tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
Via Gymnastics Canada.
Thierry Pellerin is the current Canadian Pommel Champ — 14.700 in the Final. He’s got a very good shot at competing Worlds Montreal.
The National Coach remarked that Pommels is Canada’s best apparatus right now. That’s a first all time. 🙂
Gymnastics Canada posted the names of those invited.
I would not be surprised if other athletes were added before July 2nd.
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It sounds like Parkour founder David Belle is on board with the the new FIG discipline.
But the British Parkour body accuses FIG of encroachment.
Personally I’ve got no problem with more obstacle course competitions. They are cool.
But I’m worried our other disciplines will feel neglected: Acrobatic Gymnastics, Aerobic Gymnastics, Power Tumbling, Double-mini, etc.
Josh Overton, a 19-year coaching veteran most recently overseeing the women’s team at Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance Institute in Iowa, has been named an assistant for the Georgia Gym Dogs, according to an announcement Wednesday by Coach Courtney Kupets Carter. …
With Charlie Tamayo and volunteer Suzanne Yoculan Leebern, I think the team is in great shape for next season.
Some are a little worried:
… the Gym Dogs’ entire paid coaching staff has a combined 1 year of college coaching experience, and exactly 0 (zero, zip, nil) years of women’s college coaching experience. …
Brit’s new 6.0 routine. Fall on dismount. (She competed only double layout in the Final.)
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The top difficulty routines so far in 2017 are 6.2.
Narrator (Dmitry Zanin) says that Komova hasn’t visited the Round Lake in a year. Now, at 22, she came back to fulfill her dream which she has once been so close to – to win the Olympic gold.
Komova says she’s been invited to the week-long training camp and after this week she’ll be told whether she can stay on the national team. When asked whether she thinks she’s needed on the team, she says yes. …
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Meredith Paulicivic, who spent the last two seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Utah, has been named women’s gymnastics head coach at Ohio State …
Buckeyes
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The 2nd highest Beam score of 2017, so far.
Liu Tingting’s 15.30 is highest.
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