Author: Rick Mc

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

USAG Camp chaperones

Lauren Stevens (Chalk Warrior) attended the recent U.S. Gymnastics Developmental Camp.

She was impressed with the mandatory Camp chaperones.

Read Lauren’s full report – Developmental Camp culture shows promise for the future of USA Gymnastics

Emilie Hong 10.0 vault

At Canadian Nationals.

Emily trains at Langley in Vancouver.

It reminds me of Kelly Johnston’s vault from last Nationals in Elite where Kelly scored higher than 3 Olympic Vault finalists.

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Alicia Wendland CDN Novice Champion

Alicia trains at Paramont Elite Gymnastics in Van Nuys, CA.

She has Canadian citizenship.

Alicia won Elite Canada 2019, as well.

Lauren Hopkins – Live Blog | Novice Women Day 2

CDN Champ 2019 Sam Zakutney

Results.

Jackson Payne, who tried to compete but eventually withdrew due to a shoulder injury not quite healed enough, is the other very strong AAer in consideration for the Worlds team.

Canada should DEFINITELY consider Jr Champ Félix Dolci who scored 82.250 in Junior counting only 8 skills rather than 10.

Full results.

U.S. Men’s PanAm team

Cameron Bock, Grant Breckenridge, Brody Malone, Robert Neff and Genki Suzuki.

Brody 53.850 had the top score in qualifying.

U.S. Men’s Jr Worlds team

Garrett Braunton, Matthew Cormier and Isaiah Drake.

Osijek World Cup Finals – day 1

Vault
🥇 Teja Belak SLO 13.750
🥈 Angelina Radivilova UKR 13.667
🥉 Tjasa Kysselef SLO 13.250

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Bars
🥇 Anastasia Agafonova RUS 13.500
🥈 Nora Feher HUN 13.367
🥉 Yana Fedorova UKR 12.667

Floor
🥇 Artem Dolgopyat ISR 15.300 (6.7 difficulty!)
🥈 Kirill Prokopev RUS 14.733
🥉 Tomas Gonzalez CHI 14.367

Pommels
🥇 Robert Seligman CRO 14.533
🥈 Nikolai Kuksenkov RUS 14.300
🥉 Ivan Tikhonov AZE 14.000

Happy fans. Seligman is from Osijek.

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P Bars
🥇 Robert Tvorogal LTU 14.067
🥈 Sercan Demir TUR 14.067
🥉 Aleksandr Kartsev RUS 13.700

Ellie Black’s new Rudi

She’s only been training it recently. Her club got a new Vault table and Spring Board.

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NCAA sport – injuries before College

The majority of gymnasts have had a major injury before getting to College.

Ours is a youth sport. And a dangerous sport.

Via Greg Marsden