Over the moon.
I’d say he’s a lock for the GBR Olympic team.
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Category: Olympics
Jade Barbosa ACL injury on Vault
Rebeca Andrade suffered another ACL injury in June. It’s been a devastating year of injuries for Brazil.
Double Olympian Jade Barbosa has been diagnosed with an ACL tear … double twisting Yurchenko …
Brasil has missed the chance to qualify as a full team for Tokyo Olympics. Since her ACL tear would likely take from six to eight months recovery …
Teammate Flavia Saraiva secured her Olympic spot by qualifying to this Worlds’ all around final in 10th place. …
Jade tied with Ferrari for the Bronze AA medal in this same Stuttgart arena in 2007.
passion in Men’s Gymnastics
These guys train years. Suffer much. All for the chance to try for Olympic qualification.
Here’s team Italy cheering Carlo Macchini’s H Bar routine in the qualification round.
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Melnikova, Hurd, Chen Yile – part 3
The third episode in the documentary series is LIVE.
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Men’s Olympic qualification VIDEO highlights
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UNOFFICIAL – Men’s AA Olympic qualifiers
UPDATE – The first 12 are official.
1 YULO Carlos Edriel PHI
2 LARDUET Manrique CUB
3 EDALLI Ludovico ITA
4 KARIMI Milad KAZ
5 FRASCA Loris FRA
6 TVOROGAL Robert LTU
7 SHATILOV Alexander ISR
8 ARICAN Ferhat TUR
9 DAVTYAN Artur ARM
10 HUDDLESTON David BUL
11 DEURLOO Bart NED
12 CORRAL Daniel MEX
Absolutely do not book your flights to Tokyo until FIG names the rest.
But here’s who Lauren Hopkins thinks will eventually be named.
Men’s Teams qualified to Tokyo
Team Final at Worlds contested between the top 8 teams.
1. Russia
2. China
3. Japan
4. Ukraine
5. GBR
6. Switzerland
7. USA
8. Chinese Taipei TPE Taiwan
9. Korea
10. Brazil
11. Spain
12. Germany
Particular congratulations to TPE and Spain. Few pundits were predicting they’d get through, particularly after Zapata withdrew from the Spanish team.
They replace France and Netherlands who competed in Rio 2016.
Oleg was back to near 100%. Ukraine would not be denied.
It’s great to see Germany get the last spot — in Germany. And they deserved it.
Olympic WAG team qualifiers video
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1. United States
2. China
3. Russia
4. France
5. Canada
6. Netherlands
7. Great Britain
8. Italy
9. Germany
10. Belgium
11. Japan
12. Spain
Men’s Olympic Qualification – what happened?
There were thrills.
And spills.
More MAG day 1 photos.
As always, the Men’s competition was more exciting and unpredictable than WAG.
FIG – Russian men romp to early lead at Stuttgart Worlds
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related – Lauren’s summary on theGymter.net.
Chinese Taipei: Olympics bound
The biggest story of World Championships 2019 will be the astonishing performance of Chinese Taipei.
That’s the name recognized by the China (PRC) for events like Olympic Games.
Sadao Hamada:
“I think a 250 [team score] will get us into the Tokyo Olympics,” he said. …
Chinese Taipei last qualified to the Olympic Games in 1964, also held in Tokyo, where they placed 17th. The team has two World medals in history; the silver on Pommel Horse won by Lee Chih-Kai‘s silver medal on Pommel Horse last year in Doha came 25 years after a silver on Vault from Feng Chih Chang.
FIG – ‘Harvest day’: Chinese Taipei turns in Tokyo-worthy performance
