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FLOOR
1 Cournoyer, René
2 Morgan, Scott
3 Cachia, Damien

POMMELS
1 Clay, Zachary
2 Ikeda, Ken
3 Nabata, Scott

RINGS
1 Morgan, Scott
2 Lytwyn, Kevin
3 Stanescu, Robert

VAULT
1 Gazer, Wolfe
2 Gaudet-Pellerin, Samuel
3 Cournoyer, René

P BARS
1 Lytwyn, Kevin
2 Stanescu, Robert
3 Nabata, Scott

H BAR
1 Lytwyn, Kevin (6.8 start VIDEO)
2 Watson, Robert
3 Mah, Aaron

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Not many of the top guys tried to peak for this meet. But it’s a great opportunity for the up-and-coming guys to make an impact.

Though I’ve not yet seen any official announcement, I’ve heard that long time Team leader Nathan Gafuik has retired. He’s coaching at his home gym, University of Calgary.

Here’s 30yr-old Robert Stanescu competing Rings, a medalist at the 2008 Olympics for Romania. That’s his wife/coach Ruxandra lifting him. He’s now on the Canadian National Team.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Scott Morgan (VIDEO) and Kevin Lytwin have the Canadian Rings lineup in good shape right now.

Here’s the Gymnastics Canada Facebook Men’s Finals post.

UPDATE

Tim Farley from Australia landed this trick before Vellu. He called it the ‘Snatchcannon’. VIDEO (profanity)

Thanks Lisa.

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Finland’s Vellu Saarela calls his new tricking series CORK IN BACK OUT.

Greg Roe referred to it as full-in back-out tricking style.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

You can now buy Gymnastics motivational posters on zazzle. This one is $29.90, for example.

(via TuneGym)

@ArabianPF_blog:

WHOA! Think Cintia Rodriguez (ESP) is working a new skill!! Stalder shoot FULL to high! ????

http://instagram.com/p/yfkL9_x_Ts/

Hard. 😦

Brigham Youngstrom with coach Scott.

Coach Anna Li.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

“NoGripz” Georgia Dabritz!

Dabritz 10.0 Bars. 🙂

“Finally! That’s what I’ve been waiting for,” smiled head coach Greg Marsden after the meet. “I told the team after warm-ups, `You guys look like you’re in a really good place. Stay right there!’ And they did! …”

The longtime coach confessed that Dabritz has few places to improve. “Other than the one break on the balance beam, Georgia was pretty flawless all night. She can’t get any better on those three events (bars, vault, floor),” he marveled. …

Dabritz leads Ute Gymnasts to 197.85-196.375 Road Win over Arizona

At Metroplex. What a great competition.

I much prefer quad meets over dual.

Gnat competed double twisting Yurchenko!

via @OU_WGymnastics

1 Roberts, Megan
2 Chrobok, Jade
3 Ruttan, Meaghan
4 Vézina, Laurie-Lou
5 Phillips, Megan
6 Chia, Lindsay
7 de Jong, Haley
8 Zlobec, Sonita
9 Harder, Goldie
9 Cho, Seina

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Megan Roberts (born November 21, 2000 in Toronto, Ontario) is a junior elite Canadian artistic gymnast and a member of the Canadian National team. She trains at East York Gymnastics, coached by Lawson Hamer and Lisa Cowan. …

Roberts becomes a senior elite gymnast in 2016, just in time for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Click PLAY or watch her YDT from December on YouTube.

Canada has a good deal of depth right now. More than we had prior to the 2012 Olympics. It’s hard to predict who will end up qualifying to the 2015 Worlds and/or Olympic Test meet.

Bars is Canada’s weakest apparatus.

Click PLAY or watch Megan’s Bars from December on YouTube.