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Not only did both mens and womens teams qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games but they also achieved unprecedented success winning medals in the team and apparatus competitions. …

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… Biles, 18, also doesn’t do second place. She hasn’t lost the all-around competition at a meet since March 2013, and she continued an unprecedented three-year run of dominance in 2015, becoming the first woman to win three straight world championships in the all-around. …

Her talent might never have been discovered if Biles hadn’t visited a gym, Bannon’s Gymnastix in Spring, Texas, on a day-care field trip when she was six. One of the coaches there noticed her copying the moves of some of the gymnasts and doing it remarkably well. The staff sent a letter home to her family, and Biles began taking recreational classes at Gymnastix under Aimee Boorman, who remains her coach today. …

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Spanish Rhythmic gymnasts in a TV ad.

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The term suspension training refers to an approach to strength training that uses a system of ropes and webbing called a “suspension trainer” to allow users to work against their own body weight. …

… filmed during our 2014 Region 5 All Star trip to the Dominican Republic.

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During the week of November 11 and 18, 2015, the Gymnastics Federation of Qatar hosted a Level 2 Academy for Men’s and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics. …

Eighteen coaches attended the Academy from ten different federations – Egypt, France, Indonesia, India, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Philippines, South Africa and Yemen. In addition, a coach from Palestine attended full time as an observer. Uniquely, this was the first time in 212 Academies that the host federation did not register any of its own citizens. Qatar has many foreign coaches working within its borders and many of them attended instead. Eight of the coaches were there for men’s Gymnastics and ten for women. …

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The course leader was Chris Evans of Great Britain who is an osteopath and Women’s coach. I was appointed MAG clinician.

Lilia Ortiz López from Mexico taught WAG sessions as well as a new Music & Rhythm module to both MAG & WAG.

Since my last visit the Federation built an excellent new facility just outside Aspire. Qatar is very serious about Gymnastics. Looking forward to hosting Artistic World Championships 2018.

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The Asian Gymnastics Union co-sponsored this event. AGU added a sport science session to our regular curriculum.

This huge and heavy Janssen-Fritsen landing mat is super safe. Perhaps the best mat in the world right now. 

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