Ohio State Men's and Women's Gymnastics (2022 B1G Mens Champions)

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In 1969, NCAA men’s gymnastics had more than 210 programs compete that season. Today, just 15 teams remain as a Division I NCAA sponsored sport.

Just sayin': I wouldn't have guessed it was that bad (above). I guess (below) is the good news:

With an athletic department that reported $205.5 million in revenue for the 2017 fiscal year, the Buckeyes had the third-highest revenue in the NCAA, behind Texas and Texas A&M.

Ohio State supports 36 varsity sports, more than any other Big Ten institution by seven. Many of the athletic teams compete for championships with an army of support staff behind them and train in state-of-the-art facilities.

Men’s gymnastics is one of those programs as the Buckeyes are consistently in the top 5 and have several individual national champions in the record books.

 

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PANDEMIC THINGS. Today in "imagine reading this sentence a year ago"...

The Ohio State men’s gymnastics team has adjusted its schedule and will host a virtual meet against Navy on Saturday, Jan. 30 at noon inside the Covelli Center. Navy will be competing from Annapolis, Md.

But the funniest part is, this actually makes complete sense for this sport even if there wasn't a global pandemic. Do these teams really need to be in the same location for their athletes to all do a bunch of separate events and add their scores together?

Just sayin': Interesting concept. The judges can't be in 2 places a the same time, so I will speculate that they will have judging by video too.

 

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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/