wrapping up WAG Winter Cup

Full results with athlete profile links.

Chiles Explosive as First-Ever Women’s Winter Cup Champion

Lauren Hopkins made the trip despite having to quarantine on her return home.

What we learnt from USA Gymnastics’ Winter Cup competition

That’s Scott Bregman’s takeaways from the first elite gymnastics competition in the United States in nearly a year.

SATO Hiroaki – Yurchenko tutorial

Hiro is MAG National Coach for Japan and Uchimura’s personal coach.

Kohei the BASICS demonstrator.

Very clear. One of the best FIG presentations during the pandemic, so far.

The tutorial itself starts here.

Stephen Nedoroscik – Pommels

Techno beat helped him stay on the difficult set.

Highest score of Winter Cup. 15.60

He missed on day 1. The FINAL was determined by 2-day combined.

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Winter Cup MAG Finals

The bad news, NO routine videos online.

You must purchase a FLOGymnastics membership to watch MAG Finals.

I’d love to see how much USAG is making from that contract — compared against money lost by lack of exposure of the sport to the general public.

2021 U.S. MAG Sr Team

Congrats.

Jordan Chiles – Beam

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Laurie Hernandez – Floor

With the depressing bad Gymnastics news on mainstream media, all the positive stories about Laurie’s comeback have been welcome.

We knew her choreography would be awesome, but I’m impressed with the tumbling, as well.

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Asher Hong wins Jr Winter Cup

Heart this.

Counting only 8 skills instead of the 10 in Senior, that’s a terrific score.