Rick Mc

Larisa wins FISU

1 RUSSIA
2 CANADA
3 JAPAN

1 Larisa Iordache Romania 56.750
2 Asuka Teramoto Japan 55.650
3 Ellie Black Canada 54.950
4 Evgeniya Shelgunova Russia 54.200
5 Natsumi Sasada Japan 53.250
6 Filipa Martins Portugal 52.400
full results

Despite not competing on all four events since last summer, Larisa Iordache showed up at Universiade in Taipei this week to win the all-around gold medal while also qualifying in the top three on every event but vault. …

Ellie Black of Canada led all-around qualifications with a 56.050 with her best competition of the year, hands down, but a missed catch at the end of her Maloney to Hindorff combo on bars and a muscled hop change into her piked Jaeger led to just a 12.9 on bars and a 54.950 in the all-around. …

theGymter.net

Iordache’s Back. https://t.co/w12Z7BNPTt pic.twitter.com/9MmEvgr7bI

— The Gymternet (@thegymterdotnet) August 23, 2017

evolution of Kovacs

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Kyla Ross’ father on goal setting

An excerpt from the 2013 FloGymnastics Beyond the Routine documentary.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Dad was a baseball player.

Alina Kabaeva profile

Alina Kabaeva is one of the most decorated gymnasts in Rhythmic Gymnastic history, with 2 Olympic medals, 14 World Championship medals, and 25 European Championship medals…

Kabaeva was among the six Russian athlete torch bearers who carried the Olympic flame through Fisht Stadium during the Opening Ceremony of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. …

Click PLAY or watch an interview from before her first Olympics on YouTube. She is a very confident athlete.

She’s no longer a Russian parliamentarian, by the way.

Athen’s Olympics Men’s competition was a MESS

ILLYRIA BURKLE summarizes:

– In the all around, almost all the top contenders have a major mistake/fall (Paul Hamm, Ioan Silviu Suciu, Hiroyuki Tomita, Yang Wei, Marian Dragulescu, etc.)

– Yang Tae-Young was mistakenly credited with a 9.9 start value instead of a 10 like he was in the qualifying and team competitions, costing him the gold medal in the all around. Oscar Buitrago Reyes of Colombia, Benjamin Bango of Spain, and the head judge George Beckstead of the United States were all suspended for the mistake. …

read more – 2004 MAG

And who was the Men’s Head Judge?