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Olly Hogben

5 years

In 1993 I switched on a TV to find the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships from Birmingham. The first gymnastics I ever saw was @shannonmiller96 winning the all-around gold. 26 years later I commentated on my first World Championships AA Final. Today meant a lot to me. 🙂

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

2 months

A friend of mine, who doesn’t really watch gymnastics but who has been following the Games, has just messaged me, asking, ‘Am I the only person who dislikes wolf turns?’ I said, “I’m trying to think if I’ve ever heard gymnastics fans discussing this, but I can’t recall it…”

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

1 year

My colleague Nacho, who creates such beautiful content for ISB (the company I worked for at @InvictusGamesDE ), put together this fantastic short piece about #InvictusGames . I recorded a reading of the poem 'Invictus' and he went to work putting pictures to it. Please take a look.

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

1 year

As my last commentary comes to an end at @InvictusGamesDE , I find myself overjoyed to have had the chance to work on another #InvictusGames . It is such an honour to get to tell the stories of some of the finest people on Earth. This event is incredible, unique, and beautiful.

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

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Sports fans in the beautiful and friendly nation of Canada 🇨🇦, I want you to know just how respected worldwide @Devin_Heroux is. This gentleman is one of the best in the business: a brilliant ambassador for @cbcsports and advocate for @TeamCanada . He’s one of my inspirations.

Devin Heroux

@Devin_Heroux

1 month

It took two months and two Games but we’ve finally found one another in Paris. The incomparable commentator @OllyHogben who had a spectacular Olympics and Paralympics. First-class. The soundtrack to so many memorable sporting moments. And a true friend. Wonderful to see you.

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

3 years

I cannot tell you how much this means to read - thank you. I really try hard to pronounce names authentically (without going so far as to sound like I'm crudely imitating a native speaker). I feel really strongly about this, too; your name is your identity, and it matters.

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@IChatdeLune17

3 years

@OllyHogben You sir are the first non-Korean figure skating commentator who has gotten 이시형 perfectly correct all my respect

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

1 year

I am thrilled to once again be part of the worldwide commentary team for the Invictus Games; it’s an event that I love working on, and one full of truly incredible stories.

Invictus Games Düsseldorf 2023

@InvictusGamesDE

1 year

🇬🇧Want to watch the Invictus Games Düsseldorf 2023 presented by @Boeing but can't make it to Düsseldorf? DONT WORRY, WE GOT YOU ❗️ There will be a FREE #livestream of all sports events on our website 📲 And on Youtube 📺

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

3 years

To add to this, when I ask junior gymnasts at competitions how their names are pronounced, they often politely say, 'However you want.' I always reply, 'It's your name - you tell me how you want it said.' I think adults need to show young people that we respect their identity.

Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

3 years

I cannot tell you how much this means to read - thank you. I really try hard to pronounce names authentically (without going so far as to sound like I'm crudely imitating a native speaker). I feel really strongly about this, too; your name is your identity, and it matters.

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

1 year

Now, I may be slightly out of touch with gymnastics, but it strikes me that this S. Biles newcomer at the US Classic could be one to watch.

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

3 months

Overjoyed to be able to say that I'll be heading to Paris in just over a week to be part of the artistic gymnastics commentary team for the worldwide English coverage of the Games, supporting the brilliant Australian commentators Steve and Liz. It is a childhood dream come true.

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

1 year

I don’t like predicting things, but I think Simone Biles may sneak into the Vault final. (For more cutting-edge insight like this, join me for the finals in a couple of days.)

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

4 months

I simply cannot comprehend what we’ve seen from Sunisa Lee here. It is barely believable, and utterly stupendous.

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@OllyHogben

3 months

Well, that was an unemotional Women’s Team Final, wasn’t it? [bursts into tears]

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

3 years

Delighted to be on my way to Beijing tomorrow, for my sixth Olympics, and to have the absolute privilege to be commentating figure skating for the worldwide English-language feed. A sport I love and am thrilled to be calling! ⛸🎙

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@OllyHogben

12 days

It has been an absolute honour to be part of this incredible project, and to be invited to contribute my thoughts to the story of the incredible comeback of Simone Biles. To have my words used in the trailer is honestly quite a surreal experience!

