14,254 fans at Utah

This truly is the best home gym crowd anywhere in the world.

The Red Rocks finished with a 196.75 score to best Southern Utah (195.500), Boise State (194.525) and UC Davis (193.950) in front of 14,254 in the Huntsman.

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Georgia Dabritz was robbed on that vault, certainly, scoring 9.875. In Florida it would have been 10.0.

Dabritz Leads Ute Gymnasts to Quad Meet Victory

Katelyn Ohashi – Beam

2015 Texas Prime

I wasn’t sure we’d ever see Katelyn back competing. The College coaches recruiting lists suddenly get a name added near the top. 🙂

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See all of Katelyn’s routines on GymCastic. Thank Christy Linder Photography for those.

new Brazil training centre

Things are looking up for the Olympic hosts. Nobody can complain about this facility. 🙂

Jade Barbosa interviewed. (Portuguese)

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related – De olho em 2016, centro de treinamento de ginástica é inaugurado no Rio de Janeiro (VIDEO)

Obrigado Bernardo.

Lais de Souza – lifetime pension

A Brazilian athlete paralyzed while training for the aerial ski competition at last year’s Winter Olympics will get a lifetime pension.

Brazil President Dilma Rousseff approved a special law that provides funds to Lais de Souza, a 26-year-old former gymnast who hit a tree during a training run in January 2014.

The accident happened days before she would have been named as a qualifier for the Sochi Olympics. De Souza, who represented Brazil in gymnastics at the Athens and Beijing summer games, is confined to a wheelchair, unable to move her arms or legs. …

Lais

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via FIG WEEKLY PRESS CLIPPINGS)

How many other nations do this for their catastrophically injured Olympic heroes?

Grigoras – tucked front 1/2 on Beam

Peng-Peng is back. The gymternet is happy. 🙂

Before the London Olympics she competed a crazy Beam routine. It included this element done from a full speed running the length of the Beam.

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That’s from Pushy Queen’s GIF Skill Guide.

She typically landed like this. Heels OVER the end of the Beam. I was terrified to watch.

In the gym Christine was training harder routines than in competition. One of the upgrades was this Grigoras … to connected back tuck. GAINERING that back tuck to stay on the Beam. I was triple terrified to watch. And thrilled.

What a shame she didn’t get to compete the London Olympics. 😦

related – Bruin Banter 2015 – Episode 1: Christine Peng-Peng Lee. Interviewed by Sam Peszek. (VIDEO)

Swing Big – leap and jump drills

The Swing Big WAG coaching site has a new look.

Check it out.

Swing Big new look

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Here’s a sample post from their Facebook page.

Snowboard Air and Style

The Air & Style is a European snowboard contest first held in Innsbruck, Austria in 1994 and now held annually.

The 2014-15 events:

Beijing Dec 5-6
Innsbruk Jan 16-17
Los Angeles Feb 21-22

Click PLAY or watch a promo on Hard Body.

http://player.espn.com/player.js?pcode=1kNG061cgaoolOncv54OAO1ceO-I&width=576&height=324&externalId=espn:12172215

air-style.com/en/

2015 American Cup line-up

The best field I can ever recall. IF they all attend.

Sadly, no Larisa Iordache. 😦

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official announcement – USA’s Mikulak, Skinner, Whittenburg Will Compete At 2015 AT&T American Cup

Here are the other men:

Brazil: Arthur Oyakawa Mariano
Colombia: Jossimar Calvo
Germany: Fabian Hambuechen
Great Britain: Daniel Purvis
Japan: Ryohei Kato
Japan: Yusuke Tanaka
Ukraine: Oleg Verniaiev

No Kohei Uchimura.