Author: Rick Mc

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

top WAG scores 2019

1 Simone Biles United States U.S. Classic 60.000
2 Sunisa Lee United States U.S. Worlds Trials 58.200
3 Riley McCusker United States U.S. Classic 57.900
4 Vladislava Urazova (Jr) Russia Russian Cup AA 57.732
5 Grace McCallum United States U.S. Classic 57.700
6 MĂŠlanie De Jesus Dos Santos France French Championships AA 57.150
7 Kara Eaker United States U.S. Worlds Trials 57.100
8 Rebeca Andrade Brazil DTB Team Challenge TF 56.932
9 Tang Xijing China World Championships AA 56.899
10 Leanne Wong United States American Cup 56.765

Best Women’s Scores in 2019

Lilleshall GBR refurbished Gym

In a quiet, remote location, Lilleshall has been the home of the British Gymnastics Association since the 1970s.

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Youth Sport too Expen$ive

In the USA, training at a top children’s sports club is very expensive.

That we know.

Even worse, inexpensive opportunities for children’s sport and fitness through schools and community programs are disappearing. 😕

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Transgender women in the Olympics

Obviously everyone has the right to compete in sport.

IOC must decide on rules. Enforce those rules.

There’s no perfect dividing line. It will take many years of fine tuning to get those rules as fair as possible.

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Tumbl Trak Air Floors for Beam

An ideal place to introduce new skills and combinations.

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first NCAA 10.0 of the season

Denver’s Alexis Vasquez on Beam. She was an Elite with Chow.

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Spencer was at the COLLEGIATE CHALLENGE – SESSION 1 LIVE. LIVE as in in person. Mingling with hoi polloi. Directing them to the bathroom, and what not.

whither Gymnastics in Brazil

Renata Cappeliano translated an article by Demetrio Vecchioli looking at the BIG picture.

At the start of the quad, Brazil looked like they could potentially challenge for a team medal. They competed in the team final at the Rio Olympics. They lost Aleksandr Aleksandrov but gained Valeri Liukin. …

… despite offering first world infrastructure to its best generation ever, it’s not hard to guess what it lacks nowadays: high performance coaches. With only a few working in the country, Brazil suffers to produce enough athletes to feed its national team. …

Only two coaches, out of the six that shaped Brazil’s elite girls, are still in the country: Ukrainian Irina Ilyashenko, who’s been living in Curitiba for 20 years, and Francisco Porath …

“Everyone knew Brazil only had six gymnasts. If two of them got hurt, we’d have nowhere to run. And that’s exactly what happened …”

WHAT LED TO BRAZILIAN WAG NOT QUALIFYING TO TOKYO

Flavia Saraiva, Jan 16th, 2015

FlĂĄvia finished 10th AA at Worlds 2019 and has already qualified to Tokyo as an individual.

Ragan Smith’s first NCAA routine

Ragan gave up on a chance to try to qualify for the Olympics.

She’s going to have a ton of fun with Oklahoma instead.

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