Netflix

@netflix

12 days

It’s the epic conclusion of the ultimate comeback. Simone Biles Rising Part 2 premieres October 25!

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

1 year

Finished my #InvictusGames experience with a trip to neighbouring Köln, full of beautiful places. And a message caught my eye that particularly resonated after being at the multi-sport games that is unlike any other. What a wonderful week of unity and friendship. 🙂

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

3 years

An Olympian unlike any other. An athlete whose career outlasted some of the countries she represented. A person who unites gymnasts from all over the world in universal admiration. Today there’s only one team - Team Oksana Chusovitina - and it turns out we’re all on it.

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

1 year

I really am sorry that it broke me for a moment; it was reading the names of the French medalists from 1950 that did it. I just love this sport so, so, much.

Jackie Green

@jackie_green

1 year

Olly "sorry I have a lump in my throat this is very emotional"! @OllyHogben truly is one of us and we love him!!

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

3 years

Jason Brown really does bring joy to one’s life, doesn’t he? Two glorious and very different performances here in Beijing, both stunning in their own way.

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

4 years

Gymnastics.

GymCastic

@GymCastic

4 years

From a gymnastics perspective, what are you looking forward to in 2021?

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

12 days

As a gymnastics commentator, you dream that you’ll get the chance to put words to moments like this. I am truly honoured to have been asked to play a tiny part in helping tell the story of one of the greatest athletes of all time, in any sport and any era. What a documentary!

Simone Biles

@Simone_Biles

12 days

so excited 🤍 can’t wait for these episodes to drop!

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

1 year

Just seen Andrade’s vault and burst out laughing with sheer joy that there is such wondrousness in this world.

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

2 years

A special day for me; it’s my Mum’s 70th birthday and she was able to come and see me at work for the first time, watching both Team Finals here in Liverpool. Let’s wish her a happy birthday, gymnastics fans!

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@OllyHogben

1 year

For the first time in my career as a commentator, I got to witness a haka. The performance of ‘Ngā Mātātoa - Unconquered’ by Team New Zealand for Paulette Doctor upon receiving her @WeAreInvictus table tennis medal is something I truly will never forget. 🇳🇿 #InvictusGames

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

2 years

Beautiful scenes as Munich 2022 - and gymnastics - waves goodbye to Kim Bui. Greatness before, greatness to come.

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

3 years

Instead of Rebeca Andrade on bars we appear to have had an obviously fake and unrealistic computer-generated animation of what an uneven bars routine is supposed to look like. [checks again] No, that was actually her routine. Gosh, that was good.

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

3 years

Anna Ankudinova cares not for gravity. Anna Ankudinova eats Newton's Laws for breakfast.

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

1 year

I can indeed confirm that I will be commentating in Antwerp! I’ll be doing the English-language world feed TV broadcast for all of the finals… and I can’t wait!

🏳️‍🌈 observing 🤸🏻‍♀️

@quietrevenge

1 year

@OllyHogben please say that you’ll be commentating WAG World Championships this year? 👀

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

4 years

One of the most irritating myths about gymnastics (from outside the sport) is that it’s an arbitrary thing where judges just sort of look at a routine and then decide if it’s nice or not. This video is brilliant and illustrates what judges actually do... and they work so hard.

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

3 years

Until these World Championships I had never commentated Murakami Mai, and always had a fear that I wouldn’t get the chance to. To have been able to put words to a moment as special as this is an enormous privilege. What a phenomenal gymnast - one of the greats.

The Olympic Games

@Olympics

3 years

"I think this is a nice way to end it." 🇯🇵 Murakami Mai, the most decorated female Japanese gymnast of all-time, has called it a career after winning gold and bronze at the home World championships. @gymnastics | @Japan_Olympic

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

6 years

🥇 🎵 Well I would watch 500 Biles, and I would watch 500 more, just to be the fan who watched 1000 Biles on vault, bars, beam and floor. Gold in Qatar (da da da da), Gold in Qatar (da da da da), da da da dadada, dadaladaladadaaa... 🎶

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

3 months

I have just returned to my hotel after commentating a badminton shift, having missed the entire All-Around Final. Fortunately, it seems that it was quite uneventful. [checks phone, which immediately bursts into flames]

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

2 years

Occasionally a piece of gymnastics comes along that makes one roar with laughter because it's so implausibly tremendous. Carlos Yulo on floor just now was one such moment. It was delivered with all of the frenzy of someone quietly making a cup of tea on a Sunday morning. 🇵🇭

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@OllyHogben

1 year

Crikey, Canada 🇨🇦. Firstly the women taking bronze last year and securing an Olympic berth, and now the men qualifying for the Team Final and sending a team to the Olympics for the first time since 2008. That is nothing short of a stunning 12 months for their teams.

