Rick Mc

Melbourne World Cup day 2

Preliminaries.

Beam
1. Tingting LIU CHN 14.666
2. Huan LUO CHN 14.366
3. Sanne Wevers NED 13.866

Click PLAY or watch Tingting’s Beam on YouTube.

Floor
1. Yan WANG CHN 13.433
2. Tingting LIU CHN 13.400
3. Emily LITTLE AUS 12.633

Vault
1. Kenzo SHIRAI JPN 14.549
2. Ahmed ONDER TUR 14.299
3. Wataru TANIGAWA JPN 14.249

P Bars
1. Jingyuan ZOU CHN 15.433
2. Ferhat ARICAN 14.833
3. Kenzo SHIRAI 14.200

H Bar
1. Yusuke SAITO JPN 14.366
2. Devy DYSON NZL 13.333
3. Ahmet ONDER TUR 12.900

Kenzo’s new Vault

His first is Yurchenko triple twist. Ho hum. 🙂

The second is a Yurchenko with 3/4 twist in the preflight (like Scherbo).

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via papa-liukin)

Simone to Dancing with the Stars

With less than one month until the Season 24 premiere of “Dancing With the Stars,” ABC is setting the new cast of celebrity contestants. …

Variety

🖤 pic.twitter.com/nTYCz3C4Sh

— Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) February 22, 2017

Penn State coach Jeff Thompson is out

Assistant coaches Kera Molinaro and Josh Nilson will serve as interim co-head coaches for the remainder of the season. A national search for a new head coach will begin immediately

Consistent with University policy, this is a personnel matter and Intercollegiate Athletics will not have any further comment.

Go PSU Sports

Terrible timing for the gymnasts. Mid-season?

via Gymternet Clan

best routine NCAA Week 7

Balance Beam Situation:

Congratulations to our week 6 champion, Peng Peng Lee’s bars, which won by a billion votes to zero. It was a close-run thing for the remaining spots …

BEST ROUTINE OF WEEK 7 POLL

Click through to watch and vote for your favourite routine of last weekend:

1. Kyla Ross, Bars
2. Joslyn Goings, Beam
3. Maddie Karr, Vault
4. Sarah Finnegan, Beam
5. Elizabeth Price, Bars
6. MyKayla Skinner, Floor
7. Kyla Ross, Beam
8. Kennedi Edney, Vault
9. Nickie Guerrero, Beam
10. Emma McLean, Vault

Tough decision. But I voted for Joslyn Goings. Love the Gainer layout.

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If you’ve not been following this contest, here are the BBS winners so far.

ROUTINE OF THE WEEK	1st	2nd	3rd
Week 1	Skinner, FX	Edney, VT	Nichols, UB
Week 2	Ward, VT	PP Lee, BB	Hambrick, FX
Week 3	Artz, FX	Childers, BB	Skinner, VT
Week 4	Ross, UB	McMurtry, VT	PP Lee, UB
Week 5	Gardiner, BB	Ward, VT	Winston, FX
Week 6	PP Lee, UB	Slocum, VT	Jackson, FX

Oksana training stoop shoot

Click PLAY or watch it on Tumblr.

https://papa-liukin.tumblr.com/post/157581160740/chuso-seems-to-be-getting-the-hang-of-this-again

Nike Middle East – women in sport

Nike has long enjoyed a mostly positive profile when it comes to its position on inclusion and being generally progressive.

Yes, the company is trying to sell shoes, but staking out positions on touchy subjects is noteworthy, and not without risks. …

Nike uses Twitter to promote women’s sports in the Middle East

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/NikeMiddleEast/status/832802373676331008

There are many in the Middle East quietly advocating sport and fitness for girls and women.