Freestyle skiers Alex Hall and Nick Goepper have re-established Team USA’s dominance in men’s freeski slopestyle by finishing first and second in the event at the 2022 Beijing Olympics on Wednesday. Hall took the gold thanks to a 90.01 score in the first final run, while Goepper scored 86.48 in his second run to walk away with a silver medal. Sweden’s Jesper Tjäder took home the bronze.

Team USA previously won all three medals in freeski slopestyle’s debut at the Sochi Olympics in 2014. But this was followed by an underwhelming performance four years later, with Team USA only having a silver medal to show for in Pyeongchang.

With the medal from Beijing, Goepper became the first and only Olympian to have three freeski slopestyle medals. He previously won bronze in Sochi and was responsible for the previously mentioned lone silver in 2018. On the other hand, Hall gets his first medal in his second Olympics appearance.

“I just kept it true to myself, and I think that’s the most important part about our sport is just doing it for the love and doing it how you want to do it and not changing that,” said Hall after the event.

With Hall and Goepper’s gold and silver, team USA’s medal count now stands at 19. The United States is currently ranked third among all participating countries with eight golds, seven silvers, and four bronzes.

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Major League Baseball superstar Bryce Harper had some strong words last week about baseball and the Olympics during an interview with a podcast on Barstool Sports.

According to Harper, he isn’t very happy with the current Major League Baseball system that doesn’t allow for its best starts to participate in the Summer Olympic games in detriment to the regular season schedule.

Baseball was featured in the Summer Olympic Games from 1992 until 2008, but the IOC then voted against its inclusion in the 2012 and 2016 versions of the games.

However, it was re-included in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which were postponed until 2021 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic which has caused the disruption and cancellation of sports around the globe.

Harper had strong words for the league, stating, “The 2020 Olympics, in Japan. And you’re not sending big league guys? Are you kidding me? You want to grow the game as much as possible and you’re not going to let us play in the Olympics because you don’t want to [lose] out on money for a two-week period? OK, that’s dumb.”

Currently, only amateur players are allowed to take part in the competition.

Perhaps there is time for Major League Baseball to rectify its stance and allow its best players to take place in the re-inclusion of the event in next summer’s games.

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The start of the Olympic Games in Tokyo has been officially rescheduled for July 23rd, 2021. This was announced on Monday by the Tokyo organizing committee.

Last week, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to postpone the competition until next year due to ongoing coronavirus pandemic. After considering several options, including a possible spring date, the organizers opted to have the opening ceremony exactly one year after it was originally scheduled to take place.

“The schedule for the games is key to preparing for the games,” said Yoshiro Mori, the president of the Tokyo organizing committee. “This will only accelerate our progress.”

According to Mori, moving the Olympics to spring was rejected as an option due to other competitions that usually take place during that time including major soccer leagues and sports competitions in North America. The committee also wanted to give an opportunity for more athletes to qualify, as numerous qualifying events were recently canceled due to coronavirus. 

IOC initially set a four-week deadline in order to make the final decision on whether to postpone the Olympics or move forward with the previously set date. Following the pressure from both countries and athletes, however, the decision was made to postpone it for 2021.

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Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry has confirmed that he is committed to representing Team USA at the Olympic Games in Tokyo next summer.

“That is the plan, for sure,” Curry stated. “You know, obviously knock on wood, you don’t want any injuries or things like that to interfere.” This would be the first time that the six-time NBA all-star would appear on the Olympic stage.

When asked to elaborate on this concrete decision, Curry emphasised: ‘Definitely wanna go. I’ve never been on the Olympic team. I’ve been on two World Cup championship gold-medal teams. But the Olympics is the experience that I want. And next year will hopefully be it.”

The three-time NBA winner, along with numerous other stars, was absent from Team USA’s world cup lineup this year. In fact, the squad was mainly comprised of last-minute addtitions, making it that much more understandable that the 2019 world cup culminated with Team USA’s worst-ever finish.

Despite their dissappointing performance, Curry remains confident in Team USA’s ability to turn their fortunes around. He explained, “We’re still the best. If we get the guys that are supposed to be there, in terms of, you know, representing us in the Olympic stage and the commitment’s been there, and I think it’ll be there next year.”

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We live in an age where if a person doesn’t know how to do something, all they have to do is Google it or look up a tutorial on YouTube and voila, they’re an instant expert!

You would think that there are limits to how far a YouTube education can get you, but apparently, even Olympians have resorted to watching YouTube videos to improve their performance.

Instagram

Enter Julius Yego, a 27-year-old athlete that is now a World Champion and planning on doing even better going forward. What’s Yego’s sport of choice? “I have passion for javelin throw, I think somewhere in my blood is written javelin,” Yego shared with reporters.

