2020 Men's Artistic Gymnastics Team Final (Monday, July 26, 2021)

[rlayt]

It would be interesting to know how much Oleg’s inclusion would have improved Ukraine’s results. Who would have been left home?

 

[KristyJ]

Adding achilles thoughts here since so many have talked about it- When I was a young teenager I partially tore my achilles in a silly accident at home. I was in a cast for roughly two months, the last few weeks of which was a walking cast. Unbeknownst to my doctors I did start walking tip-toe in my cast a few steps at a time and then tried tumbling in my walking cast (quickly switched to only forward landings because you can’t tuck your toes on a low landing in a cast and owwww). I walked out of the doctor’s office the day I got the walking cast off, but running didn’t feel good for a couple of months. I think I was back to full gymnastics in five months post injury, though I developed an “ouch” scale based on the color of my heel after various activities. It frequently turned black when pushed. But if a lower level athlete could tumble on it soonish a couple of decades ago, I suppose it’s not impossible that a high level athlete with great medical care might be able to do some at three months.

The quality and difficulty of what Artur is doing is what throws me, though. You don’t get those skills that clean on no training.

Also knowing what that feels like on lower level skills, and that big skills are likely much worse, I cringe constantly watching him.

I have recently developed achilles tendonitis in that ankle and I am pretty sure it’s related to my pushing it too fast when I was a kiddo.

 

[OnoNoKomachi]

I’m almost 100 % sure Yul will try for Paris 2024. He’s hungry for that medal.
Mikulak will aim for the individual Worlds and then retire.
The US needs more difficulty, especially on vault. 3 x 5.2 - if a team leaves vault points on the table, its hard to get them back else where.

As far as Dalaloyan is concerned, there is no drug on earth that could account for what he did.

Sometimes people really do what should be impossible. We just saw one of those things.

 

[arabiandoublefront]

I also keep thinking about the US men needing more difficulty on vault.

 

[cftmoonlight79]

Omg the men’s final was fantastic! While I would have loved USA to medal, I knew it was unlikely. I was rooting hard for the Russians, and watched Artur do floor with my eyes covered. Great meet.

 

[makam]

They need Simone to give them a vaulting clinic.

 

[arabiandoublefront]

Exactly, I’m a fan of that idea, Simone and also David Sender.

 

[QuietColours]

I wonder if Aimee would run a vault clinic for MAG…

 

[cftmoonlight79]

I also think that rotating with ROC was awesome for the US team. It really gives those younger guys a chance to see up close what it takes and I’m sure they feel something just being that close to it. It would put a little extra passion and drive in me for sure. Hopefully Malone, Wiskus, and Yul can improve and help the men’s program get back to medals soon!

 

[arabiandoublefront]

Yeah, I’m lowkey glad that ROC placed third after qualifications so USA was rotating with them.

 

[tempest]

Nikita’s AA today was 88.324, Hashimoto’s prelim was 88.531. Hashimoto did not do AA today(no PB) but he would have needed a 15.159 to beat Nikita’s AA today and he earned a 15.3 in prelims on PB so the AA will be another nail biter!

 

[Doug1233]

To be fair to him - he’s now an Olympic Champion. He could tear his achilles tomorrow and he would still be an Olympic Champion. I bet he wouldn’t even regret it.

Balls of steel.

 

[gtu07]

Sam’s talked a lot about opening a gym, so it sounds like coaching and running a gym.

 

[rlayt]

He’s moving to Charlotte NC where his fiancé is.

 

[irichluck21]

NBC definitely did justice tot he intensity of the team final, but there were barely any routines shown. Also, NBC showed that they can absolutely show as many routines in a set amount of time without stopping to watch someone drink water, tie their shoes, or tape up. It was routine, score, next routine, score. so on

 

[cftmoonlight79]

When can someone else take over the broadcasting of the Olympics? What would everyone like to see for that? I just want to be able to watch the full gym meets, live, uninterrupted by other sports. I don’t care whether it’s main channels, or an app that I can get on my smart tv.

 

[arabiandoublefront]

Not until somewhere in the 2030s.

 

[irichluck21]

The coverage this morning on the NBCOlympics app was excellent. Just not enough time in 3 hours coverage primetime to show everything.

they did in 1996 because they already knew Mag 7 won and also the majority of the swimming was heats not finals.

 

[gtu07]

It’s pretty annoying that the broadcasts can’t even show all the routines. I get that there were a lot of routines for women’s prelims with 6 women competing all around, but here we were watching 3 up 3 count on the broadcast, and they skipped ENTIRE ROTATIONS as well as routines within rotations.

 

[gtu07]

Did anyone else catch this?