Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
(via Vanessa)
Year: 2016
British Olympic Hopes team
The British team have a strong history here taking the last four team, and three AA titles, an achievement the 2016 team will hope to emulate.
The competition is open to second year Espoir, and both junior years, so for 2016 those born 2001-2003. It’s a young British team this year, with two Espoirs, three first year juniors, and just one second year junior selected.
The format is 6-5-4, however the sixth member of the team can be put up on to compete on any apparatus to add to their individual total, and try to qualify for apparatus finals. …
Melnikova, Vernyayev win Arthur Gander
1. Angelina Melnikova
2. Eythora Thorsdottir
3. Jessica López
1. Oleg Vernyayev
2. Bart Deurloo
3. Igor Radivilov
Russia’s Angelina Melnikova and Ukraine’s Oleg Vernyayev won the all-around title Wednesday evening at the 33rd Arthur Gander Memorial in Chiasso, Switzerland.
The Arthur Gander Memorial, which alternates each year between the cities of Chiasso and Morges, attracted 11 Olympians from this summer’s games in Rio de Janeiro. The competition format allowed gymnasts to compete an abbreviated all-around, with the women doing any three events and the men any four. Only the top six gymnasts advanced to the final rotation. …
the Mostepanova on Beam
One of the many naming blunders perpetuated by FIG WTC is the Mostepanova on Beam.
It’s still called the Onodi in the Code.
Click PLAY or watch Olga Mostepanova on YouTube. (1983)
The wonderful Henrietta Onodi competed it 1989.
related – Meet The Originators: Onodi Acrobatic Element On Balance Beam
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new Gymnastics novel by Lauren Hopkins
The sequel to Finding Our Balance (2015) drops December 13, 2016. A Young Adult novel.
https://twitter.com/LaurenHopkins96/status/793968976846090243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
GYM MOMENTUM Camp – Boston 2017
The focus of this camp will be on OPTIONAL LEVEL GYMNASTICS for gymnasts moving into Level 6 up through 10 and Elite.
WHEN: July 6-9
WHERE: Yellow Jackets Gymnastics Middleton, MA. (just outside of Boston)
Uchimura turns Pro
Kohei Uchimura is set to become Japan’s first professional gymnast, sources with knowledge of the Rio Games gold medalist’s decision told Kyodo News on Monday. …
Uchimura, 27, is technically an employee of Konami Sports Club, but is expected to leave the fitness company after the national team championships next month.
The move will allow Uchimura … to enlist multiple sponsors and give him more time to promote gymnastics around Japan, something he longs to do ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. …
(via papaliukin)
Simone Biles one of Glamour’s Women of the Year
… Biles, who had gone into the Games as the most decorated U.S. gymnast in history and the heavy favorite in Rio, nailed that event and went on to win five medals, with one impossibly difficult, near-flawless performance after another. Over those few days in August, more than 30 million Americans tuned in to watch her compete, while millions more replayed her routines on YouTube …
But it wasn’t all stratospheric rise. After she earned a spot on the senior national team in 2013, her signature confidence began to crumble. At one competition that summer, she made so many mistakes during her first few routines—and was so devastated—that she didn’t even try to do her vault. At the urging of her parents, Biles sought the help of a sports psychologist. “She was competing against these girls who were her heroes, her idols,” her mom explains. “And it was hard for her to adjust to that. Simone didn’t think she was good enough to compete with them. I knew she was quite capable. But she needed to believe it.”
Therapy taught her to trust her talent and enjoy the experience. …
Simone Biles on How She Went From Foster Care to Olympic Gold
Read an excerpt from her new book – Courage to Soar.
related – Glamour’s Women of the Year 2016: Gwen Stefani, Simone Biles, Ashley Graham, and More Honorees
Steven Gluckstein now Jr USA Tramp Coach
After six U.S. trampoline titles, five synchro U.S. crowns, six World Championships and one Olympic Games, Steven Gluckstein will now assume a new role: coach. The 2012 Olympian announced today that he is retiring from the sport as an athlete and has accepted a position with USA Gymnastics as the Junior National Trampoline Team Head Coach. …
Gymnastics Coaching.com 