Paris Olympics 2024, Men's Gymnastics Individual All Around: Needed Perfection

Due to a disastrous start of his bid for Gold Zhang Boheng (China) needed a near perfect score on his final apparatus, the High Bar. He started on the Floor Exercise where he so badly missed a tumbling pass that he ended up with his head and hands on the mat, basically making a tripod with his body.  He has spent the rest of the night trying to claw back from a deep scoring deficit to get to this point.  He knew he was going to take an almost perfect score but fell short.  Fortunately, he did literally fall short.  Despite his best efforts, he just couldn't overtake Oka for the Gold, and like China in the team competition, he must resolve himself to be the Silver Medalist of these Games.  Still China leads the Gold Medal count with nine, but is quite a bit further down the tally in the total medals count.

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Paris Olympics 2024, Men's Gymnastics Individual All Around: Not the Man They Were Expecting

When the defending Olympic Gold Medalist faltered it was his teammate Shinnosuke Oka (Japan) who rose to the occasion.  He had been posting excellent scores and was benefiting from others earlier misfortunes as well.  As he finished his final rotation on the Parallel Bars, he knew he had a medal.  Now he just has to wait for Zhang Boheng (China) to finish his High Bar routine to discover what color it would be.  I'll jump ahead to let you know that Zhang's score was not enough to overtake Oka, so it is Gold for Japan.  He is now a team gold medalist and an individual gold medalist in the men's gymnastics all around.

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"Not the Man They Were Expecting PO24-44" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Paris Olympics 2024, Men's Gymnastics Team All-Around

Brody Malone (USA) picked a great time to come right in his High Bar routine.  During qualifying he fell off twice fortunately the team was still able to qualify for the team all-around despite his uncharacteristically bad routine.  So tonight, he was spot on!  At this point he is flying through the air towards a perfect landing.  He personified the gymnastic adage, 'fly high, stick the landing.'  Like his teammates before him he did his part to make sure the USA medals in team gymnastics in Paris.

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"Airbourne PO24-25" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Paris Olympics 2024, Women's Gymnastics Qualifying: She's Back!

Simone Biles (USA) started her Olympics today on the Balance Beam.  Just from the attitude in this moment in her routine, you could tell she was fully back.  She did enough in this routine to help qualify Team USA for the team competition, herself for the all-around, and in this apparatus as well.  Clearly, she has put the demons from Tokyo to rest.

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"She's Back! PO24-12" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Paris Olympics 2024, Men's Gymnastics Team Qualifying: Hanging Around

Asher Hong (Team USA) does a brilliant routine on the Still Rings.  I had to do these way back in middle school and could barely manage to hold myself up, let alone this move.  And I don't think this was the hardest position he took on the rings.  His efforts were part of what made sure that Team USA will make it through to the all-around competition for team gold.  He also qualified himself in the Still Rings to fight for an individual medal as well.

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"Hanging Around PO24-8" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Rio Olympics: Launching Herself

Simone Biles (USA) has launched herself in more ways than this with these Olympics.  Biles has claimed Gold in the team competition, the individual all-around competition and with this vault as well.  Biles is competing in two more individual events hoping to take 5 gold medals home with her by Sunday.  Not a bad Olympic debut.

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Rio Olympics: Flying from One to the Other

The USA Women's Gymnastics team took to the floor tonight to defend their Gold Medal performance in the London 2012 games.  From the very first routine by Simone Biles on the uneven bars, it was looking like they would be able to repeat the feat from London.

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Rio Olympics: A Leap of Faith

With power, grace and bizazz, Laurie Hernandez (USA) took to the floor exercise in the Olympic Gymnastics team qualifying round.  It was a leap of faith that she would make the all-around competition, a leap she did with aplomb!

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Rio Olympics: Playing Horse

After a pair of falls on the Pommel Horse, it was Alex Naddour (USA) who put in a near perfect exercise.  Here he is preparing to launch into his dismount.

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Rio Olympics: Head Over Heals

With gymnastics getting underway with team qualifying my USA coverage of the games focused on Team USA.  I am sure it will be more universal once we move into the full on team and individual competitions.  This is American Sam Mikulak flying off of the high bar.

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