#kenzo shirai

[partycardigann]

[supermura]

The 2016 Rio Olympic team met up last night!

[wholelottamesses]

I really miss Kenzo Shirai😭💔

I think about him a lot, and just needed to express that.

[gymfanconfessions]

“I know it's called "Women's" Artistic Gymnastics, but is there actually a rule in the CoP which would prevent Kenzo Shirai from competing? Because the UB he's casually doing "for fun" is amazing.”

[say-duhnelle]

George Nissen maybe didn't deserve that though

no idea where i was going with this but i abandoned it at the most disconcerting moment possible

[swim-n-gym]

rebeca attempting the TTY during training

TTY = triple twisting yurchenko, a vault that has not yet been competed by a female gymnast during competition. the first person to compete the TTY during competition was male gymnast kenzo shirai in 2013

[gymnasticscoaching]

Kenzo - H Bar

Now retired. And age-27. Kenzo still has one of the best Tak 1/1s in the world. Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram. View this post on Instagram A post shared by 白井健三　Kenzo Shirai (@kenzoshirai)

[urazovas-listy]

kenzo said nina who?

[yslende]

obligatory not a gymnast, but my headcanons are under the cut:

dick's great at all of the men's disciplines (pommel horse, horizontal bar, parallel bars, rings, vault, and floor) but his favorites are vault, horizontal bar, and floor. he also really likes beam, but he couldn't compete in it because it's a women's event :(

if he were to attend the olympics, i think he'd compete in vault, horizontal bar, and floor (with a solid maybe on parallel bars). once again, i'm not a gymnast, so i don't know enough about gymnastics to theorize about what routines/skills he'd do, but i do have access to google so i'm copying from other athletes :)

for vault, i think he'd do carlos yulo's at the 2024 olympics (https://youtu.be/EzoDAvYXSQc). artur davtyan's vault in tokyo was also a contender but i, selfishly, think yulo's vault is prettier.

for horizontal bar, epke zonderland's routine at the 2012 olympics (https://youtu.be/W7tOvBEsKbo) is kind of ubiquitous? i guess? but the triple pass is iconic. the video title also helped.

for floor, it was kind of hard. if he could compete in women's, he'd totally do rebekah ripley's barbie girl floor routine (https://youtu.be/G2lWOW5Y8xg?si), but the women's and men's floor routines have different rules. as such, i think dick would do a mix of kenzo shirai's WAG (women's artistic gymnastics) routine (https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ct_kBCkq4Tq/) and his 2016 olympics routine (https://youtu.be/-vZ6CaaRt4U), which is the highest-scoring floor routine ever!

and all of this is dependent on whether dick could convince bruce to let him even go to the olympic trials---a sort of pre-competition competition to see who gets to go to the olympics. staying at the olympic village with their cardboard beds and food poisoning would be like asking batman to twerk on live tv: impossible. (fortunately, athletes don't have to stay at the village.)

to be silly, i think commissioner gordon fires up the batsignal one night and straight up asks The Batman "ask nightwing to go to the olympics. please. they need him."

i cannot emphasize this enough: The Vigilante Nightwing goes to the olympics. dick grayson does not. he keeps the domino on during routines, interviews, everything. he showers in it just to be safe, which all of his family gags at.

overall, i think he and noah lyles would be america's sweethearts. bludhaven's tourism rates would go sharply up, then sharply down once they realize that it's bludhaven.

In the DC universe there's a petition with over five hundred thousand signatures asking Batman to let Robin represent the USA on the male gymnastic team

[tutyayilmazz]

kenzo with kohei in his arms at the retirement celebration is the sweetest thing I've seen 🥺🥺

"The loneliness of retiring outweighs the fun of wondering what we can do together 😌

Suppose you have a book called Gymnastics Life by Kohei Uchimura. If my name appears on one page or one line there, I wouldn't be so happy.

I will continue to take care of you from now on ✌️"

more photos here or on his instagram

[illyria-and-her-pet]

OMG KENZO AND ASUKA DOING DOUBLE TURNS ON BEAM TOGETHER IS THE MOST ICONIC THING I'VE EVER SEEN AND KENZO ALSO ADDS ANOTHER WAG SKILL TO HIS RESUME!

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[aliya-ilyankova]

I love them your honour

[sunisalee2020]

Kohei Uchimura The Final || Kenzo Shirai IG

[agathacrispies]

Mai Murakami, Naoto Hayasaka, and Kenzo Shirai attend their retirement ceremonies during the 75th All-Japan Artistic Gymnastics Team Championships at the Yoyogi National 1st Gymnasium, Tokyo (Source: IMAGO)

[sportylifetime]

ICONIC TRIO 😍