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Category: Gymnastics
GBR Olympic wear
LIKE this photo on Amy Tinkler’s Instagram.
via Gymternet Clan
Mean Girls 2016 Olympic Team
I’ve never seen Mean Girls. 🙂
If you have, you might find this edit funny.
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Kyle Shewfelt interview
The Skating Lesson continues their series of Gymnastics interviews with 2004 Olympic Gold Floor medalist Kyle Shewfelt. Clearly TSL are picking and choosing whom they want to speak with. 🙂
Kyle likes Gabby over Aly for the AA. He slightly prefers Maddie over Ashton on Bars.
And he feels some scores at the American Olympic trials are up to 0.3 too high.
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Angelina (‘Gelya’) Melnikova interview
The new Russian star talks her background, training and underplays Rio.
Rewriting Russian Gymnastics – ‘I never thought about another sport. I only like gymnastics’
British Olympic Team sendoff video
John Orozco out, Danell Leyva in
Blast. 😦
John Orozco injured his left knee on a horizontal bar dismount during the men’s Olympic Team Training Camp.
Orozco has been diagnosed with a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and meniscus, which is the same injury to that knee that happened in October 2012. As a result, Orozco has withdrawn from the team. Danell Leyva will replace him.
John was being counted on for Pommels, P Bars and H Bar. Of the alternates, Danell’s the best fit as replacement.
(via papaliukin)
top execution scores at U.S. Olympic trials
FloGymnastics posted a summary.
If you like that graphic, check coach lu told me to be consistent to see more of the American gymnasts. toepointqueen created those.
Axelle Klinckaert injured out of Rio
Terrible timing. 😦
… Axelle is the first casualty in terms of those already on teams forced to step aside. The Belgian team was training in Toulouse, France when Axelle felt a sharp pain in her left knee that prevented her from training. The injury is not serious, but a doctor determined that Axelle must miss three weeks of training, taking her recovery period right up to the start of the Olympic Games in the worst case of bad timing possible.
Rune Hermans, who earned a spot in the all-around final at worlds last year, will replace Axelle with Cindy Vandenhole and Julie Meyers moving into the first and second reserve spots. …
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only 7000 gymnasts in China
Canadian coach Liang Cheng is taking western style Gymnastics back to China. He set up his first club in 2012. And Inspire Sports is expanding.
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Some in China feel mass participation clubs are needed.
Wang Tongjie, director of gymnastics at China’s General Administration of Sport:
… There are only 7,000 registered Chinese gymnasts, Wang said. The United States — with a population only one-fourth of China’s — has nearly 150,000 competing gymnasts at all levels. …
Team China is covered for now.
The future is not so certain.
“What we have is about to become broken, but the new system is yet to be established,” Ye said. He points to a former powerhouse that failed to qualify for Rio as a team this year as a tale of caution. “If we don’t change, we will be like Romania.” …
(via Nancy Armour)
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