Category: Gymnastics

Jing Wu – the same Vault twice

Jing Wu finished in 2nd place in Cottbus.

Her first was supposed to be a Kasamatsu. (Left hand contacting first, left twist.)

Handspring

But NO JUDGE should call this a Tsukahara approach. It’s a Handspring with staggered hand position.

Click PLAY or watch both vaults on YouTube.

This is the same cheat the Chinese men were doing in the past. 😦

Kuksenkov tests positive for Meldonium

Amanda Turner:

New national champion Nikolai Kuksenkov has withdrawn from the Russian men’s championships in Penza after it was revealed he tested positive for the banned substance meldonium. …

According to Russian coach and spokeswoman Valentina Rodionenko, Kuksenkov’s test was conducted two weeks ago but the results were only just discovered. …

I can say that on the Russian national team in gymnastics we stopped using the drug even in August 2015! Then the representatives of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency consulted with our doctors, and then withdrew all the supplies of Mildronate from our first-aid kits. …

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Nikolai Kuksenkov

Cottbus World Cup Finals day 1

Vault
1. Chusovitina, Oksana UZB 14,700
2. Wu, Jing CHN 14,350
3. Kysselef, Tjasa SLO 13,966

Click PLAY or watch Oksana’s vaults on YouTube.

Bars
1. Scheder, Sophie GER 14,900
2. Zhu, Xiaofang CHN 14,733
3. Janik, Gabriela POL 13,266

Floor
1. Hypolito, Diego BRA 15,466
2. Klavora, Rok SLO 14,866
3. Verniaiev, Oleg UKR 14,833

Click PLAY or watch Diego’s FX on YouTube.

Pommels
1. Smith, Louis GBR 15,100
2. Verniaiev, Oleg UKR 15,000
3T Bertoncelj, Saso SLO 14,700
3T Corral, Daniel MEX 14,700

Rings
1. Radivilov, Igor UKR 15,500
2. Medina Flores, Henrique BRA 15,366
3. Goossens, Dennis BEL 5,033

official results are linked from this page

Read the gymmapstics report on the day.

Simone Biles – Cheng

In a media phone interview Simone said she’d compete Cheng for the first time at Pac Rims.

If successful, that would make her the Olympic Gold favourite for Rio.

Click PLAY or watch one on YouTube.

Japanese Nationals qualification

Preliminary completion.

1 Mai Murakami 57.200
2 Aiko Sugihara 56.500
3 Asuka Teramoto 56.050
full results

Lauren posted commentary.

Recall that Mai was the surprise star of the Japanese team at Worlds 2015.

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1. Ryohei Kato 90.150
2. Yusuke Tanaka 89.800
3. Shogo Nonomura 89.100
link to results

Kato

At the press conference, Kato said his goal was to win gold at the Rio Olympics. He also said he could use an overseas vacation.

Kenzo Shirai scored 16.200 on floor and 15.300 on vault.

Yusuke Tanaka scored 16.000 on pbars and 15.550 on high bar.

Kohei Kameyama scored 15.700 on pommels.

Kohei did not compete but gets automatically entered into Sunday’s AA Final.

Aussies training for Pac Rim

A few training clips.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

related – Rio Olympics, 2016: No more room for error for Australia’s gymnasts