1 RUSSIAN FEDERATION 170,995 points
2 GERMANY 1 168,162 points
3 JAPAN 168,065 points
4 BRAZIL 166,263 points
5 ITALY 162,897 points
6 SPAIN 157,897 points
Month: March 2019
my favourite Gymnastics photo … maybe ever
Friendship through sport at the Stuttgart World Cup.
Olympic Charter: “… a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play …”
Thank Cordelia Price for posting it from the live video stream.
Baku World Cup results
Olympic qualification points on the line.
Vault
🥇 Jade Carey USA 14.766
🥈 Oksana Chusovitina UZB 14.450
🥉 Alexa Moreno MEX 14.249
Bars
🥇 Lyu Jiaqi CHN 14.266
🥈 Anastasia Iliankova RUS 14.133
🥉 Georgia-Rose Brown AUS 13.566
Diana Varinska had 13.566 as well, but lost out in the tie-break.
Click PLAY or watch Lyu Jiaqi on Facebook. LOVE the double twist. Surprised at the loose form. And always disappointed in routines where gymnasts switch one hand at a time.
Beam
🥇 Emma Nedov AUS 14.100
🥈 Marine Boyer FRA 14.100
🥉 Mana Oguchi JPN 13.200
Click PLAY or watch Emma’s Beam on Facebook.
Floor
🥇 Jade Carey USA 14.600
🥈 Lara Mori ITA 13.866
🥉 Vanessa Ferrari ITA 13.733
Jade Carey – Floor
Baku Final
1. Jade Carey USA 14.600
2. Lara Mori ITA 13.866
3. Vanessa Ferrari ITA 13.733
Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter. No sound, but that’s a good way to evaluate her choreography rather than musicality.
She won Vault, as well. Olympic qualifying points!
Stuttgart World Cup – Simone, Ana, Elisabeth
Simone BILES 58.800
Ana PADURARIU 55.132
Elisabeth SEITZ GER 54.399
All hail the greatest of all time.
Blythe Lawrence reports that the staging of the competition was awesome. Gymnasts entered running through a corridor of local gymnasts with superb lighting and smoke.
Worlds Stuttgart should be even better.
https://twitter.com/thegymterdotnet/status/1107242679354736640
And read Blythe’s LIVE blog.
Note – There is a huge Octoberfest-like festival in Stuttgart concurrent with Worlds. Very little accommodation is available at any price. 😕
dancing for Miss Val
How do you honour everything Valorie Kondos Field has done for UCLA?
Dance flash mob on Senior night!
Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.
To remember her into the future, the FLOOR in Pauley will have her name on it. … I like it.
Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.
Tumbling display 1950
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
UCIC Men’s Sr Finals results
Floor
1. Sean Melton USA 5.5 8.700 14.200
1. Riley Loos USA 5.5 8.700 14.200
3. Genki Suzuki USA 5.2 8.367 13.566
Pommels
1. Thierry Pellerin GYMNAMIC 6.2 8.300 14.500
2. Jackson Payne CAN 5.9 8.033 13.933
3. Justin Karstadt CAN 5.2 8.567 13.766
Click PLAY or watch Thierry on YouTube.
Rings
1. Ryan Oehrlein FUTURES 6.1 8.200 14.300
2. Chris Kaji MANJAKS 5.8 8.467 14.266
3. Sean Melton USA 5.5 8.667 14.166
Click PLAY or watch Ryan on YouTube.
Vault
1. Wolfe Gazer U CALGARY 13.750
2. Damien Cachia U CALGARY 12.566
P Bars
1. Jackson Payne CAN 5.6 9.067 14.666
2. Sean Melton USA 5.7 8.633 14.333
3. Robert Neff USA 5.5 8.800 14.300
Click PLAY or watch Jackson on YouTube. (part routine)
H Bar
1. Sean Melton USA 5.2 8.833 14.033
2. Genki Suzuki USA 5.3 8.633 13.933
3. Jackson Payne CAN 6.0 7.567 13.566
Click PLAY or watch Sean on YouTube.
Athletes from Canada’s senior men’s artistic gymnastics national team dominated the apparatus finals at the University of Calgary International Competition (UCIC) on Saturday, taking gold on four out of the six apparatus. …
Brazil wins DTB Cup challenge
As many predicted, Brazil’s top team finished ahead of a very good Russian team.
Right now you have to add Brazil to the list of Olympic team medal contenders.
Though there was no AA competition, Rebeca went 56.932 today.
1 – Brazil, 164.396
2 – Russia, 159.496
3 – Netherlands, 153.763
4 – France, 150.462
🇧🇷❤️🥇 https://t.co/rT33RexMIU—
BRAGymnastics (@BraGymnastics) March 16, 2019
Valeri should be smiling.
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