Gymnastics officials handed suspension over alleged harassment
Japan's gymnastics governing body on Monday handed two senior officials a temporary suspension over their alleged harassment of an Olympic gymnast. The Japan Gymnastics Association said Chieko Tsukahara and her husband Mitsuo will be suspended from their duties until an independent committee finishes investigating the allegation by 2016 Rio de Janeiro ...
Japan Gymnastics Association officials deny harassment claims made by Sae Miyakawa
Two senior officials of the Japan Gymnastics Association denied on Friday a harassment allegation made by an Olympic gymnast but ...
An Olympic gymnast said Wednesday that the Japanese gymnastics governing body's decision to indefinitely disqualify her coach was too strict ...
FIG president Morinari Watanabe to visit North Korea in July: sources
International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) president Morinari Watanabe is scheduled to visit Pyongyang in mid-July at the invitation of North Korea's gymnastics association, sources said Monday. They said Watanabe, former secretary general of the Japan Gymnastics Association, will likely discuss with his North Korean interlocutors about ...
Olympic gold medalist gymnast Yusuke Tanaka qualifies for worlds
Rio de Janeiro Olympic gold medalist Yusuke Tanaka defended his men's parallel bars title on Sunday at Japan's apparatus national championships and qualified for this autumn's world championships in Doha. Tanaka, a member of Japan's gold-medal winning men's team in 2016, secured a berth for ...
Kohei Uchimura misses chance to qualify for horizontal bar finals at national meet
Kohei Uchimura failed to qualify for the horizontal bar finals at the Japan National Gymnastics Apparatus Championships on Saturday. The two-time reigning Olympic all-around men's champion entered the competition aiming to execute the Bretschneider, in the final round, but slipped and fell from the ...
Kohei Uchimura missed his 11th straight national championship victory in April, but said the taste of defeat propelled him to his 10th straight NHK Cup crown on Sunday. The 29-year-old finished third at the nationals, suffering a shocking defeat to Kakeru Tanigawa, who is 10 ...
Two-time Olympic gymnastics champion Kohei Uchimura won the NHK Cup men's competition for the 10th straight time on Sunday, topping the podium for the first time since returning from a five-month injury layoff in March. Competitors start with their points from April's national championships, and ...
Mai Murakami put herself in pole position for a spot at this year's world championships on Saturday, when she won the women's NHK Cup overall competition for the second straight year. Murakami, who started the day with 112.398 points from April's national championships, added another ...
Kakeru Tanigawa halts Kohei Uchimura's 10-year reign as national all-around gymnastics champion
Kohei Uchimura failed to win his 11th straight national championship on Sunday, finishing third behind teenager Kakeru Tanigawa. Uchimura, the two-time Olympic individual all-around gold medalist, scored 171.664 at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, while Tanigawa scored 172.496 to win his maiden title. Kenzo Shirai, the world ...
USA Gymnastics is suing its insurance carriers, alleging that they haven't fully reimbursed it for defense costs incurred in lawsuits filed by victims of disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar. The Indianapolis-based governing body for gymnastics sued seven insurance companies Friday in Marion County. The Indianapolis ...
Two-time Olympic all-around gold medalist Kohei Uchimura capped off a disappointing showing Thursday at the FIG Artistic Individual Apparatus World Cup by failing to qualify in either vault or horizontal bar. Making his return from an ankle injury he suffered at last October's artistic gymnastics ...
Kenzo Shirai grabs vault title for second gold medal of meet
Kenzo Shirai won the men's vault at the Toyota International Gymnastics Competition on Sunday, adding to the floor title he won the previous day. Shirai, who won both the floor and vault gold medals at the world championships in Montreal in October, scored 14.750 points ...
Kenzo Shirai extends reign as floor exercise champion at Toyota International Gymnastics Competition
Reigning world champion Kenzo Shirai won the men's floor exercise for the third year in a row at the Toyota International Gymnastics Competition on Saturday. The 21-year-old, who won both the floor and vault at the worlds in Montreal in October, performed his namesake "Shirai ...
Six-time individual all-around world champion Kohei Uchimura, who is nursing a left ankle injury, has withdrawn from the upcoming Toyota International gymnastics competition, the Japan Gymnastics Association said Monday. The 28-year-old ace withdrew from the world championships held in Montreal in October after he injured ...
