Author: Rick Mc

Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.

Tomas Gonzalez added to Men’s Floor Final

Wow. I’m surprised. #MTL2017GYM problems.

Following an appeal by the Gymnastics Federation of Chile due to a problem with the structure of the competition floor that occurred during Men’s qualifications, the FIG Jury of Appeal has made the exceptional decision to allow Tomas Gonzalez (CHI) to participate in the Floor final.

During the second day of Men’s qualifications on Tuesday, October 3, a joining rail of the Floor’s structure moved out of place, causing instability on a small part of the floor.

Therefore, nine gymnasts instead of eight will participate in the Men’s Floor final on Saturday, October 7. Tomas Gonzalez will be the first to perform.

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Ellie Black – Beam

Judges were tough on day 1. Ellie leads the apparatus (so far) with 13.433.

Let’s hope they stay consistent in evaluation day 2.

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related – Canadian women come out strong in qualifiers at Artistic Gymnastics World Championships

James Hall wanted to compete AA

Seems some registration error was made by his Federation.

Leave a comment if you know the details.

Nadia competed at the Montreal Forum

Dave Holmes reminded me that the 1976 Olympics were hosted at the Montreal Forum (Forum de Montréal).  Dave was there.

Home of the Montreal Canadiens from 1926 to 1996.

1985 Worlds Montreal were hosted in the venue now called the Montreal Biodome.

Kolesnikova, Shushunova, Omelianchik, Baraksanova, Mostepanova, Yurchenko

Koudinov – crowd motivated 3rd attempt

Mikhail hopes the FIG MTC will name Gaylord with 1/1 twist the Koudinov.

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return of the Triple Back on Floor

Nagornyy has the best ever competed, I’d say.

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The Return Of The Triple Back Somersault In Men’s Gymnastics

YANG Hakseon (KOR) – Vault

The 2012 Olympic Champ is back. I’d call him the favourite to win #MTL2017GYM.

Click PLAY or watch his Handspring front triple twist on YouTube.

Oleg Ostapenko returns to Ukraine?

Seems so according to this Press release:

… the honored coach of the USSR Oleg Ostapenko, whose name is associated with the golden time of our women’s gymnastics of the Lily Podkopaeva period, as well as the sensational breakthrough in the mid-2000s of the Brazilian national team, returned home. Recall that the last year Ostapenko worked in Belarus.

Officially, he took the position of the senior coach of the team on August 1, but in fact he took the job even earlier, as the head coach of the Ukrainian women’s team, Andrey Beregovo , told us …

sport-express.ua

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