RUS Gymnastics invited to Asian Games

This event does not qualify anyone to the Paris Olympics.

Russia’s gymnastics and wrestling federations said on Tuesday they had been invited to take part in this year’s Asian Games …

Organisers of the Asian Games — scheduled to take place in Hangzhou, China, from Sep. 23 to Oct. 8 — did not immediately respond to a request for comment. …

reuters

I doubt any of the Asian nations will boycott in protest, but hope they do.

Denelle Pedrick interview

It’s been a long, strange journey for Denelle Pedrick from age-14 little-bit-of-a-train-wreck to Worlds medalist for Canada, qualifying the team to the Paris Olympics.

Listen to part 1 of the interview on Nicole Langevin’s podcast – What Makes DENELLE PEDRICK Think…” pt. 1

Click PLAY or watch a few highlights on YouTube.

She details how she learned the Pedrick by accident when Ellie and her coach were at the Tokyo Olympics. It started by working the Hecht back tuck dismount.

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Sam Oldham on coach Sergey Sizhanov

Sergey coached Olympic medalist Sam Oldham for 15 years. They are now friends for life.

This from The Sam Oldham Podcast.

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LSU – NCAA Champs @ social media

These LSU videos are best in College Gymnastics right now.

Alabama season high 198

H Bars do break – metal fatigue

I still recall the day in the 1990s when my boss Keith Russell insisted we recycle the horizontal bar at University of Saskatchewan. Pay for a new one.

He felt they had to be replaced every 10 years in a Gym with many adult male gymnasts.

impossible Judging scores

Yurchenko 1/1 is out of 9.5 in NCAA.

When a judge deems that vault has no deductions — with this landing — that judge should be reprimanded and lose future assignments.

Lara Mori retired

Tokyo Olympian Lara Mori, age-24, was the 2018 Mediterranean Games champion in the all-around.