World Gymnastics Championships

The World Gymnastics Championships were held in Glasgow, Scotland from October 23 - November 1, 2015

The USA women's gymnastics team wins gold for the third consecutive year. China wins silver and Great Britain wins bronze. Simone Biles wins her third straight All Around world title.

Women's team results:


USA - 181.338
Vault - 46.665 Unevens - 45.433 Balance Beam - 43.432 Floor Exercise - 45.808

China - 176.164
Vault - 45.233 Unevens - 45.632 Balance Beam - 42.300 Floor Exercise - 42.999

GBR - 172.380
Vault - 45.049 Unevens - 42.299 Balance Beam - 41.733 Floor Exercise - 43.299

Women's All Around

Simone Biles - USA - gold - 60.399
Vault - 15.833 Unevens - 14.900 Balance Beam - 14.400 Floor - 15.266

Gabrielle Douglas - USA - silver - 59.316
Vault - 15.300 Unevens - 15.033 Balance Beam - 14.400 Floor - 14.583

Larisa Iordache - Romania - bronze - 59.107
Vault - 15.066 Unevens - 14.800 Balance Beam - 14.766 Floor - 14.475

Simone Biles of the USA wins gold on Balance Beam in Individual event finals.
Madison Kocian of the USA wins gold on Unevens in Individual event finals.



The USA men's gymnastics team finished 5th in team competition with 267.853 total.
Japan wins gold with 270.818 total, Great Britain wins silver with 270.345 total and China wins bronze with 269.959 total.

USA Men's All Around results:

Donnell Whittenburg - 8th
Danell Leyva - 17th

Men's All Around results:

Kohei Uchimura - Japan - gold
Manrique Larduet - Cuba - silver
Shudi Deng - China - bronze

Donnell Whittenburg of the USA wins bronze on vault in Individual event finals.

Los Angeles 2024!

The USOC today named Los Angeles the US bid city for the 2024 summer Olympic games. LA is trying to become an Olympic host for the third time. LA hosted games in 1932 and 1984. Today, the LA City Council voted 15-0 to give the LA mayor Eric Garcetti approval to bid on the games.

The games budget proposed is 4.1 billion dollars. Another 6 billion will be spent on infrastructure, mostly by the private sector. Games insurance would cost 150 million and 400 million would be raised to cover cost overruns. The bid calls for a 161 million dollar surplus.

A one billion dollar athletes village is proposed. 500 million dollars of improvements to the LA Coliseum will be paid for by USC. The Coliseum would host the opening and closing ceremonies and track and field.
Other venues included in the bid include the Staples Center which would host gymnastics and basketball. The Galen Center would host boxing and basketball would be played at the Pauley Pavillion. Santa Monica beach would host beach volleyball. The Rose Bowl would host soccer and the Inglewood Forum would host indoor volleyball. There are approximately 30 venues in the bid book.

Over 80% of LA residents support having the games which is a far cry from Boston's 40% approval rating. On January 8, 2015 the USOC first picked Boston but after 8 months of strong local opposition they finally pulled the bid.

Toronto probably won't bid on the 2024 games so besides Los Angeles, the remaining bidders on the 2024 games are Paris, Rome, Hamburg and Budapest.

Let's bring the games back to the USA! This bid seems strong and has community support. From watching the USOC press conference today, its a different feel from Boston's bid. USA Olympian Janet Evans leads a host of Olympic athletes in support of the games. Greg Louganis, Peter Vidmar, Bryan Clay, Alex Morgan and others all lend their support of LA 2024. This is the city the USOC should have picked the first time. I supported Boston because at that time they were the US bid city, now I support LA because they are the new bid city. The LA bid looks stronger than Boston based on more LA existing venues already in place and LA is a two-time summer games host.

Go LA 2024! The IOC will choose the 2024 host city in 2017.

IAAF Track and Field World Championships

The IAAF Track and Field World Championships are being held in Beijing, China from August 22-30, 2015.

Results: USA Athletes medals or places in finals only. Includes record performances.

