Super potential. Looks tough and consistent, despite the fall on P Bars dismount.
Yet it seems near impossible he could contend for the 2020 Olympic team. Japan is simply too deep.
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Category: Gymnastics
Olympic Rings champ out of Worlds
YOG Champion Giorgia Villa
1. Giorgia Villa ITA 54.066
2. Amelie Morgan GBR 53.432
3. Anastasiia Bachynska UKR 52.332
4. Tang Xijing CHN 52.264
5. Ksenia Klimenko RUS 51.199
6. Emma Slevin IRL 50.499
It’s another fantastic result for Amelie Morgan.
But the biggest shout out has to go to Ireland’s Emma Slevin. Congratulations.
USA names Worlds Team
Alternate to be decided later.
AA at USA selection camp
1. Simone Biles 59.700
2. Riley McCusker 57.250
3 .Grace McCallum 55.400
4. Morgan Hurd 55.250
5. Ragan Smith 55.050
6. Kara Eaker 55.000
7. Jordan Chiles 54.700
8. Shilese Jones 54.000
9. Alyona Shchennikova 53.350
If they are missing Marta, the scores aren’t showing it.
As always, the Head Coach gets too much credit when athletes win. Too much of the blame when they lose.
The BILES on Vault
Wow.
G.O.A.T.
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Eddie Penev noted that Simone would be the ANCHOR vault on the U.S. Men’s Team.
Youth Olympic Games Champ Takeru Kitazono
He’s the BIG story in the men’s competition.
1. Takeru Kitazono JPN 82.298
2. Sergei Naidin RUS 80.498
3. Diogo Soares BRA 80.265
4. Brandon Briones USA 80.131
5. Adam Tobin GBR 79.573
6. Nazar Chepurnyi UKR 79.331
Juniors count 2 less skills than seniors.
top Worlds contenders on Beam
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I’ll be in Doha covering the competition — and human rights issues — starting Oct 21st.
2019 Europeans in Szczecin, Poland
10–14 April 2019. MAG and WAG.
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Shawn Johnson went to regular school
Shawn on Freakonomics:
… My coach was Chinese, born and raised Chinese. When he was three years old, living in China, he was taken away from his family and actually put into their Olympic system. And raised to be an Olympic gymnast in China. And he kind of had this career within the gymnastics world in China that I would say almost traumatized him. He lost his childhood. He kind of lost his family in this trend. This crazy career.
So when he was 21 years old he actually left China, came to the United States, opened a gym in West Des Moines, Iowa, of all places. And had this dream, this American dream, to raise an Olympian or Olympians that were also children and how to balance in life and were fun loving and had a true childhood.
And I was really really blessed to fall under his guidance and his coaching because he let me go to school. I mean not even let me. He kind of demanded that we go to a full day of school. He encouraged us to go to school dances, to go to Dairy Queen after practice. He incentivized us by letting us sleep over at the gym and have popcorn and ice cream. And he just was this fun loving guy.
And I think because he let us have fun as children, but yet pushed us and challenged us at the same time, it challenged us and encouraged us to go farther in the sport. And I feel the intensity of elite athletics, you weed out a lot of people just because you burn them out so quickly. So no, I don’t think the intensity is necessary. I think you need intense training but in small doses, not the 80 hours a week people think. …
(via Steve Arkell)
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