Category: vault

Makenzie Wilson – Vault

MadisonΒ Dorunda – Vault

Lands like a dart.

Men’s wk 3 top routines

All 6 apparatus.

Hmm. Fred Richard used a Free Hip on H Bar.

I haven’t seen that skill in an elite routine in some time.

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Leah Smith – Vault

WOW

top men’s NCAA routines – week 2

  • FLOOR: Emre Dodanli (Oklahoma) – 14.75
  • POMMEL: Khoi Young (Stanford) – 14.85
  • RINGS: Javier Alfonso (Michigan) – 15.10
  • VAULT: David Wolma (Michigan) – 14.90
  • PARALLEL BARS: Asher Hong (Stanford) – 14.45
  • HIGH BAR: Caden Spencer (Ohio State) – 14.35

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Vault – Arianna Patterson & Haleigh Bryant

Fantastic.

George Eyser – amputee Olympic gymnast

George Eyser was a German-American gymnast who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics, earning six medals in one day, including three gold and two silver medals.

Eyser competed with a wooden prosthesis for a left leg, having lost his real leg after being run over by a train. Despite his disability, he won gold in the vault, an event which then included a jump over a long horse without aid of a springboard. …

The Paralympic Games began 1948. Most physically challenged athletes now compete there.

Prior to 2008, Eyser was the only person with an artificial leg to have competed at the Olympic Games. In 2008, Natalie du Toit, a South African swimmer who lost her left leg in a traffic accident, participated in the 10 km marathon at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and finished 16th …

Read more βž™ George Eyser: Medals, mystery and the Games’ first amputee

Thanks Jim Holt for remembering Eyser, one of the most amazing Olympic stories of all time.

Sage Kellerman – Vault

I’m OK with 10.0 for this one.

Chae Campbell – Vault

Skye Blakely training Cheng

I like the “set“. 

And correct alignment on the horse.

She could train with Rebeca and be very respectable.