I attended the World Gymnastics Championships Banquet as a guest of Marceline Goldstein from Cirque du Soleil, a sponsor.
Here she is channeling her inner Uchimura.
Marceline is running open auditions in Tokyo and Osaka.
Here Grace Chiu is showing the soon-to-be-iconic photo of new World Parallel Bar champion Danell Leyva celebrating with Yin Alvarez.
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Team USA …
Artists were available to quickly present the ultimately personalized souvenir of Tokyo.
Meiji Kinenkan restaurant is a huge complex adjacent to the famous Meiji Shrine. They had one room just for Sushi & Tempura, another for Chinese food. And several for deserts.
By the end of the evening, the outdoor area was most popular.
As people get home from Tokyo, I expect Facebook to be flooded with images from this event. It truly was a highlight of the competition.
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Certainly this was the most memorable Worlds Banquet in history. I’ve not been to many — but did attend the worst … Montreal 1985.
The final day of competition was a Sunday and all food services anywhere near the venue were closed. Everyone was starving when the grub arrived. It was mad — the best gymnasts in the world scrambling over each other to get to the food.
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