Author: Rick Mc

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

Men’s best scores 2017

As of March 5, 2017. Click through for videos. (Some do not play unless you are in the USA or have a VPN pointed to the USA.)

1. Yul Moldauer USA 86.900 Winter Cup F
2. Akash Modi USA 86.300 Winter Cup Q
3. Oleg Verniaiev
(Олег Верняєв)		 UKR 85.699 American Cup
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FLOOR

1. Shirai Kenzo
(白井健三)		 JPN 15.100 Melbourne Q
2. Eddie Penev USA 15.050 Winter Cup F
3. Yul Moldauer USA 14.850 Winter Cup Q

POMMELS

1. Oleg Verniaiev
(Олег Верняєв)		 UKR 15.550 Reykjavík International Games
2. Alexander Naddour USA 15.300 Winter Cup F
3. Krisztián Berki HUN 14.933 Melbourne EF

RINGS

1. Oleg Verniaiev
(Олег Верняєв)		 UKR 15.550 Reykjavík International Games
2. Yul Moldauer USA 15.100 Winter Cup Q
3. Guanhua Wu CHN 14.866 Melbourne EF
3. Jingyuan Zou CHN 14.866 Melbourne EF

VAULT Finals

1. Kenzo Shirai
(白井健三)		 JPN 14.916 Melbourne EF
2. Christopher Remkes AUS 14.883 Melbourne EF
3. Wataru Tanigawa RUS 14.566 Melbourne EF

P BARS

1. Oleg Verniaiev
(Олег Верняєв)		 UKR 15.600 Reykjavík International Games
2. Jingyuan Zou CHN 15.433 Melbourne Q
3. Nikita Nagornyy*
Никита Нагорный		 RUS 15.066 Russian Nationals EF

H BAR

1. Chris Brooks USA 14.950 Winter Cup Q
2. Bart Deurloo NED 14.533 American Cup
3. Akash Modi USA 14.400 Winter Cup Q

See the rest – Uncle Tim Ranking System

Teams qualified to REGIONALS

Road to Nationals declares these teams mathematically guaranteed a ticket to Regional Championships:

  1. NCAA logo 300Oklahoma
  2. LSU
  3. Florida 
  4. UCLA
  5. Utah
  6. Alabama 
  7. Georgia 
  8. Denver 
  9. Oregon State
  10. Boise State

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LSU 198.150 – 196.600 Florida

In front of the third-largest crowd in school history, No. 2 LSU defeated No. 3 Florida, 198.150-196.600, to capture the Southeastern Conference regular-season title Sunday afternoon at the Maravich Center.

The Tigers, which totaled the third-highest score in school history against the Gators, improved to 12-1 for the season and extended its streak inside the PMAC to 27-0 since 2014. …

NCAA

Palo Alto Brawl

It’s impossible to beat Oklahoma. … That’s what we used to think. 🙂

Ron Noe:

If there has been a better dual meet in the last decade or so, I want to hear about it. …

And it did go all the way to the finish, thanks to Robert Neff, Stanford’s anchorman on high bar.  Neff not only became just the fifth gymnast to hit for 15 on that event this season, but he destroyed the previous NCAA high score.  Neff’s 15.50 enabled Stanford (432.05) to come within .25 of tying the top-ranked Sooners (433.30). …

Their team HB score established a new NCAA standard (73.65), and almost accomplished the practically unthinkable task of knocking off the defending national champs.  Neff and Allan Bower had a battle royale of their own in the AA.  The two newly minted Senior National Team members ended their personal contest with Bower barely on top (86.95-86.40). …

Stick It Media

Katelyn Ohashi 10.0 Beam

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Ashleigh Gnat 10.0 DTY

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Melanie de Jesus dos Santos – Beam

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As always, don’t count on the sporteverywhere judging assessment to be correct.

Hockey player celebrates with sliding headstand

Duncan Cochrane’s last game in junior hockey. Goes out BIG. 🙂

Peninsula Panther caps off junior career in style

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the Andreas Tobas story

The hero in Rio.

“That was amazing,” teammate Fabian Hambüchen said. “It’s an honour to have someone like him on the team.”

German gymnast Andreas Toba’s extraordinary act of sacrifice

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