August 4, 2021 | CBC Sports
Just like a balance beam routine, gymnast Ellie Black's entire Olympic experience teetered on the edge of disaster.
She managed to salvage an inspirational fourth-place finish on the beam, despite a freshly re-injured ankle. Which really was a matter of snatching improbable triumph back from the brink of a much more likely painful retreat.
Perhaps the least-surprised person in this Olympic drama is Black herself.
August 3, 2021 | CBC Sports
Halifax gymnast ends up just behind bronze-medal winner Simone Biles. Canadian Ellie Black just missed the podium in the women's balance beam final with a fourth-place finish on Tuesday at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
China's Guan Chenchen captured gold, scoring 14.6333 as the final competitor to take to the beam, while fellow Chinese gymnast Tang Xijing claimed silver with a score of 14.233.
August 2, 2021 | Canadian Press
TOKYO — Canadian gymnast Ellie Black will compete in Tuesday's balance beam final, the Canadian Olympic Committee confirmed Monday.
Black pulled out of last Thursday's women's all-around final after she sprained her left ankle during training.
She said at the time she had hoped to recover in time for the beam final.
July 26, 2021 | Saltwire
The Canadian women’s gymnastics team came up short in its bid to advance to the team final at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday.
Ellie Black, Shallon Olsen, Brooklyn Moors and Ava Stewart earned 160.964 points to place 10th overall. Only the top eight teams advance to the final.
The Canadian foursome was in eighth place following their subdivision, but both Belgium and Germany passed them in the final grouping. Belgium placed fifth with 163.895 points while Germany posted 161.162.
July 14, 2021 | The Canadian Press
Ellie Black was made for this era of women's gymnastics.
The sport rewards power, strength and audacity more now than it did a decade and a half ago, when judges scored with an eye more toward balletic grace than degree of difficulty.
July 2, 2021 | Saltwire
When Ellie Black evenutally retires from competitive gymnastics, perhaps she'll consider a second career as the host of her own cooking show.
When the 25-year-old from Halifax isn't dominating competitions across the country and around the world, she likes to unwind by spending time in the kitchen. Her love of food and preparing it also ties in nicely with her fanaticism about nutrition, which is a universal trait among world class athletes of her calibre.
June 17, 2021 | Saltwire
A third time is a charm for Halifax’s Ellie Black.
To no one’s surprise, the 25-year-old Black – Canada’s most decorated women’s artistic gymnast – was named to her third Olympic team during a Gymnastics Canada event held in Montreal on Thursday.
May 6, 2021 | The Morning Show
Olympic medalist Ellie Black talks about preparing for the Tokyo Olympics as the most decorated female gymnast at this year’s games and how she’s partnering with Sobeys to Feed the Dream.
March 29, 2021 | Sportsnet
Canada’s most decorated gymnast Ellie Black joined Tara Slone on Top Of HER Game to discuss her career, being on Team Canada and what it means to be inspiring the next generation of Canadian gymnasts.
March 8, 2021 | CBC Sports
It's International Women's Day, which means it's a great time to repeat this stat: women won 16 of Canada's 22 medals at the last Summer Olympics, including three of the four gold. Based on the latest projections, there's a good chance they account for an even larger share of the country's podium spots this summer. So let's look at some of the Canadian women who could star in Tokyo:
Ellie Black: No Canadian woman has ever won an Olympic medal in traditional gymnastics, but Black might do it in Tokyo. She took silver in the all-around (the sport's marquee event) at the 2017 world championships in Montreal and placed fourth in 2019.
February 19, 2021 | Olympic Channel
Two-time Olympian Ellie Black posted the highest score in the all-around at the first of three virtual meets held by Gymnastics Canada.
The 25-year-old, who finished second at the 2017 World Championships, earned a total score of 55.100 with individual scores of 14.350, vault; 13.350, uneven bars; 14.400, balance beam; and 13.000, floor exercise. Ava Stewart was second (53.200), followed by Rose Woo (52.300).
Gymnastics Canada will also hold two more Technical Trials, the first requires video submissions from March 25-31 and the second April 22-28.
