tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
Way early season to be making any predictions on the Olympic team.
I’m thinking you can expect Ellie Black. Plus whatever apparatus contributing scores result in the highest potential team rank. Of course those same high apparatus contributing gymnasts would be trying to qualify for apparatus finals.
Combined Sr. Women Elite Canada scores over two days.
Canada qualified a full team to Paris. There are a LOT of guys training to try and qualify.
William Emard leads Rings, but did not do the AA. It’s early season.
Felix leads P Bars and H Bar.
SAUVÉ leads Floor. My man Ashton KOTLAR on Pommels, tied with Jason RAMPERSAD. KAJI leads Vault.
Early season. Ellie did not compete. Shallon Olsen did not do the AA.
I expect qualifying for the Paris team to be very competitive.
1. Cassie Lee 51.750
2. Clara Raposo 50.600
3. Maddison Hajjar 50.200
4. Ava Stewart 49.950
5. Aaliyah de Sousa 49.350
6. Laurie Denommee 49.200
Olympic qualifying points on the line.
Points are awarded towards individual apparatus Olympic qualification.
Team USA are ready to settle in a small French town, far from the hustle and bustle of central Paris, when they set up their quarters at the revamped Athletica centre for this year’s Olympics.
Some 1,200 athletes and staff will use a state-of-the-art facility in Eaubonne, which has a population 25,000 and is 15km north of Paris, after the Athletica training centre’s renovation is completed in a few weeks.
“It’s really close to the athletes’ village, so it’s really convenient for our athletes to go back and forth,” Rocky Harris, chief of Sport and Athlete Services at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC), told Reuters.
… features high-tech massage tables, cryotherapy units, physiotherapy rooms and about 100 bedrooms.
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What motivates an Olympic Champion?
Getting her name in the code.
I wish it were FREE — but pay-per-view is better than NO VIEW online.
The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) is delighted to announce a new pay-per-view live streaming offer that will allow fans of Artistic, Rhythmic and Trampoline Gymnastics to watch the finals of World Cup and World Challenge Cup events in this Olympic year.
The World Cup season starts on 15 February with the Apparatus World Cup in Cairo …
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I’m sure no meet in Cairo has ever attracted such a strong field.
Here are Kensley Behel’s picks for those most likely to win points towards individual Paris Olympics qualification:
FX: Aurel Benovic (CRO); Benjamin Osberger (FRA) , Eddie Penev (BUL), Kim Hansol (KOR), RYU Sunghyun (KOR)
PH: Nariman Kurbanov (KAZ), Lee Chih Kai (TPE), Ahmad Abu Al Soud (JOR)
SR: Nikita Simonov (AZE), Samir Aït Saïd (FRA), Vinzenz Hoeck (AUT), Vahagn Davtyan (ARM), Artur Avetisyan (ARM)
VT: Mahdi Olfati (IRI), Shek Wai Hung (HKG), Andrey Medvedev (ISR), Abdulaziz Mirvaliev (UZB), Eddie Penev (BUL)
PB: Dilan Jimenez (COL), Harald Wibye (NOR), Caio Souza (BRA), Ilias Georgiou (CYP)
HB: Angel Barajas (COL), Tyson Bull (AUS), Arthur Nory (BRA), Tang Chia Hung (TPE), Robert Tvorogal (LTU), Alexander Myakinin (ISR), Marios Georgiou (CYP)
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What a story!
After winning national “Rookie of the Year” honors, Benas underwent shoulder surgery following his freshman NCAA season in 2022. Then, just as he came back from that injury, a pumpkin carving accident severed a nerve in his hand, requiring a four-hour surgical repair. Just two days after being medically cleared to resume training after his hand injury, Benas suffered an Achilles tendon tear while training on floor.
“Difficult doesn’t really describe it,” Benas says of his long road to recovery. “I admit there were some dark times, when I wondered if I’d be back here, but now I am and, yeah, it feels good.”
At January’s Rocky Mountain Open, Benas, competing in his first All-Around competition since April 2022, put an exclamation point on his comeback, earning the highest tally of his career, and the NCAA season to date, with a massive 85.2 six-event total. …
Inside Gymnastics – Call it a Comeback – Oklahoma’s Fuzzy Benas is back, and better than ever
Gymnastics Coaching.com 