… they explore an abandoned building, do some extreme stretching and do some more football tennis! …

Some outtakes.

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2000 Olympic champion, 12-time Olympic medal winner, Alexei Nemov, now appears in a (no doubt, lucrative) advertisement for Mercedes sports cars, with ice skater Evgenyi Plushchenko.

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… China are in desperate need of mini Cheng Fei’s as they’re still lacking in the power event categories, with an overemphasis instead on their pet events.

They do have springy powerful looking young girls like Wang Yan and Liu Tingting but still crying out for depth in the power department …

Shang Chunsong

That .gif is one of many posts on Tumbl tagged Shang Chunsong.

related – Shang Chunsong – Floor / Beam from 2012 Asian Championships

A top nation like China needs all-arounders like Shang Chunsong. They can’t afford to carry too many specialists. Perhaps not even one.

Unless she was as good as Cheng Fei on Floor and Vault.

… I must comment on how amazing the atmosphere was on that side. Coaches dialoguing with the judges during the meet, getting opinions and looking at score sheets and everyone was okay with that.

All the teams seem like they are one big happy family and not that they are not serious about their gymnastics, but there was just such a light fun air about the whole thing it was contagious. …

Question why do you think it seems so much more fun for them and so serious on the women’s side?

I did scorekeeping on that side as well and the judges barely talked to each other and no way would a coach come over to look at the score sheets and get feedback on the athletes warm up where I was. …

see the commentary

making a MOCKery of Finals

Ya. … What is it with that?

At Canadian Nationals 2012 I was a WAG coach. In 2013 I’m a MAG coach.

I’ll report on the differences once the chalk dust has settled.

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CLIP Gymnastique Aérobic by ffgym

Examiner:

… The French Gymnastics Federation commissioned this clip introducing the art of Aerobic gymnastics in advance of hosting the 2013 European Championships in Arques in November.

As a junior elite, Melissa Metcalf of Desert Devils tied for eighth on uneven bars at the 2008 Visa Championships. Injuries kept her out of competitions the following couple of years and she ultimately returned to level 10 …

Great amplitude on transfer low to high.

Watch more video of JO Nationals 2013 on gymnastike.org

Two-time Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman … was inducted into the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame on Sunday, April 21, 2013 in Commack, N.Y.

Raisman, captain on The Fierce Five, helped lead Team USA to its first Olympic team gold medal since 1996 and the first-ever outside the United States. …

USAG

She’s really grown up on reality TV. I’m surprised and impressed with how well she’s done on DWTS.

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Dancing with the Stars Has Made Alexandra Raisman ‘Feel Like a New Person’

related – Aly Raisman: Quest For Gold Documentary (VIDEO) … Watch Mihai cleaning the gym.

Here’s — for example — the entertaining Eberhard Gienger – Class of 2007.

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Simone’s coaches Aimee Boorman and Luis Brasesco from Bannon’s Gymnastix tell us what it’s like to coach a person who, as Aimee’s says, “On any given day could have three new skills named after her in the code of points.” …

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Interview and footage from the January 2013 women’s National Team camp at the Karolyi Ranch.

6.6 difficulty

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