Category: Gymnastics

Brazil at Worlds Antwerp

Spencer reckons it’s time for a Brazil team medal at Worlds.

Asian Games Finals – day 1

Vault

🥇 An Chang Ok, North Korea, 14.049
🥈 Kim Son Hyang, North Korea, 13.600
🥉 Yu Linmin, China, 13.533

Bars

🥇 An Chang Ok, North Korea, 14.266
🥈 Serita Mikako, Japan, 13.933
🥉 Zuo Tong, China, 13.866

An Chang Ok, North Korea

Floor

🥇 Kim Hansol, South Korea, 14.900
🥈 Zhang Boheng, China, 14.333
🥉 Lin Chaopan, China, 14.333

Pommels

🥇 Lee Chih-Kai, Taiwan, 15.500
🥈 Tsumura Ryota, Japan, 15.166
🥉 Nariman Kurbanov, Kazakhstan, 15.100

Rings

🥇 Lan Xingyu, China, 15.433
🥈 Nguyen Van Khanh Phong, Vietnam, 14.600
🥉 Tanigawa Wataru, Japan, 14.300

Beam over an alligator pit?

FIG WTC is discussing the concept of competing Beam over a gap in the podium.

Even more challenging would be filling the gap with … something? 😀

MAG day 1 podium training highlights

Twisting again. No regrets.

The seven-time Olympic medallist spoke exclusively with Olympics.com prior to heading to Antwerp, Belgium, for the 2023 World Gymnastics Championships, where she will once again be a favourite for gold. …

“I didn’t know if I was ever going to be able to compete again because there were multiple times this year where I was in the gym and I was like, ‘I’m actually terrified of this full-in, like I’m not doing it again, never going to do it,'” Biles told Olympics.com in an exclusive interview at the U.S. Women’s World Championships Selection Event.

“And then I was like, ‘You know what? I’m just going to come back another day, another day.” …

Olympics.com

Maxime Gentges interview

Host Belgium looked good in podium training.

Maxime is psyched for the qualification round. Their ultimate goal is team qualification to Paris.

Zuo Tong wins Asian Games

17-year-old Zuo holds off Japan’s Okamura Mana by 0.667 points to make it four-from-four for the hosts in the artistic gymnastics competition in Hangzhou. …

Olympics.com

Click PLAY or watch her on Instagram.

Max – podium Pommels

Though his form and amplitude are not best in the competition, I still have to call Max the favourite for Worlds. This routine is beast.

Men’s Worlds PREVIEW

➙ Your annual reminder NOT to read too much into MAG podium training. The guys who mess up in practice often nail that same routine in the qualification round when it counts.

This is the most important Worlds of the quadrennial. What 12 teams will qualify for Paris?

There are perhaps 18 teams with a legitimate chance to make the Olympics. Recall it was Taiwan that qualified for Tokyo last quad. Taiwan didn’t even make Worlds this time around.

In Men’s Gymnastics anything can happen. Pommels. H Bar. Anything.

The facility looks good. Lighting seems consistent throughout.

Inside Gymnastics posted some of the major storylines:

2021 World Champion Zhang Boheng is not here, winning Asian Games last week instead. Defending World and Olympic champ is the clear favourite: Hashimoto Daiki.

China and Japan should certainly be the top 2 teams. I’m liking the (young) USA for the Bronze though GBR has Max Whitlock back on the team.

Of course Russia is still banned. Nikita Nagornyy added to the Canadian Government’s sanctions list this week.

Max Whitlock had every reason to retire with 6 Olympic medals — yet felt driven to return to training. His Pommels is more difficult than ever before. Max did hit the set with form breaks in podium.

Jake Jarman only 😀 showed triple twisting DOUBLE layout on Floor in podium training. I suspect he’ll try the Jarman if he makes the apparatus final.

Zhang Boheng wins Asian Games