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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"Needed Perfection PO24-45" (Original art by Greig Leach)

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 Individual All Around: Extreme Effort

There are many stories at the Olympics of athletes going through all sorts of struggles to get to the Olympics.  One that speaks to me is what those from the Ukraine have had to endure just to be able to be present let alone competitive.  But that is exactly Oleg Verniaiev (Ukraine).  He has returned from war in his country, a ban from competitive sports, and is now in his third Olympics having missed the Tokyo Games because of the suspension.  But here he is leading after each rotation and finishing eighth on the day.

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"Extreme Effort PO24-43" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Paris Olympics 2024, Men's Gymnastics Individual All Around: With Precision

The American Paul Juda (USA) has built his gymnastics career on his precise movements over the high difficulty.  It is a strategy that has served him well and made him a joy to watch.  His problem is that others can be almost as flawless as he, but they are doing far more difficult routines.  He did well and finished fourteenth, just once spot ahead of his countryman Frederick Richards, who started rough but came back good towards the end of the night.  Regardless, both have already won a Bronze Medal in these games, and they still have the individual apparatus competitions to come.

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"With Precision PO24-42" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Paris Olympics 2024, Men's Gymnastics Team All-Around: Doing One Thing Very Well

The final apparatus for Team USA in the team competition was the Pommel Horse.  It was the only event that Stephen Nedoroscik (USA) was competing in for the team.  Not only had he waited throughout the entire event, but he was the last to go in USA's rotation.  He seemed to be keeping himself calm and very relaxed all evening.  He was very cool as he tweaked the set-up of the horse to his exact specifications.  Then he jumped up and started his near flawless routine.  I can't believe that he was able to do two single arm spins in his 45 second appearance on the Olympic stage.  As he came off the floor, the team knew that they had (and he) had done enough to win a Bronze Medal for Team USA.

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"Doing One Thing Very Well PO24-26" (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, Men's Gymnastics Team All-Around: Eyes on the Men

The title comes from a mission of Frederick Richard (USA).  It is his goal to get more people into men's gymnastics, particularly to get people of color into and in the sport that means so much to him.  He was one of five American men vying to win a medal in the team gymnastics all-around event.  It has been several summer Olympics since Team USA has won any medal in this event.  All of the team posted excellent numbers and stuck their landings to keep the team in the medal hunt.  Richard certainly did his part for the team in the Parallel Bars.

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"Eyes on the Men PO24-24" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Rio Olympics: Sticking the Landing

Its the phrase the announcers just can't leave alone.  Every routine, every time "They have got to stick the landing."  Or some version there of.  And that is just what Kohei Uchimura (Japan) did in the floor exercise on his way to this second consecutive Gold Medal in the Gymnastics Individual All Around competition.

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