Category: Gymnastics

2021 USA Jr National Team

  • Charlotte Booth, Clermont, Fla./Brandy Johnson’s Global Gymnastics
  • Kailin Chio, Henderson, Nev./Gymcats Gymnastics
  • Madray Johnson, Dallas, Texas/WOGA Gymnastics
  • Katelyn Jong, Allen, Texas/Metroplex Gymnastics
  • Avery King, Dallas, Texas/WOGA Gymnastics
  • Kaliya Lincoln, Frisco, Texas/WOGA Gymnastics
  • Ella Kate Parker, West Chester, Ohio/Cincinnati Gymnastics
  • Joscelyn Roberson, Texarkana, Texas/North East Texas Elite Gymnastics
  • Gabriella Van Frayen, Lewis Center, Ohio/Gym X-Treme

Due to Covid, very few of these up-and-coming gymnasts have had much Junior competitive experience.

Five gymnasts were also selected to represent the U.S. at the 2021 Junior Pan American Championships June 18-20 in Guadalajara, Mexico:

  • Kailin Chio, Henderson, Nev./Gymcats Gymnastics
  • Madray Johnson, Dallas, Texas/WOGA Gymnastics
  • Katelyn Jong, Allen, Texas/Metroplex Gymnastics
  • Kaliya Lincoln, Frisco, Texas/WOGA Gymnastics
  • Joscelyn Roberson, Texarkana, Texas/North East Texas Elite Gymnastics (traveling replacement athlete)

Jong pulls away from field to claim 2021 U.S. Gymnastics Championships junior all-around title, Junior Pan American Championships team named

Jr USA Champion Katelyn Jong

Congratulations Katelyn Jong, your 2021 Junior Women’s All-Around national champion! 🥇 #USGymChamps

Katelyn closing down Junior Women's #USGymChamps in style! 💫

Originally tweeted by USA Gymnastics (@USAGym) on June 6, 2021.

Japan names Men’s Olympic team

Hashimoto Daiki
Kaya Kazuma
Tanigawa Wataru
Kitazono Takeru

And Kohei, age-32, for the plus one pick.

In the complicated and very competitive Japanese selection procedure, Kohei tied with Yonekura Hidenobu, the Vault specialist.

Kohei got the tie-breaker for his higher world ranking.

Simone and Kohei Uchimura will be the biggest NAMES in Gymnastics at the Olympics.

Stephen Nedoroscik 15.100

Legit score.

Steve wasn’t thrilled with his routine day 1. But he’ll be happy with this one.

He’d quite likely qualify for the Olympic Pommel Final. Some of the best guys in the world didn’t qualify.

Alex Diab would be another good pick. A certain Rings finalist.

Eddie Penev would be the 3rd possible specialist for Floor.

USA doesn’t have a great chance for a team medal in 2021. They COULD select the team to maximize possible Finals. Two AA and 3 specialists with the PLUS 1. But that’s highly unlikely.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Listen to an interview from between the two competition days.

How Adult Gymnastics Brought Her Back | Mary-Anne "Mez" Monckton – GymnasticsVille Podcast

Two Commonwealth Games silver medals. Three World Championships. A skill in the FIG Code of Points with her name on it. And then Mary-Anne "Mez" Monckton walked away from gymnastics entirely. This week on Back to Basics by GymnasticsVille, Mez joins the show to talk about the full arc: getting talent-ID'd by the Australian Institute of Sport at age 7, moving to Melbourne alone at 15, silver at Glasgow 2014, the ACL tear training for the Rio test event, retirement in 2017, and the night at a Calgary gym in 2023 when a coach's words made her cry on the floor and brought her back to the sport. Today Mez runs CAPTivate Adult Gymnastics in her hometown of Newcastle, Australia. In one year she has grown it from 20 athletes to more than 85, trained 10 coaches, and built a program proving it's never too late to fall back in love with gymnastics. Find CAPTivate: https://captivategymnastics.com.au Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/fuaM0dju-yk Follow GymnasticsVille: Instagram: @gymnasticsville TikTok: @gymnasticsvillehq X: @gymnasticsville Host: Mubarak Simmons, GymnasticsVille Host
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Andrade & Alvarado Olympic quota spots

Fan favourite Rebeca Andrade (56.700) has qualified another spot for Brazil in Tokyo. It’s certain she’ll be chosen to join Flavia.

Rebeca has had to come back from SO MANY injuries. I hope she feels it’s all been worth it.

Luciana Alvarado (50.833) will represent Costa Rica at the Olympics. I’m certain she’ll get the spot, as well. Congratulations.

I do feel badly for Canadian gymnasts who might have won an extra Olympic spot. Canada opted not to attend due to Covid.

Click PLAY or watch Rebeca’s 4 routines on YouTube.

Kohei 15.766 H Bar

The best Horizontal Bar routine ever competed.

Prove me wrong.

His Kolman is now more like a “timer” for Bretschneider.

AND he could add a 5th release to increase difficulty. Any time.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Victor Levinkov invented Yurchenko

I’m one of those who feel we should resist calling out mainstream media when they make mistakes.

Bite your tongue for a few months. Let’s take advantage of increased attention.

After Tokyo, popular media will go back to mostly ignoring Gymnastics.

Natalia Yurchenko:

“This vault is in the code of points under my own name.

Indeed, I was the first gymnast to do this vault during an official competition. It was in Moscow during the Competition in 1982. …

Few people know that the first gymnast who performed this vault was a male gymnast!

It was invented by Russian gymnast Victor Levinkov during a national competition in Former USSR. 

But this vault was not well accepted in the male Russian gymnastics. So my trainer has decided that I should do it and I began to learn it.

First I thought that my coach has gone crazy and wanted me to break my neck. …

NataliaYurchenko.com

Click PLAY or watch Natalia in 1982 on YouTube.