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]
China 286.125 Gold Medal Japan 278.875 Silver Medal USA 275.850 Bronze Medal Germany 274.600 South Korea 274.375 Russia 274.300 Romania 274.175 France 272.875 For complete results, click here. [...more]
NBC Olympics is offering Olympics On The Go. The free download and play service, created by NBC and Wavexpress, offers on-demand, full-length video coverage of the Beijing Olympics. You can also access the service just by launching Windows Vista Media Center. On the Go allows viewers to subscribe to channels of just the sports they enjoy the most, well in our case, Men's Gymnastics! [...more]
In the Mercury News today, Horton said that he'd been spending his free minutes reading various blogs predicting Team USA's demise. [...more]
We've explained the new gymnastic scoring here on our site , and theoretically, the scoring is an improvement over the past, allowing for two directions of excellence: that of increasing difficulty as well as of increasing precision in executing routines. After the first night of men's preliminary competition, the qualifying round, it is indeed interesting that Tim Daggett felt compelled to go on the air with this statement on NBC that he feels there is something amiss with the way the men's routines are being [...more]
Louis Smith, 19, and Daniel Keating, only 17 and the youngest male gymnast in Beijing, brought Britain into the men’s gymnastic finals for the first time since 1920. This is all the more remarkable for their ages; Keating still competes in junior competitions back home. Both young men were being groomed for the home games […] [...more]
Canada’s Olympian, Brandon O’Neill, the 2005 World Silver medalist on floor, was already in Beijing when he suffered an injury to his ankle. Because there were no fractures, only soft tissue damage, Brandon soldiered on in his training despite pain and difficulty executing his moves. Eventually he hit the point of no return, and saluted […] [...more]
The U.S. Men's Olympic Gymnastics team went a long way toward proving they have a legitimate chance to medal in the Team Finals. The men finished in sixth place to make the final field of eight. While China and Japan unsurprisingly finished first and second, not much space separates the scores of Korea, Russia, Germany and the U.S. China's Yang Wei and Germany's Fabian Hambuechen, with excellent routines, finished one-two in qualifying for the All-Around Finals. Sasha Artemev also proved he definitely belongs [...more]
The newly reconstituted U.S. Team, "with near mistake-free gymnastics," took sixth place in the team qualifying competition. This earns them a place in the team finals. Jonathan Horton and Sasha Artemev both are now eligible by points to compete in the all-around competition, [...more]
Tomorrow is the big day for the U.S. Men's Gymnastics team. The roster is finally set, after the sad withdrawals of the Hamm twins. The loss of the Hamms opened up big opportunities for Raj Bhavsar and Sasha Artemev. It has been an especially long wait for the 27 year-old Bhavsar, who suffered the disappointment of being named an alternate for the 2004 team, [...more]
