Category: Gymnastics

Norik Avdalyan’s soccer goal back flip

Norik Avdalyan was playing for Kazan against Cheboksary in Russia’s National Student League …

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Here’s another one. Joonas Jokinen in Switzerland 2011. I’m assuming neither coach was amused.

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Lisa Mitzel to TOPS Camp

Lisa Mitzel won 4 consecutive NCAA Championships with University of Utah.  And went on to coach at Stanford.

Today she’s a psychologist and author of:

“Focused and On Fire: The Athlete’s Guide to Mental Training & Kicking Butt”

“Focused and Inspired: Keeping Our Athletes Safe in a Win-at-All-Costs Word”

YOG Rings finalists

1. Takeru Kitazono JPN 13.700
2. Brandon Briones USA 13.533
3. Yin Dehang CHN 13.500
4. Felix Dolci CAN 13.466
5. Adam Tobin GBR 13.300
6. Olegs Ivanovs LAT 13.100
7. Diogo Soares BRA 12.966
8. Lay Giannini ITA 12.900

Felix

Giorgia Villa leads YOG vault

Finalists:

1. Giorgia Villa ITA 14.083
2. Anastasiia Bachynska UKR 13.816
3. Emma Spence CAN 13.791
4. Amelie Morgan GBR 13.449
5. Csenge Bacskay HUN 13.416
6. Lisa Zimmermann GER 13.299
7. Kate Sayer AUS 13.200
8. Emma Slevin IRL 13.200

https://twitter.com/TeamIreland/status/1049363090930847745

Emma was Ireland’s Opening Ceremony Flag Bearer. And I can remember when her club in Galway — Renmore — was still set-up, take-down. They’ve come a long way! 🙂

Brandon Briones leads MAG FX prelims

9.200 E-score!

1 BRIONES Brandon USA 4.700 9.200 13.900
2 NAIDIN Sergei RUS 5.000 8.800 13.800
3 TOBIN Adam GBR 4.900 8.733 13.633
4 GIANNINI Lay ITA 4.500 9.066 13.566
5 CHEPURNYI Nazar UKR 5.000 8.666 -0.1 13.566
6 BALAZS Krisztian HUN 5.000 8.533 13.533
7 KITAZONO Takeru JPN 4.900 8.600 13.500
8 SCHWED Daniel GER 4.600 8.883 13.483

Full ranking.

meet Takeru Kitazono

Japan’s competitor at Youth Olympic Games. He leads the Pommel qualifications.

1. Takeru Kitazono JPN 14.133
2. Yin Dehang CHN 13.866
3. Sergei Naidin RUS 13.666
4. Daniel Schwed GER 13.233
5. Hajlari Bohloulzade IRI 13.166
6. Adam Tobin GBR 13.000
7. Diogo Soares BRA 12.733
8. Ayan Moldagaliyev KAZ 12.725

He’s very ambitious.

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related – MAG Former Youth Olympic Stars- Where are They Now?

Giulia Steingruber interview

Giulia will not be back to competition before 2019. But she is making good recovery from the ACL tear and meniscus damage.

Giulia Steingruber injured her knee in July and is missing the rest of the season because of it. She gave an interview to Aargauezeitung about dealing with the injury and her goals and dreams.

The translation from German was done by Emma Bateman. …

STEINGRUBER: I’M NOT A YOUNG GYMNAST ANYMORE

Congratulations Giulia Steingruber

Anastasia Bachynska leads FX at YOGs

Here are the 8 finalists.

WAG does one apparatus a day for the first 4 days. YES this is a crazy idea.

YOG women’s competition

Ksenia Klimenko, Giorgia Villa, Anastasia Bachynska, Amelie Morgan, Tang Xijing, Lee Yun-seo, Emma Spence …

The competition is held over several days starting with WAG FX, MAG PH and FX.

Why would they do that? 🙄

Competitors have been drawn into 12 teams of 13 athletes each, comprising of one acrobatic pair, three men’s artistic and three women’s artistic gymnasts, three rhythmic specialists and one female and one male trampoline gymnast. …

GYMNASTICS PREVIEW

Top Juniors to Face Off at Youth Olympic Games