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Lauren Hopkins posted a rundown on the Japanese Olympic team.
(via David F Pendrys)
Category: floor (women)
Canada’s Shallon Olsen
Shallon has a good shot at Rio. She has very high difficulty on Floor and Vault. Moreover, I can’t recall her ever missing a tumbling pass or vault in competition. Consistency might be even more important than final potential score when selecting the traveling team.
Click PLAY or watch Shallon’s Floor on YouTube.
Canada will announce all their MAG and WAG Olympic teams on the same day. Following the WAG Olympic Camp in Quebec.
Morgan Hurd – 2016 Secret Classic
Wow. What potential. Morgan is fantastic.
Click PLAY or watch her Vault on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch Bars on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch Floor on YouTube.
BEAM did not go so well. (VIDEO)
Elena Eremina – Floor
Catalina Ponor to Rio?
Romania will send either Cata or Larisa Iordache. Both wonderful. Either would have a good chance for finals.
Larisa is the better gymnast. And I assumed Larisa would end up being the Olympian.
But Larisa is not competing. (Hand injury.) Cata is. And very successfully.
Click PLAY or watch her Floor on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch her Beam on YouTube.
I recently heard a great Ponor story. While training in Puerto Rico, she climbed on to the Beam. Did not fall or jump down for 55 minutes. 🙂
European Championships Apparatus Finals
Vault
1. STEINGRUBER Giulia SUI 14.983
2. DOWNIE Elissa GBR 14.933
3. AFANASEVA Kseniia RUS 14.699
full results
Bars
1. DOWNIE Rebecca GBR 15.500
2. SPIRIDONOVA Daria RUS 15.466
3. MUSTAFINA Aliya RUS 15.100
full results
If you want to beat the Russians, you need a MONSTER routine. Like this.
Click PLAY or watch Becky on YouTube.
Beam (excellent final)
1. MUSTAFINA Aliya RUS 15.100
2. BOYER Marine FRA 14.600
3. PONOR Catalina ROU 14.266
full results
Click PLAY or watch Marine’s routine on YouTube.
Floor
1. STEINGRUBER Giulia SUI 15.200
2. DOWNIE Elissa GBR 14.566
3. PONOR Catalina ROU 14.466
full results
Click PLAY or watch Guilia on YouTube.
Claudia Fragapane – Floor
6.4 + 8.6 = 15.0 – 1st in qualification.
Jumps out of double layout dismount.
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Simone Biles – backward handspring
Long. Resulting in a sharp attack angle.
But is as so often the case, it’s not necessarily the target technique for every gymnast.
Personally I like beginners to do long, low backward handspring series. Later change the technique to whatever works best for each tumbling line.
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Larrissa Miller 14.400 FX
Australian Gymnastics Blog posted a report – National Championships 2016: Senior Men’s & Women’s All-Around
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related – Aussie 2016 Olympian Michael Merceica injured his hand on P Bars at Nationals. Hopes to be back in time for Rio.
(via papaliukin)
Sao Paulo Challenge Cup Finals 2
Daniele won 3 gold medals. I think the veteran is ready for Rio. 🙂
Beam
1 HYPĂ“LITO, Daniele BRA 14,350
2 CASTRO, Simona CHI 13,050
3 ANDRADE, Rebeca BRA 13,000
Click PLAY or watch Daniele’s Beam on YouTube.
Floor
1 HYPĂ“LITO, Daniele BRA 13,950
2 BUI, Kim Ngam GER 13,550
3 PEDRO, Carolyne BRA 13,300
3 CASTRO, Simona CHI 13,300
Click PLAY or watch Daniele’s Floor on YouTube.
Brazil could certainly be top 5 in team with a hit meet at the Olympics. Those excited home fans will help.
Vault
1 MARIANO, Arthur BRA 14,800
2 SASAKI, SĂ©rgio BRA 14,675
3 OKA, Jumpei JPN 13,775
P Bars
1 CALVO MORENO, Jossim COL 15,550
2 SANDOVAL AFANADOR, COL 15,100
3 BARRETO JUNIOR, Fran BRA 15,000
H Bar
1 SASAKI, SĂ©rgio BRA 15,250
2 IMABAYASHI, Kaito JPN 14,850
3 CORDOBA, Nicolas ARG 14,800
Bretschneider had 7.3 difficulty but missed regrasp on Yamawaki, his easiest release.
Click PLAY or watch SĂ©rgio on YouTube.
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