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Month: September 2016
IOC tribute to Simone Biles
double slack line acrobatics
Charlie Tamayo to Navy
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Kip Simons, head coach of the Navy gymnastics team, announced on Monday the addition of Charlie Tamayo to the Mids’ coaching staff for the upcoming 2016-17 season. Tamayo comes to Annapolis following a storied career on the international competition scene …
After defecting from Cuba in 2003, Tamayo began his coaching career in the United States. From 2004 through 2016, he served as the head coach of elite youth programs in California and Colorado, as well as the VIP and director of the Woodward West Gymnastics Camp from 2006 to 2007. Most recently, Tamayo was the head coach of the West Coast Elite Gymnastics women’s team in Arcadia, California. …
Laurie Hernandez – Cha Cha
Russian Gymnastics post-Olympics show
Laurie Hernandez on DWTS
Pan Am competition, Bolivia
The 2016 Pan American Individual Event Artistic Gymnastics Championships will be held in Sucre, Bolivia, September 12–18, 2016.
You can see the workplan online (Spanish). Here’s a list of the Sr Men competing.
Canada was one of the first teams to arrive.
(via gimnasialatina)
Glasgow will host 2018 Europeans
MAG and WAG. As part of a major new multisport event – the inaugural 2018 European Championships. …
The events will be staged at the £130million SSE Hydro – the same venue that hosted the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and the gymnastics competitions at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Glasgow pledges to take European Gymnastics to the next level
gymnast Ananth Rao paralyzed
On October 12, 2010 Ananth Rao was competing in a State competition in India on Floor. He under rotated a 1 3/4 forward salto roll out. And will now spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair.
‘Paralysed’ gymnast needs a long helping hand
In the draft version of the next Men’s Code of Points roll out skills on Floor are banned. They’ve been banned in the Women’s Code for decades after 1978 World Champion Elena Mukhina was paralyzed.
Congratulations FIG MTC for that decision. Our sport will have far fewer concussions and catastrophic injuries in future.
(via I Coach)
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