ralucutzagy Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 His second time! Congrats!! and good luck to the Olympics!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pammi Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Kohei has decided to retire! Wonderful gymnast, his success and longevity is a testament to his commitment to the sport! (Kohei if you need a new shortish term job, there's this wonderful Japanese skater we know who could do with some moral support and maybe some help with rotation coaching before the Olympic Winter Games??! Just a thought....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sombreuil Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 It has been an absolute pleasure to follow Kohei Uchimura’s career - following documentaries and interviews and competitions in Japanese on YouTube which took ages to acquire English subtitles (and sometimes never did), watching international competitions and admiring his skill, his elegance, his composure, which at times seemed almost superhuman. I have missed his presence in many competitions since Rio and was disappointed for him in the Tokyo Olympics. I rewatch his great competitions as much as I do Yuzuru’s - in fact if he hadn’t been interviewed about his reactions to the CoC 2014 collision I might never have come across Yuzuru as I had given up on watching skating a long time ago. One rabbit hole led to another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whoopiewoop Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 45 minutes ago, Sombreuil said: was disappointed for him in the Tokyo Olympics. I still don't understand why he took such a silly risk during qualifications. He could have easily gone to the next round with something with less BV. Sigh. He is probably kicking himself to this day. I know I would, laying in bed about to go to sleep and shudder at the memory with a kick in the air. I'm sure he'll pick up coaching. He'd be a great addition to any gymnastics team in the country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sombreuil Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 He was the consummate all rounder, unbeaten for two Olympic cycles, which requires a different mindset to an apparatus specialist. Maybe it was too difficult to make the switch. It was wonderful to see him upgrade his high bar routine and succeed with the bretschneider in competition in Japan even if it didn’t translate into success at the Olympics. In the AA you knew always knew he could do more on his favoured apparatus:- there were several clips of him doing a triple twisting dismount from the high bar for example, but he was holding back in competition for consistency reasons. This was even more apparent in the team event as he was Japans anchor, usually covering all six apparatus, so a steady scoring rate was important. I think the pressure of that got to him at times, he tended to make more mistakes for the team than when he was competing on his own account. Wonderful wonderful gymnast - I shall continue to miss him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralucutzagy Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 So, Nole Saga is over now ... he must go home and this time is for real ... what an unpleasant situation ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lajoitko Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 I think I have written here before about Finnish ski jumpers and the sport in here. Today 44-years old Janne Ahonen won bronze at the national championships. He did it without any training. About two weeks ago he jumped two test jumps to see if he still dared to jump from the large hill and that was his only preparation. He got his skies and costume from his 20-years old son who also participated on competition finishing 15th. I haven't really followed ski jumping in recent years and the general interest in it has been declining. But now this is our number one sport news. Typical article concentrates on Ahonen and his comments and the actual winner is mentioned in one paragraph as an afterthought. It highlights how important it is for a sport discipline to have at least one charismatic star who can draw general public into the sport and how easy it is to lose public interest without one. Without Ahonen I wouldn't have known anything about today's competition and I can't name any of the ski jumpers we will have soon in Olympics. Somehow all this has made me think of figure skating and Yuzuru's role in it. For a long time I haven't taken him granted, but now on I'm going to enjoy every moment with him even more, no matter how bittersweet it may be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lira Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 Incredible Australian Open finals in singles. Ash coming back from 1-5 in the second set and becoming the first Aussie in 44 years to win in singles on home turf. And Rafa coming back from 0-2 in the match and breaking the record for most Grand Slams men's singles titles. It's so special - Rafa is one of the oldest men in the tour, coming back from a serious injury, still winning after second longest Australian Open final ever (the match duration: 5 h 24 min). Just WOW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sombreuil Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 I used to love ski jump but it gets v little coverage in the UK and I didn’t have a vpn pre Uchimura/Hanyu . The first one I remember was Fortuna’s freak win at Sapporo when I was a child, which for the underdog