Plenty of potential here.
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Olga Astafyeva – Bars
Plenty of potential here.
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Category: Gymnastics
Johanna Quaas competing at age 91
Johanna just competed the Deutches Turnfest in Berlin, likely the largest sporting festival and competition in the world with an attendance this year of 80,000 competitors aged 4-94.
… Today, it appears she plans to keep competing until she can’t, which may be a while because she says it’s precisely her competing that keeps her young.
‘My face is old but my heart is young’: World’s oldest gymnast still has moves at 91
Yvonne Tousek – thumbs around the Bar
Double Olympian and 2001 NCAA women’s Bar champion Yvonne Tousek has just retired as a performer with Cirque du Soleil.
Now Yvonne Tousek Renne, she’s joined Cirque du Soleil’s Casting Team as an Acrobatic Talent Scout.
Around 1999 Yvonne began swinging Bars with — as much as possible — her thumbs around the Bar. You have more control.
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Mike Rowe now MSU Head Coach
Rowe has spent the last three seasons as assistant coach at his alma mater, joining the coaching staff in 2014. He was an integral part in returning Spartan gymnastics team to NCAA postseason competition in 2015, placing fourth at the Iowa State Regional and ending the season with a No. 26 national ranking. …
Mike Rowe Named Michigan State University Head Gymnastics Coach
Aly Raisman book in time for Christmas
Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything
Fierce is slated for publication on November 14.
Olympic Gymnast Aly Raisman Is Turning Her Private Journals Into a Memoir
Oleg Verniaiev interview
The most interesting I’ve ever seen from Oleg. He has no plans to slow down nor stop competing the AA.
VERNIAIEV: IF I’M COMPLETELY READY IN TOKYO, KOHEI WON’T BEAT ME
Gemini Gymnastics and Elena Davydova
A short feature on Gemini Gymnastics and Head Coach / Owner, Elena Davydova, 1980 Olympic All Around Champion.
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Shilese Jones – LOSO LOSO LO
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Japanese Women’s Team to Worlds
Japan chooses their teams earlier than any of the other major nations.
Murakami, Sugihara, Miyakawa and Teramoto.
Miyakawa, Teramoto qualify for gymnastics worlds
VAULT
1-Sae Miyakawa – 14.850
2-Soyoka Hanawa – 14.400
3-Hinako Bundo – 14.075
BARS
1-Hitomi Hatakeda – 13.950
2-Asuka Teramoto – 13.800
3-Yuriko Yamamoto – 13.750
BEAM
1-Asuka Teramoto – 14.100
2-Natsumi Sasada – 13.900
3-Urara Ashikawa – 13.450
FLOOR
1-Sae Miyakawa – 14.100
2-Mai Murakami – 14.000
3-Mana Oguchi – 13.450
(via dobleenplancha)
BIG upgrades for Uchimura on H Bar
Already qualified for Worlds, Kohei tried and got through a 6.9 routine.
Over-scored at 15.750 … but it’s clear the King is not coasting this quadrennial.
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