Author: Rick Mc

Our Olympic champion absolutely drilled her first three apparatus … then had a shocking fall on standing 1/1 on Beam. But it was enough to get through to the all-around final at Worlds #Glasgow2015 with Simone. Congratulations.

Terri Laymon – Superb Day 1 For The Ladies From USA

Will Graves calls it a “first-world gymnastics problem”:

“… only two gymnasts per country can advance. It’s designed to spread the wealth and prevent a medal stand sweep. … “

I like the rule which was put in place by FIG.

The mission of the International Olympic Committee is to promote Olympic values in all member nations. Values like ethics, fair play, coach education, non-violence, peace amongst nations, equality of women, anti-doping, safety and the development of sport for all. Sport for all in all member nations.

Determining the BEST athletes is a means to achieve those mandates. Not the only goal.

If you don’t like the Olympic Charter, don’t watch the Olympics. Don’t watch Worlds. Watch the American, Russian and Chinese championships instead. Simple. That way you can see most of the best gymnasts of the world compete AA.

Personally, I love one chance a year to see gymnasts representing smaller nations.

related – Gymternet – More of Our Favorite Small Program Heroes

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Now that all the light bulbs have been replaced (they were exploding), this is the only thing to worry about. 🙂

Our defending World Champion shows the best Amanar so far. Simone coming up soon, however. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Everyone in the Press box super impressed with Team Belgium.

Clean, smart routines. Well prepared to hit routines.

Sitting 8th as a team (so far), ahead of Germany they’ll certainly advance to the Test Competition in Rio.

Belgium finished 13th just missing London. I’m predicting they’ll qualify a full team for Rio. That would be their first team Olympic appearance.

Follow them via @belgiangym

If you missed the 1st day of World Championships preliminaries. Gymternet posted the best summary.

GB women on course for Rio qualification

#Glasgow2015

See the list being considered here.

Looks like Katarzyna opted NOT to compete the Gainer double twist off Beam in competition. If she had, we’d need to learn to pronounce her last name – JURKOWSKA-KOWALSKA.

Click PLAY or watch Katarzyna’s Beam dismount on YouTube.

Her warm-up was surprisingly good. But here’s what happened in the competition. #Glasgow2015

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Neither Abreu Yamilet Pena nor Oksana Chusovitina will qualify for the Vault final. A good thing. Less incentive to CHUCK that dangerous skill.

… It is estimated that at least 20,000 hotel bed-nights have been booked across the city.

A record 594 gymnasts from 87 countries are set to compete …

Ticket sales have now passed the 51,000 mark with the women’s individual all-around final on Thursday evening sold out.

This figure eclipses the 37,000 sold for the artistic gymnastics competition at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

The 2009 World Gymnastics Championships at the O2 in London sold 39,000. …

The 2015 World Gymnastics Championships will be broadcast in 67 countries worldwide. …

Glasgow gears up for record-breaking World Gymnastics Championships worth £5m to Scottish economy