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

1 year

Thank you so much, folks, for keeping me company this week at the World @Gymnastics Championships. Huge thank you to @_BlytheLawrence and Olympic Champion @fhambuechen for their wisdom on air. It’s truly my dream job to get to do this, and I look forward to the next time. 👋

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

2 years

Goodbye from @WGC2022 , folks! It’s been such a pleasure having your company for the past 6 days. As ever, I could not do this without the amazing @_BlytheLawrence alongside me, whose ability to analyse gymnastics with warmth and humanity is an inspiration to me. See you soon!

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

3 years

When you meet your fellow commentator @celinevgerner at the Press Centre and make the decision to recreate the Glasgow 2018 floor final…

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

2 years

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would get to voice him being presented with Olympic gold in 2018, and commentate him competing at his final games in 2022. What an extraordinary athlete, and what a privilege to have been a bystander to such greatness.

Japan Times: Sports

@jt_sports

2 years

BREAKING: Two-time Olympic gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu announced his retirement on Tuesday, bringing to an end a 12-year senior career that saw him gain worldwide acclaim as the greatest male figure skater in history.

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

3 months

When you’re immortalised as a Netflix thumbnail doing the WEIRDEST FACIAL EXPRESSION YOU’VE EVER DONE IN YOUR WHOLE LIFE.

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

4 years

Cheerio for 2020, gymnastics fans. It’s been an absolute privilege, as ever, to get to voice this year’s competitions... even though there have been so few of them 😔. Looking forward to getting to chat to you all again in 2021, and thank you so much for your perpetual kindness!

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

4 years

I left a sandwich on my desk at Worlds in Stuttgart and it wasn’t there when I came back.

The Medal Count

@TheMedalCount_

4 years

Gymternet! What is your personal pick for the biggest robbery in gymnastics history?

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

3 months

I really do try in my commentary to never, ever, forget that this is the Olympics and that no matter how much it means to me and to all of us watching... it means a million times more to the athletes themselves. They always deserve to leave the field of play with their dignity.

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@slothanova

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awww @OllyHogben always has something human and calming to say

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

3 years

CATALINA PONOR PRESENTING THE ROMANIAN VOTES!!! YES! #Eurovision

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@OllyHogben

4 years

Little-known fact: when done within 10 feet of a place that serves toasted sandwiches, it’s actually known as a Hamanar. Check the CoP.

Pamchenkova

@Pamchenkova

4 years

Thinking about that time Mustafina stuck an Amanar next to a snack bar.

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

3 years

Today, a player called Casper Backby had to leave the court injured. He returned several minutes later, totally fine. I said, “Everybody, Backby’s Back All Right.” I wish to announce my immediate retirement from sports commentary as my career will never get better than that.

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

5 years

For Halloween this year, I will be answering the door by showing the entire 1988 Olympics women’s floor final on a large TV whilst bemused children sit in silence for 30 minutes. Hey, you asked for a treat, you’ve got a treat...

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@OllyHogben

2 years

It's the start of my first-ever Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in the country I call home - where I fell in love with this sport in 1993 watching the World Championships in Birmingham. I have gone from childhood fan to my dream job; there's a tear in my eye tonight. 🇬🇧

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@OllyHogben

3 years

If, indeed, Larisa Iordache has stepped off the floor for the last time, she does it having given one of the best-ever demonstrations in this sport of how to utterly refuse to let things stop a person excelling. That’s not just a terrific career, it’s a terrific lesson. 👏 🇷🇴

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@OllyHogben

1 year

I can’t tell you how moved I am by comments like this. Never in my wildest dreams, when I first commentated this wonderful sport, did I think that I would encounter as kind and welcoming a community as gymnastics fans. You folk have been lovely to me for years. Thank you. 🥲

Renee Pope-Munro

@RenInOz

1 year

@OllyHogben Gymternet: 🥹 but you're ours...

