Author: Rick Mc

Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.

Netherlands rocks

I believe these ladies had only 1 fall over 20 difficult routines. Respect.

after 5/12 divisions:
RUS, NED, BEL, CAN, MEX, ESP

They want to be Olympians. 🙂

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Jake Dalton

Say no more.

RI Se Gwang – Vault

One of the favourites to medal on Vault in the Men’s competition is injured. Pain forced him to walk off Floor in the middle of the routine. 😦

But by the time he limped to Vault he’d recovered enough to (somehow) land piked Dragalescu. And his eponymous Vault to qualify to the Final.

Click PLAY or watch Vault #2 on YouTube.

Vault 1 : 15.400
Vault 2 : 15.100

Worlds Quick Links

#FIGWorlds2014ART Worlds home page | USA | schedule | FAQs | Start List and Results

LIVE scoring | WAG running prelim rankings | LIVE blog on IG Facebook | WAG videos via Gymternet

Ellie Black – Beam

#FIGWorlds2014ART

After 3 of 12 groups have competed prelims, Ellie still leads the Beam ranking.

6.5 D-score. 14.466.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

CHN, USA and ROM yet to come.

Aliya MUSTAFINA – Bars

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As expected, Aliya looked far better in competition than in training. Missed some connections on Beam but still hit for 58.874 AA in prelims.

Click PLAY or watch her easy Bar routine on YouTube.

15.166 (Difficulty : 6.300, Execution : 8.866).

No doubt she’ll upgrade for the final to try to medal.

Denis ABLIAZIN v Kenzo SHIRAI

#FIGWorlds2014ART

Here’s the man with a high enough difficulty score 7.1 to (almost) challenge the World Champion Kenzo in the Final.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Kenzo 7.4 on YouTube.

FIG videos like these should play anywhere in the World outside China. The USAG videos play only if you have an American IP address.

Canada gives me a heart attack

What’s a bad draw at #FIGWorlds2014ART?

1st/12 Worlds subdivisions – Beam.

Yep. That was Canada.

Then the beautiful Aleeza Wu was injured on double pike dismount. Kelly Manjak told us that Aleeza hyperextended her knee. She had a minor hyperextension last week. 😦

The rest of the team had to step up. And did.

Despite losing Aleeza, they rank 3rd so far and will easily qualify as one of the top 24 teams to Worlds 2015.

1 Russia 228.135
2 Belgium 214.469
3 Canada 214.102
4 Egypt 184.928

1st triple twisting Yurcheko

Hong Un-jong submitted it to FIG as a NEW skill. As she did last year.

But we’ve not seen her warm it up (so far) in Nanning.

Click PLAY or watch her Amanar on YouTube.

via GymFever2012