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Ryohei Kato TV news spot

Kato was injured last year – where else? 😦 – on competition Vault landing mats. He’s pleased the ankle has recovered sufficiently to compete the AA.

… focusing on Ryohei Kato’s performance at the American Cup last month, and his preparation for the All Japan Championships this weekend (4/1-3). In Japanese and English.

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If you wear headphones one earpiece is in English, the other Japanese.

Click PLAY or watch it on Daily Motion.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x40h3ri_20160328ryohei-kato-news-bilingual_sport

how parents can keep Gymnastics FUN

1. Focus on improving skills and not on the result of the competition.

4. Remind your child how far she has come since she began the sport.

9. Don’t compare your child to teammates.

12. Build on the sports experience to create happy childhood memories.

Click through to <a href="https://annejosephson.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/12-ways-to-keep-gymnastics-fun-for-your-child/ ” target=”_blank”>Jag Gym Blog to read the rest.

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Zarkana closing

Last chance to see Zarkana in Vegas.

… MGM Resorts has announced Zarkana will wrap on April 30, and a new show won’t be taking its place. Instead, Aria’s award-winning, LEED Gold-certified convention center will be expanded in a big way …

Weekly

Click PLAY or watch a trailer on YouTube.

Flyboard world champion Gemma Weston

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

Men’s African Championships FINALS

FLOOR
1. Mohamed Bourguieg (Algeria) 14.350 pts
2. Wissem Harzi (Tunisia) 14.300 pts
3. Mohamed Aouicha (Algeria) 14.100 pts

POMMELS
1. Mohamed Aouicha (Algeria) 14.750 pts
2. Hillel Metidji (Algeria) 14.250 pts
3. Wissem Harzi (Tunisia) 14.150 pts

RINGS
1. Ali Zahran Ramadan (Egypt) 15.150 pts
2. Tarek Shalaby (Egypt) 14.150 pts
3. Mohamed Bourguieg (Algeria) 13.750 pts
results

Click PLAY or watch Ali Zahran Ramadan on Facebook. Best Victorian position I’ve ever seen.

VAULT
1. Mohamed Bourguieg (Algeria) 14.725 pts
2. Hamza Hossaini (Morocco) 14.425 pts
3. Mohamed Moubarek (Algeria) 13.850 pts

P BARS
1. Mohamed Bourguieg (Algeria) 14.250 pts
2. Hillel Metidji (Algeria) 14.200 pts
3. Harzi Wissem (Tunisia) 13.900 pts

Click PLAY or watch Metidji on Facebook.

H BAR
1. Mohamed Raghib (Algeria) 13.950 pts
2. Ahmed Almaraghy (Algeria) 13.450 pts
3. Mohamed Bourguieg (Algeria) 12.950 pts.
results

Women’s African Championships FINALS

UPDATED with all apparatus. Though the host Algerian Gymnastics Federation has still not posted results, I found them on the Algerian Press Service.

VAULT
1. Kirsten Beckett (South Africa) 13.549 pts
2. Claudia Cummins (South Africa) 13.066 pts
3. Mai El Sayed (Egypt) 12.966 pts

BARS
1. Armia Zakaria Rahaf (Egypt) 13.133 pts
2. Claudia Cummins (South Africa) 12.866 pts
3. Kirsten Beckett (South Africa) 12.500 pts
results

BEAM
1. Nada Mohamed (Egypt) 13.133 pts
2. Lukisha Schalk (South Africa) 12.500 pts
3. Claudia Cummins (South Africa) 12.000 pts

FLOOR
1. Mandy Mohamed (Egypt) 13.600 pts
2. Kirsten Beckett (South Africa) 13.233 pts
3. Claudia Cummins (South Africa) 13.166 pts
results

Click PLAY or watch some video on Facebook.

There’s additional video (MAG & WAG) on this YouTube channel.

(via Cordelia)

Gym Momentum Training Camp

July 14-17 2016, Boston.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

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NBC TV – U.S. Olympic trials

Nick Zacardi:

NBC will air its most hours of Olympic trials coverage ever — 76 in total, including more than 60 in primetime — continuing next week in advance of the Rio Games in August.

It tops the 67.5 hours of coverage in 2012 ahead of the London Olympics. …

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