Nath Comber.
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Category: bars
kip drill
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Region 5 Dream Team Bars mashup
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China’s (nominative) Olympic team
Shang Chunsong, Fan Yilin, Mao Yi, Wang Yan and Liu Tingting
The federation released a nominative list of its Olympic team following the Chinese national championships held over the past week, where Shang dominated to earn the all-around, beam, and floor titles. While the selection was nominative and is open to future changes, Shang – a member of each of China’s world championships teams this quad who played a crucial role in back-to-back silver team medals – is essentially a lock at this point and will almost assuredly compete in Rio as an individual medal hopeful in addition to leading the team. …
Several gymnasts were taken out of consideration for Rio following their performances at nationals, including 2012 Olympian and 2014 world bars champion Yao Jinnan, 2013 world bars champion Huang Huidan, two-time worlds team silver medalist Chen Siyi, 2014 worlds alternate Zhu Xiaofang …
National Championship AA
1 Shang Chunsong 59.550
2 Mao Yi 58.100
3 Liu Tingting 57.950
partial results
Click PLAY or watch Fan Yilin’s Bars on YouTube. (7.0 + 8.734 + 0.1 CHN bonus = 15.834)
spotting cast handstand from straddle kip
Varna World Cup – Finals 1
Vault
1. Giulia Steingruber 15.134
2. Thi Ha Thanh Phan: 14.400
3. Katarzyna Jurkowska-Kowalska: 14.167
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozchuRar75I
Bars
1. Daria Skrypnik: 6.7/15.067
2. Evgenia Shelgunova: 5.9/14.067
3. Giulia Steingruber: 5.7/14.000
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIgUmpj3078
GymMapStics is there. And here’s Lauren’s write-up on the day.
developing early pirouettes
The biggest problem with pirouettes is finishing the turn too late.
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Thanks Mary.
Kim Bui – 14.800 Bars
2012 Olympian Kim Bui, the 27-year-old who missed nearly all of 2015 due to injury, will make her competitive turn at Bundesliga this weekend, where she hopes to impress enough for a spot on the country’s European Championships team. …
How did that go for Kim?
55.800 AA. 🙂
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(via theallaround)
Eythora Thorsdottir wins IAG
Eythora Thorsdottir got off to a rough start at yesterday’s IAG SportEvent, earning a 12.6 on beam after two big wobbles and a fall.
But the Dutch gymnast known for her beauty and expression shook herself off and went on to win the all-around title, showcasing three upgraded routines, including a creepily fabulous new (and amazingly creepy) floor for a 14.3 as well as a DTY on vault, earning a 15.033 there.
The vault upgrade is especially key, as the majority of gymnasts in the Netherlands are competing fulls, which gave the team a disadvantage in team competition. Something like this can add nearly a point to the women’s team total, meaning Thorsdottir is now all but a lock to make the team going to Rio this summer. …
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I love it. 🙂
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Nellie Kim – Bars
She truly was super talented. Better, perhaps, than Nadia at times during their era.
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You can still see some “wrapping” Bars in the Cirque show Amaluna.
(via Jerry Blakley)
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