YOG prelims montage

Seda Tutkhalyan
Elissa Downie
Laura Jurca
Yan Wang
Iosra Abdelaziz
Flavia Lopes
Antonia Alicke
Stephanie Hernandez
Sae Miyakawa
Camille Bahl

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Men’s Youth Olympic Champions

The best commentary I’ve yet read on the Men’s Youth Olympic AA Championships is on The LiukinYouth Olympics: Giarnni Regini-Moran (GBR) cruises to gold in Uchimura style

2nd Youth Olympic Games Nanjing/CHN, August 16-28, 2014

full results

Coaching Course Quesnel, B.C.

Thanks Elizabeth Staats, Peggy Willcox and everyone at Technics Gymnastics for hosting our intensive 5-day Level 2 Technical MAG & WAG this past week.

Great course. 🙂

Quesnel Gymnastics

Three of those same coaches will be attending B.C. Gymnastics Congress this weekend. And one more – by SKYPE. 🙂

Regini-Moran Youth Olympic Champ

Congratulations.

1. Giarnni Regini-Moran GBR
2. Nikita Nagorny RUS
3. Alec Yoder USA

new – Southern California United MAG

Good luck to Studio West Gymnastics’ Head Coach Heinz Schulmeister. His mission is to put together a College Men’s Club team.

Earlier this summer, Schulmeister formed Southern California United (SCU); a new team bringing gymnasts enrolled at any southern California college or university together.

“There are over 50 colleges with potential gymnasts for this team. Any male gymnast attending college in Southern California can be part of the team and compete under NCAA competition rules to continue achieving their dreams in gymnastics while in college” states Schulmeister.

Men’s gymnastics has not been available at the collegiate level in Southern California since 1994, when UCLA dismissed their legendary men’s gymnastics program. …

The current status:

Schulmeister: Four gymnasts have already committed to the team; three students from UCLA and one student from LBCC. …

read more – Team Feature: Restablishing Men’s College Gymnastics in Southern California

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Thanks Ono.

Yan Wang – Beam & Bars

Click PLAY or watch her Beam on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T4zCJh2YYG8

1st at YOG qualifying 14.750.

Click PLAY or watch her Bars on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Z8DsRpKWsTo

1st at YOG qualifying 13.250.

(via Couch Gymnast – 2nd Youth Olympic Games Qualifications Videos)

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge – Woodward

Boom.

Milheim Fire Co. brought 3,000 gallons of COLD water for a high pressure week 11 dousing.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

alsa.org

Tutkhalyan, Downie, Jurca

Youth Olympic Games AA preliminaries standings:

The top 18 qualify into the all-around finals.

1. Seda Tutkhalyan, Russia, 53.650
2. Ellie Downie, Great Britain, 53.500
3. Laura Jurca, Romania, 53.250
4. Wang Yan, China, 53.200
5. Iosra Abdelaziz, Italy, 53.150
6. Flavia Saraiva, Brazil, 52.750
7. Antonia Alicke, Germany, 51.400
8. Stephanie Hernandez, Mexico, 51.100

Seda Tutkhalyan

Vault
1. Ellie Downie, Great Britain, 14.525
2. Sae Miyakawa, Japan, 14.350
3. Seda Tutkhalyan, Russia, 14.300

Bars
1. Wang Yan, China, 13.250
2. Iosra Abdelaziz, Italy, 13.100
3. Seda Tutkhalyan, Russia, 13.000

Balance Beam
1. Wang Yan, China, 14.750
2. Ellie Downie, Great Britain, 13.500
3. Laura Jurca, Romania, 13.350

Floor Exercise
1. Flavia Saraiva, Brazil, 13.650
2. Ellie Downie, Great Britain, 13.500
3. Seda Tutkhalyan, Russia, 13.150

full results on Gymternet