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Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos – Floor
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Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos – Bars
One of the very best gymnasts in the world.
5th at Worlds 2017, her AA during team finals would have been 56.266. Seems to me Mélanie is getting stronger and more consistent.
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Excellent bars routine from Melanie de Jesus dos Santos that helped France secure the team silver medal!
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UEG (@UEGymnastics) August 04, 2018
She was born in Martinique, Schoelcher of a Portuguese father and a mother from Martinique.
Ksenia Klimenko – Bars
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partial list of gymnasts NOT at Europeans
Many of these Seniors, but not all, were taken off teams due to injury. Gymnastics is a dangerous sport.
Rune Hermans BEL
Julie Meyers BEL
Nora Fernandez ESP
Sophie Scheder GER
Becky Downie GBR
Zsófia Kovács HUN
Lilja Olafsdottir ISL
Ofir Kremer ISR
Meitar Lavy ISR
Shailee Weiss ISR
Eythora Thorsdottir NED
Maria Kharenkova RUS
Viktoria Komova RUS
Anamaria Ocolișan ROM
Rafaela Ferreira POR
Klara Kopec POL
Lynn Genhart SUI
Giulia Steingruber SUI
via Wikipedia
Zsófia Kovács, for example, has a strange abdominal tear. She’s hoping to recover in time for Worlds.
Ellie Black and some Kid
At the Nova Scotia banquet honouring their best athletes all time.
She’s with Sidney “Sid the Kid” Crosby, captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the NHL, widely regarded as one of the greatest hockey players of all time.
Russia – European Champions
1. Russia 165.195
2. France 161.131
3. Netherlands 159.563
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
4. Great Britain 157.263
5. Ukraine 152.129
6. Italy 151.496
7. Spain 150.063
8. Hungary 149.729
Great day. 12/12 RUS were very deserving of the win after having qualified in second position.
Angelina: “I’m so happy. I have no words! I want to thank all our coaches and all the people who support us.”
OK … who forgot to bring the Dutch flag? 🙂
Netherlands is thrilled. Only 2 years ago they didn’t qualify for top 8.
Italy has to be satisfied too after having qualified 9th. Congratulations.
Host GBR certainly could have, should have been on the team podium. They were top 3 on everything … aside from 8th on BEAM.
UEG – Russian women successfully defend their European team title
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Kim Bui – Bars
From prelims. There were quite a few excellent Bhardwaj releases. Including Kim’s.
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Joanne Bowers to San José
the Katelyn Ohashi story
… What’s different between now and then?
“I’ve discovered things from being severely injured, to having gymnastics being taken away from me, and I realized this isn’t forever,” she says.
“When I was in elite, [I was] living in black and white, whereas now I feel like I live more in full color.” …
How Katelyn Ohashi Rediscovered Gymnastics on Her Own Terms
The athlete on the satisfying differences between collegiate and elite gymnastics.
Italy wins Jr Europeans
1. Italy 161.063
2. Russia 160.363
3. GBR 158.931
4. ROU 154.862
5. FRA 154.729
6. BEL 154.231
7. GER 152.897
8. UKR 151.796
Two fantastic teams fought it out for Gold. Two great performances.
By the numbers Russia was the favourite.
Russian Juniors Fighting for Ninth Consecutive Euros Team Title
Watching podium training I felt Italy looked more confident. Aggressive. Tough.
It was close coming down to Italy’s last apparatus. With 3 double twisting vaults, very well executed, Italy took the historic title.
I congratulated Italian Head Coach Enrico Casella. He was very happy. Looking forward to challenging for Tokyo 2020.
GBR thrilled the large, young home audience hitting 16/16 to take team Bronze. This meet was the big goal of their Junior program. Mission accomplished. 🙂
One huge highlight of the day was Romania’s 4th place finish. Nobody has much faith these days. The girls proved everyone wrong. Congratulations.
Antonia Duta missed a foot on Beam double back dismount, landing badly. Happily she is OK.
Denisa Golgota is as talented as any Junior in Europe. Keep her healthy and happy. Keep them all healthy and happy.
related – Bea Gheorghisor posted her feelings on the 12th place finish of the Romanian senior team, the first time they’ve ever not qualified to the 8 team final.
France did look fantastic too. Great potential. Well coached.
The junior competition itself was much better than I expected. Fewer falls than in podium training. The majority of these young women handled the pressure of the big stage.
