predicting the Rio Bars Final

This should be the most tightly contested final.

Becky Downie, Great Britain
Daria Spiridonova, Russia
Fan Yilin, China
Madison Kocian, USA
Elisabeth Seitz, Germany
Aliya Mustafina, Russia
Tan Jiaxin, China
Sophie Scheder, Germany

Rio Event Final Predictions: Bars

Click PLAY or watch Becky Downie on YouTube. High risk, high reward.

related – The Four-Year Fan Guide: Bars

Ponor in Rio

She must have been inspired by all of Marian Dragulescu’s social media. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

She wants to compete the AA … for some reason.

via Gymternet Clan

Aurelia Dobre’s Beam Mount 2016

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Aurelia Dobre was the 1987 World Champion.

(via Full Gymnastics Blog)

Hong Un Jong – Yurchenko triple

With spot. But still impressive.

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(via papaliukin)

African Championships Namibia

I’d love to attend this meet once again. And Namibia is my favourite nation in Africa as a tourist. 🙂

August 27 – 3 September 3rd, 2016.

African Championships 2016

can Sam HIT in Rio?

papaliukin linked to this article.

… for all his supremacy at home, where he is one of two men to win four straight national titles, Mikulak has yet to experience a true breakthrough moment internationally.

He has just one world championship medal to his credit, a team bronze in 2014. That also happens to be the last time he was on the floor with Kohei Uchimura of Japan, the defending Olympic champion heavily favored to do it again in Rio de Janeiro. …

American star Mikulak looking for international breakthrough

Sam

Everyone knows Sam could be top 3 AA. If he could only hit 6/6 when it counts most. Good luck. 🙂

Ellie Black – NormaTec

NormaTec is a massage machine used to enhance blood flow and speed recovery.

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