congratulations USA Gymnastics

Five Olympians will compete in Rio.

They are the best team because of the huge support system. Thousands of clubs. A great competitive structure. The NCAA program.

Everyone involved in USA Gymnastics should take pride in their collective accomplishment today. 🙂

Of all the terrific videos I’ve seen leading up to Rio, this Under Armour edit is still my favourite. It hints at the amount of work needed.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Hero De Janeiro – Andreas Toba

Magnetic imaging of his knee showed a tear in his front cruciate ligament as well as meniscus damage in the knee, the German Olympic Sports Federation said.

Toba will have to be operated on and will fly back to Germany once he is no longer in pain, gymnastics team official Sven Karg said.

The gymnast ruptured the cruciate ligament during the floor exercise but astonishingly still competed on the pommel horse afterwards …

Europe Online

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Fabian Hambüchen feels FIG rules are pushing too much difficulty. I agree. Especially on Vault.

Rebeca Andrade – Bars

After 3/5 qualifying subdivisions Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade leads the AA with a 58.732.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/coach_megan_/status/762373338828271617

Elizabeth Seitz – Bars

Germany killed it on Bars. Seitz at 15.466 will almost certainly qualify to the final.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Rebeca Andrade – Floor

Brazil is bringing the house down in Rio.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/coach_megan_/status/762349534542458880

She submitted a new tumbling elementdouble back with 1 1/2 twist (G) – but didn’t compete it. Yet.

It’s great to see Rebeca recover from her 2015 ACL injury on Vault to make it to the BIG show.

Update – She competed a terrific Amanar, as well.

Dipa’s Handspring double front

It doesn’t look like she’ll qualify to the Vault final.

https://twitter.com/uncletimmensgym/status/762347182632546304

Aliya will defend her Olympic Bars title

Click PLAY or watch her qualifying routine on YouTube.

I was happy to see her hit after another strange Beam routine with fall.