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Triple Twist posted a terrific profile piece on Lauren “Laurie” Hernandez and Jazmyn “Jazzy” Foberg of MG Elite.

MG Elite: On The Rise

Top score from Level 10 #R5Championships. El-grip giants.

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(via Region 5 Gymnastics Insider)

A Japanese Simone Biles. 🙂

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https://instagram.com/p/171MAcTL5X/
 

Sae Miyakawa fell on both bars and beam in qualification as well as in final but her strong performance on floor and vault made up a bit for her ranking. She opened her floor routine with double layout out full out with a little bit uncontrolled landing and one foot went out of bounce. Then she nearly stuck her front layout to front double tuck and double layout. Finally, she finished her routine with double twisting double tuck with chest a bit low but she nearly stuck it. However, the counted dance elements are spilt leap 1/1, switch leap and a single turn which only worth 0.6 in total. Hence, her D score is “only” 6.2 with two H rated skills. She vaulted a Rudi and got 15.5 to finished in 7th. …

Couch Gymnast – All Japan WAG AA final

via GymFever2012

James Greaves on Buzzfeed:

1. Gymnastics shows individuality

2. …and age is just a number right?

see the rest – 12 Reasons Why Gymnastics Is The Best Sport In The World

Season average:

1. Utah 14,858
2. Alabama 12,086
3. Georgia 9,381
4. LSU 9,208
5. Auburn 6,188
6. Florida 5,850
7. UCLA 5,417
8. Oregon State 3,548
9. Michigan 3,032
10. Oklahoma 2,973

The Times

All those Utah fans have more social media to enjoy than any other team.

Greg Marsden:

I don’t know if I found him or he found me, but one of the things I have enjoyed most over the past few years is documenting our team’s journey with Kory Mortensen. He is a savant. His camerawork, editing skills, musicality and creativity come together in a way that uniquely captures the joy and athleticism of these incredible athletes. …

Click PLAY or watch a year end celebration video on YouTube.

It’s the end of an era, as Samantha Peszek hosts her final episode of #BruinBanter, passing the torch to new host Danusia Francis!

Thanks, Sam, for three great years of the show and five legendary years as a Bruin!

UCLA Gymnastics

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Looks difficult and dangerous to me.

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Some cool combinations.

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https://instagram.com/p/1yBH6QOMBx/?taken-by=karlkosztka

Thanks Hal.

Al Fong posted a good drill.

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But our current Code of Points gives far too much reward for these elements. The take-off is often cheated. The landing is usually cheated. And most are simply not pretty to watch. 😦

It’s great that Ilham Aliyev, current President of Azerbaijan, is also head of their National Olympic Committee. Seems he loves sport.

Aliyev is a tyrant, however.

The Economist scored Azerbaijan as an authoritarian regime, at 140th place (out of 167) in its 2011 Democracy Index. …

In the 2013-14 Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders, Azerbaijan ranked 160th out of an overall total of 180 nations …

They’ll be plenty of foreign journalist at the 2015 European Games in Baku. No doubt they’ll be doing some research, as well, as to what happened to the Azerbaijani journalists and activists jailed.

Rasul Jafarov, for example.

Rasul Jafarov, one of Azerbaijan’s best-known human rights activists and government critics, was sentenced on 16 April to six years and six months in prison on charges including tax evasion and abuse of power. He has also been barred from holding any office for three years following his release, reports contact.az.

The charges have been widely dismissed as trumped up and linked to Jafarov’s campaigning work in a country that has been continually criticised for its poor human rights record. …

Index on Censorship

Sport, as it’s done so many times in the past, should help move Azerbaijan forward in terms of human rights.