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July 2021 Olympics Tokyo Olympics July 1, 1, 2021 2021 2020 Tokyo Edition
Simone Biles Primed for Tokyo
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Simone Arianne Biles is an American artistic gymnast. With a combined total of 30 Olympic and World Championship medals, Biles is the most decorated American gymnast and is widely considered to be the greatest and most dominant gymnast of all time. The world and Olympic gymnastics champion put on a dazzling display during the U.S. Olympic Trials on Friday night, pulling out all the stops— well, almost all of them— on her way to a commanding lead and a spot in Japan next month. The greatest gymnast ever to suit up for Team USA has just qualified for her second Olympic team on the merits of winning the U.S. Olympic Team Trials all-around title. Her all-around total of 60.565 included a 15.133 on beam that featured the “double-double” dismount named for her, a maneuver she’s kept under wraps since the 2019 world championships. She opted to skip the Yurchenko double-pike vault she unveiled in competition last month and still posted the top score on the event.
Her floor exercise — the one that includes not one but two eponymous elements in the sport's Code of Points — was both spectacular and spectacularly controlled. Clearly frustrated after stepping out of bounds several times while winning her seventh national title earlier this month, Biles kept her toes well inside the white lines during her lawof-physics pushing tumbling passes.Her allaround total of 60.565 included a 15.133 on beam that featured the “double-double” dismount named for her, a maneuver she's kept under wraps since the 2019 world championships. She opted to skip the Yurchenko double-pike vault she unveiled in competition last month and still posted the top score on the event. The top two all-around finishers Sunday night after the finals automatically qualify for the Olympic team. Biles is a lock no matter what happens Sunday. “I was super excited going into this one,” Biles said. “I know exactly what to expect. And I feel like I’m very ... like I’m a lot more emotional this time around, which is so
crazy. Even walking out of the performance tearing up and crying. The girls are like, ‘Are you OK?’ I’m fine. It’s just like, I can’t believe the time is here. It’s been five years and I’m grateful.” The top two all-around finishers Sunday night after the finals automatically qualify for the Olympic team. Biles is a lock no matter what happens Sunday. The trio of Biles, Lee and Chiles came in 1-2-3 at nationals. They’re in the same positions heading into the finals after Lee put up a 57.666, followed by Chiles at 57.132, more than a half-point ahead of MyKayla Skinner. The selection committee has set aside 30 minutes after the end of finals to put the team together.
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HOW TO BECOME AN OLYMPIC ATHLETE IN 10 STEPS 1. Assess Your Physical Condition
The first step is to determine what shape you are currently in. This will help you to select the best sport for you, as well as the training program you will need to follow.
2. Choose a Sport
Many athletes select a sport based on what they enjoy doing and what they are good at. If you already have an athletic hobby, such as target shooting or judo, you are already one step ahead. If you are starting from scratch, you can find a list of Olympic sports by visiting the Tokyo 2020 site.
3. Find a Place to Train
Once you decide which sport to pursue, you need to start developing your skills. Join a local athletic club or visit a recreation center so you can practice and take classes. Another good place to train, depending on your sport, is your local high school or university.
4. Join your National Governing Body
A crucial step that will get you to the next level is to join your National Governing Body (NGB). The NGB conducts National Championships, maintains a National Team, and often supports various developmental programs for athletes. You can find the website for your NGB through the U.S. Olympic website.
5. Start Competing
If you haven’t already started competing at the club stage, now is the time to do it. Your NGB hosts a variety of tournaments that start on the local level. It is important in many sports to build a national rating by competing at certain competitions. Your NGB will be able to tell you when and where you should be competing.
6. Get a Coach
This step should be taken at the same time as you start competing. A coach can help you develop your skills, so you can
progress to the next level of your sport. A good place to start looking for a coach is your local training facility. The people who teach classes at the facility can recommend someone to coach you, or they may be able to coach you themselves.
7. Visualize Your Success
A training technique used by top athletes is visualization. According to one theory, if you see a perfect golf swing 1,000 times your mind, its better practice than actually swinging the golf club 10,000 times. Then see yourself coming out of the water to a roaring crowd, toweling off, and flashbulbs popping. The more detail you can add to your visualizations—including imagining any sounds, smells, and physical sensations—the better your visualizations will prepare you to achieve the result you want. If you’re a diver, you can play out the entire sequence of a perfect dive in your mind. Imagine yourself climbing up the ladder, taking each step toward the end of the platform, launching yourself in the air, performing each flip and twist perfectly.
