John at Chinese Gymnastics Blog linked to an excellent NEW tumblr blog dedicated to the Chinese gymnastics team.
It’s called: Blossom, Chinese Gymnastics Flowers.
The editor is Chinese, but living in the USA.
A sample post:
Chinese National Championships will be held next month in Shanghai. All of the Olympic hopefuls are expected to compete there. The competition also serves as a big part of the selection process for the Chinese Olympic team. …
The girls can be roughly grouped in these 5 categories (forgive me for my super relaxed standards when I put certain people into certain groups):
All Around Yao Jinnan, Huang Qiushuang
Bars & Beam Wu Liufang, Huang Huidan, Tan Sixin
Beam & Floor Sui Lu, Zeng Siqi, Shang Chunsong, Deng Linlin
Vault & Bars Jiang Yuyuan, He Kexin, Luo Peiru, Yang Yilin
Vault & Floor Cheng Fei
… The preliminary released competition schedules are as follows:
• 5/8 – Men’s Qualifications
• 5/9 – Women’s Qualifications
• 5/10 – Men’s & Women’s All Around
• 5/11 – Event Finals Day 1 (MFX, MPH, WVT, MSR, WUB)
• 5/12 – Event Finals Day 2 (MVT, WBB, MPB, WFX, MHB)
There are other specialists not listed. And those gymnasts are also training other apparatus. He Kexin does Floor, for example.
But that’s an overview of the strongest contenders at this point in time.
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