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2011 NCAA All-Around Champion as a Michigan Freshman, Sam Mikulak …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I had view #1 on this awesome video. Sweet.

Jonathan Deaton (16-18) and Sean Melton (14-15) (top) All Around at Day 1 USA MAG Championships. Scores on USAG

(via The All Around Gymnastics News and Double Front on Facebook.)

Amanda Robinson for USAG:

SAINT PAUL, Minn., Aug. 17, 2011 – Jonathan Deaton of Longmeadow, Mass./Tim Daggett’s Gold Medal Gymnastics (16-18) and Sean Melton of Orlando, Fla./Orlando Metro Gymnastics (14-15), lead the all-around with a score of 83.450 and 83.000, respectively, after the first day of the junior competition at the 2011 Visa Championships at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minn.

“It’s really great to be leading the standings.” Deaton said. “I am really happy with my performance and I think I did the best gymnastics I could. I hope on Friday, I’ll be able to repeat my performance and place just as well.” …

She’s connecting Shushanova (G) to get to 6.7, I’m assuming.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MTczNTAzOTIy?related=1

Watch more video of Visa Championships 2011 on gymnastike.org

Leave a comment if you’ve got a breakdown of this Anna Li routine.

Inside Gymnastics on Facebook called Katelyn’s Floor – “great music, beautiful leaps and dance” – the highlight of podium training yesterday.

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Certainly she’s one of the few gymnasts who can make twisting split leaps look good.

Couch Gymnast, inspired by the latest gymnastics documentary out of the U.K. called The Gymnast, reflects historical:

… The British have always been good at bringing the World a gymnastics documentary. For a country who was only recently climbed the ranks they have had quite a fascination with their gymnasts and the worlds they inhabit. This should not be that surprising. Consider the nineties, when the USA finally became a real power in gymnastics, there was a spate of documentaries coming from that proud nation.

The British have kept them coming for years however, and they are generally of good quality with interesting insights on the lives of those involved in the sport. …

Gymnastics Documentaries: A British Thing?

One of those she links to is another BBC documentary featuring Venus and Angel Romaeo.

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related – Gymnasts from Winnipeg were extras in a new movie based on the “tween-friendly American Girl line of dolls, books, fashion and activities”. (via IG)

Since I’m not there this year, there won’t be much internet coverage.

I’m not sure the bloggers there can handle it. 🙂

Tandoori re-unites with Anne Phillips

2011 Visa Championships (US Nationals) by Grace Chiu GraceClick on Facebook

McKayla Maroney vault podium training 2011 Visa Championships.

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Her vault sets a very high standard for comparison with the rest.

… she warmed up a superb wonderful 3.5 on floor, as well.

Men’s Floor

1) Flavius Koczi (ROU)
2) Ryuzo Sejima (JPN)
3) Shoichi Yamamoto (JPN)

Men’s Pommel Horse

1) Prashanth Sellathurai (AUS)
2) Donna Donny Truyens (BEL)
3) Flavius Koczi (ROU)

Men’s Rings

1) Arthur Zanetti (BRA)
2) Samir Ait Said (FRA)
2) Chihyu Chen (TPE)

Men’s Vault

1) Flavius Koczi (ROU)
2) Nathan Gafuik (CAN)
2) Ran Cheng (CHN)

Men’s Parallel Bars

1) Guanyin Wang (CHN)
2) Marius Berbecar (ROU)
3) Rongbing Liu (CHN)

Men’s Horizontal Bar

1) Xuezhang Chen (CHN)
2) Mykola Kuksenkov (UKR)
3) Hiroki Ishikawa (JPN)

Women’s Vault

1) Hyunjoo Jo (KOR)
2) Anna Myzdrikova (RUS)
3) Alena Polyan (RUS) & Hiuyingangel Wong (HKG)

Women’s Uneven Bars

1) Yu Minobe (JPN)
2) Mai Yamagishi (JPN)
3) Angelina Kysla (UKR)

Women’s Balance Beam

1) Yu Minobe (JPN)
2) Wenli Guan (CHN)
3) Mai Yamagishi (JPN)

Women’s Floor

1) Alena Polyan (RUS)
2) Keiko Mukumoto (JPN)
3) Kanjun Xiao (CHN)

full results via Double Front

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Chinese Gymnastics Blog has all-around results with videos linked to scores. (Always the best way to link to videos. Thanks.)

Click PLAY or watch AA Champ Xiao Kangjun’s Bars on YouTube. (15.00)

It seems so special to see a tall and womanly gymnast from China. Congratulations on your title.

She had retired in 2005 due to injury. Yet persisted to come back for this, the highlight of her career.

Click through to Chinese Gymnastics Blog for more of the top routines.

Gymnastics – No Ceiling has commentary on the meet.