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Cottbus World Cup Finals.

Bea:

First up was Jinnan Yao – how should I put this… she did her job, there were no major wobbles but the whole routine didn’t exactly flow. She looks too much like Sui Lu on beam …

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Click PLAY or watch her Beam on YouTube.

6.1/14.75 1st

Click PLAY or watch Floor on YouTube.

5.6/14.25 first

I see what Bea means.

This is a lovely gymnast with excellent form and technique. … Yet as a fan I’d rather watch Nabieva with her terrible form.

The Chinese girls need more personality.

GymNiceTic has results from all event Finals MAG and WAG.

I love this provocative edit by MostepanovaFan.

Montage of young gymnasts training, features gymnasts from China, USA, Romania, Britain and Canada. …

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(via Chinese Gymnastics Blog)

International Gymnast Magazine on Facebook:

Here’s Seitz, who lost the title by .075 despite having .2 higher in Difficulty. Do you prefer her routine or Yao’s?

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Seitz is far more exciting and entertaining with the Def. … But cast handstand switching grip one-hand-at-a-time … If that’s not a deduction, it should be.

Icky.

Neck kip to Manna at 1min 05sec.

featuring ProDance artists: Junior, Cico, Brahim, Mouse, Babyson & Roxy

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Victoria is on a roll. She won 3 apparatus and the AA with a 55.925, straight FIG, I believe.

Teammate Sabrina Gill was 2nd (54.925). Natalie Vaculic 3rd ( 53.12). … A GREAT meet for host Canada. Things are looking up for Olympic qualification as a team. The Canucks have depth. … Unfortunately Juniors at Gymnix are age ineligible for Worlds in Tokyo and, I assume, Worlds in London. Those are the team qualifying Worlds. … They are age eligible for the Olympics.

Jr. results (PDF)

Click PLAY or watch Victoria’s Floor on YouTube. (double double STICK)

More videos from the Junior competition.

via Grace Chiu on Facebook …

Canada Red (Victoria Moors, Sabrina Gill, Natalie Vaculik, Jordyn Pedersen) won the team competition in Montreal.

They all hit Beam and Vault. Sabrina hit her more difficult Bars routine: Jaeger, Hindorff, Pak, dbl layout.

Jr Team results (PDF)

more of Grace’s awesome photos on Facebook

Dave Adlard sends us the terrible news.

Olympian Tracee Talavera-Kent and her husband Gray lost their 4 year old son recently in a freak accident.

The gymnastics community mourns with them.

The grande dame defeated all the girls half her age in Cottbus.

1. Oksana Chusovitina (GER) – 14.312 (5.90/5.50)
2. Giulia Steingruber (SUI) – 14.250 (6.30/5.20)
3. Nadine Jarosch (GER) – 13.587 (5.30/4.60)

… Chusovitina, the 2003 World vault champion, showed her standard and difficult handspring front layout full and Tsukahara 1.5 twists to average 14.312. …

more on Examiner.com: World stars shine on day one of Cottbus Cup finals

Bea is at the World Cup in Germany:

Jinnan Yao – she looks very nice, very stretched, hits her handstands and her pirouettes… she had the specific problems with the transfer from low to high bar and a small step on landing. The title was decided between her and Seitz – they gave it to Yao in the end… She was my favorite too, she simply has a lightness of movement. …

results and more commentary on Gymnastics – No Ceiling – Cottbus World Cup – Uneven Bars

14,775 (6,4)

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Yao Jinnan and Tan Sixin made a splash in their first Sr. International, the Challenger Cup Cottbus (GER)

For commentary, click over to Couch Gymnast – Cottbus Qualification Results

Starting in 2011, the former FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cups of the category B will run under the label “FIG Challenge Cup” and represent an open series. This year, all FIG Challenge Cups stage Individual Apparatus Finals.

Prize money of 25,000 CHF …

FIG

Full MAG and WAG prelim results.