Dipa Barbie

You can give money to Mattel for a Dipa Barbie.

Mattel sucks a little bit less after adding new dolls inspired by real, successful women to its “Role Model” collection.

But this product has done a lot of damage over 60 years projecting unrealistic body image to young girls. Send your daughter to Gymnastics instead of buying them plastic crap.

Zoé Allaire-Bourgie wins Gymnix Jr.

  1. Zoé Allaire-Bourgie CAN 54.532
  2. Olivia Greaves USA 53.666
  3. Skye Blakely USA 53.332
  4. Noémie Louon BEL 52.432
  5. Lillian Lippeatt USA 51.932
  6. Stacy Bertrandt BEL 50.999

Congratulations Zoé.

  1. USA
  2. Belgium
  3. Canada

Skye Blakely won Vault. Olivia Greaves won Bars and Floor. Zoé won Beam.
full results

USAG – USA wins junior team title and two all-around medals at 2019 Gymnix International

Lilly Lippeatt – 1/1 to double tuck

I don’t recall an Artistic gymnast ever competing this.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Russian apparatus finals – day 1

Paseka is back. And won vault.

https://twitter.com/russiangymstan/status/1104340884726923265

Ilyankova won Bars.

https://twitter.com/russiangymstan/status/1104354566206832640

Russian Men’s apparatus finals – day 1

Sounds like judging was more severe than typical in Russia.

Floor
1 Dmitry Lankin 14.300
2 Nikita Nagornyy 14.100
3 Kirill Prokopyev 14.033

Pommels
1 Nikita Nagornyy 14.366
2 Sergei Eltsov 14.233
3 Kirill Prokopyev 14.200

Rings
1 Nikita Nagornyy 14.266
2 Ilya Kirbatas 14.133
3 Nikita Ignatyev 14.133
3 Denis Ablyazin 14.133

Click PLAY or watch Ablyazin on Instagram.

full results

interview with Maggie, Brenna and KJ

I really enjoyed this episode of The Routine Podcast where the mother / daughter team traveled to Oklahoma to cover the competition with UCLA.

Oklahoma had over 10,000 fans!

That’s double their record crowd.

I was interested to hear their favourite Floor routine was not Katelyn. Not Brenna. But Anastasia Webb who’s been leading off for Oklahoma. The girl can dance. And sells it.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.