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Indy gymnast Alec Yoder builds huge lead and closes in on Olympics
Nothing is a given in a sport as perilous as gymnastics. Yet if Alec Yoder performs another pommel horse routine like the one he did Thursday night, the question is not whether he will make the Olympic team.
It will be whether he can bring home a medal from the Tokyo Olympics, as he vowed to his late coach he would do.
Yoder, a former Ohio State gymnast from Indianapolis, put on a masterful pommel horse routine in the U.S. trials at St. Louis. He knew it, too.
He screamed, flexed and pounded his chest afterward. In a sport in which medals are decided by tenths, he will have a lead of nearly a full point heading into Saturday’s finals.
Yoder’s score was 15.05, compared with 14.10 by runner-up Yul Moldauer, leader of the all-around. The other top contender specialist, Stephen Nedoroscik, was a distant fifth at 13.65.
Yoder leads by 0.95 points, and the next-highest margin on any of the six events between first and second is 0.60 on high bar.
Yoder and Nedoroscik have been alternating wins since 2017. In the recent national championships, Nedoroscik’s two-event total, 30.20, edged Yoder’s 30.05.
Nedoroscik, of Penn State, won NCAA titles in 2017 and 2018. Yoder did so in 2019.
Entire article: https://www.indystar.com/story/spor...als-alec-yoder-leads-pommel-horse/5319501001/
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Gold medal-winning Ohio State coach worried for family in Ukraine
Rustam Sharipov is used to routine.
It’s what made him an Olympic gold medal gymnast, and now a successful coach at Ohio State.
These days, his daily routine has a couple of additional steps: calling his parents day and night.
“You’re going to bed, you call them. You wake up, you call them,” Rustam said through tears. “I don’t wish anybody to go through that.”
Rustam’s parents and brother are still in his home country of Ukraine.
“They don’t have a bunker but they have an underground place where they can store food and that’s where they spend most of their time,” Rustam explained.
His parents live in the countryside and the plan for now is to stay put since both are older than 70. Rustam believes it may be too hard or dangerous to try to get them to the border.
“They have their social circle over there, they feel comfortable,” he said.
Rustam was born in Tajikistan in the Soviet Union and when he was 15 years old, his family moved to Ukraine. There, he flourished as a gymnast joining the Soviet Union national team.
At the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, Rustam won a gold medal as part of the Unified Team.
“I like this word unified,” he said. “We had guys on the team from Azerbaijan, I’m [originally] from Tajikistan, from Ukraine, from now Russia, from Moscow on national team. We had a Georgian, we had Armenians. We didn’t care where we were from.”
Then, at the 1996 Games in Atlanta, the first summer Olympics in which Ukraine competed as a country, Rustam won an individual gold medal wearing his country’s blue and yellow colors.
“It’s always we’ve been proud to represent the countries. My generation, that’s all we cared,” he said simply.
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Entire article: https://www.nbc4i.com/news/gold-medal-winning-ohio-state-coach-worried-for-family-in-ukraine/
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
A program that's won multiple national championships just had all its scholarships wiped out by Aggy Bjork and Slapshot Ted. Not liking this new leadership at all!
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Am I crazy or is that article about the men’s gymnastics team, not men’s volleyball? I can’t anything about men’s volleyball losing their scholarships.
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The Men’s Gymnastics program has 3 National Titles (‘85, ‘96, ‘01), the same number as the Men’s Volleyball program, but I don’t see any direct connection either. So I’ve moved these posts to a Gymnastics thread.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Just sayin': I could be wrong; however, I'm guessing that the elimination of the men’s gymnastic scholarships had nothing to do with the success of men's gymnastics program. It is possible cutting scholarships for men's gymnastics had everything to do with Title IX. Under the NCAA new scholarship limits some men's teams like football (added 20 scholarships), baseball (added 9.3 more scholarships than softball), and men's track added 8.4 more than women's track, etc. They had to offset some men's scholarships somewhere to still maintain an equal number of women's scholarships, etc.
NCAA Scholarship Limits for D1 College Sports Programs
| Sport* | Current | New | Increase |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tumbling (W) | 14 | 55 | 41 |
| Baseball (M) | 11.7 | 34 | 22.3 |
| Basketball (M) | 13 | 15 | 2 |
| Basketball (W) | 15 | 15 | 0 |
| Beach volleyball (W) | 6 | 19 | 13 |
| Cross country (M) | 5 | 17 | 12 |
| Cross country (W) | 6 | 17 | 11 |
| Field hockey (W) | 12 | 27 | 15 |
| Football (M) | 85 | 105 | 20 |
| Golf (M) | 4.5 | 9 | 4.5 |
| Golf (W) | 6 | 9 | 3 |
| Gymnastics (M) | 6.3 | 20 | 13.7 |
| Gymnastics (W) | 12 | 20 | 8 |
| Ice hockey (M) | 18 | 26 | 8 |
| Ice hockey (W) | 18 | 26 | 8 |
| Track (M) | 12.6 | 45 | 35.4 |
| Track (W) | 18 | 45 | 27 |
| Lacrosse (M) | 12.6 | 48 | 35.4 |
| Lacrosse (W) | 12 | 38 | 26 |
| Rowing (W) | 20 | 68 | 48 |
| Soccer (M) | 9.9 | 28 | 18.1 |
| Soccer (W) | 14 | 28 | 14 |
| Softball (W) | 12 | 25 | 13 |
| Stunt (M/W) | 14 | 65 | 51 |
| Swim (M) | 9.9 | 30 | 20.1 |
| Swim (W) | 14 | 30 | 16 |
| Tennis (M) | 4.5 | 10 | 5.5 |
| Tennis (W) | 8 | 10 | 2 |
| Triathlon (W) | 6.5 | 14 | 7.5 |
| Volleyball (M) | 4.5 | 18 | 13.5 |
| Volleyball (W) | 12 | 18 | 6 |
| Water polo (M) | 4.5 | 24 | 19.5 |
| Water polo (W) | 8 | 24 | 16 |
| Wrestling (M) | 9.9 | 30 | 20.1 |
| Wrestling (W) | 10 | 30 | 20 |
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