Obviously, the biggest stories of the Beijing Games were China’s absolute domination and Yang Wei’s demolition job on the the entire field. China picked up a whopping seven gold medals, leaving all the other teams in the chalk dust. Team USA, despite all the drama preceding the games, showed respectability and sheer grit, clawing their way to a bronze medal in the Team Finals. Jonathan Horton proved he is a major [...more]
"Can you believe that just happened?" That's what Jonathan Horton screamed to his coach after he did everything he had to do last night on the high bar to claim another medal. He tweaked his routine to add difficulty and delivered a powerful performance. All that likely prevented Horton from striking gold was the lack [...more]
During the Olympic Team Finals and All-Around Finals, gymnastics fans from all over the world have been burning up keyboards discussing the new scoring rules and how the judges have applied them. To most concerned, another tweaking of the system seems imminent. Originally, the change was meant to improve judging by separating the difficulty of the chosen routine from the gymnast's execution of it. Theoretically, this would make scoring more transparent for all, as previously the old perfect 10 scoring was [...more]
What an incredible night for the U.S. Men's Olympic Gymnastics Team. All odds were against them. Saturday night's qualifying round had USA in 6th place. Only a miracle tonight would allow them to [...more]
NBC has put all gymnastics coverage into their nightly prime time show. This means it will be sharing that time with other sports, and there may be no way to pinpoint the exact times gymnastics will be broadcast (so, to TIVO the events, one will probably have to TIVO the entire prime time show). All times are in both Eastern and Pacific time (so West Coasters will need to avoid news sources for a few hours if you don't want to hear any results). The broadcasts will be on both NBC and NBC HD. Here is the full schedule: [...more]
The era of the Perfect 10 is now officially over. Many gymnastics fans will soon experience the International Gymnastics Federation's (FIG) new scoring system for the first time when they tune into the 2008 Beijing Olympic gymnastics coverage. The new system is based on two separate panels of scores. [...more]
