Rebeca Andrade’s 6.3 Bars

Not much to deduct.

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Sunisa Lee – NABS!

Sunisa has been awesome for a long time. Spencer feels she’s now getting confident and consistent, as well.

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Russian apparatus finals – day 1

Paseka is back. And won vault.

https://twitter.com/russiangymstan/status/1104340884726923265

Ilyankova won Bars.

https://twitter.com/russiangymstan/status/1104354566206832640

Simakova wins Russian Championships

1. Angelina Simakova, 107.897
2. Angelina Melnikova, 107.463
3. Aliya Mustafina, 107.398
4. Daria Belousova, 106.164
5. Daria Elizarova, 105.963
6. Ksenia Klimenko 105.831

https://twitter.com/russiangymstan/status/1103720989660196865

Angelina Simakova crowned Russian all-around champion Four months after making her World Championships debut on bars and beam, Angelina Simakova bested a host of experienced contenders for the Russian all-around title Thursday in Penza.

Despite a fall on vault during the early rounds of the second of two days of competition, the 16-year-old from Obninsk, southwest of Moscow, persevered to take her first senior Russian title ahead of Olympic medalists Angelina Melnikova and Aliya Mustafina. …

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how to Giant tap OVER the low Bar

Very, very few adult gymnasts can do it without deduction.

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Don’t teach that technique unless you are the world’s greatest Bar coach. It’s a near guaranteed deduction.

Patti Rope – 1976 Bars

Patti was coached by her parents, Don and Benita Rope. In 1972 they founded Cambridge Kips Gymnastics Club.

In February of 1976, with the Olympics approaching, the Romanian team, including Nadia Comenici, stayed in Cambridge to train with the Kips for a week at Glenview Park S.S. The culmination of the week was a two-day Canada-Romania meet, hosted by the Kips at the Kitchener Auditorium. It was at that meet that Nadia received the first perfect 10, a benchmark for what was to come at the Olympics not long afterward.

At Montreal two Russian gymnasts approached Patti asking if she could help them get their ears pierced. They all piled into the Rope van and went downtown. The two Russians? Nelli Kim, and a young girl by the name of Elvira Saadi, destined one day to become coach of the Kips and of Canadian champion Yvonne Tousek.

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via Fans of Canadian Gymnastics

Rope finished 27th at Montreal, the highest-ever placing at an Olympics by a Canadian female gymnast at the time …

Cambridge Sports Hall of Fame