on Wednesday.

 

"Vera was a fighter. She was diagnosed last year in the spring... When she did not come with us to (the Olympic Games this summer in) Rio it was clear the situation was bad," committee President Jiri Kejval said by telephone.

 

"She died in her sleep," he said.

 

Caslavska's medals included golds in the individual all-round gymnastics in the 1964 and 1968 games. Larisa Latynina is the only other female athlete to win back-to-back gold medals in that event. She won gold in 1956 and 1960 for the Soviet Union.

 

Caslavska was a vocal critic of the Soviet Union's 1968 invasion of what was then Czechoslovakia and did not compete in the Olympics after that year's games after refusing to withdraw her signature on the "Manifesto of 2000 Words", which rejected Soviet involvement in the country.

 

 

 

[AmericanHero40 213]

Now that Rio is Over ( :'( ) i'm looking into going to the Gymnastics world championships in Montreal next year. However i see that there is no team competition, only All Around and event Finals, and i also see that every world championship after olympic don't have team competition, any reason for that?