January 22, 2021 | CBC Sports
Canadian gymnast Ellie Black's career almost ended with an ankle sprain at the 2019 World Championship. Instead, she used it to fuel her fire on her Olympic Games journey.
January 1, 2021 | Olympic Channel
In early March 2020, Canadian artistic gymnast Ellie Black made an unexpected appearance at the American Cup in Milwaukee.
Black had suffered an ankle injury during the final rotation of the all-around final just a few months previously at the Stuttgart World Championships.
Though she had competed on the uneven bars and balance beam a month before at Elite Canada, it was a quick return from surgery in October 2019.
“That was my first competition, like full all-around competition back since my ankle, and it was a bit of a rush to get there,” Black told Olympic Channel last month. “But it was great to be back on the competition floor.”
December 31, 2020 | Olympic Channel
Canada's 2017 world all-around silver medallist and two-time Olympian has been showing her younger team-mates that it's OK not to be perfect during the pandemic.
October 9, 2020 | Cape Breton Post
Ellie Black used her pandemic-induced summer away from competition for some TLC.
Instead of competing at her third Summer Olympic Games, Canada’s most decorated gymnast was exploring the Atlantic Bubble.
Black’s treks away from the gym helped pass the time during a lengthy absence from competitive gymnastics.
August 9, 2020 | Halifax Today
The Royal Bank of Canada is helping local businesses with a relief fund through its newest initiative, Canada United.
Each time someone watches a video on the Canada United website, likes a post on the initiative’s social media or uses #CanadaUnited on Twitter, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) will contribute 5 cents — up to a maximum of $2 million — to the Canada United Small Business Relief Fund.
RBC has partnered with numerous government and corporate partners to source additional funds for the campaign. It has also asked Ellie Black, Halifax-born Olympic gymnast, to help support the project.
July 10, 2020 | Olympic Channel
She may be approaching a third Olympic appearance, but Ellie Black still gets nervous about competing. The world championship silver medallist shares the importance of being able to look back on those memories and remember enjoying the experience.
May 14, 2020 | The Coast
When Ellie Black met up with Coast photographer Meghan Tansey Whitton in January at her studio to shoot this photo, Team Coast had pencilled Black in to be on the cover of the newspaper this July, in the heat of the summer, when she would be on the other side of the world stepping onto the mat to compete in the Olympics for team Canada as an artistic gymnast.
Maybe she’d have won gold; team Canada could have swept the podium. Or perhaps she would get injured in warm-ups or lose her luggage. Whatever happened (or didn’t happen), Black was prepared, because she was preparing for everything and anything by preparing for the moments only as they came.
"Those final rankings, those placements, that's really out of your control because you can't control what other people are going to do. What you can control is going out there trying each skill, one at a time as best as you possibly can, like you do in practice,” says Black.
April 18, 2020 | Sportsnet
The postponement of the Tokyo Olympics to 2021 gave Canadian gymnast Ellie Black the gift of time.
The 24-year-old from Halifax tore an ankle ligament landing a vault during last October’s world championship in Stuttgart, Germany. Black underwent surgery on her ankle later that month.
Canada’s most decorated female gymnast intended to compete in Tokyo in July.
But a year’s delay of the Summer Olympics because of the COVID-19 pandemic affords Black’s ankle, not to mention the rest of her body, a period of unexpected restoration.
April 18, 2020 | CBC Sports
The postponement of the Tokyo Olympics to 2021 gave Canadian gymnast Ellie Black the gift of time.
The 24-year-old from Halifax tore an ankle ligament landing a vault during last October's world championship in Stuttgart, Germany. Black underwent surgery on her ankle later that month.
Canada's most decorated female gymnast intended to compete in Tokyo in July.
But a year's delay of the Summer Olympics because of the COVID-19 pandemic affords Black's ankle, not to mention the rest of her body, a period of unexpected restoration.
"This gives me an opportunity to allow my ankle to have a little bit longer to heal and hopefully be stronger, and hopefully my performance can be stronger for my team a year from now," Black said.