2016 The Japan Gymnastics Association, Fujitsu Limited, and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced an agreement to conduct joint research on scoring support technology for gymnastics competitions. This research will combine Fujitsu Laboratories’ 3D laser sensors and 3D data processing technology–to discern athlete’s joint position and technique–with the Japan Gymnastics Association’s expertise in recognizing proper gymnastics techniques. …
The best level 10s from around the country competed at the Junior Olympic National Championships … in Fort Worth, Texas.
Many of these top gymnasts have already committed to college and we took a look at where these college bound gymnasts finished this weekend to determine which college had the best competition. …
… In our interview with Tabitha we discuss competing at the World Gymnastics Championships, training alongside some of the sport’s biggest names, memories of young Caroline Zhang and Mirai Nagasu, the pressure of the USA Gymnastics camp system, coming back from injuries, the heartbreak of tearing her Achilles after Olympic Trials and her current life in coaching.
Tabitha Yim (born November 2, 1985) … is a former elite gymnast and assistant coach for the Stanford Women’s Gymnastics team. In May 2015 she was hired as the head coach of the University of Arizona Women’s Gymnastics team.
The British men topped France, Germany and Switzerland in a quadrangular meet held Saturday in the Swiss city of Zuchwil.
The competition was held less than an hour outside Bern, site of the upcoming European championships for men, May 25-29.
2014 Junior European champion Nile Wilson led Great Britain to an easy victory with 267.500, more than 7 points ahead of Switzerland (259.250). Germany finished third (257.750) …
The preliminary men’s team, seeking a third straight Olympic title, includes 2012 Olympian Zhang Chenglong and four Olympic rookies — Deng Shudi, Lin Chaopan, You Hao and Liu Yang. …
The most notable omission was Zou Kai, who earned Olympic team and floor exercise gold in 2008 and 2012 and high bar gold in 2008. …
Shang Chunsong, Fan Yilin, Mao Yi, Wang Yan and Liu Tingting
The federation released a nominative list of its Olympic team following the Chinese national championships held over the past week, where Shang dominated to earn the all-around, beam, and floor titles. While the selection was nominative and is open to future changes, Shang – a member of each of China’s world championships teams this quad who played a crucial role in back-to-back silver team medals – is essentially a lock at this point and will almost assuredly compete in Rio as an individual medal hopeful in addition to leading the team. …
Several gymnasts were taken out of consideration for Rio following their performances at nationals, including 2012 Olympian and 2014 world bars champion Yao Jinnan, 2013 world bars champion Huang Huidan, two-time worlds team silver medalist Chen Siyi, 2014 worlds alternate Zhu Xiaofang …