tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
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The Russian Gymnastics Federation, which has been working on trying to boost its meet attendance and take advantage of social media to attract fans, tweaked the team format in Yekaterinburg. This year’s format dropped the team size from six gymnasts to four, with three scores counting. …
… “If you back the last few quadrenniums, half the team has always had guys from the NCAA programs, almost always at least half,” Williams pointed out to me before the start of the competition. “Sometimes half of them have been from Oklahoma,” he said with a laugh.
Collegiate gymnastics has managed to pull off this feat despite few scholarships and just fifteen remaining Division I programs. “There’s maybe in the neighborhood of 25-30 guys that are getting scholarships across the country and that’s it,” Williams pointed out. That means there are more athletes getting scholarships on a single Division I football team than there are for all of the collegiate male gymnasts in the United States. …
Oklahoma Proved Once Again How Important NCAA Gymnastics Is To The U.S. Gymnastics Team
First trial is complete.
1 Angelina Melnikova Central 57.650
2 Elena Eremina St Petersburg 56.100
3 Maria Kharenkova Southern 55.475
4 Eleonora Afanasyeva Northwestern 53.850
5 Viktoria Trykina Moscow 53.600
6 Polina Fedorova Volga 53.150
full results
Melnikova Upsets for Russian Cup Win
Elena led prelims with 57.900. But had a 12.850 on Vault in the AA Final to drop to second.
Katelyn and Maria Caire have a blog where they post on many things including ethical issues.
Katelyn just started a series featuring excerpts from her diary as a young gymnast:
Most kids at the age of 12 were probably playing video games and doing some chores. Me? I was training at least 36 hours a week, plastered on posters and magazines, representing the US National Team.
I had no voice or option but to live up to the expectations of everyone else, so I experienced these cruel, unwanted body remarks from just about everyone— coaches, fans/gymnastics followers, National team staff, my mother, and even myself. It started when I was 13, barely weighing 70 pounds. …
Her coach was Valeri Liukin now U.S. Women’s National Team coordinator. I hope Katelyn goes on GymCastic to talk about her training diaries so we can hear the full story of her WOGA experience.
related – Maria Caire – Athlete Body Image: A Series
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USAG also needs to respond to Aly’s recent statements.
Aly Raisman Calls Out USA Gymnastics For Its Handling Of Sexual Abuse Allegations
One film (78 minutes). Five legendary athletes. The compelling and inspiring story of the journeys of tennis champion Martina Navratilova, golf great Jack Nicklaus, Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci, track and field star Edwin Moses, and Dutch Paralympian Esther Vergeer. …
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As usual there was not nearly as much press for the MAG competition as WAG. That’s sad since the Men’s competition is so much stronger at the University level.
1. Japan 260.225
2. Ukraine 257.900
3. Russia 253.150
4. Korea 249.900
5. Chinese Taipei 245.125
6. France 244.950
full team results
AA
1. VERNIAIEV Oleg UKR
2. NONOMURA Shogo JPN
3. TANIGAWA Wataru JPN
Olympic silver medallist Verniaiev defends individual all-round title at Taipei 2017
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