Year: 2016

Stacey Umeh in China

The Canadian / Aussie choreographer travels a great deal.

Stacey choreographed new routines for Shang Chunsong, Liu Tingting, Wang Yan, Wang Cenyu and Liu Jinru.

Power Tumbling – Quad back

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

Leave a comment if you know who originally posted that video. Gymnalife (and others) often upload original videos as if they were their own. Without attribution. 😦

Of course it would be better if they linked to the original source.

via Gymternet Clan

Vault “timers”

I like flyspring after a timer rather than a salto. Katelyn demonstrates why. 🙂

Flyspring is more often easier to decelerate.

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(via papaliukin)

Russia finally admits to doping

Russia is for the first time conceding that its officials carried out one of the biggest conspiracies in sports history: a far-reaching doping operation …

Over several days of interviews here with The New York Times, Russian officials said they no longer disputed a damning set of facts that detailed a doping program with few, if any, historical precedents.

“It was an institutional conspiracy,” Anna Antseliovich, the acting director general of Russia’s national antidoping agency, said …

Russians No Longer Dispute Olympic Doping Operation

They still claim Putin did not know.

Russia was stripped of speedskating and biathlon events it was due to host this winter. Russia had previously been denied hosting world bobsled and skeleton championships.