8. Find Financing
At some point you may be ready to start training full-time, which means you will have to find a way to support yourself financially. Elite level athletes have several options including: attend college on an athletic scholarship, become a resident athlete at an Olympic Training Center, or obtain corporate sponsorships. Your NGB can give you information about becoming a resident athlete. You may be able to obtain corporate sponsorships through your employer, by contacting the marketing department of other companies, or by having a sports marketing agency contact companies for you.
10. Qualify for the Olympics
Each sport has a different process for qualifying for the U.S. Olympic Team. Athletes in team sports (such as basketball or soccer) tend to be chosen by the national coaching squad via their national reputation, national ranking or through results at previous competitions. Some team sports also have an Olympic tryout. Athletes in individual sports (such as track and field or tennis) compete for a spot on the Olympic Team through qualifying tournaments or their national rankings. Once you make it to the Olympics, you have achieved the dream of a lifetime so enjoy the experience and go for the gold!
9. Attend the National Championships
Most NGBs run their National Championships in a similar format to the Olympic Games so it will be good practice for you. Often, the National Team coach is present at the National Championships, and will be able to tell you what you need to do to make the Olympic Team in your sport. Many individual sports open their National Championships to any competitor who has achieved some minimum qualification at the local or regional level so you may have a better chance of competing than you think.
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Q & A with MADISYN COX Olympic Trial Swimmer
OMAHA — The thought only crossed Madisyn Cox’s mind for a moment, piercing through the swirl of confusion, shock and heartbreak last spring when the coronavirus pandemic forced the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics by a year. But its sheer gravity demanded it be heard and considered: Was this a sign that her Olympic dream was over? Was it time to quit swimming and go learn how to be a doctor? At the time, the list of unknowns was lengthy: Would the McGovern Medical School in Houston grant Cox a deferral so she could keep training? Could she maintain the level of training at which she had been operating for another year? And would the Tokyo Olympics actually take place in 2021 as promised?
“All these questions were running through my head,” Cox, 26, recalled recently. “But ultimately, I thought, ‘This is my last chance at going for the Olympics.’ I couldn’t one day turn around and say, ‘Oh, I’m going to go back to training.’ Our bodies are primed at a certain time, and I can’t go back at 40 and decide I want to do this. But I can always push medicschool back a year. So I decided to go that route.”
So far, at least, her decision to push toward the Olympics has been validated. The med school granted her a deferral. The Tokyo Games, by all accounts, are going to happen. And Cox is swimming as well as at any time in her long career. On Tuesday night at the U.S. Olympic trials at CHI Health Center Arena, she sailed into the final of the 200-meter individual medley, posting a time of 2:10.22 to finish second in her semifinal heat. On Wednesday night, she will swim the event again for a spot on the Olympic team. Seeded fourth in the final, with the top two finishers earning berths on Team USA, she will need a faster swim than the one she turned in Tuesday night. But she has one in her: The 2:08.51 she swam last month remains the best time by an American this year. Should Cox make it to Tokyo, it would complete a remarkable journey unlike that of any of her teammates. The postponement of the Tokyo Games was not the first time Cox had wondered whether making her think that maybe it was time to consider that she should give up the dream and get on with real life.
In March 2018, less than two years after falling just short of making the 2016 Olympic team and just eight months after winning a gold and a bronze at the 2017 world championships, Cox was informed that she had tested positive for trimetazidine, a banned metabolite. The result was confirmed by both an “A” and a “B” sample. Cox was adamant she had not knowingly taken a banned substance and appealed the finding, which had not been made public.
FINA, swimming’s governing body, reduced the standard four-year suspension to two years after finding her testimony credible and concluding she had not knowingly taken the substance. In a report announcing that decision, FINA called her “an honest, very hardworking and highly credible athlete who is not a ‘cheat.’ ” But it could not reduce the suspension further without a concrete explanation for how the substance entered her system. Cox’s family spent months — and a considerable amount of money — searching for that explanation in hopes of clearing her name. Finally, in August 2018, a World Anti-Doping Agency-accredited lab determined four nanograms of trimetazidine were present in both opened and factory-sealed bottles of a multivitamin Cox had been taking for seven years, and which she had listed on every form at every doping test she had
ever taken. She was effectively cleared of any wrongdoing but still had to serve a six-month suspension — which forced her to miss qualifying trials for the 2019 world championships and set back her training for Tokyo. “In hindsight, [that experience in] 2018 definitely prepared me for 2020,” Cox said.
