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USA Men win Pan Ams

1. USA 267.750
2. BRAZIL 264.050
3. COLOMBIA 259.300

larduet_manrique_port15Preliminary AA leaders:

1. Manrique Larduet CUB 90.25
2. Sam Mikulak USA 89.850
3. J Calvo Moreno COL 88.750

Cuba did not send a team to Worlds 2014 so they are only allowed to send 3 gymnasts to Worlds 2015. Manrique still could qualify. It would be a shame not to see one of the very best gymnasts in the world compete in Rio.

official results

Pan Ams: USA, Brazil, Colombia

After the first subdivision of Men’s preliminaries:

1. USA 267.750
2. Brazil 264.050
3. Colombia 259.300
4. Canada 258.350
5. Puerto Rico 246.950

Fans were disappointed for Canada. They had a fairly good competition, I thought, after loosing National Champion Jackson Payne to Achilles injury in the training camp before the Games. The hosts competed only 3 guys on Pommels. All 3 hit. Update – Elfi said that all 3 had hit. But Ken Ikeda fell. Unhappily, too, Scott Morgan, former Worlds Floor finalist, missed and will not make the FX final. 😦

AA results (so far)
1. Sam Mikulak 89.850
2. Jossimar Calvo Moreno 88.750
3. Donnell Whittenburg 87.700 (fall on H Bar)

Sam

Elfi Schlegel was back doing Gymnastics commentary in her home town. Seems a shame Kyle Shewfelt – a true MAG expert – wasn’t used more on the Canadian TV coverage.

Pan Am Games opening ceremonies

800 artists were included in the Cirque du Soleil production. Quite well done, I thought.

Click PLAY or watch a preview on YouTube.

On the Canadian TV coverage announcers tried to explain the artistic vision behind each act. Bewildering to me. I prefer watching Cirque dance and acrobatics without trying to follow the plot. 🙂

Schwaiger and the other tumblers pulled out some great tumbling off Air Floor Pro.

Cirque Grace Chiu
more photos

sport’s parent checklist

These are good signs:

They cheer for the other children.

They take time to compliment the officials.

They talk to parents of the other team.

They resist the urge to critique their child’s performance.

Those come from an excellent post by Shane Murphy, Ph.D. – How to Be A Successful Youth Sports Parent – Escaping the Parent Trap

sport parents

let the Games begin

Canada at Pan Am opening ceremonies.

U.S. Elite Compulsory Beam 1

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

15 more Women’s Elite Compulsory Routine videos are linked from that same page.

Via the EDGE (Elite Developmental Gymnastics Education) Symposium June 19-20, 2015. I was there as an observer for Tumbl Trak.