Author: Rick Mc

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

Harry Hepworth & Luke Whitehouse

At the 2024 Paris Olympic Games Harry Hepworth and Luke Whitehouse represented Team GB in the men’s artistic gymnastics event. 🇬🇧

Harry made history by becoming the first British athlete to ever win an Olympic medal on the vault. 🥉

Luke performed an incredible routine which included a triple back somersault in the Olympic floor final and narrowly missed out on the podium …

The Leeds gymnastics club have now produced five Olympians and have a long rich history in the sport of gymnastics. 🤸🏼

Harry was a late starter, being very inflexible in the hips.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (9 min 30 sec)

There’s a longer edit of this mini-documentary here.

Emre Dodanlı – Floor

Great routine competing for OKLAHOMA.

Emre is an Olympian with the Turkish team in Paris.

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Rebeca – Yurchenko Triple Twist?

One goal that remains for the 2022 world all-around winner is competing the unprecedented Yurchenko triple twist vault, which would have been named the Andrade if she had performed it in Paris.

The Olympic champion revealed that she is still training the skill and might debut it.

“I really wish I could have presented it last year because I was feeling well, but I hurt my shoulder [before the Games]. It worked out fine in the end because I got my medals, thank God,” she joked. …

Olympics.com

Elite Canada 2025 – Artistic & Rhythmic

Details.

Elite Canada kicks off this weekend! Here’s the link to the livestreams gymcan.org/gymnastics-c…

— GymCastic (@gymcastic.bsky.social) 2025-02-14T04:16:00.464Z

Maryland – ALL are created equal

With minorities under relentless attack by ReTrumplican politicians, it’s terrific to see teams like Maryland be strong allies.

Plus — these Leos are awesome.

Happy Valentine’s Day to ALL.

FIG Women’s Code changes

What’s changing in the Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Code of Points in the 2025-2028 Olympic cycle?

The short answer is not much, and for FIG Women’s Technical Committee President Donatella Sacchi (ITA) that is for the good of the sport. “Not making critical changes provides opportunities for gymnasts to stay active longer,” she says. “This approach provides stability.”

Men’s NCAA Gymnastics – Feb. 13, 2025

Shelli Koszdin posts the most detailed reviews of College Men’s Gymnastics.

The University of Oklahoma defeats Stanford by 0.25 points to maintain the number one spot in the rankings, Patrick Hoopes becomes the first gymnast to score over 15 points on any event this NCAA season, Fred Richard scores the highest high bar score of the season (14.7) and Michigan brings on Olympians Fred Richard and Paul Juda to defeat Illinois. …

Men’s NCAA Gymnastics Snapshot week 5

Iowa Gymnastics facility

The Caitlin Clark University had a terrific recruiting class for this season — including many top Canadians.

Hawkeyes were No. 27 in last week’s national rankings.

A great coach in Jen Llewellyn.

And an impressive new facility.

hawkeyesports.com/wgym-facility