Author: Rick Mc

Pretty. 🙂

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15.150 (5.9, 9.250)

Beautiful Gymnastics felt that E-score was too high. But I’m happy to see such fluid movement rewarded.

Sara Dorrien was at Burtasy Sports Palace in Moscow Penza on Monday for the first session of podium training.

Read her report on Couch Gymnast.

… ready to rumble at 2015 Toronto Pan Am Games

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Less than a year away from the 2015 Toronto Pan Am Games, Canada’s trampoline team led by world and Olympic champion Rosie MacLennan is flying high with no intention of touching down anytime soon.

On the final day of the Pan American Gymnastics Championships on Monday the Canadian team soared to gold and silver in both men’s and women’s individual trampoline and picked up another gold in the women’s synchro event for good measure. …

MacLennan … the women’s title with a score of 53.945 points.

Teammate Samantha Sendel, who edged veteran Karen Cockburn for Canada’s second spot in the final, won the silver medal with 51.680.

Camilla Gomes of Brazil of took the bronze with a score of 51.335….

In the men’s final, 2008 Olympic silver medallist Jason Burnett of Toronto won gold with 58.660 points and Keegan Soehn of Red Deer, Alta., took the silver with 57.390.

Logan Dooley of the United States, earned the bronze …

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Team gold at the PanAm Championships last night @hersheycentre ! @Karen_Cockburn @SamSendel pic.twitter.com/DVQR8nSQ2t

— Rosie MacLennan (@RosieMacLennan) August 25, 2014

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Andy Thornton’s projected Women’s Worlds Team:

Simone Biles
Kyla Ross
Alyssa Baumann
MyKayla Skinner
Madison Kocian
Ashton Locklear

Alternates:
Maggie Nichols
Brenna Dowell

Here would be a possible team finals lineup with this team:

Vault
Baumman or Ross
Skinner
Biles

Bars
Kocian
Ross
Locklear

Beam
Baumann
Biles
Ross

Floor
Baumann or Ross
Skinner
Biles

I know I may get some backlash for not putting Maggie Nichols on this team, so I wanted to explain why. I’ll say first that in a fair world, she WOULD be on this team. I think she totally earned it. She has hit every single routine at both the Secret U.S. Classic and the P&G Championships, placed 3rd in the all-around at both competitions, and has improved her all-around totals with each one (57.6, 58.65, 59.25). She is a rock solid competitor, could be put up on any of the four events, and would likely hit under pressure. But her greatest strength is as a very solid all-arounder. …

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Andy is very astute. But Marta loves consistency. I could see her finding a way to put Maggie on the competition Floor if anyone is slightly injured or inconsistent in training. 🙂

The only team that can defeat USA in Team … is USA.

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We’d best pencil in the name Wang Yan on to our DRAFT Chinese Olympic Team to Rio. A vaulter/tumbler who can still do good Beam. 🙂

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Beam
GOLD: WANG Yan (CHN) – 14.633
SILVER: SARAIVA Flavia (BRA) – 14.000
BRONZE: DOWNIE Elissa (GBR) – 13.500

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17-18 Division
1. Kiwan Watts, N. Chesterfield, Va., 166.200
2. Yul Moldauer, Arvada, Colo., 165.650
3. Robert Neff, Brookfield, Wis., 163.850
4. Ryan Sheppard, Murphy, Texas, 163.500
5. Dmitri Belanovski, West Allis, Wis., 162.950
6. Jacob Barrus, Dallas, Texas, 160.000

Kiwan Watts and Yul Moldauer had a knock down, drag out battle in the Junior 17-18 division. …

15-16 Division
1. Tristan Burke, Royse City, Texas, 164.550
2. Grant Breckenridge, Libertyville, Ill., 163.300
3. David Jessen, Sunrise, Fla., 161.300
4. Jordan King, The Woodlands, Texas, 160.700
5. Fabian DeLuna, Las Vegas, Nev., 160.250
6. Yaroslav Pochinka, Plano, Texas, 160.150

The top ten 15-16 all-around gymnasts were named to the Junior National Team. Though they competed in the Senior Division, Marty Strech, Alex Diab and Anthony McCallum are among those ten. Alec Yoder, who competed this past week at the Youth Olympic Games was also given a spot on the team. The top three 17-18 all-arounders also earned spots on the Junior National Team. Bobby Baker and Hunter Justus, though competing in the Senior Division finals, were named to the team along with Kiwan Watts.

