Year: 2024

Liu Yang and Arthur Zaneitti

Lance compares body types and skill choices of two Olympic champions.

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Flavia – Floor

Hashimoto Daiki leads 2024 All-Japan

Hashimoto has already secured his Olympic spot on the Japanese team by winning the all-around competition at the 2023 World Gymnastics Championships in Antwerp, Belgium. However, for the rest of the field, this competition is a critical step towards making the Olympic team. 

The depth of the Japanese team is shown by how many athletes are capable of score over the coveted 80 mark; today, 45 Japanese gymnasts scored over 80. Compared to the most recent U.S. national championships where 14 athletes scored over 80 or the most recent British national championship where only three athletes managed that feat, it’s easy to see why the Japanese are so strong in international competition. 

Neutral Deductions

2019 junior world all-around champion, Oka Shinnosuke, qualified 2nd.

Chloe Widner – Floor

To seal the deal. 19th ranked Stanford making the Elite 8 Nationals.

Benson Boone – acrobat

Benson Boone is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Washington State.

In High School he competed on the diving team. His Dad taught him how to tumble.

He first got noticed on TikTok.

I link to him here as Benson includes cliff diving and flips in his music videos. He’s quite a good acrobat.

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teaching kids about UNSAFE touching

Parents of recreation gymnast needed to be educated about “spotting“, of course.

Paul Juda – Vault execution

It’s rare to see MAG Vault with good execution as the Code values difficulty so much more.

Shewfelt. Uchimura. And Paul Juda.

Legs together in preflight. #respect

2024 Men’s NCAA Gymnastics Championships

April 19 – 20 at Ohio State University. 

Most of the teams qualified:

  • Stanford University – 417.025
  • Oklahoma University – 415.5
  • University of Michigan – 413.038
  • University of Illinois – 411.813
  • University of Nebraska – 411.6
  • Ohio State University – 406.413
  • Penn State University – 405.175
  • University of California – 399.388
  • Naval Academy – 397.3
  • Air Force Academy – 394.238
  • Springfield University – 392.90
  • Greenville University – 392.888

Details on Neutral Deductions. Including individual AA and apparatus qualifiers.

Osijek World Cup highlights

French stars Melanie de Jesus dos Santos and Coline Devillard picked up three of a possible four titles at the World Challenge Cup in Osijek (CRO) 4-7 April, confirming that the French are steaming ahead toward Paris 2024. …

FIG – French Olympic hopefuls flex at Osijek World Challenge Cup

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Grand Paris Express Métro

Paris already has one of the biggest and busiest subway networks in the world.

Simultaneous with Olympics 2024 construction, over 200km more are being built. 68 brand-new stations. The plan is to travel around the city, rather than crossing the congested centre.

It’s called the Grand Paris Express.

Of course there will be an economic boost everywhere easily accessible by the 4 new lines.

Hopefully, Paris will be one Olympic host where the legacy benefits outweighs the incredible cost for a … circus.

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