The Men's All-Around Finals are shaping up to be every bit as exciting as the Team Finals, although China's Yang Wei will enter the competition as the prohibitive favorite. Jonathan Horton's big-time performance in last night's Team Finals is setting him up to be a [...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]
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]
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 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]
According to NBC, the lineup of the men’s team looks like this: All-around (competing on all six events): Jonathan Horton, Alexander Artemev (Note that the latter went from alternate to all-arounder in 24 hours!) The following athletes in alphabetical order: Still rings: Artemev, Bhavsar, Horton, Spring, Tan Vault: Artemev, Bhavsar, Hagerty, Horton, Spring Parallel bars: […] [...more]
If you have some time, the full press conference, including both coaches, Morgan Hamm, and the rest of the U.S. Olympic men gymnasts, shows a team with genuine intelligence, depth, and serious commitment. It’s worth a watch. Morgan Hamm’s Press Conference [...more]
