Category: Gymnastics

Oklahoma Bars releases

Looking more ELITE than NCAA. 🙂

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16 more women accuse Larry Nassar

… the women’s allegations of sexual abuse span nearly two decades — from 1996 through 2014. Their ages ranged from 13 to 20 when the alleged abuse began. Some continued to see Nassar for treatment for years. …

All five women interviewed by IndyStar said they wondered about the treatment they received from Nassar, but they initially deferred to his reputation and expertise in the field of sports medicine.

“He was like this hero in … sports medicine, especially for gymnastics, because the injuries and type of stress you’re putting on your body are so different than any other sport,” Katherine said. “A trainer and doctor for the U.S. Olympic team accessible in Michigan; it was like, everyone thought it was amazing.” …

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The Penev Vault?

What do you think? Ri Se Gwang from Yurchenko!

Yurchenko double backs are still very rare.

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(via papaliukin)

Sergey Diomidov

diamidovSergey Viktorovich Diomidov (Russian: Сергей Викторович Диомидов; born 9 July 1943) is an Uzbekistan former gymnast who competed in 1964 and 1968 Olympics. He won team silver medals at both Games and a bronze on the vault in 1968. …

Click PLAY or watch his eponymous skill on YouTube.

You can watch Sergey himself training it in this edit of him and coach Konstantin Karakashyants before and during the 1966 World Championships. Click PLAY or watch him on YouTube.

I’ve often seen his name spelled “Diamadov”. Or “Diamadov”. The Code of Points uses Diamidov though I don’t trust Code spelling in general. Of course you can use Sergey or Sergei.

When in doubt I usually use the wikipedia translation which has (hopefully) been widely crowdsourced. @papaliukin likes Diomidov.

(via Rewriting Russian Gymnastics)