tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
Click PLAY or watch our defending Olympic Champ on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lczi14VyB0
Click PLAY or watch Aly’s (much improved) on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylt10z412AY
Both got 15.766. Clearly the judges over-scored Aly in comparison. 😦
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(via Personal Musings and Jordyn’s Left Eyebrow)
Magnetic imaging of his knee showed a tear in his front cruciate ligament as well as meniscus damage in the knee, the German Olympic Sports Federation said.
Toba will have to be operated on and will fly back to Germany once he is no longer in pain, gymnastics team official Sven Karg said.
The gymnast ruptured the cruciate ligament during the floor exercise but astonishingly still competed on the pommel horse afterwards …
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Fabian Hambüchen feels FIG rules are pushing too much difficulty. I agree. Especially on Vault.
Brazil is bringing the house down in Rio.
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https://twitter.com/coach_megan_/status/762349534542458880
She submitted a new tumbling element – double back with 1 1/2 twist (G) – but didn’t compete it. Yet.
It’s great to see Rebeca recover from her 2015 ACL injury on Vault to make it to the BIG show.
Update – She competed a terrific Amanar, as well.
It doesn’t look like she’ll qualify to the Vault final.
https://twitter.com/uncletimmensgym/status/762347182632546304
Element description: A hecht mount with a 360 degree turn with repulsion off the low bar to the high bar.
Element value: D
Note: Gebeshian is Armenia’s first ever female gymnast to compete at an Olympic Games.
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That’s one of 11 possible new elements that have been submitted to FIG.
via Gymternet Clan
I don’t want to watch the video. 😦
It was a compound fracture of his tibia/fibula. He will have surgery in Rio.
Recall Samir missed the 2012 Olympic Games because of a knee injury on Dragulescu at the European championships in Monptellier.
There’s too much incentive to throw dangerous vaults in both MAG & WAG. I blame FIG rules. 😦
Fabian Hambüchen spoke out to the media on this point after his teammate Toba was injured.
In prelims. That score looks low, especially compared with Hypolito.
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The Gymternet has an interesting guest post trying to estimate which nations inflate FIG scores most.
Austria is the biggest offender.
Surprisingly, Russian scores at home are about right. (That seems impossible to me. They do inflate.)
Click through to read that analysis for yourself – The Truth About Domestic Overscoring
For example, the Nguyen.
If done successfully at any time during the Games, these elements will be officially named for the gymnast who performs them. …
A free hip circle mount from the side of the bars with three quarter turn to handstand position.
Element value: E
Scroll down this page to see the other four.
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