Winter Cup is a National Team selection meet.
Former Oklahoma standout Chris Brooks sits atop the leaderboard after Thursday’s preliminary round at the men’s Winter Cup Challenge in Las Vegas, Nev.
Brooks, 23, scored 88.3 to lead U.S. champion Jonathan Horton (86.5) and 2009 World team member Danell Leyva (86.1). Stanford junior Tim Gentry was fourth (85.6) followed by Jake Bateman of SCATS (85.35). …read more on Gymnastics Examiner – Chris Brooks leading Winter Cup after preliminary round
I tried to follow live scoring on USA Gymnastics. But the Flash system used was frustrating and confusing. (Better are the results on PDF.)
Watching the live scoring page, it looked like Horton had won. (Jon stayed on Pommel, so I assumed he would win. Especially since Brooks sat on Pommels.)
Luckily, @StickItMedia was tweeting live results.
Media coverage seems lackluster, perhaps because it was a Thursday night competition. Any women’s college dual meet gets more attention.
Some (seemingly random) videos were posted on the USAG YouTube channel.
I’m waiting to see Cuban Charlie Tamayo’s vault (15.8) and U.S. acrotumbler Kalon Ludvigson’s 14.2 on floor.
The best news was from Andy Thornton:
… The thing that actually excited me the MOST about this competition was to see that there were 127 total gymnasts on roster! This has to be the biggest Winter Cup ever, and the first (I believe) to require THREE preliminary sessions. And in an age when we can hardly find 15 healthy female elite gymnasts to go out and compete in a competition, that number is absolutely staggering. …
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