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10 highest team scores this Quad
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15 highest AA scores this Quad
Filatova, Mukhina, Shaposhnikova
Gymnastics in Ireland 2016
Nina Dewael – Bars
Nina could have one of the highest start values in the world in 2017.
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Nina was 19th AA in Rio, the best rank ever by a Belgian at the Olympics.
related – Belgian Gymnastics – My 2016 Highlights!
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nations with Olympic gymnasts for the 1st time
Toni-Ann Williams (Jamaica)
Irina Sazonova (Iceland)
Ariana Orrego (Peru)
Ellis O’Reilly (Ireland)
Dipa Karmakar (India)
Houry Gebeshian (Armenia)
Marisa Dick (Trinidad and Tobago)
Farah Boufadene (Algeria)
Isabella Amado Medrano (Panama)Olympics of Records: The First Female Gymnasts Who Represented Their Country In Rio 2016
Of those only Dipa has trained exclusively in her home nation. #respect
the one thing the Gymternet agrees on
Russia finally admits to doping
Russia is for the first time conceding that its officials carried out one of the biggest conspiracies in sports history: a far-reaching doping operation …
Over several days of interviews here with The New York Times, Russian officials said they no longer disputed a damning set of facts that detailed a doping program with few, if any, historical precedents.
“It was an institutional conspiracy,” Anna Antseliovich, the acting director general of Russia’s national antidoping agency, said …
Russians No Longer Dispute Olympic Doping Operation
They still claim Putin did not know.
Russia was stripped of speedskating and biathlon events it was due to host this winter. Russia had previously been denied hosting world bobsled and skeleton championships.
Simone Biles AP Female Athlete of the Year
This is big.
In a vote by U.S. editors and news directors announced Monday, Biles received 31 votes out of a possible 59 votes.
U.S. Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky, who won four golds and a silver in Rio, finished second with 20 votes. Serena Williams, who won Wimbledon for the seventh time to tie Steffi Graf’s record of 22 Grand Slam titles, and three-time NCAA women’s basketball Player of the Year Breanna Stewart tied for third with four votes each. …
Gymnastics in the good ol’ days …
Rebecca Johnson – 12 Things I’ll Never Forget From My Young Gymnastics Days
#7. I spent hours on end playing Barbie Team Gymnastics on the computer. Best. game. ever.
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