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Congratulations.

… head coach of the US World Championship team in 2006 and was an assistant coach for the US Olympic squad at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Ga. And with the bronze medal 2011 World Championships team in Tokyo. Williams believes the veteran 2014 team has a much better opportunity to medal than the young squad he led in 2006.

… The six members of the US World Championships team heading to China are OU-alum Jake Dalton, Sam Mikulak, John Orozco, Danell Leyva, Alex Naddour and Donnel Whittenburg. This team boasts four Olympians in Dalton, Mikulak, Orozco and Leyva and is determined to improve upon the fifth place finish the team managed the last time the US competed in a team competition at the 2012 London Olympics.

… Another exciting recent announcement for OU fans is Jake Dalton was selected as the team captain …

Sooner Sports

10yr-old Kaylyn from Port City Gymnastics takes on a Marine cadet in a push-up contest.

No contest. 🙂

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(via Gymnast Crossing)

Franco Dragone‘s next project is, no surprise, another water show.

A Film Park including his new “Han Show” are both scheduled to open December 2014 in Wuhan, China.

The preview looks GREAT. 🙂

The audience chairs will move during the performance.

 

80 to 85 percent of the cast will be Chinese from disciplines like diving, gymnastics, synchronized swimming and ballet.

Cirque du Soleil stopped their shows in Japan and Macao. But Dragone’s House of Dancing Water has been going strong in Macao since 2010.

related – Wanda’s grand cultural plans in Wuhan

Scott Barclay’s ASU men’s gymnastics club, budget $120,000 per year, will travel to compete against the upstart Southern California Men’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association.

Saturday, December 6, 2014
Torrance, CA

Let’s support College Club Gymnastics more this season. 🙂

Here’s SCU’s Event & Competition schedule.

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Oops.

FIG corrected their statistics.

Turns out average age as it stands now is 19.1 years, not 22.5 as published in the article linked below.

____ original post from Sept 10, 2014

… One unusual aspect of the nominative list is the average age of women registered to compete. At 22.5 years old, it is the highest average age for women at a World Championships, according to statistics that date back to 1987. The average age of women at the World Championships has been increasing — from the mid-17s in the early 2000s, it climbed to 19.12 years for the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo and 19.78 years for the 2012 Olympic Games. The average age of female competitors at the 2013 World Championships in Antwerp (BEL) was 19.16 years.

Should there be no changes to the nominative list, the average age of male competitors at this World Championships would be 23.0 years, the youngest average for men at a Worlds since 2006. The average male competitor in Antwerp last year was 23.29 years, while male gymnasts who competed at the 2012 Olympics averaged 24.44 years. ..

Nanning nominative list: See who’s registered for the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships!

The October 2014 issue of Inside Gymnastics magazine will feature two-time U.S. Champ Simone Biles in our cover story, Simply Unstoppable! And YOU will decide which picture of Simone graces the cover of the magazine! …

Of the 4 choices, I voted for this one.

Click over to Inside Gymnastics to vote.

Many of the Gymnast Care articles are beyond my understanding. But not this one.

You could recommend it to parents and young gymnasts.

Dr. Joshua Eldridge:

Like any injury, it’s critical for gymnasts to have a plan of action when they return from back pain. …

We have 4 steps in this progression:

1. Pain Reduction
2. Control
3. Form
4. Strength

Back Pain Progression for Gymnasts

Click through for details. And great graphics.

His feet swing on. 🙂

I often use the most successful Chinese gymnast in Olympic history as my good BAD example of lack of artistry in Artistic Gymnastics.

That photos was linked from this article:

China’s dominance of the gymnastics competition at the Asian Games is expected to continue unabated despite their sport’s officials conceding they were sending what was essentially a ‘B’ team to compete at Incheon.

While the Chinese have won 123 of the 175 gold medals awarded since artistic gymnastics was introduced at the 1974 Asian Games in Tehran, their priority this year is on the world championships, scheduled for Nanning from Oct. 3-12, rather than the pan-continental competition.

Chinese media have said that multiple Olympic champion Zou Kai will headline their contingent for the Sept. 21-25 competition in Incheon …

Gymnastics world champs cast shadow over Asiad

Many of the other Asian nations are sending their best.

Toe Tkachev tucked.

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Nico thinks it would be credited a C-part.

He recalled that release from Free Hip. (VIDEO)

Svetlana Baitova 1987.

With Worlds hosted in China this year, I’m expecting a lot of domestic media in Nanning.

World Gymnastics Championship 2014 Team China

Bai Yawen
Chen Siyi
Tan Jiaxin
Huang Huidan
Shang Chunsong
Yao Ziyi (Jinnan)

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