I’ve only heard great things about the competition. Azerbaijan is a great host.
With four medals, including golds from Olympic hopefuls Coline Devillard and Marine Boyer, the 2024 Olympic host nation emerged as the most successful at the third of four FIG World Cup events. …
Yulo, the 23-year-old from Manila displayed his usual impeccable form as he sailed to the titles on men’s Vault and Parallel Bars, ending Illia Kovtun’s (UKR) streak of six World Cup titles on the latter. …
Local hero Nikita Simonov (AZE) earned the host nation’s only medal with his win on Still Rings …
Oui, Baku! 😍
Gymnasts from France 🇫🇷 were right at home at the Baku World Cup last week, as was a certain Carlos Yulo from the Philippines 🇵🇭.
Ironically, the first must-have on Utah associate head coach Carly Dockendorf’s checklist of essentials for a Red Rocks beam worker is something she didn’t possess as an athlete herself: a love for the apparatus.
“To be honest, I was terrible at beam as a gymnast,” admitted Dockendorf. “It was my worst event. …
… last season their beam NQS was the highest in the NCAA on any apparatus—a feat they’re in the process of repeating with their 49.670 leading the nation currently. …
MAG judges rarely credit vaulters with FAR superior form in the air. Happily, Yulo took the gold as he is FAR cleaner than most of the rest.
Carlos Yulo 🇵🇭 vaults a masterful Blanik (handspring double front pike). His legs and feet never come apart, his pike position is sublime, his landing extremely well controlled. He controls his Lopez well too, just a step back. 14.933 average gives Yulo the lead! #FIGWorldCuppic.twitter.com/pmKK5X3WSS
Marine Boyer 🇫🇷 is the golden gymnast on Women's Floor Exercise in Baku 🇦🇿! The two-time Olympian keeps her tumbling simple with a front layout full to punch front and a double pike, while packing a punch in her dance elements. The result is 12.833, and the title for Boyer! 🥇 pic.twitter.com/GHPhh6jIRM