Author: Rick Mc

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Hu Xuedan:

Chinese gymnast Sang Lan recently got engaged to her agent Huang Jian. Reports say the two will get married by the end of this year.

“I’m not 20 anymore. What I need is a simple [kind of] happiness,”Sang explained.

Sang Lan was paralyzed after a fateful fall at the 1998 Goodwill Games in New York. A wheelchair has become an indispensable part of her life ever since. Sang was pushed to the point of public scrutiny several times after the accident, especially when she filed a lawsuit in the U.S. …

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Thanks Brigid.

Rien’s fan edit.

… only 3 gymnasts per event!

The Chinese team is Yao Jinnan, Shang Chunsong, Huang Huidan, and Zeng Siqi.

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1967 NCAA Championships, SIU

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Jim Royce:

He held a cross with an old school steel school desk between his legs —— He also did a half in half out off rings to the splits on purpose

That was posted by David Niemand on the Facebook NCAA MEN’S GYMNASTICS ALUMNI page.

We’re all capable of a little more — a little faster, a little higher, a little stronger, a little more. And when we look at all of the little things we’ve done, we’ll see the big things we’re doing.

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(via Mashable)

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Wait for the buffalo.

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Thanks Wendy.

Merci. Merci.

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If you put all the best gymnasts in the world in one gym and asked them to name the guy with the most difficult tumbling, the majority would point at Steven Legendre.

The knock on Steve is that he cannot stick landings like an Uchimra … and others who rely mostly on twisting to get a high start value.

Day 1 Championships were the best landings I can recall.

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Watch his day 2 routine. (VIDEO)

Uncle Tim thinks that’s the second highest score on FX in 2013.

Leave a YouTube link if you know of a routine where Steve took fewer landing deductions.

Jr USA Champion.

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Note that she’s wearing one Velcro grip and one Buckle grip.

Months ago one of her Buckle grips started to rip. She found an old Velcro grip in the club lost-and-found … and has been using it ever since. 🙂

Watch a post-competition interview on Gymnastike.

related – TCG Junior Watch: Amelia Hundley

Sara Dorrien:

With the conclusion of the Russian Cup, Team Russia is confirming that three of the four places on this year’s World Team have been filled, with the fourth to be determined much later.

Two of them — Ksenia Afanasyev and Aliya Mustafina — were already known, but the third member — Tatiana Nabieva — earned her spot after dominating the competition this week in Penza. The return of the two-time World Team member (2010 and 2011) to a Russian “A-Team” has been anxiously anticipated by fans for a while now.

Of equal significance is the news that Viktoria Komova’s presence in Antwerp is highly questionable. …

Couch Gymnast – Russian World Team Update