Month: October 2015

Yesterday, the World Gymnastics Championships blasted off with a great team competition in Glasgow, Scotland. Eight countries competed in the team competition: Canada, China, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Russia and the United States. I watched most of it on television and I could tell which teams were going to hold a medal based on their technique. I thought the Americans were amazing, especially Simone Biles whose stunning tricks on the balance beam blew the crowd away. She chose to compete with a much harder routine than the other gymnasts, which added to her team’s points. I was amazed that Great Britain was able to climb up the rankings after one gymnast had a tremendously hard fall off of the uneven parallel bars at the beginning. But, she managed to overcome it and perform brilliantly in the rest of the competition. I was also surprised by the Russian gymnasts. They are usually the best in the competition, but this time, two of them surprisingly fell off of the beam during their routines. They must have been feeling a lot of pressure. In the end, the gold

medal went to USA, silver went to China and Great Britain won bronze. That was the first time in history that the women’s Great British team won a medal in the world competition. The Beast of Sport award goes to Great Britain for overcoming the big fall and coming out in third; and to the Russians, who managed to be good sports despite not performing to their usual position.

-The Deputy Beast of Sport

So as you know if you’ve read my previous blog posts I predicted the top four in the Premier League. So let’s start with first place. Man City are top of the league right now so my first place prediction is correct. In second place I predicted Chelsea, but instead Arsenal have really climbed above and beyond their expectations claiming the second place spot deservedly. In third place we have WEST HAM. So LOL to anybody who thought that that prediction was bad. Finally in fourth place we have Man United. They have fought hard and gutted out victories. But make no mistake, two points separate the top two and the top four. So my predictions at the start of the year were that Man City and Chelsea were the first two and Man U and West Ham were in places three and four. I predicted three of the top four correctly, but where’s Chelsea? They are down in 15th place. So much for coming second this year. Plus they lost 6-5 to Stoke on penalties yesterday to get knocked out of the Capital One Cup. Jose Mourinho said that the lack of respect that he gets from some of his players is shocking. So while City, Arsenal, WEST HAM, and Man U are riding high, Chelsea is stuck in the lower half of the table unable to win games.

As you know, the Rugby World Cup has been going on recently. After a thrilling set of games in the group stage we are now into the knockout stages. Ireland trampled France last Sunday to ensure that they played second place finishers in pool C Argentina instead of first place finishers in pool C New Zealand. Ireland were red hot during the group stages and finished top of their pool with 18 points. New Zealand also finished top of their pool. Ireland were very happy to win against France because if they lost they would have had to play New Zealand (the best rugby team in the world).  Another reason why they didn’t want to play New Zealand is because they have never beaten the All Blacks, which surprises me because Ireland are a very good team. Argentina will look to shock the world in the up-coming quarter final match against the men in green. Even though Ireland are the favourites, rugby is a very unpredictable sport so you never know what might happen. So a big weekend for rugby! Go Ireland!!

 As you may know, Chelsea have had a horrible start to the season and only have 8 points from 8 games. I think the main reason for their downfall is the spirit inside the clubhouse. From what I know I think that there are players or staff members who don’t want to listen to Mourinho. Yesterday against Southampton if you didn’t know that Mourinho coached Chelsea you would’t know (if you know what I mean). Last year, everybody worked together perfectly and they only lost twice. This year they have worked together badly and have lost more than half their games.I think that Mourinho is a great coach but I don’t think that he can make the top four.