Trailer – The Hard Way To Success – Episode 14 – Wyomi Masela
Wyomi is training for Rio. That’s it.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
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Dvora Meyers – End of the 10
Dvora:
After five months of research, interviews, writing, and rewriting, I’m so excited to announce that I’ll be writing a book about gymnastics ….
Here’s the official announcement …
Freelance journalist and frequent Deadspin and Jezebel contributor Dvora Meyers’s THE END OF THE TEN: The Fall of Perfection in Modern Gymnastics, analyzing how various factors including the elimination of the “Perfect 10” have changed women’s gymnastics in the last few decades, allowing the U.S. to become a dominant power in the sport, to Michelle Howry at Touchstone, for publication in Summer 2016, to coincide with the Olympics, by Allison Hunter at Inkwell Management (World).
Dvora Meyers’s THE END OF THE TEN: The Fall of Perfection in Modern Gymnastics
Dvora is planning on attending Worlds. Planning to interview as many people as possible who were connected or affected by the end of the perfect 10.0 in Artistic scoring in 2006.
New Zealand Commonwealth Trials
A detailed update is posted on iflip4gymnastics:
Two days of trials were held in Auckland on May the 9th and 11th. There were six girls from Christchurch School of Gymnastics, Pacific Rim competitors Courtney McGregor, Charlotte Sullivan and Anna Tempero, as well as Mackenzie Slee, Hanna Malloch and Brittany Robertson. Samara Maxwell of Tristar, Auckland also is vying for a spot. North Harbour’s Jordan Rae (competed at the 2010 CWG in Delhi) has withdrawn due to injury. …
Junior Millie Williamson (also CSG) joined the seniors to trial for the Youth Olympic Games. …
NZL Commonwealth Games hopefuls from left to right: Charlotte, Mackenzie, Anna, Courtney, Millie, Brittany and Hanna (From Mackenzie Slee’s Instagram)
All gymnasts will compete in the Australian Nationals in Melbourne later on this month before the teams will be named. …
Miss Sofia 2014
Larisa Iordache from Romania …
Challengers for the title were also Vanessa Ferrari (ITA), Guilia Steingruber (SUI), Claire Martin (FRA), Aliya Mustafina (RUS), Catherine Lyons (GBR). …
Larisa might win the World Championships this year. It’s possible. Especially if she upgrades to Amanar.
But she’s hardly a candidate for the Elegance Prize.
Click PLAY or watch her Beam in prelims on YouTube.
Her feet are not great. Her lines are not great. But in this current goofy code her routine scored 8.766 out of a (normal) maximum of 8.900.
6.4 + 8.766 = 15.166
Judges in 2014 reward start scores over all else. To win you need a high start score on all 4 apparatus.
Increasingly you need a body type closer to Shawn Johnson than to Nastia Liukin.
Larisa has a winning balance of power for tumbling & vault, yet can still do good Beam, reasonable Bars.
tumbles like Mary Lou
McKenna Kelley can tumble like her Mom, the 1984 Olympic All-Around Champion.
Click PLAY or watch tumbling training on YouTube.
How did it feel to win the Nastia Liukin Cup?
Just qualifying to the Nastia Cup was enough for me. I had no intentions of even placing!! I came in wanting to hit 4 for 4. After beam, and I saw my score, I knew I had a shot!! Little did I know I would soon be crowned co-champion!! Winning the Nastia Cup is still so surreal. …
Click PLAY or watch her Floor on YouTube.
She’s planning to compete for LSU.
via GymFever
Men at European Championships
The guys got to Sofia, Bulgari in time to celebrate the end of the women’s competition. Their competition is coming up next.
John Orozco – P Bars
Europeans Gold medal routines
Full Twist has been compiling videos of the finalists.
Click PLAY or watch Steingruber’s Vaults on YouTube. Yurchenko 1/1 for second vault.
Click PLAY or watch Becky Downie’s CRAZY Bars on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch Maria Kharenkova’s Beam on YouTube.
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Break the tie 🙂 between Vanessa Ferrari and Larisa Iordache. FX was the best apparatus.
Click PLAY or watch the Ferrari on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch Larisa’s Floor on YouTube.
Sr European Apparatus Finals
VAULT
Guilia Steingruber (SWI) 14.666
Anna Pavlova (AZE) 14.583
Iordache (ROU) 14.533
BARS
Becky Downie (GBR) 15.500
Aliya Mustafina (RUS) 15.266
Spiridonova (RUS) 14.966
Post by Sports2Visuals.
BEAM
Maria Kharenkova (RUS) 14.933
Iordache (ROU) 14.800
Aliya Mustafina (RUS) 14.733
FLOOR
Vanessa Ferrari (ITA) 14.800
Larisa Iordache (ROU) 14.800
Giulia Steingruber (SWI) 14.500
Amanda Turner posted full results on IG:
Romania’s Larisa Iordache was the most successful gymnast with the bronze on vault, the silver on balance beam and a share of the gold on floor exercise. …
Competition resumes in Sofia with the 2014 Men’s European Championships, which begins Wednesday.
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