Cirque du Soleil Corteo’s final performance was in Quito, Ecuador December 13, 2015.
Here’s some training video of one of the outrageous acts. Much more difficult than they make it look.
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Category: bars
Sao Paulo Challenge Cup Finals 1
Vault
1 Daniele Hypolito Brazil 14.125
2 Michelle Timm Germany 13.850
3 Annika Urvikko Finland 13.700
Bars
1 Jessica Lopez Venezuela 6.4 8.250 14.650
2 Rebeca Andrade Brazil 6.0 8.500 14.500
2 Kim Bui Germany 6.3 8.200 14.500
full WAG results
Click PLAY or watch JLo on YouTube. (age 30 – Rio will be her 3rd Olympics)
Floor
1 GONZALEZ, Tomas CHI 15,650
2 HYPOLITO, Diego BRA 15,400
3 OKA, Jumpei JPN 15,000
Click PLAY or watch the stylish Tomas on YouTube.
Pommels
1 IMABAYASHI, Kaito JPN 15,150
2 SASAKI, Sérgio BRA 14,950
3 MAENO, Fuya JPN 14,800
Rings
1 CALVO MORENO, Jossim COL 15,550
2 SANDOVAL AFANADOR, COL 15,100
3 BARRETO JUNIOR, Fran BRA 15,000
treating & preventing Gymnastics hand rips
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
Click PLAY or watch Guilia’s best Rudi ever on YouTube.
Bars
1. Daria Skrypnik: 6.7/15.067
2. Evgenia Shelgunova: 5.9/14.067
3. Giulia Steingruber: 5.7/14.000
Click PLAY or watch Daria’s Bars on YouTube.
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.
Click PLAY or watch a Gymnastics Progressions teaser on Facebook.
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)
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