Category: bars

Sunisa Lee is awesome

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Konnor McClain leads Jr – day 1

1. Konnor McClain – 56.500
2. Kayla DiCello – 56.000
3. Olivia Greaves – 55.700
4. Sydney Barros – 55.250
5. Skye Blakely – 54.600
6. Anya Pilgrim – 53.900
7. eMjae Frazier – 53.300

… Most of the top athletes had really strong days. The top four basically all nailed their competitions, and Blakely did well to recover from bars to come back with strong scores on the other three events. A high quality day overall. …

BBS – LIVE blog

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hitting handstand

Certainly the WAG Codes put too much importance on finishing skills within 10 degrees of handstand. MAG Codes are more sensible.

Still it’s impressive to see gymnasts who can do it. Ashton, for example.

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Doris Fuchs-Brause on Bars

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Thanks Avril.

Stanford gymnast – ‘Pechanec’ on Bars

Nicole Pechancova competed for the Czech team at the World Championships in Rotterdam. In ‘merica we know her as Nicole Pechanec from Stanford.

Recall she competed Free Hip Geinger, a ‘new‘ skill Stanford was calling the ‘Pechanec’.

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Old timers like myself will have seen that skill done as early as the early ’80s. … I can’t remember any names, however. Leave a comment if you recall.