1. China 165.250
2. PRK 157.350
3. Japan 157.150
4. Korea 150.350
5. Taipei 142.800
6. Malaysia 140.100
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Category: Gymnastics
Chinese men win Asian Games 2018
1. CHN 260.950
2. JPN 248.550
3. KOR 247.400
4. TPE 240.300
5. VIE 234.750
6. KAZ 234.300
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China sent a top team. Japan is waiting for Worlds.
U.S. Pan Am Games team
Jade Carey, Phoenix, Ariz./Arizona Sunrays
Kara Eaker, Grain Valley, Missouri/ Great American Gymnastics Express
Shilese Jones, Westerville, Ohio/Future Gymnastics Academy
Grace McCallum, Isanti, Minn./Twin City Twisters
Trinity Thomas, York, Pennsylvania/Prestige
Alternate: Alyona Shchennikova, Evergreen, Colo./5280 Gymnastics
why Simone wore teal
The ‘Go Teal’ campaign was started at Michigan State where Nassar was a former doctor. The campaign was designed to give students the opportunity to stand in solidarity with the survivors who came forth to testify during Nassar’s hearing.
Teal ribbons, t-shirts, posters and more covered campus, using the color to inspire a new movement that applauds survivors for their courage. …
Not Just ‘Little Girls in Pretty Boxes’
Rachel Nickens, a doctoral candidate in sociology and a USA Gymnastics coach and judge, spent a year observing training sessions and competitions, and conducted in-depth interviews at three gyms with 20 gymnasts ages 11 to 17 in Junior Olympics levels eight, nine and 10.
The interviews were part of a larger ethnographic study on youth gymnastics. Nickens also drew on data from another 18 interviews with adolescent male gymnasts, coaches and parents.
Nickens will present her study, “Not Just ‘Little Girls in Pretty Boxes’: The Everyday Experiences of Adolescent Female Gymnasts” in Philadelphia at the 113th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association …
… when gymnasts define and explain their athletic participation, they mostly talk about practice, teamwork, the joy of physicality, and the reward of overcoming challenges and fears. While they define themselves as gymnasts, they also define themselves as athletes and students, friends and leaders.”
Nickens said that at the moderately high level, gymnastics might not be all that different from any other sport—both in its rewards and in its challenges.
Despite olympic gymnastics’ woes, sport is mostly positive for teen girls
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There is a group of people I refer to as the burn it all down crowd.
They believe Gymnastics is intrinsically harmful for girls. (They mostly ignore male gymnasts.)
That’s nonsense, of course. There’s no sport which rewards participants as richly in motor and physical fitness. For girls in particular, competitive Gymnastics is a great way to grow up. It seems to me gymnasts are disproportionately successful in later life compared with other sports. The discipline and persistence transfers. Gymnasts consistently get some of the best grades amongst NCAA sports.
As coaches we need maximize the benefits, minimize the risks for all our athletes.
Thanks Jim.
CHEERS to the 2008 American Olympics
… 2008 Olympians and alternates were recognized in Boston during the senior women’s final session: women – Shawn Johnson East, Nastia Liukin, Chellsie Memmel, Samantha Peszek, Bridget Sloan and alternates Jana Bieger and Ivana Hong; and men – Alexander Artemev, Raj Bhavsar, Joey Hagerty, Jonathan Horton, Justin Spring, Kevin Tan and David Durante, alternate.
Corrie Lothrop and Alicia Sacramone Quinn were unable to attend the August 19 recognition.
2018 marks the 10th anniversary of the 2008 team’s 10-medal performance at the Olympic Games, which at that time was the USA’s most medals since the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and at a non-boycotted Olympic Games. …
USAG
Kara Eaker – oh the flow
If only all Beam routines were so enjoyable to watch.
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(via Couch Gymnast)
P Bar hang skills
Training at Okohama Jr High School.
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European Games June 2019 Minsk
2019 European Games (also known as the second European Games) will be held in Minsk, Belarus from 21 June to 30 June 2019. The games will feature 208 events in 15 sports (23 disciplines). The organizers expect around 4,000 athletes from 50 countries. …
Gymnastics at the games will be held in five categories: artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, trampolining, acrobatics, and aerobics. All competitions will take place at the Minsk-Arena with a capacity of 8,000 seats. …
The 2018 Artistic Gymnastics European Championships in Glasgow (GBR) served as the first qualifying competition for next year’s European Games.
The teams finishing in the top 6 of the team qualification are guaranteed two non-nominative entries for their national federation.
In the men’s competition the top 6 countries were
Russia, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Turkey and France.
And in the women’s competition:
France, Russia, Belgium, Great Britain, Netherlands and Hungary.
At the 2019 European Championships in Artistic Gymnastics, to be held from 10 to 14 April 2019 in Szczecin (POL), nominative places will be decided. The second edition of the European Games will be held from 21 to 30 June 2019 in Minsk (BLR)
I got most of this information from Luba. Thanks!
U.S. National Teams 2018-19
Simone Biles, Spring, Texas/World Champions Centre
Jade Carey, Phoenix, Ariz./Arizona Sunrays
Kara Eaker, Grain Valley, Missouri/ Great American Gymnastics Express
Morgan Hurd, Middletown, Del./First State Gymnastics
Shilese Jones, Westerville, Ohio/Future Gymnastics Academy
Grace McCallum, Isanti, Minn./Twin City Twisters
Riley McCusker, Brielle, N.J./MG Elite
Trinity Thomas, York, Pennsylvania/Prestige
Jr National team:
Skye Blakely, Frisco, Texas/WOGA
Kayla DiCello, Boyds, Md./Hill’s Gymnastics
Olivia Greaves, Staten Island, New York/MG Elite
Sunisa Lee, St. Paul, Minn./Midwest Gymnastics Center
Konnor McClain, Cross Lanes, W.Va./Revolution
Leanne Wong, Overland Park, Kansas/Great American Gymnastics Express
Women’s gymnastics annual awards for 2018:
Coach of the Year: Slava Glazounov, First State Gymnastics
Sportswoman of the Year: Riley McCusker
Athlete of the Year: Morgan Hurd, First State Gymnastics
Star Service Award: Kathy Ostberg
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