Women's Shot Put
Christina Schwanitz - Germany - gold
Lijiao Gong - China - silver
Michelle Carter - USA - bronze

Men's 10,000
Mo Farah - GB - gold
Galen Rupp - USA - 5th

Men's Shot Put
Joe Kovacs - USA - gold
David Storl - Germany - silver
O'Dwayne Richards - Jamaica - bronze
Reese Hoffa - USA - 5th

Men's 100
Usain Bolt - Jamaica - gold - 9.79
Justin Gatlin - USA - silver - 9.80
Trayvon Brommell - USA - bronze - 9.92
Andre Degrasse - Canada - tie for bronze - 9.92

Women's 10,000
Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot - Kenya - gold - 31:41.31
Gelete Burka - Eithiopia - silver - 31.41.77
Emily Infeld - USA - bronze - 31:43.49
Molly Huddle - USA - 4th
Shalane Flanagan - USA - 6th

Men's 3000 Steeplechase
Daniel Huling - USA - 5th
Evan Jager - USA - 6th
Don Cabral - USA - 10th

Women's 100
Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce - Jamaica - gold - 10.76
Dafne Schippers - Netherlands - silver - 10.81
Tori Bowie - USA - bronze - 10.86

Men's 400 Hurdles
Kerron Clement - USA - 4th
Michael Tinsley - USA - 8th

Women's 1500
Shannon Rowbury - USA - 7th
Jenny Simpson - USA - 11th

Women's 400 Hurdles
Zuzana Hejnova - CZE - gold - 53.50
Shamier Little - USA - silver - 53.94
Cassandra Tate - USA - bronze - 54.02

Women's 3000 Steeplechase
Emma Coburn - USA - 5th

Men's 400
Wayde Van Nekerk - South Africa - gold - 43.48
Lashawn Merritt - USA - silver - 43.65
Kirani James - Grenada - bronze - 43.78

Men's Triple Jump
Christian Taylor - USA - gold
Pedro Pichardo - Cuba - silver
Nelson Evora - Portugal - bronze

Women's 400
Allyson Felix - USA - gold - 49.26
Shaunae Miller - Bahamas - silver - 49.67
Shericka Jackson - Jamaica - bronze - 49.99

Men's 200
Usain Bolt - Jamaica - gold - 19.55
Justin Gatlin - USA - silver - 19.74
Anaso Jobodwana - South Africa - bronze - 19.87

Women's Long Jump
Tianna Bartoletta - USA - gold
Shara Proctor - GBR - silver
Ivana Spanovic - Serbia - bronze
Janay Deloach Soukup - USA - 8th

Women's 200
Dafne Schippers - Netherlands - gold - 21.63
Elaine Thompson - Jamaica - silver - 21.66
Veronica Campbell Brown - Jamaica - bronze - 21.97
(3rd and 4th fastest times ever recorded)

Men's 110 Hurdles
Sergey Shubenkov - Russia - gold - 12.98
Hansle Parchment - Jamaica - silver - 13.03
Aries Merritt - USA - bronze - 13.04
David Oliver - USA - 7th

Women's 100 Hurdles
Brianna Rollins - USA - 4th
Sharika Nelvis - USA - 8th

Men's 5000
Mo Farah - GBR - gold
Galen Rupp - USA - 5th
Ben True - USA - 6th
Ryan Hill - USA - 7th

Men's Decathlon
Ashton Eaton - USA - gold - 9045 (world record)
Damian Warner - Canada - silver - 8695
Rico Freimuth - Germany - bronze - 8561

Women's 4 by 100 relay
Jamaica - gold - 41.07
USA - silver - 41.68
Trinidad & Tobago - bronze - 42.03

Men's 4 by 100 relay
Jamaica - gold - 37.36
China - silver - 38.01
Canada - bronze - 38.13
USA - DQ - 37.77

Men's High Jump
Erik Kynard - USA - 8th

Women's 5000
Nicole Tully - USA - 13th

Men's 1500
Matthew Centrowitz - USA - 8th
Leonel Manzano - USA - 10th
Robby Andrews - USA - 11th

Women's 4 by 400 relay
Jamaica - gold - 3:19.13
USA - silver - 3:19.44
GBR - bronze - 3:23.62

Men's 4 by 400 relay
USA - gold - 2:57.82
Trinidad & Tobago - silver - 2:58.20
GBR - bronze - 2:58.51

Final Medal Count - Top 3 countries
Kenya - 7 gold, 6 silver, 3 bronze - 16 total
Jamaica - 7 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze - 12 total
USA - 6 gold, 6 silver, 6 bronze - 18 total

Lowest total medal count for USA at the IAAF World Track and Field Championships since 2003.

P & G USA Gymnastics Championships

Simone Biles won her third all around title at the P & G USA Gymnastics Championships held August 13-16, 2015 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

For the USA men, Sam Mikulak won his third straight all around title as well.