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@OllyHogben

1 year

Utterly shattered after three extremely exciting days of finals here in Antwerp. Fortunately, tomorrow night should be reasonably uneventful. Let me just check my diary…

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

5 years

[deep breath] CHOOOOOOOOO-SOOOOOOOOOO-VEEEEEEEE-TEEEEEEEEE-NAAAAAAAAAAAAA! The journey goes on. Sport is the winner today.

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

3 months

Exactly 10 years ago today I did my first-ever live TV commentary, and now I sit in the Bercy Arena for my first session of two days of artistic gymnastics commentary at Paris 2024, eight years after my first Olympics. Sometimes I find it hard to believe. 🙂

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

3 years

Well, that was a quiet and uneventful Men's All-Around Final. [bursts into uncontrollable, nervous, hysterical, sobbing and quietly drinks a cup of tea]

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

5 years

So, here’s my ‘handstand face’ video, in response to #bartconnergymnasticschallenge . As you can all see, everything here is entirely above board and in line with the rules set by @bartconner and @nadiacomaneci10 . 😬

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@OllyHogben

5 months

As it’s the 10 year anniversary of the fantastic @WeAreInvictus movement, I thought I’d repost this wonderful video that I was lucky enough to get to voice last year. It’s been one of the honours of my career to work on two #InvictusGames events; I just love it so much. #IAM10

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@OllyHogben

1 year

Super picture taken by a member of the team of the commentary box at @InvictusGamesDE for the Opening Ceremony. This is right at the start, with the seats in front of the stage ready to be occupied by the competitors after the Parade of Nations. #InvictusGames

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@OllyHogben

2 years

Brief moment of paws before the action begins.

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

3 years

Thank you so much, gymnastics fans, for your company during the last few days of competition at the @UEGymnastics European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Basel. What an entertaining championships, and I’ll see you somewhere down the road!

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

3 years

At the hotel this morning I chatted with the father of a gymnast who had hit the score she needed with her best-ever performance. He was delighted with the result but said, ‘Whatever she scores, I can’t believe what she can do and I’m so proud of her.’ Beautifully put, sir. 👏

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2 years

No one seems to have told Jade Carey that you're supposed to wobble a bit on beam. That was... frighteningly good. 🤩

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@OllyHogben

3 years

One of the greatest honours of my career is to have commentated the final routine of the great one, Uchimura Kohei. And his final act? A stuck landing in front of a Japanese crowd in his home town. What a final chapter, sir; you left in style. 🇯🇵🥲

Gymnastics: Two-time all-around Olympic champ Kohei Uchimura retires

Japanese gymnast "King" Kohei Uchimura, a two-time Olympic men's all-around gold medalist and six-time individual all-around world champion, announces via his management that he is retiring.

english.kyodonews.net

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

3 months

I’m genuinely so flattered to have been asked to contribute my meandering ramblings to the Simone Biles: Rising series. I think it’s a fantastic piece of television and I was absolutely engrossed by the first episode. Looking forward to watching the next one tomorrow!

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@lisamarie2209

3 months

@OllyHogben Well done Olly on your Netflix debut 👏 It was so great seeing all the old clips of gym gone by and all the superstars Dawes, Okino, Moceanu, Boguinskaia discussing Simone. Such a treat to see all of this on Netflix for us gymnerds!

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@OllyHogben

3 years

Dear Olympics, Regrettably, I will not be commentating on any sports today because, as a British person, I am obliged not to go to work in such conditions and have to build a snowman that’s wearing my uniform instead. Many thanks for your understanding. Best wishes, Olly

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@OllyHogben

3 months

I’m a bit overwhelmed by all the lovely responses to this; I genuinely didn’t expect it. Thank you 🥹. I’ll reply to you all soon. I’m honoured that I’ll be commentating in Paris alongside the fantastic @_BlytheLawrence , so you’ll get both Steve/Liz and Me/Blythe for the quals.

Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

3 months

Overjoyed to be able to say that I'll be heading to Paris in just over a week to be part of the artistic gymnastics commentary team for the worldwide English coverage of the Games, supporting the brilliant Australian commentators Steve and Liz. It is a childhood dream come true.

