Cuba’s Larduet wins

Central American & Caribbean Games

1. Manrique Larduet CUB 84.800
2. Randy Leru CUB 81.050
3. Audrys Nin Reyes DOM 80.750

full results

Manrique had an over-rotation fall on Floor. Randy’s Ring grips broke. He was allowed to repeat.

Click PLAY or watch Manrique’s P Bars on YouTube.

Watch more of his routines (and dance celebration) on Facebook.

Cuba’s Vidiaux wins

Central American & Caribbean Games

1. Marcia Vidiaux CUB 51.750
2. Andrea Maldonado PUR 50.050
3. Dayana Ardila COL 49.700

full results

Click PLAY or watch Marcia’s prelims FX on YouTube.

Watch all of her AA Final routines.

A visit to Round Lake

“Ozero Krugloye” (Round Lake) is the Russian training centre about 20 miles from Moscow.

Read a recent media report.

Click PLAY or watch a 2012 feature on the Gym.

(via Irish Daniel)

Kristof Willerton LANDING challenge

I’ve never seen any acrobat land as many different fliffus’ as Kristof does here.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

Kristof is that guy you’ve seen competing triple layout. He was World Power Tumbling champion 2013.

(fliffus’ ??)

Olivia Vivian 1st woman to Aussie Ninja Warrior Final

She crushed the semi-final … right up until the end.

No worries. Olivia’s into the final where she’ll compete against boyfriend Ben Polson.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Faith Torres – standing 1/1

High landing.

U.S. Classic Jr. preview

This year, none of the juniors are being promoted to compete with the seniors (last year Malabuyo, O’Keefe, Dunne, Lee, and Kenlin competed in the later session with the big girls). I prefer this way. We have age group delineations in place, so let’s follow those rules and not confuse things. If you’re a senior, you’re a senior. If you’re a junior, you’re a junior—even if you can score better than most of the seniors.

Let’s discuss those gymnasts first, the ones in contention …

Balance Beam Situation

Click PLAY or watch Leanne Wong’s DTY on YouTube.

Tokyo Olympic Mascots

#Miraitowa and #Someity

Central American Games

Hosted in Barranquilla, Colombia.

MAG
1. Colombia: 249.400
2. Cuba: 245.150
3. Mexico: 236.450

WAG
1. Cuba 150.100
2. Colombia 149.950
3. México 149.900

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