Team USA for Jesolo

Douglas, Ross, Raisman, Biles 🙂

See it on Facebook.

Waiting on USAG to confirm that officially. The gymnasts going to Italy will likely not be finalized until after the NEXT Karolyi Camp. These seem to be provisional entries.

Kharenkova wins Russian Champs

1 Maria Kharenkova 58.033

Maria

2 Alla Sosnitskaya 56.6
3 Seda Tutkhalyan 56.334
4 Daria Spiridinova 55.867
5 Evgeniya Shelgunova 55.833
6 Ekaterina Kramarenko 55.201

Full WAG results.

Rewriting Russian Gymnastics has a write-up and links.

RUS Championships | MAG AA

@theallaround:

1.Belyavskiy 87.50

David

2.Kuksenkov 87.30
3.Ignatiev 86.25
4.Kudashov 85.75
5.Nagorniy 84.10

full results (Russian)

… Ablyazin, Bielawski, Garibova?

– Many ill with the flu, but the overall mood in the team is good.

Of the strongest in Penza not perform Emin Garibov and Alexander Balandin. All the rest – in the ranks. Garibov is still recovering from its complex operations, and Balandin though started training yet can not operate at full capacity.

Denis Ablyazin at the end of the year and was operated, and there are nuances associated with his health. Denis is constantly under medical supervision, but in training shows a very good level of readiness. Even more complicated vault, confidently takes the floor exercise. …

RRG – ‘Injuries are making us change our training’ – Andrei Rodionenko

Slow Motion – Rebeca Andrade

Great form. It would be wonderful if she were able to compete at the Rio Olympics.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Rebeca Andrade de Rodrigues (born May 8, 1999 in Guarulhos) is a Brazilian artistic gymnast.

via Bernardo Abdo

Gymnix – March 5-8, 2015

I’ll be attending and reporting on the meet this year.

Switzerland and Russia arriving.

official Gymnix International website | Facebook | instagram | twitter

Those links will be posted in the right hand navigation during the meet.

Seems I should be learning the Boom Boom Mama flash mob dance. 🙂

UCLA v Florida

Future Gators face off against future Bruins.

See it on instagram.

 

Women’s national team camp underway in Texas

(via GymCastic)

Vault #LikeAGirl

… The previous “Like a Girl” ad from Always, which was released in June 2014 and dominated the Super Bowl commercial lineup, focused on changing the implications of the phrase from an insult to a statement of empowerment.

Its followup ad … highlights that very sentiment — how playing sports to excelling in academics like a girl is a good thing. …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The timing coincides with International Women’s Day, which is coming up on Sunday.

Mashable – New ad takes ‘Like a Girl’ as a compliment, not an insult