Author: Rick Mc

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

Simone – Nike to Athleta

She explains why on TODAY.

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European champion Viktoria Listunova

  1. Viktoria Listunova RUS 56.731
  2. Angelina Melnikova RUS 55.432
  3. Jessica Gadirova GBR 55.100
  4. Amelie Morgan GBR 53.565
  5. Elisabeth Seitz GER 53.398
  6. Martina Maggio ITA 52.366
  7. Kim Bui GER 52.298
  8. Lieke Wevers NED 52.265

Full results.

Angelina had falls on Bars and Beam.

RUS +1 & Adem Asil to Tokyo

Nikita Nagornyy RUS 87.097
David Belyavskiy RUS 85.398
Aleksandr Kartsev RUS 84.731
Adem Asil TUR 84.032

Nikita and David competed at Worlds 2019 so are ineligible to qualify an additional spot to Tokyo.

Who is Adem Asil of Turkey, you might ask.

An Olympian, we’d answer.

Adem Asil (né: Abdelrahman Elgamal (Arabic: عبد الرحمن الجمل‎); born 21 February 1999) is an Egyptian-born Turkish male artistic gymnast …

… born in Alexandria, Egypt …

In 2017, he moved to Turkey leaving his parents in Egypt. …

Filipa Martins – new Bars skill

Hindorf to mixed grip.

https://twitter.com/UEGymnastics/status/1385188126163931136

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1st triple pike in competition

The Nagornyy.

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Lexy Ramler wins the AAI

Congratulations.

gymnasts on debilitating periods

Aly Raisman wrote about it.

Coach Veronique Sprenger has spent a lot of time in Africa. You might recall her study of acrobats in Kenya.

In a new post she talks about the challenges faced by girls and women in Ethiopia.

In the year that I have lived in Addis Ababa, I have never seen a tampon in a store.

I have talked to many women and most of them have told me that they always and only use pads and that they are scared of using internal products. That is okay, they do not have to use internal products if they don’t want to. But they should be well-informed about them and they should be available.

Moreover, if pads are not comfortable enough to do sports in, they must be offered an alternative that suits the context, such as period panties. …

Twisting Thoughts – Period
https://www.instagram.com/p/CJoEN_ZFTuy/