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The rumours were true.

The LSU gymnastics team added one of the nation’s top recruits when Sarah Finnegan signed her National Letter of Intent with the Tigers Monday. …

… Finnegan is a senior international elite gymnast who served as an alternate for the U.S. Gymnastics Olympic team, known as the “Fierce Five,” that won gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. …

“I have to give a lot of credit to (LSU associate head coach) Jay (Clark) because he has worked so hard in his consistent, tenacious effort to recruit the best gymnasts to LSU. Sarah certainly fits in that category along with our other signees Lexie Priessman, Julianna Cannamela, McKenna Kelley and Kaitlyn Szafranski.” …

They will enroll at LSU in 2015 and compete as freshmen for the Tigers in the 2016 season. …

LSU Sports

A record tying eight LSU gymnastics meets will be televised during the 2015 season, ESPN and the Southeastern Conference office announced ….

The stars are aligning for LSU. How long could it be before they win a National Championships?

Click PLAY or watch highlights from their Nov 7th mock meet on YouTube. A little rough, I thought.

(via GymCastic)

EF 2014 Top Massilia

14.7 / 14.333 = 14.517 – 2nd

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

via GymFever2012

Lauren posted ALL results and linked to MANY more routines in this Gymternet summary – 2014 Élite Gym Massilia Report and Results

Click PLAY or watch Youna Dufournets Bars on YouTube.

6.0 + 8.033 = 14.033

If you’re keen on Vika’s comeback, check the dedicated update – Viktoria Komova Makes International Return in Hungary

Blume Memorial, one of the last traditional tournaments that is still up and running, … celebrate its 37th edition in Barcelona with one of the best rosters in recent years. This edition will also pay homage to Andreu Vivó, former Spanish gymnast, who died on New Year’s Eve 2013 at only 34 years old. …

TAA – Barcelona ready for Blume Memorial

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (8min 45sec)

Spanish Olympic gymnast Andreu Vivó died of a heart attack in the Catalonian district of Collbaix early Sunday morning while he was mountain climbing, the Catalonian Gymnastics Federation confirmed.

Vivo, 34, who competed in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, began to feel ill after climbing the Collbaix peak with a friend and collapsed soon after beginning the descent. …

HS

Master Massilia Team
1. Italy 162.067
2. Russia 161.900
3. Belgium 160.867

Master Massilia All Around
1. Daria Spiridonova (RUS) 54.167
2. Giorgia Campana (ITA) 53.833
3. Nina Derwael (BEL ’16) 53.700

Open Massilia Team
1. Belgium 2 159.033
2. Canada 158.767
3. Germany 156.100

Open Massilia All Around
1. Giada Grisetti (SUI) 53.767
2. Rose-Kaying Woo (CAN) 53.200
3. Florine Harder (GER) 53.167

Arabian Punch Front has Apparatus results and commentary.

Couch Gymnast links to videos:

• Elite Gym Massilia: Master

• Elite Gym Massilia: Event Finals

Click PLAY or Claire Martin’s winning Beam on YouTube.
13.933/5.9

Many would name Oleg as the man with the best chance to catch Uchimura in the AA. Verniaiev went 90.400 at Blume including a poor FX routine.

The catch?

Oleg’s H Bar is far, far weaker than the King.

On the other hand, Oleg’s improved, no longer looking like a USA J.O. Level 10.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

If the Code changes, however, and I believe it will, this routine could be very low start score in 2017.

Come Rio Sergio Sasaki could be an AA podium threat. He’ll be getting a lot of press.

That was linked by Arabian Punch Front – This Week in Training

Nico linked to his Blume Memorial Floor where he mounts with the same acrobatic element, first competed by Korolev (on a rock hard FX) if memory serves.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Our World and Olympic Champion is astonishingly consistent at over bar release moves.

What’s his secret?

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via GymPower)

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