Author: Rick Mc

… double mini at the Elite Challenge 2015 in the Olympic Training center. To my knowledge this is the first quad ever competed by an american.

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(via Justice Frangipane)

Did you know that OU Men’s Gymnastics actually won TWO national team titles this season? Watch this video to learn more about OU Gym’s best kept secret …

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At the 5 Star Riu Hotel, Guanacaste Costa Rica. On the beach. 🙂

May 21 – 23, 2015

Tom Koll is the meet director.

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Beam
1. Shang CHN 15.400
2. Saraiva BRA 15.100
3. Scheder GER 14.000

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WAG Floor
1. Saraiva BRA 13.625
2. Seitz GER 13.400
3. Griesser GER 13.325

MAG Floor
1. Sepulveda CHI 15.625
2. Hypolito BRA 15.550
3. Fahrig GER 15.475

Pommel
1. Xiao CHN 15.075
2. Zhang CHN 14.900
3. Toba GER 14.400

Rings
1. Zanetti BRA 15.900
2. Medina Flores BRA 15.100
3. Molinari ARG 15.000

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Full Twist has a summary with links to some routines.

Ana Livia:

… Shang Chungsong redeemed herself from yesterday’s fall and hit her full routine. She achieved a 6.7 difficulty level –we know she is capable of a 6.9- and got away with a rather scary double with a twist dismount. …

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Bars
1. Chunsong CHN 15.025
2. Scheder GER 14.875
3. Seitz GER 14.700

See more routines on Couch Gymnast – Sao Paulo Word Cup: Vault and Bars

Swimming and gymnastics are the biggest winners and modern pentathlon the biggest loser in the new revenue distribution framework finalised by members of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) here this week.

The International Swimming Federation (FINA) and the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) are each set to receive a 28 per cent increase over the next Olympic quadrennium in comparison with the post-London 2012 period. …

Inside the Games

I know IOC is very happy with how FIG is working to develop the sport around the world. They partially funded our recent FIG Age Group Camp in El Salvador, for example.

Zarkana by Cirque du Soleil in Vegas.

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After all these years, Boris Verkhovsky is still energized. He’s Director of Acrobatic Performance and Coaching at Cirque. And Boris is very much a biomechanist coach. He loves to push the limits of the laws of physics. 🙂

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Tony Retrosi:

Coaching gymnastics is basically just listening to yourself talk because nobody else is. …

Coaching gymnastics is juggling chainsaws and wondering why it’s so loud and why your shoulders are so sore. …

What it’s like to Coach and Own a Gymnastics Club 🙂

Tokyo will hosts the 2020 Olympic Games. Watanabe is investigating the current status of gymnastics on the African continent, with the aim of offering support and assistance to upskill the high performance programme on the continent. …

Japanese gymnastics is particularly strong in Men’s Artistic and Trampoline disciplines. The partnership between SAGF and JGA will entail two Men’s Artistic Gymnasts, two Trampoline Gymnasts and two coaches being invited to train in Japan twice a year until 2020 at JGA’s expense.

JGA will also send Japanese Men’s Artistic and Trampoline coaches to South Africa two or three times a year until 2020 to help create a development plan to improve the standard of South African high performance gymnasts. …

SA Gymnastics Set to Get Japanese Support

Mr. Watanabe is visiting other nations. He was recently in Costa Rica, for example.