good luck Gabby

She’s got an excellent chance in the Bars final today. Great handstands. Smart routine construction.

An Olympic Gold medalist has every reason to retire. Yet she came back for Rio. #respect

Gabby rope climb

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related – Gabby’s NIKE page

Women’s Olympic Bars Final preview

I expect this to be the best of the apparatus finals.

FloGymnastics – Preview: Rio 2016 Women’s Uneven Bars Final

Scores from prelims. Predictions on finals results.

It’s great to see Jessica Lopez in the final. There is not any active international gymnast who has competed more often than JLo.

Ashton Locklear training video

Click PLAY or watch Bars on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Beam and Tumbling on YouTube.

NY Times on the Women’s Team Final

Another fantastic article from the graphics and data gurus at the NY Times.

raisman-silo

Who says the USA is weak on Bars? Red dots are the American scores.

USA Bars

Check it out – How the U.S. Crushed the Competition in the Women’s Gymnastics Team Final

Via GymCastic. I assume the NYT are using numbers from The All Around’s Albert Minguillón Colorer.

Ashton Locklear – Bars

The alternates in Rio who did not get to compete should have a friendly at one of the local Gyms. Ashton would win the alternates Gold medal on Bars. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

Madison Kocian v Gabby Douglas

Who should have had the higher E-score?

Click PLAY or watch Maddie on YouTube. (9.166)

Click PLAY or watch Gabby on YouTube. (9.266)

Both are great. Gabby has excellent handstands. Madison fewer elbow bends. There’s not much to separate them.

Olympic Bars finalists

Unofficial. Maximum 2 / nation. (official list)

Kocian: 15.866
Mustafina: 15.833
Douglas: 15.766
Spiridonova: 15.683
Seitz: 15.466
Scheder: 15.433
Lopez: 15.333
Shang: 15.300

https://twitter.com/du_gymnastics/status/762460741177790464

Rebeca Andrade – Bars

After 3/5 qualifying subdivisions Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade leads the AA with a 58.732.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/coach_megan_/status/762373338828271617

Elizabeth Seitz – Bars

Germany killed it on Bars. Seitz at 15.466 will almost certainly qualify to the final.

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