gymnast Igor Cassina retires

The 2004 Men’s H Bar Olympic champion (over Nemov and Hamm) has retired.

Couch Gymnast has a nice retrospective on his long career:

… He is thirty-two or thirty three now and feels ready to leave the sport. Put it this way, he was the Italian junior Champion in 1992. …

Italian Igor Cassina to Retire

Here’s his winning routine including the ‘Cassina’. (layout Kovacs with 1/1 twist).

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

related – Cassina 2 (double twisting Kovacs)

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Three releases are edited together on that clip.

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