reason caught the interest of my parents and led them to follow Ski Sunday for a while. That was also how my mother and I ended up watching John Curry in Innsbruck - my pre Hanyu favourite of all time. I’m really pleased Australia has some home grown champions again. Also that Nadal overcame the injury to win. Tennis was another sport I sort of abandoned, more because I’m not keen on the groundstrokes game (I know I'm in the minority but I’ve always found it tedious) which tends to predominate. I used to enjoy the Navratilova v Evert ( serve/volley v groundstrokes) battles, and possibly my favourite final of all time was Ashe v Connors Wimbledon 1975, which was a masterclass in the thoughtful dismantling of the opponents game which transcended preferences regarding style it was such a tactical masterpiece. I watched it on my own ( quite a treat as a teenager in a big household to get the tv to yourself for a whole afternoon in those days ) and enjoyed every minute - possibly because I wasn’t personally invested in the outcome, and there was no one disparaging AAs tactics. But everyone standing at the baseline smashing it back to the corners just bores me to sobs, and that’s what tennis has become for me. My husband loves the modern game - myself not so much - meh. Only advantage to NBC hijacking the timing is that no one gets up in the small hours to watch the skating with me so I can freak out in peace if Roman or Boyang skate well ( Mikhail 😩) and I can have a totally private nervous breakdown over Yuzuru. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sallycinnamon Posted February 1, 2022 Author Share Posted February 1, 2022 On 1/30/2022 at 11:38 PM, Lira said: Incredible Australian Open finals in singles. Ash coming back from 1-5 in the second set and becoming the first Aussie in 44 years to win in singles on home turf. And Rafa coming back from 0-2 in the match and breaking the record for most Grand Slams men's singles titles. It's so special - Rafa is one of the oldest men in the tour, coming back from a serious injury, still winning after second longest Australian Open final ever (the match duration: 5 h 24 min). Just WOW. I watched the men's final, it was very good. I really wouldn't have put a lot of money on Rafa after he lost the second set as well. But he's the one who never ever gives up and fights for every single point so he was able to bounce back and in it in 5 sets. He had a potentially career ending injury, caught Covid as well, and was able to come back like this. He's a great athlete, a great role model too. Congrats to Medvedev as well, and hope he'll be able to win many more GS titles in the future. I sort of undertsood his disappointment regarding how the audience behaved towards him in the final, it wasn't nice to watch. A little more respect could have been enough even if the audience cheered for Rafa to get the 21st title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lira Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 11 hours ago, sallycinnamon said: Congrats to Medvedev as well, and hope he'll be able to win many more GS titles in the future. I sort of undertsood his disappointment regarding how the audience behaved towards him in the final, it wasn't nice to watch. A little more respect could have been enough even if the audience cheered for Rafa to get the 21st title. I agree, those boos is not something I like and it certainly doesn't look good for tennis as a sport. But I'm pretty sure that the fact it was Nadal that Medvedev played against was only a part of the reason. We know that Nadal is loved by most of tennis fans. And he would have support of most of the fans no matter who he would have played against (maybe except for Fedder or an Australian player). But I don't think any other opponent (or almost any) would get that kind of behaviour from fans that Medvedev got. Medvedev more than once said or did something that angered or at least annoyed the fans (not only during this year AO) and while booed he provoked them to boo even louder. I'm not saying that from now on he might be always booed at that's ok. No, it's not. But a little effort from him would be appreciated, not all his snarky comments were really needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pammi Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 HE'S BACK!! Such exciting news for F1 fans! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayu93 Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 3 of the top female ski jumpers were disqualified from the mixed team event, cause sth wasn't right with their suits while all three say they are using the same suits they used for the singles comp...mysterious... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralucutzagy Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 44 minutes ago, Sayu93 said: 3 of the top female ski jumpers were disqualified from the mixed team event, cause sth wasn't right with their suits while all three say they are using the same suits they used for the singles comp...mysterious... LOL Just watch it!!! It was out of this world ... sth like this to be happening at the Olympics ... there were 5 disqualifications and all girls ... wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayu93 Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 DANG QIU IS EUROPEAN CHAMPION!! YAY!!! NINA IN SILVER, SHAN AND SABINE IN BRONZE!!! THAT WAS A GREAT TURNAMENT THANK YOU!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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