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#SecretClassic

1. Simone Biles, Spring, Texas, 61.700
2. Kyla Ross, Aliso Viejo, Calif., 60.050
3. Maggie Nichols, Little Canada, Minn., 57.600
4. Rachel Gowey, Urbandale, Iowa, 57.000
5. MyKayla Skinner, Gilbert, Ariz., 56.150
6. Amelia Hundley, Hamilton, Ohio, 55.450
7. Alyssa Baumann, Plano, Texas, 54.750

Bars
1. Ashton Locklear, Hamlet, N.C., 15.700
2. Madison Kocian, Dallas, Texas, 15.400
3. Kyla Ross, Aliso Viejo, Calif., 15.000
4. Simone Biles, Spring, Texas, 14.750
5. Maggie Nichols, Little Canada, Minn., 14.700
6. Veronica Hults, Coppell, Texas, 14.500

0.1 dismount stick bonus

Ashton’s E-score was a fair bit too high. Still, she’s one of the best Bar routines in the USA.

Biles, 17, scored 61.7 points at the tune-up meet in Hoffman Estates, Ill., beating 2012 Olympian and reigning World all-around silver medalist Kyla Ross by 1.65.

“I just came in here with a positive mind, and I’ve been out for a while, so I just tried to hit all four and have fun with it,” Biles said on Universal Sports.

“I hope [U.S. National Team coordinator Martha Karolyi] was smiling.” …

Biles and Ross will be the headliners at the P&G Championships, Aug. 21-24 in Pittsburgh. The team for October’s World Championships in Nanning, China, will be named later this summer. …

Simone Biles goes wire to wire at Secret Classic

(6.6, 9.1)

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0.1 stick bonus

Many are questioning that 9.1 Execution score. Ashton is beautiful. But 9.1 in 2014 means a perfect routine with virtually no obvious errors. We can see many 0.1 deductions. I’d say an 8.4 E-score is what she’d get internationally.

Ashton‘s from Everest Gymnastics.

WOW

When you walk into a double double mount like this, you send a message.

I’m the best tumbler here. 🙂

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Yep. That’s the best routine in the world. Fragapane is now #2 in my books.

Skinner fell on dismount. Did not impress Marta. 😦

1/1-in, 1/2-out.

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Score: 13.800 (5.700, 8.100)
Aug. 2, 2014

#secretclassic Juniors:

1. Chiles 57.350
2. Soza 56.450
3. O’Keefe 55.900

To qualify for P&G Championships, a Junior needed to score 52.0 or higher. Here’s a list of all those who qualified. Congratulations.

There are eight junior elites who will be competing in the second session (with the Seniors) and the full results for juniors will be complete after that session. …

Gymnastike commentary – 2014 Secret U.S. Classic Session 1 Results and Recap

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Sunisa Lee of Saint Paul, Minn./Midwest Gymnastics Center, and Deanna West of Plano, Texas/WOGA, won their respective divisions at the 2014 U.S. Challenge at the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, Ill. The U.S. Challenge features gymnasts in the Hopes Division of elite gymnastics.

Lee won the 10-11 age division with a 52.850. Tori Tatum of Chanhassen, Minn./Twin City Twisters, placed second (52.500) while Abigail Scanlon of Sterling, Va./Capital Gymnastics National Center, finished third (52.150).

In the 12-13 age division, West received the gold medal with a 53.600. Mikayla Hotaling of Royal Palm Beach, Fla./American Twisters, earned silver (51.700), and Amoree Lockhart of Ft. Worth, Texas/Empire Gymnastics Academy, got the bronze medal (51.400).

USAG

Full results via that link.

Easy.

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http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/OTY0NzQ5NjI3?related=1&autoplay=false

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There’s no more comment from Gymnastics Canada on Victoria Moors. They certainly need her back for Worlds 2014.

She seems to be on a break since returning home from Commonwealth Games early.

Peace & quiet ???? pic.twitter.com/794khT3Biw

— Victoria Moors (@VictoriaMoors) August 1, 2014

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Dipa is a big media story in India.

She hopes her Bronze medal at Commonwealth Games will help popularize the sport.

… Ashish Kumar’s medals from the Commonwealth and Asian Games in 2010 didn’t change much for Indian gymnasts. Fighting federations that led to de-recognition by the Sports Ministry, lack of funds, and no international tournaments in two years, meant the gymnasts got all of just three months’ training before the Glasgow Games.

“With this little training I managed to get a bronze and I am happy with that, but I would’ve done better if we got more international tours”, said Dipa.

There’s no time for Dipa to celebrate though, as she and the other Indian gymnasts prepare for the Asian Games in Incheon in September. …

Gymnastics is Not Circus, Says Dipa Karmakar After Historic Commonwealth Games Bronze

Jim Holt has been assisting the Men’s Team for some months. I’m looking forward to his assessment of how Dipa’s medals (hopefully) improves the sport in India.

There is plenty of heated discussion online, some Indian non-gymnasts assuming that any negative comment about Dipa’s vault is racism.

I recall a discussion with Raj Bhavsar and Mohini Bhardwaj a couple of years ago. There should be far more successful gymnasts from the subcontinent. They have excellent genetics for acrobatic sport.

On the bright side, I saw many people recommend the start score for handspring double front be reduced from 7.0 to 6.5.

That would help. I’d still rather see the Vault banned for WAG for this cycle. And perhaps one more. I don’t trust the judges. A cannonball landing should be deducted 3.0 – they deduct 0.3. 😦

Even if WAG judges applied the current code, that would help a lot. Any analysis of the women’s Vault judging from Glasgow will quickly reveal that those E-scores are absurd. And that many vaults credited as layout were not layout.

Dave Demanty:

Third in a series of video slideshows centered around the young men performing intercollegiate gymnastics in the years 1973-78.

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