Julius Yego’s Inspiring Story

In his school years, Yego was a natural with the javelin. He set many records and had dreams of competing, but a lack of financial resources stood between him and his goals. Yego qualified for the World Junior Championships in Poland, but sadly, he was unable to attend and compete due to a lack of funds.

Yego shared that it was so frustrating being unable to attend the Championships in Poland because he “had worked so hard,” and he commented that it was one of the biggest regrets of his life.

Despite disappointments, Yego remained undeterred in reaching his goals. Coaching was expensive, but watching some of the best javelin throwers in the world on YouTube was completely free.

Coach Of The Year: YouTube

Instagram

“They wanted to interview my coach to know what I did before the competitions, the championships. By then seriously I didn’t have a coach. I didn’t go with a coach,” he said. “Then they asked me, ‘Who is your coach,’ and then I told them, ‘YouTube.'”

Looking Forward To Rio

As Yego continues to prepare for the Olympic Games in Rio, he has reason to be very confident. He finished first in the African Championships in 2014 as well as the 2015 World Championships. He’s come a long way from finishing 12th at the 2012 Olympics!

When asked if he’s changed his coach, he replied, “For me, the main challenge is training without a coach most of my time. The coach I am with is staying in Finland. I’m not able to pay for him to come and stay with me because that is so expensive.”

Despite numerous challenges, especially financial, Yego’s passion, dedication, and ingenuity have propelled him towards success. He would never undermine the value he acquired from his YouTube training, but he envisions a better future for his son.

Instagram

“He’s going to be very good, he said. “Maybe better than me. He will not struggle to have a coach.”

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It’s safe to say that if you’re looking for some inspiration for your next workout program, there are worse places to look than the world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt. While his elite genetics ensure that you’d never be able to catch up with him on the track no matter how hard you train, you can still steal his training regimen to get some next-level results for yourself.

While his elite genetics ensure that you’d never be able to catch up with him on the track no matter how hard you train, you can still steal his training regimen to get some next-level results for yourself.

Train Like A Champion

Jmex60 / Wikimedia Commons

Although Bolt would likely be able to give a cheetah a run for its money even without ever stepping foot inside a gym, his workout routine certainly helps take his performance to the next level. But despite what some might think, there are no mystical training methods that Bolt credits as the secret to his success.

“There are no secrets,” he says. “You just have to develop strength, power, acceleration, and technique.”

So how can we mere mortals develop strength, power, acceleration, and technique like Bolt? The Lightning Bolt Workout is a great way to start seeing some fantastic results. This workout consists of three specific moves at its core and focuses on helping a runner develop explosive power.

1. Bunny hops

YouTube

5 sets of 20 reps

Holding a kettlebell, start by standing with your feet shoulder-width apart and your arms hanging in front of you with a kettlebell in hand. Then, squat down, and explosively spring up, pushing against the resistance of your body along with the added weight of the kettlebell. As soon as you land, quickly repeat the jump for the remainder of the prescribed reps.

2. Box jumps

YouTube

4 sets of 8 reps

Begin in a squatting position with your hands on your hips. Then, using an appropriately-sized box based on your experience, jump explosively from the squatting position into the air, landing on your feet on the box. As soon as you’ve landed, jump back down into the starting squat position and repeat for the prescribed number of repetitions.

3. Bounding

YouTube

3 of sets 10 reps

Starting in the standing position, you’ll move quickly into a semi-squat position before immediately springing out of the squat and jumping for length. Swing your arms aggressively to power your body through the air.

Stretch Those Muscles To Boost Your Speed

Nick Webb / Wikimedia Commons

Strength and plyometric training with the exercises already mentioned are critical for any acceleration sport like sprinting. But it’s critical not to overlook the importance of flexibility work as well.

According to Bolt, “Flexibility helps with stride length, as does core stability to hold the hips in a good position. Usually when the hips drop the stride gets shorter.”

YouTube

There are a number of stretches that are powerful for stretching the hip flexors which help with stride length. One of the most effective stretches that Bolt himself has likely used as part of his flexibility program is the Frog stretch, a common pose often found in yoga. Illustrated in the picture above, this stretch begins on knees that are fully bent and beneath the butt, with forearms resting at a 90-degree angle in front of the body. From the starting position, you walk the body forward to really intensify the stretch and really enhance your flexibility.

Check out the video below to see the fastest man alive in action in the gym.

<iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZeumjYLE-K4″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>

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Freestyle skiers Alex Hall and Nick Goepper have re-established Team USA’s dominance in men’s freeski slopestyle by finishing first and second in the event at the 2022 Beijing Olympics on Wednesday. Hall took the gold thanks to a 90.01 score in the first final run, while Goepper scored 86.48 in his second run to walk away with a silver medal. Sweden’s Jesper Tjäder took home the bronze.

Team USA previously won all three medals in freeski slopestyle’s debut at the Sochi Olympics in 2014. But this was followed by an underwhelming performance four years later, with Team USA only having a silver medal to show for in Pyeongchang.

With the medal from Beijing, Goepper became the first and only Olympian to have three freeski slopestyle medals. He previously won bronze in Sochi and was responsible for the previously mentioned lone silver in 2018. On the other hand, Hall gets his first medal in his second Olympics appearance.

“I just kept it true to myself, and I think that’s the most important part about our sport is just doing it for the love and doing it how you want to do it and not changing that,” said Hall after the event.

With Hall and Goepper’s gold and silver, team USA’s medal count now stands at 19. The United States is currently ranked third among all participating countries with eight golds, seven silvers, and four bronzes.

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Major League Baseball superstar Bryce Harper had some strong words last week about baseball and the Olympics during an interview with a podcast on Barstool Sports.

According to Harper, he isn’t very happy with the current Major League Baseball system that doesn’t allow for its best starts to participate in the Summer Olympic games in detriment to the regular season schedule.

Baseball was featured in the Summer Olympic Games from 1992 until 2008, but the IOC then voted against its inclusion in the 2012 and 2016 versions of the games.

However, it was re-included in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which were postponed until 2021 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic which has caused the disruption and cancellation of sports around the globe.

Harper had strong words for the league, stating, “The 2020 Olympics, in Japan. And you’re not sending big league guys? Are you kidding me? You want to grow the game as much as possible and you’re not going to let us play in the Olympics because you don’t want to [lose] out on money for a two-week period? OK, that’s dumb.”

Currently, only amateur players are allowed to take part in the competition.

Perhaps there is time for Major League Baseball to rectify its stance and allow its best players to take place in the re-inclusion of the event in next summer’s games.

The post Bryce Harper: MLB Players Should Participate in Olympics appeared first on SportzBonanza.

The start of the Olympic Games in Tokyo has been officially rescheduled for July 23rd, 2021. This was announced on Monday by the Tokyo organizing committee.

Last week, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to postpone the competition until next year due to ongoing coronavirus pandemic. After considering several options, including a possible spring date, the organizers opted to have the opening ceremony exactly one year after it was originally scheduled to take place.

“The schedule for the games is key to preparing for the games,” said Yoshiro Mori, the president of the Tokyo organizing committee. “This will only accelerate our progress.”

According to Mori, moving the Olympics to spring was rejected as an option due to other competitions that usually take place during that time including major soccer leagues and sports competitions in North America. The committee also wanted to give an opportunity for more athletes to qualify, as numerous qualifying events were recently canceled due to coronavirus. 

IOC initially set a four-week deadline in order to make the final decision on whether to postpone the Olympics or move forward with the previously set date. Following the pressure from both countries and athletes, however, the decision was made to postpone it for 2021.

The post Tokyo Olympics Officially Rescheduled For July 23rd, 2021 appeared first on SportzBonanza.

Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry has confirmed that he is committed to representing Team USA at the Olympic Games in Tokyo next summer.

“That is the plan, for sure,” Curry stated. “You know, obviously knock on wood, you don’t want any injuries or things like that to interfere.” This would be the first time that the six-time NBA all-star would appear on the Olympic stage.

When asked to elaborate on this concrete decision, Curry emphasised: ‘Definitely wanna go. I’ve never been on the Olympic team. I’ve been on two World Cup championship gold-medal teams. But the Olympics is the experience that I want. And next year will hopefully be it.”

The three-time NBA winner, along with numerous other stars, was absent from Team USA’s world cup lineup this year. In fact, the squad was mainly comprised of last-minute addtitions, making it that much more understandable that the 2019 world cup culminated with Team USA’s worst-ever finish.

Despite their dissappointing performance, Curry remains confident in Team USA’s ability to turn their fortunes around. He explained, “We’re still the best. If we get the guys that are supposed to be there, in terms of, you know, representing us in the Olympic stage and the commitment’s been there, and I think it’ll be there next year.”

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We live in an age where if a person doesn’t know how to do something, all they have to do is Google it or look up a tutorial on YouTube and voila, they’re an instant expert!

You would think that there are limits to how far a YouTube education can get you, but apparently, even Olympians have resorted to watching YouTube videos to improve their performance.

