Diego Hypolito and Arthur Mariano gave the hometown fans plenty to cheer about. Hypolito (silver-15.533) and Mariano (bronze-15.433) earned some hardware for the trophy case and promptly delivered a successful Olympic Games for the Brazilian team. The team isn't done yet, as Arthur Zanetti (SR) also has a legitimate design on winning a medal. The day's top performer, however, won [...more]
The most intense, pressure-packed competition of the entire Olympic fortnight took place Wednesday night at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Men's gymnastics' two best all-arounders went at it in an epic slugfest that, of course, came down to the proverbial wire. Japan's Kohei Uchimura and Ukraine's Oleg Verniaiev traded punches all night, but all it took was [...more]
King Kohei Uchimura earned his first team Olympic gold medal, forever knocking that particularly pesky monkey off his back. It was Japan's (274.094) first team gold since 2004. They did it with a furious rally down the stretch, scoring well over 45-plus on their last four events, including a sparkling 47.199 in their final rotation (FX). Uchimura anchored his team, backed by his sizzling [...more]
China (270.461) edged out Team USA (270.405) to lead a group of eight qualifying teams going into Monday's Team Finals. The Americans had a 1.5 point lead going into China's final rotation (SR). Thanks to Liu Yang (15.90) and You Hao (15.80), China was able to leap into the top spot. The Chinese got off to a blistering start on VT and PB, but cooled off considerably on HB and FX. They hit big on PH and SR to seal their fate. Team USA was sparkling on their first four events until [...more]
In one of the most exhausting, exciting and suspenseful Olympic Trials ever staged, five gymnasts emerged to comprise the 2016 U.S. Men's Gymnastics Olympic Team. Not one single member earned an automatic bid, by virtue of placing in the top 2 all-around and top 3 on events. However, Sam Mikulak came close enough to make his selection a fait accompli. Mikulak ran away with the [...more]
ST. LOUIS, MO -- In his last Junior competition, Matt Wenske (165.30) completed a sweep of all the major Junior all-around titles. He added the U.S. Championships title to the one he earned at last month's JO Nationals. Wenske also won national titles on FX, SR and VT. The latter one nicely complements the Senior VT title he [...more]
ST. LOUIS, MO -- Couldn't have asked for a more interesting Day 1 at the 2016 Men's Gymnastics Olympic Trials. U.S. champ Sam Mikulak rallied from a near disastrous opening two rotations to maintain his commanding lead in the overall selection standings. Mikulak (90.65) gave up at least a point and a half with major miscues on PB (14.95) and HB (14.30). He then settled down and proceeded to crank out four [...more]
ST. LOUIS, MO -- Day 1 produced no real surprises. Last month's JO Nationals winners are sitting at the top of the leader board at the halfway point of the Junior Men's P&G Championships. Oklahoma-bound and 2016 U.S. Senior Men's vault co-champ Matt Wenske (84.45) has a whopping lead (5.2 pts) over his competition in the 17-18 division. He also sits in the lead on four [...more]
By Shelli Koszdin The first stage of the selection process for the United States men’s Olympic team (the P& G Championships) has concluded, and as the athletes head towards the Olympic Trials in St. Louis, the race is starting to take shape. Some events are looking highly probable (Sam Mikulak going to Rio), some others…not so much. There is still a lot of race left to run, and there can (will) be surprises. Who foresaw Joey Hagerty [...more]
Sho Nakamori is a familiar figure at many men's gymnastics meets. Among many other competitions, he is a fixture at state/regional meets, various invitationals, Winter Cup and NCAA Championships. He became a Brevet Judge a few years ago, meaning he is qualified to judge any elite-level meet in the world, and he has the [...more]
