Simone Biles 58.400
- Jordan Chiles 57.100
- Kayla DiCello 56.100
- Grace McCallum 55.100
- Aleah Finnegan 54.150
- Leanne Wong 54.100
- Skye Blakely 54.000
- Emily Lee 53.900
- Kara Eaker 53.250
- MyKayla Skinner 53.050
Category: history
Simone competes Yurchenko Double Pike
Making HISTORY … again.
Amazing.
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It’s this kind of thing that keeps the greatest of all time motivated.
Nancy Armour – Simone Biles maintains gold standard despite 19-month layoff between competitions
Simone – shock and disbelief
Many male gymnasts have done Yurchenko Double Pike into the PIT.
On to competition mats, very few.
None this easily.
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Simone’s Yurchenko Double Pike
Kerri Strug biopic ‘Perfect’
… The film is an intimate and unflinching portrait of grit and determination, Perfect charts the story behind Kerri Strug’s historic Olympic vault to secure America’s first ever gymnastics team gold. …
Deadline
Let’s hope they tell the TRUE story.
This will put Bela Karolyi back under the media spotlight.
1969 NCAA Champions Iowa
Iowa men’s gymnastics ended its final season this month, meaning the 1969 Hawkeyes stand as the program’s only national championship team. …
Men’s gymnastics has been an NCAA-sanctioned sport at the UI since 1922. …
… “That’s when, for the first time that season, all of us hit our routine,” McCanless said. “There were no breaks, minor or major.” …
‘Sadly, I feel that we’re all now just ghosts’: 1969 men’s gymnastics Hawkeyes stand alone as national champions
History of Trampoline
Greg Roe posted a long, entertaining interview with legendary builder Ron Munn.
I learned a lot.
Ronnie, Pan American Games Trampoline Champ, worked with George Nissen, the co-inventor of the Trampoline.
Ronnie eventually married George Nissen’s daughter, Dagmar.
George and the famed Larry Griswald at University of Iowa constructed the first trampoline.
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Rome Milan has died
One of the great personalities of American Gymnastics passed away of Lou Gehrig’s Disease complications.
Rest In Peace.
1st triple pike in competition
Michigan wins 1st Championship
A miracle finish on Beam.
Michigan 198.250
Oklahoma 198.1625
Utah 197.9875
Florida 197.1375
