Youth Olympic Games: Fun Facts

2014-08-26
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The most decorated gymnast of the Games was British Ellie Downie with 3 bronzes (AA, BB, FX) and 1 silver (VT).

Here is Ellie’s floor routine, that brought her the bronze in the EF:

 

Brazil, Great Britain and Japan were first time medalists in the YOG’s  short history.

Sae Miyakawa and Ellie Downie share the vault podium with China’s Wang Yan:

 

Brazil is only the third country to win gold at YOG all the other gold medals, both in Sinapore and Nanjing, have been won by either Russia and China.

Stop everything you do and watch Flavia Saraiva’s winning floor routine:

The only gymnast from Iraq, that has a valid FIG license, is YOG competitor: Fatima Saadi Al-Tameemi.

 

Both Russia and China were able to defend their titles from Singapore, Russia defended their AA and Bars title while China their Beam title.

A thrilled AA winner, Seda Tutkhalyan:

Seda’s bars:

Wang Yan’s beam:

 

The only gymnast to qualify to all the event finals was Romanian Laura Jurca, unfortunately she did not win any medals at the finals.

And she was a joy to watch:

During the vault final three gymnasts competed a full twisting Yurchenko and a double twisting Yurchenko. This would not have been a valid option at the senior level since gymnasts are required to do vaults from different familys.

Laura Jurca doing the above-mentioned vaults in qualifications:

 

Philippines gymnast, Ava Florein Verdeflor, trains at WOGA with Evgeny Marshenko.

She was an event finalist on bars:

 

Former Ukrainian gymnast, Olga Teslenko, was a judge at the meet.

Here, in the “old” days:

Article: Isabel Iz

Pictures: FIG

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