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Rhythmic warm-up
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Month: August 2017
I wonder what coaches make
new Stanford Head Coach Tabitha Yim
Former Stanford standout Tabitha Yim has been named head coach of the Cardinal women’s gymnastics team …
Yim, a former Cardinal assistant coach, spent the past two seasons at Arizona as head coach of the Wildcats’ program. …
U.S. Men to Worlds
Olympians Sam Mikulak and Alex Naddour will provide veteran leadership for a group that will included newly-crowned national all-around champion Yul Moldauer and 2016 Olympic alternate Donnell Whittenburg, who finished third in all-around at this weekend’s P&G Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim.
Other members of the team are Marvin Kimble, who finished ninth at the national championships and Eddie Penev, who had strong showings this past week in floor exercise and vault.
Alternates include Allan Bower, who was the all-around runner-up at the national championships, and Colin VanWicklen …
Individual events and lineups for the World Championships will be decided after the team’s performance at the world team camp.
Ragan Smith is U.S. Champion
1. Ragan Smith – Texas Dreams – 115.250
2. Jordan Chiles – Naydenov – 111.850
3. Riley McCusker – MG Elite – 111.650
4. Trinity Thomas – Prestige – 111.350
5. Margzetta Frazier – Parkettes – 110.900
6. Morgan Hurd – First State – 109.750
full results
Ragan Smith’s 57.4 the highest all-around score in 2017. Scores were a touch generous.
SENIOR NATIONAL TEAM
Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, Marz Frazier, Morgan Hurd, Ashton Locklear, Riley McCusker, Ragan Smith, Trinity Thomas
Her Time To Shine: 2016 Olympic Alternate Ragan Smith Is Gymnastics National Champ
Larisa wins FISU
1 RUSSIA
2 CANADA
3 JAPAN
1 Larisa Iordache Romania 56.750
2 Asuka Teramoto Japan 55.650
3 Ellie Black Canada 54.950
4 Evgeniya Shelgunova Russia 54.200
5 Natsumi Sasada Japan 53.250
6 Filipa Martins Portugal 52.400
full results
Despite not competing on all four events since last summer, Larisa Iordache showed up at Universiade in Taipei this week to win the all-around gold medal while also qualifying in the top three on every event but vault. …
Ellie Black of Canada led all-around qualifications with a 56.050 with her best competition of the year, hands down, but a missed catch at the end of her Maloney to Hindorff combo on bars and a muscled hop change into her piked Jaeger led to just a 12.9 on bars and a 54.950 in the all-around. …
evolution of Kovacs
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Kyla Ross’ father on goal setting
An excerpt from the 2013 FloGymnastics Beyond the Routine documentary.
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Dad was a baseball player.
Alina Kabaeva profile
Alina Kabaeva is one of the most decorated gymnasts in Rhythmic Gymnastic history, with 2 Olympic medals, 14 World Championship medals, and 25 European Championship medals…
Kabaeva was among the six Russian athlete torch bearers who carried the Olympic flame through Fisht Stadium during the Opening Ceremony of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. …
Click PLAY or watch an interview from before her first Olympics on YouTube. She is a very confident athlete.
She’s no longer a Russian parliamentarian, by the way.
Athen’s Olympics Men’s competition was a MESS
ILLYRIA BURKLE summarizes:
– In the all around, almost all the top contenders have a major mistake/fall (Paul Hamm, Ioan Silviu Suciu, Hiroyuki Tomita, Yang Wei, Marian Dragulescu, etc.)
– Yang Tae-Young was mistakenly credited with a 9.9 start value instead of a 10 like he was in the qualifying and team competitions, costing him the gold medal in the all around. Oscar Buitrago Reyes of Colombia, Benjamin Bango of Spain, and the head judge George Beckstead of the United States were all suspended for the mistake. …
read more – 2004 MAG
And who was the Men’s Head Judge?
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