Nastia Liukin’s Olympic Gymnastics Gold Medal Creates Golden Opportunities
Nastia Liukin’s gold medal in the all around competition in Women’s gymnastics is marketing gold for her. It has opened up all kinds of doors for her. I still expect her teammate Shawn Johnson to make a lot of money in endorsements, but this gold medal may actually provide more opportunities for Nastia. Time will [...]
Hilarious Rhythmic Gymnastics Video
Matt Lauer and Al Roker performing men’s tandem rhythmic gymnastics.
A MUCH Better Night for Gymnastics!
There were definitely still areas to quibble about, but tonight the end result was satisfactory. Shawn Johnson finally gets her gold— yea, Shawn! Nastia Liukin adds to her collection with another silver. Of course, the Chinese gymnasts each had pretty major errors, so if that HADN’T been the result, well I just [...]
Nastia Liukin victim of weird tie breaking system
As I alluded to in my last post, the new tie breaker system is ridiculous (and I don’t mean in the good sense of the word “ridiculous”). She tied for gold, but received the silver. What was wrong with tying and giving out two golds? I have no idea! But that’s [...]
Why gymnastics scoring sucks– let me count the ways
Well, this is becoming the theme of my Summer Olympics blog— gymnastics scoring sucks! So, here are the reasons I can come up with (feel free to add your own in the comments).
1. Tie breakers— Really? A tie breaker? And the tie breaker protocol doesn’t even make any sense! You [...]
Alicia Sacramone’s score is just another example of why the new gymnastics scoring system sucks
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. If you fall down, you shouldn’t medal. When Alicia Sacramone fell off the beam and then had another fall on the floor, I could totally accept that she got low scores. Tonight, she completed two decent vaults. Small steps or hops on [...]
I finally got to watch trampoline!
Every Olympics I get somewhat obssessed with some less popular Olympic event. This year I’ve been really interested in trampoline. I wasn’t sure I would even get to see it, as the only place that I saw it listed for viewing was on Telemundo. However, this afternoon trampoline was on NBC. [...]
Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson win Olympic medals in gymnastics
The American women’s gymnastics team was disappointed with a silver medal in the team competition, but the all around competition was another story, altogether. Teammates Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson won the gold and silver medals, respectively.
I watched the competition last night, and it was really great! Where the men’s competition was really [...]
Men’s gymnastics all around gives China another Olympic gold
Gymnastics is a big sport in China, which is why the Chinese chose Li Ning, who excelled at the Los Angeles Olympics, to light the Olympic torch. So, when Yang Wei won the all around gold last night, it was a major victory for China.
Watching the all around competition was a bit painful. [...]
Chellsie Memmel’s ankle is broken
Before she even attended the Opening Ceremony at the Beijing Olympics, Chellsie Memmel was taken out of contention for the women’s gymnastics all around competition. An injury to her ankle limited her Olympic experience to competing on the uneven bars. Chellsie put in a solid performance to help the American women win silver. [...]
U.S. Women’s Gymnastics Team Falls Short of Olympic Gold
What a difference a night and expectations make. Last night the U.S. men’s gymnastics team was thrilled to take bronze in the Olympic team competition. Since some thought they wouldn’t even make the team finals, much less bring home a medal, bronze was a pleasant surprise.
Tonight, the women’s gymnastics team was disappointed to [...]
U.S. Olympic Men’s Gymnastics Team Interview
Thought you might enjoy seeing the men’s gymnastics team interviewed on the Today show after winning the bronze medal.
U.S. Men have a great showing in Olympic Gymnastics
The U.S. men actually led the Chinese in the gymnastics team competition for several rotations tonight. Winning gold was almost an impossibility, but few thought the team could win an Olympic medal, period. Well, they didn’t manage to win gold, but I think they were plenty proud with their bronze medal winning performance.
Why [...]
Remember the good old days of the perfect 10?
If you follow gymnastics regularly, last night’s scores probably made perfect sense to you. If you just watch gymnastics during the Olympics, then you were probably thinking, “A 15? What happened to the perfect 10?” Gymnastics has gone the way of figure skating with its scoring system. Now there are two [...]
33 year old gymnast competing in Beijing Summer Olympics
Yes, this year there is a women’s gymnastics competitor who is competing in her FIFTH Olympics. She competed in her first Olympics long before some of these girls were born. Who is she? Oksana Chusovitina, of Germany. Born in the Soviet Union, she was on the gold medal winning Unified Team [...]
What can you watch tomorrow? Monday, August 11
Late night on NBC you can watch women’s volleyball and women’s 100m breaststroke semifinals. During the day tomorrow, it’s women’s water polo, men’s beach volleyball and more qualifying rounds for swimming. Then in primetime, Michael Phelps his march towards Olympic history in the 200m free. Teammates Aaron Peirsol and Natalie Coughlin have a [...]
SPOILER– U.S. Women’s Gymnastics Team Struggles
Bela Karolyi said the U.S. Women didn’t want to finish first in the preliminaries. Well, they didn’t. They did make the final cut but struggled. The team is suffering from some injuries, which is really unfortunate. Chellsie Memmel and Samantha Peszek are both suffering from ankle injuries. Samantha’s ankle, which [...]