Results - Women's All Around judges combined - (prelims and finals) totals for 4 events

1. Simone Biles - 124.100
2. Maggie Nichols - 119.150
3. Aly Raisman - 118.550
4. Bailie Key - 118.350
5. Gabby Douglas - 117.950
10. Kyla Ross - 114.550

Individual Results- Women's Vault - combined totals

1. Simone Biles - 31.550
2. MyKayla Skinner - 30.125

Women's Uneven Bars - combined totals

1. Madison Kocian - 31.100
2. Ashton Locklear - 30.850
3. Bailie Key - 30.500
4. Gabby Douglas - 30.400
5. Simone Biles - 30.100
11. Aly Raisman - 28.250
12. Kyla Ross - 28.100

Women's Balance Beam - combined totals

1. Simone Biles - 30.700
2. Alyssa Bauman - 30.200
3. Kyla Ross - 29.500
4. Nia Dennis - 29.050
4. Maggie Nichols - 29.050
7. Aly Raisman - 28.700
9. Gabby Douglas - 28.650

Women's Floor Exercise- combined totals

1. Aly Raisman - 31.050
2. Simone Biles - 30.750
3. MyKayla Skinner - 29.150
3. Bailie Key - 29.150
5. Maggie Nichols - 28.700
6. Gabby Douglas - 28.650
12. Kyla Ross - 27.350


Results of USA Men's All Around - judges combined (prelims and finals) for 6 events

1. Sam Mikulak - 183.650
2. Donnell Whittenburg - 179.300
3. Chris Brooks - 177.150
4. Alex Naddour - 175.600
5. Marvin Kimble - 175.400
6. Danell Leyva - 175.100
6. Steven Legendre -175.100
8. Paul Ruggeri - 174.850
9. Jonathan Horton - 174.550


Individual Results- Men's Floor Exercise - combined totals

1 Steven Legendre - 31.300
2. Donnell Whittenburg - 31.100
3. Stacey Ervin - 30.950
4. Eddie Penev - 30.800
5. Paul Ruggeri - 30.650
7. Sam Mikulak - 30.150
8. Jonathan Horton - 30.150
26. Danell Leyva - 28.000

Men's Pommel Horse - combined totals

1. Alex Naddour - 30.600
2. Donothan Bailey - 30.000
3. Sam Mikulak - 29.900
4. Michael Reid - 29.700
5. Alec Yoder - 29.550
8. Donnell Whittenburg - 28.250
12. Danell Leyva - 27.950
19. Steven Legendre - 27.050
29. Jonathan Horton - 26.150
33. Paul Ruggeri - 24.700

Men's Still Rings - combined totals

1. Donnell Whittenburg - 32.000
2. Brandon Wynn - 31.500
3. CJ Maestras - 31.150
3. Steven Lacombe - 31.150
5. Sam Mikulak - 30.750
7. Steven Legendre - 30.300
8. Jonathan Horton - 30.250
17. Paul Ruggeri - 28.750
23. Denell Leyva - 28.400

Men's Vault - combined totals

1. Sam Mikulak - 30.850
2. Paul Ruggeri - 30.700
3. Donnell Whittenburg - 30.650
4. Kevin Wolting - 30.450
5. Eddie Penev - 30.250
16. Danell Leyva - 29.400
25. Steven Legendre - 28.850
27. Jonathan Horton - 28.650

Men's Parallel Bars - combined totals

1. Sam Mikulak - 31.550
2. Chris Brooks - 31.150
3. Danell Leyva - 31.050
4. Jonathan Horton - 30.400
5. Akash Modi - 30.150
9. Donnell Whittenburg - 29.550
11. Steven Legendre - 29.450
15. Paul Ruggeri - 29.300

Men's High Bar - combined totals

1. Chris Brooks - 31.350
2. Paul Ruggeri - 30.750
3. Sam Mikulak - 30.450
4. Danell Leyva - 30.300
5. Donothan Bailey - 29.550
7. Jonathan Horton - 29.050
19. Steven Legendre - 28.150
26. Donnell Whittenburg - 27.750

2015 FINA World Swimming Championshps- USA medal winners

Katie Ledecky led the USA with 5 gold at the FINA World Swimming Championships held in Kazan, Russia from July 24- August 9, 2015.
The USA led all countries with 23 total medals 8 gold, 10 silver, 5 bronze(USA Swimming says 26 total medals that includes open water medals). Australia was second with 16 total medals and China finished third with 13 total medals.

