The Olympic Games continue, with the men\u2019s team finals in the Olympic gymnastics competition. \u00a0The men from Great Britain are performing well on the floor exercise while Ukraine is performing respectably on the rings.<\/p>\n
Great Britain \u2014 in living memory, literally \u2014 has not won an Olympic medal in gymnastics.<\/p>\n
The last British tumbler, Christian Thomas, performs some impressive combination passes, and two Arabian-doubles (half-turn to two front flips), the first one in a pike position and the second (the dismount) in a tuck. \u00a0Like the British men before him, he competed a well crafted routine. \u00a0There were few cases where they had to stick landings; they tended to roll out or step out directly into transitional moves.<\/p>\n
Right now it looks like the British men get a silver \u2014 but I\u2019ve been warned that there was something funky that happened at the end, and this may be reviewed. \u00a0In any case, the Brits have won a medal.<\/p>\n
NBC completely ceased showing the American men. \u00a0Once the drama was gone, they would not dedicate prime time to it. \u00a0It\u2019s disappointing for fans of American gymnastics, however. \u00a0We\u2019ll have to watch online.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Olympic Games continue, with the men\u2019s team finals in the Olympic gymnastics competition. \u00a0The men from Great Britain are performing well on the floor exercise while Ukraine is performing respectably on the rings. Great Britain \u2014 in living memory, literally \u2014 has not won an Olympic medal in gymnastics. The last British tumbler, Christian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[913],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gymnastics-2"],"yoast_head":"\n