if so then he’ll be retiring as the best gymnast to have never won an individual world or olympic medal. and he might not have the medals, but his gymnastics will always be remembered as some of the prettiest ever done 🌸
after winning gold on uneven bars at the 1992 olympics, lu li 🇨🇳 competed an even more difficult bar routine in the 1993 season! she was one of the first gymnasts ever to connect a release to a pak salto as well as one of the first to do a blind change to reverse healy in WAG
when you set their medals out like this it really makes you realise Just how insane this team was on paper… also for zjy to have that many medals as a guy who has, for most of his career, only medalled in the team final & pbars ef is absolutely ridiculous
Some fucking moron accepted an inquiry that was slightly late and, most importantly, to give credit to a leap that should not have received credit, and now two incredibly athletes are traumatized and we have to deal with the most annoying discourse for the rest of our lives
2024 olympic silver medalist qiu qiyuan and 2016 olympic bronze medalist shang chunsong in 2021!!! if i remember correctly, they were the youngest and oldest athletes competing at chinese national games in women’s artistic gymnastics, which is why this picture was taken.