Author: Rick Mc

Top three AA at the July Training Camp verification:

1. Simone Biles – 2. Madison Kocian – 3. Kyla Ross

1. Bailie Key – 2. Norah Flatley – 3. Jordan Chiles

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Big Swing:

Generally, my rule of thumb is when they can do it UP. And not just do the skill up onto something, but do the skill WELL up onto something. …

… until they can backhandspring onto a panel mat with straight arms and legs, and minimal shoulder angle, I don’t want it going on the beam. …

Click PLAY or watch Doc Ali’s drill on YouTube.

Rewriting Russian Gymnastics:

… Nelli is highly respected in her home country, and there is a Nelli Kim Academy of Gymnastics in her town of Chimkent (Kazakhstan). sports.kz has also just released a new video documentary on the great champion …

Our Nelli Kim : a new documentary

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Nelli is not going to be remembered as one of the great FIG WT Chairs. I certainly hope she does not run unopposed again next cycle.

She was a fantastic athlete, however, better than Nadia in many ways. Nadia’s strongest competitor.

Nelli Kim competed once competed in my home town. I still recall how fantastic she was to watch LIVE. And how surprised I was to see her wearing a drab brown leotard. 🙂

The British / Canadian coach is now Down Under.

Gymnastics Australia posted a number of IDP clinic videos, including this one.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Here’s a sequence you are unlikely to ever see again. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via GymCastic)

We do not have any official tracking system. Only the NCAA keeps good records.

But Arabian Punch Front has an unofficial partial list of prominent WAG gymnasts from around the world.

It’s been updated to include:

Laurie Hernandez USA Jr – Torn patella tendon & dislocated kneecap + surgery (Jun)

Vanasia Bradley USA Jr – Torn ACL & meniscus, broken patella (Jun)

Gymnastics Injuries June 2014

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Both those injuries sound similar to what happened to Christine Peng Peng Lee, keeping her out of the 2012 Olympics.

I’m particularly impressed how he STICKS the dismount.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Thank George Thomas for the link.

Listen to the audio interview. 🙂

Australian Olympian, Olivia Vivian, perhaps the biggest ham in all of elite gymnastics, is with us this week!

She helped Australia to a sixth place finish, its best Olympic finish in history in Beijing. Despite a back fracture, a mangled hand and being normal height of 5? 6?, she’s made a successful comeback to elite at the age of 24, almost 10 years since she first completed at the 2005 world championships. We can’t wait to watch the Oregon Beaver compete at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow later this month. …

GymCastics episode 101: Olivia Vivian

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