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.
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Category: Gymnastics
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.
1. Ryohei Kato 90.150
2. Yusuke Tanaka 89.800
3. Shogo Nonomura 89.100
link to results
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.
#1 Chinese Olympic medalist ever
Bars – squat on from kip
Aussies training for Pac Rim
A few training clips.
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related – Rio Olympics, 2016: No more room for error for Australia’s gymnasts
Buckeye Westerville Gym expansion
Gabby Douglas’ club has been busy. 🙂
Cottbus World Cup day 2
Preliminary results.
Beam
1 Wevers, Sanne NED 6,0 8,750 14,750
2 Scheder, Sophie GER 5,5 8,650 14,150
3 Jurkowska-Kowalska, Katarzyna POL 5,8 8,200 14,000
Floor
1 Top, Lisa NED 5,6 8,250 13,850
2 Jurkowska-Kowalska, Katarzyna POL 5,4 8,250 13,650
3 Alicke, Antonia GER 5,4 8,050 13,450
Vault
1 Verniaiev, Oleg UKR 15,250
2 Qu, Ruiyang CHN 15,000
3 Gischard, Benjamin SUI 14,775
P Bars
1 Nguyen, Marcel GER 6,6 8,950 15,550
2 Dauser, Lukas GER 6,7 8,850 15,550
3T Verniaiev, Oleg UKR 7,0 8,250 15,250
3T Zhu, Xiaodong CHN 7,0 8,250 15,250
H Bar
1 Braegger, Pablo SUI 7,0 8,150 15,150
2 Baumann, Christian SUI 6,4 8,450 14,850
3 Toba, Andreas GER 6,8 8,000 14,800
Full results linked from the bottom of this page.
gymmapstics is there. Read her day 2 commentary.
British Championships 2016
Shawn Johnson to Nebraska
Seems she’ll join the football team in 2017. The shortest player to ever play the position of wide receiver in college football. 🙂
Huskers land key recruit, Shawn Johnson
(via Nick Zaccardi)
Jesolo Senior competition
Click through to read Ele’s detailed report on the Seniors from all nations.
Click PLAY or watch Aly Raisman’s Finals Floor GOLD on Facebook. Big tumbling.
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