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@OllyHogben

5 years

Thank you so much for joining me and @lisagannonuk for the last 10 days here in Stuttgart at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. It’s been a pleasure to have your company! Now... I’m off to the funfair over the road 🌭 🎡

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@OllyHogben

1 year

Your commentary team is ready to go here in Antwerp! Join me and @_BlytheLawrence if you can at 20 past the hour for all of the build up for the Men’s Team Final!

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@OllyHogben

1 year

It is clear that there are no safer bets than Schäfer-Betz. What a leader for her team today. 🇩🇪

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@OllyHogben

4 years

An unusual Christmas in the village, so I decided to go full black tie and play Christmas carols on the piano in the front garden to try and cheer up the neighbours. And it worked - we all agreed that Christmas became so much more fun once I’d stopped and gone back inside...

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@OllyHogben

3 years

Why would you suggest such a thing? @LaurieHernandez has such a great career in TV ahead of her - there's no need to spoil it right off the bat by making her work with me. 😂 [It would be an honour to, should the opportunity ever arise!]

Pamchenkova

@Pamchenkova

3 years

Hear me out ... Laurie + Olly for Olympic Channel commentary gold.

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

2 months

Hello from Paris (again)! Delighted to be back for the Paralympics, where I’ll be commentating wheelchair tennis for a second successive Games. It’s one of my favourite sports to work on and I’m thrilled to have been asked to contribute to the worldwide English-language coverage.

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2 years

My Mum came to watch yesterday and was so pleased to be sitting by the ‘Asymmetric Beam’ as it’s her favourite apparatus. I’m not entirely sure which building she was in or what she was watching, but she had a super time.

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2 months

Well that is just MAGNIFICENT. What a phenomenal accomplishment. 🤩

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@gymnastics

2 months

Kaylia Nemour: Africa's first ever gymnastics medallist 🥇 #Paris2024 | #Gymnastics

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Shilese Jones 🇺🇸 from qualification to final (13.2➡️14.7 // 7th➡️🥇) is one of the best transformations we've seen all season in the FIG World Cups. That was a crackerjack of a routine, beating Rebeca Andrade into second place when the Brazilian also bettered her Q score. Superb!

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3 months

Gymnastics ❤️

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@OllyHogben

5 years

I LIKE WOLF TURNS. There, I said it. I’m sorry for letting you all down. [deletes Twitter account and retires immediately from commentating gymnastics]

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@OllyHogben

5 years

Was recently asked how familiar I was with the early non-vaulting work of the originator of the handspring double front. I replied that 'I might need a gentle Prod', aware that this kind of opportunity comes along once in a lifetime and that no one had witnessed it. Total waste.

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@OllyHogben

2 years

Incredible. Utterly INCREDIBLE. 🇨🇦

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@OllyHogben

2 months

Paris 2024, where I commentated artistic gymnastics at a senior Olympics for the first time, and where I was honoured to lead my first Ceremony at the Games too. That, plus three other terrific sports and amazing co-commentators. I will never, ever, forget the experience. ❤️🇫🇷❤️

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3 years

Have spent the day preparing bios for some of the women competing at Worlds, and am struck by how many fantastic stories there are. Stories of perseverance, of recovery, of academic and professional excellence, and of a huge number of role models. An incredible bunch of athletes.

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8 months

It's been months since I last worked on any artistic gymnastics, and I cannot wait to get back behind the mic as the World Cups begin this month! Will be commentating Cottbus, Baku, and Doha, and I am hugely excited to see the final stages of Paris 2024 qualification.

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@OllyHogben

2 years

Sat next to an audio engineer who’d never watched gymnastics before. In podium training he was mesmerised by the skill of the first thing he saw - a backwards walkover on beam. ‘You’re in for a treat’, I said. His reaction reminded me of the impact this sport has on new viewers.

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A fitting accolade for an athlete whose whole career has been spent demonstrating the spirit of fair play, whether representing @gymcan1 or @TeamCanada at large 🇨🇦.