“The difference is, in 2018 I was going through it alone. It was this thing that was hush-hush. The only people who knew [about the positive test] were my parents and my coach. … In 2020, we were all going through the pandemic together. ”
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The unprecedented and unpredictable spread of the outbreak has seen the situation in the rest of the world deteriorating. Yesterday, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that the COVID-19 pandemic is “accelerating”. There are more than 375,000 cases now recorded worldwide and in nearly every country, and their number is growing by the hour. In the present circumstances and based on the information provided by the WHO today, the IOC President and the Prime Minister of Japan have concluded that the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo must be rescheduled to a date beyond 2020 but not later than summer 2021, to safeguard the health of the athletes, everybody involved in the Olympic Games and the international community.
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are Postponed until Summer 2021
The IOC issued the following statement: “President Bach and Prime Minister Abe expressed their shared concern about the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, and what it is doing to people’s lives and the significant impact it is having on global athletes’ preparations for the Games. In a very friendly and constructive meeting, the two leaders praised the work of the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee and noted the great progress being made in Japan to fight against COVID-19. The unprecedented and unpredictable spread of the outbreak has seen the situation in the rest of the world deteriorating.
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The International Olympic Committee has finally agreed to postpone the Olympics to Summer 2021 in Tokyo after weeks of mounting pressure and criticism in their response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Tokyo has been slated to host the 2020 Olympics since beating Madrid and Istanbul in the bidding for the hosting rights in 2013. The country has spent nearly $12 billion to host the event.
All signs pointed toward a delay after senior IOC member Dick Pound said that the fate of the Tokyo Olympics would be a postponement and Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe arranged a conference call with the IOC on Tuesday to propose the Games to be held in 2021. Abe said Bach “agreed 100%.”
The IOC faced months of mounting pressure and criticism from athletes and national governing bodies over their handling of the coronavirus.
The Olympics were set to begin on July 24 with the opening ceremony. This marks the first occasion in which the modern Olympics have been postponed. The Games have previously only been canceled only during wartime in 1916, 1940 and 1944.
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FACTS ABOUT THE OLYMPICS YOU MAY OR MAY NOT KNOW The Olympics were originally a religious festival From 776 B.C the early Olympic Games were a pagan festival that celebrated the Greek God Zeus – who lived on Olympus. However the games were banned in 393 A.D and not brought back until 1894 when a Frenchman called Baron Pierre de Coubertin proposed a revival of the ancient tradition.
Olympic medals were first used in 1904 Although the Olympics Games were revived in 1894 the first medals weren’t awarded until 1904. It was at this point that the decision to give first place gold, second place silver and third place bronze was brought into tradition.
The first winter games came much later than the summer games Even though the summer Olympics were brought back in 1894, the first winter Olympics did not take place until 1924. These games were originally called ‘International Winter Sports Week’ with the first being held in Chamonix in France between January 25th and February 5th 1924. The USA has won 1,000 medals more than any other country The United States of America have won 2,399 Summer Olympic medals since they began competing in the games. The next highest number of medals belonged to the Soviet Union, (a socialist state on the European continent that existed from 1922 to 1991), with 1010 medals, then Great Britain with 780, France with 671 and Germany with 573.
Only 4 athletes have medals from both summer and winter games
The Olympic rings represent five world continents The five regions that the rings represent are Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Australia. Every national flag in the world includes one of the five colours that make up the interlocking rings; blue, yellow, black, green and red.
The USA has hosted the Summer Olympics the most The Summer Olympics has takenplace in the USA more times than any other nation. The USA has hosted the games four times in total; St Louis 1904, Los Angeles 1932 & 1984, and Atlanta 1996. Australia hosted the first SummerOlympics in the Southern Hemisphere The Summer Olympics were held in Melbourne, Australia in 1956. These Olympics were the first that had ever been hosted outside of the northern hemisphere; however, the equestrian events for these games had to be held in Sweden 5 months earlier due to foot and mouth quarantine.
1. Eddie Eagan (United States) won a Summer Olympic gold for boxing in 1920 and his winter gold for four-man bobsled in 1932. 2. Jacob Tullin Thams (Norway) won the first Winter Olympic ski jumping gold medal in 1924 and won a silver medal as part of the 8-metre sailing team in the 1936 Summer Olympics. 3. Christa Luding-Rothenburger (Germany) is the only Olympian to win medals in the same year (1988) at both the Summer and Winter Olympics – a feat that is no longer possible due to the staggering of the games. Christa won her Winter Olympic medals for speed skating in 1984, 1988 and 1992 as well as her Summer Olympic medal for cycling in 1988. 4. Clara Hughes (Canada) has won six Olympic medals from 1996 to 2010. She won two medals at the 1996 Summer Olympics for cycling and four medals for speed skating at the 2002, 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics.
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