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Year: 2016
Canada wins Olympic Hopes
1. Canada 219.200
2. Great Britain 209.550
3. Czech Republic 199.850
1. Padurariu CAN 57.15
2. Morgan GBR 55.1
3. Chrobok CAN 54.3
4. Jurca CAN 53.35
5. Marois CAN 52.85
6. De Jong CAN 52.45
full results
Canada won MAG team, as well.
(via Gymternet)
Nikita Nagorniy – triple back
Blume Memorial podium training.
The Russians have really been pushing this skill for the next quadrennial.
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(via @theallaround)
independent review of USA Gymnastics
Nov. 3, 2016 β USA Gymnastics announced today that Deborah J. Daniels, managing partner of Indianapolis-based Krieg DeVault LLP and a former federal prosecutor, has been hired to conduct an independent review of USA Gymnasticsβ bylaws, policies, procedures and practices related to handling sexual misconduct matters. …
They want to get their house in better order before SafeSport launches.
The new U.S. Center for SafeSport in Denver, Colorado is set to open in January 2017, and now the organization has found its new CEO.
Shellie Pfohl, former Executive Director of President Obamaβs Youth Fitness Initiative, has been hired to lead the SafeSport center, whose mission is to promote safe, supportive environments for athletes across all sports. …
Canada wins Olympic Hopes
The team of William Emard (Laval Excellence), Anthony Tawfik (Futures Gymnastics), Ioannis Chronopoulos (Futures Gymnastics), Evgeny Siminiuc (Futures Gymnastics), Jesse Tyndall (Taiso Gymnastics Club), Chris Kaji (Phoenix), and Felix Dolci (Laval Excellence) finished in first place with a final score of 314 ahead of teams from Hungary and France. …
In addition to winning the overall team title, Emard finished in first place in the all-around competition with 78.70 while Chronopoulos won a bronze medal with a score of 78.45. …
The men will compete in the apparatus finals on Saturday while the women kick off competition on Friday with the all-around and team competition.
Winter Childers – Floor
Balance Beam Situation:
… This routine is just weird enough for me to like it. When Kim Zmeskal has to stop everything and put both hands on her left hip to watch your floor routine instead of prepping her own gymnasts for vault, youβre doing something right. …
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a leotard dress?
Region 5 High Performance Training Camp
A good look at a pit with rounders foam.
This camp is for Level 10’s scoring over 36 at regionals or Level 9 Eastern Qualifiers scoring over a 37.0.
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Georgia-Mae Fenton – Bars
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Aliya Mustafina is married
Amanda Turner:
World and Olympic champion Aliya Mustafina has married bobsledder Alexei Zaitsev, becoming the third member of Russia’s gymnastics team to tie the knot since the Olympic Games in Rio.
“Aliya married Alexei Zaitsev in a wedding held at the groom’s home in Krasnodar,” said her father, 1976 Olympic wrestling bronze medalist Fargat Mustafin, to the TASS agency on Thursday. “I am very happy for my daughter.”
Zaitsev is a hopeful for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. …
Mustafina joins recent newlyweds on the Russian Olympic team Denis Ablyazin, who married long-time girlfriend Ksenia Semyonova in September; and David Belyavsky, who married his girlfriend Maria this past weekend in Greece.
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