Instagram

Enter Julius Yego, a 27-year-old athlete that is now a World Champion and planning on doing even better going forward. What’s Yego’s sport of choice? “I have passion for javelin throw, I think somewhere in my blood is written javelin,” Yego shared with reporters.

Julius Yego’s Inspiring Story

In his school years, Yego was a natural with the javelin. He set many records and had dreams of competing, but a lack of financial resources stood between him and his goals. Yego qualified for the World Junior Championships in Poland, but sadly, he was unable to attend and compete due to a lack of funds.

Yego shared that it was so frustrating being unable to attend the Championships in Poland because he “had worked so hard,” and he commented that it was one of the biggest regrets of his life.

Despite disappointments, Yego remained undeterred in reaching his goals. Coaching was expensive, but watching some of the best javelin throwers in the world on YouTube was completely free.

Coach Of The Year: YouTube

Instagram

“They wanted to interview my coach to know what I did before the competitions, the championships. By then seriously I didn’t have a coach. I didn’t go with a coach,” he said. “Then they asked me, ‘Who is your coach,’ and then I told them, ‘YouTube.'”

Looking Forward To Rio

As Yego continues to prepare for the Olympic Games in Rio, he has reason to be very confident. He finished first in the African Championships in 2014 as well as the 2015 World Championships. He’s come a long way from finishing 12th at the 2012 Olympics!

When asked if he’s changed his coach, he replied, “For me, the main challenge is training without a coach most of my time. The coach I am with is staying in Finland. I’m not able to pay for him to come and stay with me because that is so expensive.”

Despite numerous challenges, especially financial, Yego’s passion, dedication, and ingenuity have propelled him towards success. He would never undermine the value he acquired from his YouTube training, but he envisions a better future for his son.

Instagram

“He’s going to be very good, he said. “Maybe better than me. He will not struggle to have a coach.”

The post The Secret To This Olympic Star’s Success? Lots Of YouTube appeared first on SportzBonanza.

It’s safe to say that if you’re looking for some inspiration for your next workout program, there are worse places to look than the world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt. While his elite genetics ensure that you’d never be able to catch up with him on the track no matter how hard you train, you can still steal his training regimen to get some next-level results for yourself.

While his elite genetics ensure that you’d never be able to catch up with him on the track no matter how hard you train, you can still steal his training regimen to get some next-level results for yourself.

Train Like A Champion

Jmex60 / Wikimedia Commons

Although Bolt would likely be able to give a cheetah a run for its money even without ever stepping foot inside a gym, his workout routine certainly helps take his performance to the next level. But despite what some might think, there are no mystical training methods that Bolt credits as the secret to his success.

“There are no secrets,” he says. “You just have to develop strength, power, acceleration, and technique.”

So how can we mere mortals develop strength, power, acceleration, and technique like Bolt? The Lightning Bolt Workout is a great way to start seeing some fantastic results. This workout consists of three specific moves at its core and focuses on helping a runner develop explosive power.

1. Bunny hops

YouTube

5 sets of 20 reps

Holding a kettlebell, start by standing with your feet shoulder-width apart and your arms hanging in front of you with a kettlebell in hand. Then, squat down, and explosively spring up, pushing against the resistance of your body along with the added weight of the kettlebell. As soon as you land, quickly repeat the jump for the remainder of the prescribed reps.

2. Box jumps

YouTube

4 sets of 8 reps

Begin in a squatting position with your hands on your hips. Then, using an appropriately-sized box based on your experience, jump explosively from the squatting position into the air, landing on your feet on the box. As soon as you’ve landed, jump back down into the starting squat position and repeat for the prescribed number of repetitions.

3. Bounding

YouTube

3 of sets 10 reps

Starting in the standing position, you’ll move quickly into a semi-squat position before immediately springing out of the squat and jumping for length. Swing your arms aggressively to power your body through the air.

Stretch Those Muscles To Boost Your Speed

Nick Webb / Wikimedia Commons

Strength and plyometric training with the exercises already mentioned are critical for any acceleration sport like sprinting. But it’s critical not to overlook the importance of flexibility work as well.

According to Bolt, “Flexibility helps with stride length, as does core stability to hold the hips in a good position. Usually when the hips drop the stride gets shorter.”

YouTube

There are a number of stretches that are powerful for stretching the hip flexors which help with stride length. One of the most effective stretches that Bolt himself has likely used as part of his flexibility program is the Frog stretch, a common pose often found in yoga. Illustrated in the picture above, this stretch begins on knees that are fully bent and beneath the butt, with forearms resting at a 90-degree angle in front of the body. From the starting position, you walk the body forward to really intensify the stretch and really enhance your flexibility.

Check out the video below to see the fastest man alive in action in the gym.

<iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZeumjYLE-K4″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>

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