Elisa Meneghini – 5.6 Floor

A judging analysis by sporteverywhere.

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The last two Codes, intending to promote artistry and choreography, instead made turning leaps and jumps, well done or not, compulsory elements. 😦

related – Daria Spiridonova – Bars VIDEO

gymnast’s letter to Kelly Simm

Kelly Simm was part of the British Team that won the 2014 Commonwealth Games. 🙂

The cutest letter from one of the parents written by a little girl at the gym! Makes everything worth it ??

A photo posted by Kelly Simm (@kelly_simm) on Jan 13, 2015 at 2:57pm PST

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coach in the UAE

Svetlana Boguinskaia:

There is a new Gymnastics Club in United Arab Emirates, in Dubai. They have Olympic equipment and as in this moment is the best gymnastics club in UAE connected directly with the Shaikh (the ruler of Dubai).

They are recruiting Artistic Gymnastics coaches from all over the world. They need someone with around 10 years of experience in coaching gymnastics that can speak fluent English. (It doesnt matter what level of gymnastics they teach before).

They will bring them here and make the visas and all procedures for them. Please let me know if there is anyone interested. Thank you and sorry for the disturbance but it is a good opportunity for anyone, they have good salaries and i just want to help anybody there who might need a stable job and they can accept to work in this country. Blessings, Peace and Love.

Here is email where you can send your resumes or questions. gymteam (a) ymail.com

Christine Lee – Bars

🙂

9.9 at OSU. Her first College set.

Bruins – UCLA Wins Season Opener at Oregon State, 196.0-195.45:

Redshirt sophomore Christine Peng-Peng Lee made a stunning collegiate debut after sitting out nearly three years with a knee injury, winning the uneven bars with a 9.9 …

UCLA will host Arizona on Monday, Jan. 19 in the team’s home opener in Pauley Pavilion.

Men’s Nanning Worlds highlights

FIG Official — 2014 Artistic Worlds, Nanning (CHN), October 3 – 12, 2014

00:03:14 Kohei UCHIMURA (JPN) Vault 15.633
00:03:53 David BELYAVSKIY (RUS) Rings 14.700
00:05:17 Max WHITLOCK (GBR) Pommel Horse 16.000
00:06:22 Oleg VERNIAIEV (UKR) Parallel Bars 16.033
00:07:32 CHENG Ran (CHN) Vault 14.133
00:08:08 ranking after 4 apparatus
00:08:19 Oleg VERNIAIEV (UKR) High Bar 14.466
00:09:33 Kohei UCHIMURA (JPN) Parallel Bars 15.200
00:10:44 Yusuke TANAKA (JPN) Parallel Bars 15.833
00:12:13 Max WHITLOCK (GBR) High Bar 14.200
00:13:17 David BELYAVSKIY (RUS) Parallel Bars 15.366
00:14:37 ranking after 5 apparatus
00:14:48 Yusuke TANAKA (JPN) High Bar 15.500
00:16:10 Max WHITLOCK (GBR) Floor 15.466
00:17:28 DENG Shudi (CHN) High Bar 14.833
00:18:55 Sergio SASAKI JUNIOR (BRA) Pommel Horse 14.633
00:20:21 David BELYAVSKIY (RUS) High Bar 14.400
00:21:29 Oleg VERNIAIEV (UKR) Floor 14.833
00:23:00 Kohei UCHIMURA (JPN) High Bar 15.233
00:24:09 Uchimura delight
00:24:36 Vernaiev disappointed
00:24:54 Final ranking
00:25:37 Podium

Actually, this edit starts with Uchimura’s stuck AA Floor.

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Oklahoma, L.S.U., Florida

NCAA Ranking this week-end

1 Oklahoma 197.625
2 L.S.U. 197.125
3 Florida 196.925
4 Utah 196.900
5 Michigan 196.600
6 Alabama 196.225
7 UCLA 196.000
8 Georgia 195.600
9 Oregon State 195.450
10 Nebraska 195.300

Florida managed a 196.925, the best opening mark in school history (?!), yet no one was leaving that meet happy.

Everything went swimmingly for two rotations. They were hitting routines, and the scores were gigantic (this was the softest-scored meet I saw over the weekend), but then things turned yucky on floor. Shisler tore her Achilles in the warmup, the first few routines were sloppy, and then Sloan came up short on her double pike dismount and had to be pulled from the meet.

They finished with a significant struggle on beam …

Balance Beam Situation – Week 1 Rankings and Notes

Last year’s AA Champion, Bridget Sloan, scored 10.0 on Vault. Before getting injured. 😦

UPDATE – Looks like Bridget will be out for about 6 weeks with an ankle sprain.

Oklahoma is No. 1, so far.

Click PLAY or watch McKenzie Wofford’s 9.925 Bars on YouTube.

related – For even more exhaustive analysis, click over to Lauren Hopkins’s Gymternet weekend commentary – The NCAA Wrap-Up: Week 2

Note that Lauren calls this week 2. BBS discounts the few meets of last weekend, calling this week 1. Yet another NCAA controversy. 🙂

As expected, fans are already complaining about the judging.

Olympic Dreams Gymnastics, Singapore

She was Singapore’s first and only gymnast to compete at the Olympic Games and Lim Heem Wei is hoping to help others chart a similar path.

Barely a month into her retirement, the 25-year-old is already busy making plans to set up her own private school, Olympic Dreams Gymnastics, to guide the next generation of budding stars.

It will start in early February …

Lim takes leap to set up school

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