The Olympic Games

@Olympics

2 months

The results are in! 🥁 You voted for your favourite Paris 2024 moment that embodied the Olympic spirit. 🤩 Canadian gymnast and four-time Olympian, Ellie Black won your vote for her support for other gymnasts. 🎉 #Olympics | @EllieBlack_ | @TeamCanada | @gymnastics

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@OllyHogben

4 years

Lovely tumbling from the 21-year-old Oksana Chusovitina back in 1996. Shame she just quietly retired after those Games and never competed again.

Pamchenkova

@Pamchenkova

4 years

The amplitude on that compulsory 1/1 ...

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1 year

As views from the commentary position go, this is rather splendid.

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4 years

Have commentated on 5 hours of gymnastics and sambo today, and you know what single moment has stuck in my head more than anything else? Melnikova’s DLO to that superb split jump that went in to orbit. Wowzers, that was proper gymnastics. The double layout to triple liftoff. 🚀

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Ah, that time of year when I open the old, 'How do gymnasts qualify for the Olympics?' files, read them for a short while, go and make a cup of tea, then stare out the kitchen window hoping that a magic bird will land in my garden and tell me how to concisely explain it on TV.🐦

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2 years

Cheerio from the Women’s ⁦ @UEGymnastics ⁩ Championships here in Munich! Thanks for all your kind words; it’s been a pleasure having your company this week, and ⁦ @rockergymnastix ⁩ and I look forward to welcoming you to the men’s competition on Thursday!

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4 years

Great pleasure to provide commentary on @morgihurd ’s #AtHome #gymnastics . I think I’m actually going to just start making narratives up like this when doing proper broadcasts from now on...

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2 years

Jolly well done to Addison Fatta 🇺🇸 - what an excellent way to make one's senior international debut! Vault 🥇 and Uneven Bars 🥉. She looked assured and composed throughout the day.

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If #gymnastics commentators spoke in real life how we speak on air... "Next up to the dishwasher, Olly Hogben from Surrey in the UK... a rural county about 30mins from London. An area with a rich Roman history; can Olly make history of his own?" [1/5]

Caitlin Zinsser

@DiversityJane

5 years

@OllyHogben 😂 please do commentate your life, Olly. We are all struggling in isolation and you have a moral duty to cheer us up 😉

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Am deep into my athlete research for Tokyo, and it’s one of the parts of my job I enjoy most. Looking up hometowns on a map, researching the history of the area, discovering new stories about the athlete, and trying to find who won their nation’s lone medal in [x] sport. Love it!

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@OllyHogben

2 years

Well, this is an entirely predictable and normal day of men's qualification here in Liverpool.

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@OllyHogben

1 year

Some things you grab a photo of because you want to remember them forever. That beam final is one of them.

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@OllyHogben

4 years

There are times when I think I’ve started to get quite good at counting the number of twists and rotations that gymnasts do. Then this happens and I quietly go and make a cup of tea.

Simone Biles

@Simone_Biles

4 years

sometimes I flip and what not 🤷🏾‍♀️

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3 years

Chuso: Still in Mint Condition

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@emwatchesgym

3 years

I will not be talking about anything other than Chuso’s mentos commercial for the next week, thank you very much😂

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@OllyHogben

1 year

All ready to go here in Düsseldorf 🇩🇪 with @AlisonWalker_tv to bring you the Opening Ceremony of the 2023 Invictus Games. Please join us if you can in 40 mins for what should be a spectacular event. @WeAreInvictus @InvictusGamesDE #InvictusGames

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@OllyHogben

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And that’s it! I’m hanging up the mic for 2022, and will be back on air in the new year. Thank you very much for your company, from all over the world, these last 12 months; it’s been a genuine pleasure to continue to get to do the job I love for another year. See you in 2023!

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@OllyHogben

1 year

I cannot tell you the joy that this thread has brought to my day/life. Thank you 🥹. Are there really gymnastics fans out there who have watched other sports simply because I was commentating?!

Katherine Keirns

@kmkeirns

1 year

Gym fans love @OllyHogben so much that I legitimately had a conversation yesterday where someone told me they watched half of a soccer game because he was commentating. And they knew nothing about soccer.

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Olly Hogben

@OllyHogben

2 years

Here’s a list of rights holders for the finals. If your country is on this list, then you probably won’t be able to watch the YouTube stream with me and Blythe. If your country isn’t on the list, you probably will be able to. Hope that helps! Looking forward to your company!

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