tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
1. Whitlock: 15.966
2. Smith: 15.833
3. Naddour: 15.700
Tommasone 15.6
Belyavskiy 15.4
Kuksenkov 15.233
Merdinyan 14.933
Verniaiev 12.4
I feel good for Alex Naddour. And for USA. He was fortunate today, however, to hang on to the Bronze.
The three least stretched circles are on the podium. Seems extension is not the priority of FIG MTC.
The new normal. No Chinese gymnasts in the Pommel final.
On Floor exercise Andreas Toba, the lead off gymnast, injured his knee on his first tumbling pass.
“I knew immediately that something was wrong,” he said. “I cried like a little kid. I had hopes to make the All-around final here, but it was not to be.”
Teammate Marcel Nguyen empathised: “It really broke my heart,” he said. “I know how hard he has been fighting for this competition. He wanted to fulfil his dream here, competing and qualify for the All-around final. And then this happens.”
Andreas Toba was unable to finish his earlier floor routine after badly injuring his knee in qualifications. But not wanting to let down Team Germany, he fought through the pain to compete on pommel horse.
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If he’d not competed Germany would not have qualified to the Team final. Respect.
As it turned out they would have finished top 8 without that routine. But Toba did not know that at the time.
I’ve used a few of these (home made) devices over the years.
More of a novelty than an actual training device, in my opinion.
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For doing Pommel Horse at work. 🙂
Triple Russian on 1 pommel as well as triple Russian in the middle.
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The European Champion 2016 has already qualified to Rio.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. 15.366 (Difficulty : 6.900 ; Execution : 8.466)
This is the winning routine in the 1964 AAU Nationals (the precursor to the USGF and USA gymnastics). Mills also won the NCAA Championships in 1963 and 1964, coached by Don Tonry and . competing for Yale University. When Mills hit his routines, he was unbeatable in the US and probably by anyone in the world at that time. There was no international competition for specialists during the period. The mount here is a back Moore, caught a bit late by the camera.
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