Fifteen-year-old wins her nation’s first YOG title in the event after battling nerves Italian gymnast Giorgia Villa and her coach Marco Campodonico had their own competition going on: who was the most nervous. Just minutes before Villa was to perform her floor exercise, her last routine in a nail-biting all-around final competition,
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Buenos Aires 2018: ‘My dream is not a dream any more,’ says Diogo Soares
Artistic gymnast Diogo Soares emerges as the surprise package as much-fancied Takeru Kitazono (JPN) delivers in the all-around final Brazil’s Diogo Soares won the bronze medal in the men’s artistic gymnastics all-around final and his success came as such a surprise that it took several media interviews for him to absorb
Briones bounces back to land vault gold at 2018 Youth Olympics
China claim double gold in trampoline at 2018 Youth Olympic Games
China have dominated Trampoline Gymnastics at this summer’s Youth Olympic Games (YOG) Buenos Aires 2018 by winning double gold. Sunday’s action kicked off with the women’s final, as Xinyi Fan carried on from where she left off in qualification. The 16-year-old cruised to the top of the leaderboard from the two preliminary
Senegal picked as first African host to Youth Olympics in 2022
IOC president Thomas Bach with the Senegal delegation at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos AiresSenegal will host the fourth edition of the summer Youth Olympic Games in 2022 – the first time an Olympic event will be held in Africa. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) membership unanimously approved Dakar to