… “She has made my day-to-day life better. I love her like my own daughter.” …
Year: 2016
Andreea Răducan is married
Congratulations to our 2000 Olympic Champion*. 🙂
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Jr Commonwealth Championships results
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Rebeca Andrade, Oksana Chusovitina – Vault
Excellent training methodologies for Yurchenko triple twist and Handspring double front.
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a Gym Mom writes Louis Smith
Dear Louis
My heart sank when the video appeared online over the weekend. As a proud Brit, as a Muslim, as a parent and as the Mum of a son who is an Elite Level-5 gymnast representing his region next month in the national finals, my heart really did sink. I had to discuss it with him; I wish I hadn’t needed to. …
TeamGym European Championships begin
11th European TeamGym Championships Maribor, Slovenia 12-15 October 2016.
At the last TeamGym Europeans, in Reykjavik (ISL) in 2014, the Danish delegation impressively clinched 5 European titles, leaving only the senior women’s title to Sweden. Can Denmark repeat this feat? They are certainly aiming for another spectacular performance but face tough competition in Maribor’s Lukna Sports Hall. …
All teams compete on three events: Floor, Tumbling and Trampet. The combined score determines the finalists, the top 6 advance to the final. In the final scores start from zero. The team with the highest combined score becomes European Champion!
Teams will compete in 5 categories: junior women’s and mixed team, senior women’s, men’s and mixed team. For the junior men’s teams there will not be an official European champion as not enough teams registered. …
Chinese men training camp USA
Here’s the source article. (Chinese)
A group of 10+ Chinese MAG will travel to the US for a training camp as they start their early preparations for Tokyo. …
Although the article doesn’t say where the team is going, my guess is they’ll be at USOTC since the place is big enough to accommodate them. Plus the US team has had training camps in Beijing before.
Sam Oldham training for Tokyo
Sam Oldham scored a personal best 89.950 to finish 1st AA all around at the GBR 1st Olympic trial. But ultimately wasn’t named to the Rio competition team.
He’s training for the 2020 Olympics now back at his home Gymnastics club in Nottingham.
Sam Oldham on overcoming Rio omission and loving gymnastics again at old club in Nottingham
Yang Hak Seon is back
Our 2012 Olympic Vault champion was 1st on Vault and 2nd on Rings in his first competition after Achilles injury.
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Dvora Meyers translated to Romanian
Romanian readers can now find Dvora Meyers’ book on the evolution of elite women’s gymnastics on local shelves …
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