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Thanks Mary.
Category: Gymnastics
Ricna to cross grip
Click PLAY or watch Georgia-Mae Fenton on Twitter. Working it into to Ezhova.
via GymFever2012
Cata Ponor – Floor
Though she didn’t stand up vault in Team Test Event, Catalina did an astonishingly difficult and interesting Floor routine.
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STOP the ‘Man Wipe’
Of all the fugly things we have to watch on Floor, the faux body waves are ugliest. 🙂
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Guys use that … thing because they are (supposedly) deducted for standing 2sec or longer before a tumbling pass. There should be no such rule. It’s safer to let the gymnast catch his breath before a tumbling pass. And the routine time limit restriction already serves the purpose in not allowing anyone to waste time during a set.
(via GymCastic)
Ana Sofia GOMEZ – Beam
Solid bwd 1/1.
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Latin American gymnasts – overall – had a very good competition at the Rio Test Event. Despite the probable troubles hosting the Olympics in Rio, it will be good for development of Gymnastics sports in the region.
Flávia is small
Bridget Sloan wins the Honda
She is this year’s Honda Sports Award recipient for gymnastics, distinguishing her as the nation’s top collegiate female athlete in the sport. The honor was based on the results of national balloting among all NCAA member schools as part of The Collegiate Women Sports Awards program, now celebrating its 40th year. The other finalists were Lindsay Mable (Minnesota), Nina McGee (Denver) and Elizabeth Price (Stanford).
This is the second such honor for Sloan, as she won the award as a freshman in 2013. A Gator gymnast has claimed the honor four of the last five years, as Kytra Hunter was the 2012 and 2015 recipient. …
What a career!
Isabella Amado – Olympian
An Olympian for the tiny nation of Panama. Congratulations.
She was awarded the Tripartite commission spot.
Isabella trains at Excalibur Gymnastics, Virginia Beach but has competed for Panama many times already.
Lauren Hopkins explains the process by which she was selected.
via Gymternet Clan
worst Olympic Gymnastics story (so far)
The Olympic year always results in hilariously inaccurate cut-and-paste news reports from general sports media. The worst I’ve seen was written by Devin Neal on an Indian site:
… Currently, Dipa is known to be a phenomenon in the vault event that requires an athlete to sprint towards an apparatus and acrobatically jump over it, do multiple somersaults and execute a ideal landing.
She will be chosen following the selection trial at the Australian Gymnastics Championships, to be held at Melbourne’s Hisense Arena on May 23. …
… she’ll be the first gymnast to represent Jamaica at the Olympics.
Olympic qualifiers: Gymnast Dipa Karmakar bags gold at Rio event
Here’s the PDF version in case that gets taken down.
Olympic qualifiers- Gymnast Dipa Karmakar bags gold at Rio event
NOW Dipa has to survive intense media scrutiny until the Olympics. Best would be to leave India and train somewhere where she could focus.
In 2004 I recall Kyle Shewfelt hiding out from the Canadian media. Limiting training distractions. 🙂
Austria’s Lisa Ecker to Olympics
This post was updated to correct numerous errors. Oops.
Like Marisa Dick, Jasmin Mader from Austria arrived in Rio just hours before the competition.
But had falls on Bars & Beam.
Jasmin was replacing Elisa Hämmerle who tore her Achilles tumbling in podium training. (I saw that tumbling pass. It did not look like a full Achilles tear. I assumed it was an ankle injury, at the time.)
Lisa Ecker hit 4/4 in the AA for 53.132 to qualify herself & Austria to the Olympics.
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