Stick it Media – Mikulak Repeats as U.S. Men’s Gymnastics Champion

NEVER. 🙂

… Youth Olympic Games Artistic Gymnastics competitions concluded at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium on Sunday.

MAG Vault
GOLD: REGINI-MORAN Giarnni (GBR) – 14.695
SILVER: MA Yue (CHN) – 14.416
BRONZE: NAGORNYY Nikita (RUS) – 14.383

Beam
GOLD: WANG Yan (CHN) – 14.633
SILVER: SARAIVA Flavia (BRA) – 14.000
BRONZE: DOWNIE Elissa (GBR) – 13.500

P Bars
GOLD: NAGORNYY Nikita (RUS) – 14.033
SILVER: KARDOS Botond (HUN) – 14.016
BRONZE: REGINI-MORAN Giarnni (GBR) – 14.000

Floor
GOLD: SARAIVA Flavia (BRA) – 13.766
SILVER: TUTKHALYAN Seda (RUS) – 13.733
BRONZE: DOWNIE Elissa (GBR) – 13.466

H Bar
GOLD: YUASA Kenya (JPN) – 13.700
SILVER: VAN DEN KEYBUS Luka (BEL) – 13.666
BRONZE: REGINI-MORAN Giarnni (GBR) – 13.633

Overall, Russians Seda Tutkhalyan and Nikita Nagornyy became the most successful Women’s and Men’s Artistic gymnasts respectively at Nanjing 2014. YOG All-around champion Tutkhalyan collected a total of two gold and one silver medal and Nagornyy won three gold, one silver and one bronze.

“In fact, I was not very confident,” said Nagornyy. “My job was to do my thing, do it well, then I would be in the top three. I didn’t think I would be first.”

Great Britain’s gymnasts on all podiums on last day of YOG event finals

Rewriting Russian Gymnastics – Congratulations Russia!

Nagorny and Tutkhalyan win multiple golds in Youth Olympics

I’m even more convinced there is a place for a Youth Olympic Games in Artistic Gymnastics. I’ve heard no negative comments from the participants this time around. The only downer is that USA will not send a WAG competitor. It would have been more entertaining with an American on the Floor.

HUGE comeback. Sam is repeat National Champion. Very confident heading towards Worlds.

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1. Sam Mikulak, Ann Arbor, Mich., 180.650
2. John Orozco, Colorado Springs, Colo., 180.200
3. Jacob Dalton, Norman, Okla., 179.850
4. Donnell Whittenburg, Colorado Springs, Colo., 178.100
5. Danell Leyva, Homestead, Fla., 177.500
6. Alex Naddour, Queen Creek, Ariz., 176.350
7. Paul Ruggeri III, Colorado Springs, Colo., 175.750
8. Jonathan Horton, Cypress, Texas, 175.250
9. Brandon Wynn, Colorado Springs, Colo., 174.050
10. CJ Maestas, Champaign, Ill., 173.200
11. Sean Melton, Columbus, Ohio, 172.350
12. Akash Modi, Stanford, Calif., 171.600
13. Allan Bower, Norman, Okla., 170.850
14. Marvin Kimble, Milwaukee, Wis., 170.550
14. Jake Martin, Columbus, Ohio, 170.550

Allan Bower is getting close. I’m looking forward to seeing him compete for USA.

USAG – Comeback King: Mikulak Claims 2nd U.S. Men’s Title:

Individual event national titles went to Dalton (floor exercise); Mikulak (pommel horse); Brandon Wynn (still rings); Donnell Whittenburg (vault); Leyva (parallel bars); and Orozco (high bar).