Author: Rick Mc

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

top sprinter started as a gymnast

Noah Lyles is the 2019 World Champion in 200m and 4×100m relay.

He switched to Track at age-12 because Gymnastics was getting so expensive. Yet Noah still loves Gymnastics and cheers Gator College Basketball.

fun interview with Nikita Nagornyy

Q: And how did you manage to win gold, the first one in the history of Russian men’s team?

A: All the guys were just ready to win. All were thinking about the first place. There was no uncertainty. …

Q: The Tokyo Olympics are in less than a year. But Russia might be banned from the Games. Are you following the news?

A: I actually had no idea about it. I’ve only learned about it all 10 minutes before I came here. What can I say? I went through this once already – before Rio, when we were flying to Brazil not knowing whether we would compete. …

Q: I saw you doing a parachute jump. Was that your childhood dream?

A: Rather my wife’s dream. I don’t think I’d dare to do it without her. But I proposed to her this way. …

NAGORNYY: WE CAME TO STUTTGART HUNGRY

2017

Pommels – pendular swing conditioning

Active flexibility.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

FIG Ambassador Fabian Hambüchen

At Worlds Stuttgart, Fabian was everywhere.

He’s still training. For fun. Not competition.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Daiki Hashimoto wins All Japan

18-years-old!

Super AA final:

1. Daiki Hashimoto 86.031
2. Kazuma Kaya 85.664
3. Kazuyuki Takeda 85.364

There was a weird 0.5 deduction from the AA if you didn’t have a high enough difficulty total.

For example, Shogo Nonomura scored 85.699 but the difficulty penalty knocked his score down to 85.199 and 4th.

Click PLAY or watch Daiki on YouTube.

Top scores on each apparatus:

FX Carlos Yulo 15.2
PH Yanato Kanayama (?) 14.933
SR Yuya Kamoto 14.966
VT Daiki Hashimoto 14.933
PB Yuya Kamoto (?) 14.933
HB Yuya Kamoto (?) 14.566

MAGnastics was covering it on Twitter.