List of medal winners for USA Women:

Katie Ledecky - 5 gold - 400 free, 1500 free, 200 free, 800 free relay and 800 free.
Missy Franklin - 2 gold - 800 free relay, mixed 400 free relay. 1 silver - 200 back. 2 bronze - 200 free, 400 free relay.
Katie Mclaughlin - 1 gold - 800 free relay. 1 silver - mixed 400 free relay.
Haley Anderson - 1 gold - open water 5K.
Simone Manuel - 1 gold - mixed 400 free relay. 1 bronze - 400 free relay.
Shannon Vreeland - 1 gold - 800 free relay(prelims). 1 bronze - 400 free relay(prelims).
Margo Geer - 1 gold - mixed 400 free relay(prelims). 1 silver - mixed 400 medley relay. 1 bronze - 400 free relay.
Leah Smith - 1 gold - 800 free relay.
Cierra Runge - 1 gold - 800 free relay(prelims).
Chelsea Chenault - 1 gold - 800 free relay(prelims.)
Abbey Weitzeil - 1 gold - mixed 400 free relay(prelims).
Cammile Adams - 1 silver - 200 fly.
Micah Lawrence - 1 silver - 200 breast.
Lia Neal - 1 silver - mixed 400 medley relay(prelims). - 1 bronze - 400 free relay.
Maya DiRado - 1 silver - 400 IM(Individual Medley.)
Kendyl Stewart - 1 silver - mixed 400 medley relay(prelims).


USA Men Medal winners:

Ryan Lochte - 3 gold - 200IM, mixed 400 free relay, 400 medley relay(prelims). 1 silver - 800 free relay.
Nathan Adrian - 2 gold - mixed 400 free relay, 400 medley relay.
Matt Grevers - 1 gold - 400 medley relay(prelms). 1 silver - 50 back. 1 bronze - 100 back.
Kevin Cordes - 1 gold - 400 medley relay. 2 silver - 200 breast, mixed 400 medley relay. 1 bronze - 50 breast.
Ryan Murphy - 1 gold - 400 medley relay. 1 silver - mixed 400 medley relay.
Conor Dwyer - 1 gold - mixed 400 free relay(prelims). 1 silver - 800 free relay.
Jordan Wilimovsky - 1 gold - open water 10K.
Tom Shields - 1 gold - 400 medley relay.
Cody Miller - 1 gold - 400 medley relay(prelims).
Tim Phillips - 1 gold - 400 medley relay(prelims).
Alex Meyer - 1 silver - open water 25K.
Connor Jaeger - 1 silver - 1500 free.
Reed Malone - 1 silver - 800 free relay.
Michael Weiss - 1 silver - 800 free relay.
Michael Klueh - 1 silver - 800 free relay(prelims).
Chase Kalisz - 1 bronze - 400IM.

One year until 2016 Rio Games

Today marks one year until the 2016 Rio Summer Games. Celebrations will be held in the USA and Brazil. The games will take place August 5-21,2016.

Beijing awarded 2022 Winter Olympic games/IOC Session - Bid Revamp

Today as part of the 128th IOC session held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Beijing, China was awarded the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. The vote was 44-40 in favor of Beijing over Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Beijing will be the first city to host a summer and winter games. Beijing's Olympic budget is 1.5 billion dollars. Beijing has most venues in place so costs are low and reflects the IOC Olympics Agenda 2020 of sustainability. Almaty was seen as the riskier bid.

The Beijing bid has venues in Yangqing and Zhangjiakou which are 40 and 90 miles away, respectively. A high speed rail line will be built to cut travel time to these venues. China's mountains require man made snow, which was seized upon by Almaty as a Beijing weakness during the two cities 45 minute presentations to the IOC held before the vote.

The IOC saw Beijing as more reliable based on the delivery of the 2008 summer games.

Also at the IOC session, the bid selection process has been streamlined. From now on all bid cities will be considered as candidates and there will be no shortlist(which meant that cities could be dropped before the final vote).
There will be three phases. All cities that get their bid in before the deadline(which is Sept. 15) will go through these phases.
The three phases are:
Vision, Games Concept and Legacy (September 15, 2015 to May 2016).
Governance, Legal and Venue Funding (May to December 2016).
Games Delivery, Experience and Venue Legacy (December 2016 to September 2017).

So far Paris, Rome, Hamburg and Budapest are bidding on the 2024 summer games. Los Angeles and Toronto are expected to bid as well.