Author: Rick Mc

2015 Texas Prime

I wasn’t sure we’d ever see Katelyn back competing. The College coaches recruiting lists suddenly get a name added near the top. 🙂

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See all of Katelyn’s routines on GymCastic. Thank Christy Linder Photography for those.

Things are looking up for the Olympic hosts. Nobody can complain about this facility. 🙂

Jade Barbosa interviewed. (Portuguese)

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related – De olho em 2016, centro de treinamento de ginástica é inaugurado no Rio de Janeiro (VIDEO)

Obrigado Bernardo.

A Brazilian athlete paralyzed while training for the aerial ski competition at last year’s Winter Olympics will get a lifetime pension.

Brazil President Dilma Rousseff approved a special law that provides funds to Lais de Souza, a 26-year-old former gymnast who hit a tree during a training run in January 2014.

The accident happened days before she would have been named as a qualifier for the Sochi Olympics. De Souza, who represented Brazil in gymnastics at the Athens and Beijing summer games, is confined to a wheelchair, unable to move her arms or legs. …

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via FIG WEEKLY PRESS CLIPPINGS)

How many other nations do this for their catastrophically injured Olympic heroes?

International Gymnastics Camp late 1970s.

Abie Grossfeld, Fred Orlofsky, Jerry George, Don Tonry, Fred Roethlisberger, Bruno Klaus.

Peng-Peng is back. The gymternet is happy. 🙂

Before the London Olympics she competed a crazy Beam routine. It included this element done from a full speed running the length of the Beam.

That’s from Pushy Queen’s GIF Skill Guide.

She typically landed like this. Heels OVER the end of the Beam. I was terrified to watch.

In the gym Christine was training harder routines than in competition. One of the upgrades was this Grigoras … to connected back tuck. GAINERING that back tuck to stay on the Beam. I was triple terrified to watch. And thrilled.

What a shame she didn’t get to compete the London Olympics. 😦

related – Bruin Banter 2015 – Episode 1: Christine Peng-Peng Lee. Interviewed by Sam Peszek. (VIDEO)

The Swing Big WAG coaching site has a new look.

Check it out.

swingbig.org

Here’s a sample post from their Facebook page.

The Air & Style is a European snowboard contest first held in Innsbruck, Austria in 1994 and now held annually.

The 2014-15 events:

Beijing Dec 5-6
Innsbruk Jan 16-17
Los Angeles Feb 21-22

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http://player.espn.com/player.js?pcode=1kNG061cgaoolOncv54OAO1ceO-I&width=576&height=324&externalId=espn:12172215

air-style.com/en/

The best field I can ever recall. IF they all attend.

Sadly, no Larisa Iordache. 😦

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official announcement – USA’s Mikulak, Skinner, Whittenburg Will Compete At 2015 AT&T American Cup

Here are the other men:

Brazil: Arthur Oyakawa Mariano
Colombia: Jossimar Calvo
Germany: Fabian Hambuechen
Great Britain: Daniel Purvis
Japan: Ryohei Kato
Japan: Yusuke Tanaka
Ukraine: Oleg Verniaiev

No Kohei Uchimura.

FIG Official — 2014 Artistic Worlds, Nanning (CHN), October 3 – 12, 2014

Women’s All-Around Final

00:00:45 Start list
00:01:24 Simone BILES (USA) Vault 15.866
00:01:51 Kayla ROSS (USA) Uneven Bars 14.700
00:02:48 Aliya MUSTAFINA (RUS) Vault 15.100
00:03:21 Larisa IORDACHE (ROU) Vault 15.066
00:03:49 YAO Jinnan (CHN) Uneven Bars 15.533
00:04:49 Vanessa FERRARI (ITA) Vault 14.966
00:05:13 Giulia STEINGRUBER (SUI) Floor 13.633
00:07:03 Elsabeth BLACK (CAN) Vault 13.900
00:07:39 ranking after 2 apparatus
00:07:50 Simone BILES (USA) Beam 14.766
00:09:30 Larisa IORDACHE (ROU) Beam 15.100
00:11:12 Aliya MUSTAFINA (RUS) Beam 14.341
00:13:04 ranking after 3 apparatus
00:13:16 Vanessa FERRARI (ITA) Floor 14.700
00:15:11 Kayla ROSS (USA) Floor 13.933
00:16:57 YAO Jinnan (CHN) Floor 12.833
00:19:15 Larisa IORDACHE (ROU) Floor 14.733
00:21:16 Aliya MUSTAFINA (RUS) Floor 13.433
00:23:12 Simone BILES (USA) Floor 15.066
00:25:39 Final ranking
00:26:17 Podium

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