Rhythmic Gymnastics!!!

[allezfred]

I am confused - love story and no grey costume?

No fake snowball fights either as far as I could see.

[Domshabfan]

did Aliya made history too ?
Kanaeva made history here, so she should be flagbearer

Russian Judo athlete won 3 gold medals and made history by defeating Japan. May be they should make one of the Judo athletes do the flag bearer.


and Aliya made history by becoming first AG gold for Russia since Khorkina
P.S . Kanaeva will be an excellent choice, but the flagbearer will depend not just on this result but on others as well.

[beepbeep]

Kanaeva
Dimitrieva
Charkashina

Great, just in time for lunch

[love_skate2011]

Russian Judo athlete won 3 gold medals and made history by defeating Japan. May be they should make one of the Judo athletes do the flag bearer.


and Aliya made history by becoming first AG gold for Russia since Khorkina
P.S . Kanaeva will be an excellent choice, but the flagbearer will depend not just on this result but on others as well.

with Putin

Dmitrieva silver, good ribbon, finally hitting 29.100 score
they were lowballing her scores in the first 2 rotations

[Hedwig]

92 Olympics gymnastics memories with Miteva (though I don't know who even used it for FX).

Another Bulgarian. I think Vodorozayeva. And that you thought the same.

[Buzz]

My vote for Russian flag bearer goes to the wrestler who survived poisoning to be here. Bilyal Markova is his name I believe and I am so fascinated by his story.

[Maofan7]

Many congratulations to Kanaeva and Dimitrieva on winning gold and silver respectively. They were superb!

[Buzz]

So Russia has won 11 gym medals total in these games. Congrats to them and to the Korean girl for putting up such a fight. Hope she wins a medal in Rio.

[Rob]

Let's see if Polish girl receives her mummy bonus.

She does, by going over 27 again. lol

Why is that? Politiks? Because I much preferred the Chinese and Belarus 2 girls to the Polish girl in qual. I don't know how the elements are scored, but the Polish doesn't do very difficult turns or intricate movements/risky catches with the apparatus, and her lines are not all that either.

Really liked the Ukrainians too. And Liubov. And Russians of course.

[beepbeep]

Rob, see the posts upthread, it's absolutely politiks.
Mitrosz mom is on the tech committee, and, at a poit, was the head of it.

And viner is, well, Viner

[n*ice mom]

So did I miss all of the rhythmic gymnastics? Where did you watch it? I look forward to seeing it during each Olympics.

[Norlite]

Where did you watch it?

That kinda depends on where you are.


In Canada it was shown on TSN

[Lara]

It should be online on nbcolympics.com soon, but I don't think NBC has aired any of the finals yet (have the soccer game on Telemundo atm).

So who of Dmitrieva or a recovered Merkulova/Kondakova will end up taking over from Kanaeva? Hmm.

Rizatdinova's ball was probably my fave overall routine. Politics are against her of course but I'm looking forward to seeing more.

[danafan]

A couple of years ago FIG decided to remove rope from rhythmic permanently - I remember reading it wasn't tv friendly or something ridiculous - I can't find a link, but there is a facebook page trying to keep rope in the sport:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lets-k...35841273122266

ETA sorry I don't have the original link but this was reportedly posted on rsg.net

TC members after consultation with specialists and coaches from different countries proposed to eliminate rope apparatus for the programme of senior individual due to women change of body having leaps as fundamental group of apparatus. It causes a lot of micro-traumatism and injuries. Media (TV) do not transmit qualifications/finals for rope apparatus in any competition, especially
world cups, world championships and Olympic Games as it's an apparatus that is not visible in the air.

[beepbeep]

A couple of years ago FIG decided to remove rope from rhythmic permanently - I remember reading it wasn't tv friendly or something ridiculous - I can't find a link, but there is a facebook page trying to keep rope in the sport:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lets-k...35841273122266

ETA sorry I don't have the original link but this was reportedly posted on rsg.net

Yeah, this is exactly what I've read, but I couldn't find any info on rsg.net on how it stands today...

[Domshabfan]

It should be online on nbcolympics.com soon, but I don't think NBC has aired any of the finals yet (have the soccer game on Telemundo atm).

So who of Dmitrieva or a recovered Merkulova/Kondakova will end up taking over from Kanaeva? Hmm.

Rizatdinova's ball was probably my fave overall routine. Politics are against her of course but I'm looking forward to seeing more.

Russians have a lot of very talented juniors

[Matryeshka]

It should be online on nbcolympics.com soon, but I don't think NBC has aired any of the finals yet (have the soccer game on Telemundo atm).

So who of Dmitrieva or a recovered Merkulova/Kondakova will end up taking over from Kanaeva? Hmm.

Rizatdinova's ball was probably my fave overall routine. Politics are against her of course but I'm looking forward to seeing more.

NBC showing it NOW. They showed a little earlier as well. NBC slightly wuz-robbing Dmitrieva earlier.

ETA: Viner clearly got to commentators. Now, Kanaeva clearly the best.

[ssminnow]

do they REALLY need that buzzer near the end of each routine to remind them that time is almost up? isn't each routine timed to music anyway?

[Matryeshka]

Kanaeva looks like a contortionist watermelon.

[duane]

Dmitrieva silver, good ribbon, finally hitting 29.100 score
they were lowballing her scores in the first 2 rotations

I enjoyed her rotations more than anyone else.