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You can still watch SOME of the 2014 NCAA Championships, perhaps the best ever.

NCAA Women’s Championships Video replay. Free.

Bars is not at all the worst evaluated apparatus in College gymnastics.

But it could be better. In 2014 there’s too much emphasis on stuck landings.

Possible rules changes:

• deduct 0.05 for high to low bar transfers not finishing in handstand

• deduct more for lack of height on dismounts

• require same bar somersault release (as in FIG rules)

• start deducting 0.05 each time for flexed feet past the low bar on Giants. And on Tkachev.

• placing judges so they could see feet apart on double layout dismount

Our 2014 Bars Champion Bridget Sloan has always had flexed feet on Tkachev skills.

Bridget’s feet are less flexed now than in the past (2008 VIDEO), happily.

If those rules are in place now, it’s obvious they are not being enforced. 😦 Start enforcing them to better separate the best of the best routines.

Leave a comment if you have additional ideas for improving Bars judging.

This photo edit has been making the rounds. 🙂

She doesn’t look all that impressed to be competing for the Great White North.

(via @VictoriaMoors )

Yeesh.

(via Greg Roe)

Beautiful execution.

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Commonwealth Gymnastics Invitational & 2014 Artistic Celtic Cup 25-27th April 2014

WAG Team
Scotland 156.450
Northern Ireland 147.800
Malaysia 145.200

Malaysian women gymnasts bag bronze in Scotland meet

AA
Emma White (SCO) 53.250
Erin McLachlan (SCO) 52.800
Marisa Dick (TRI) 52.550

MAG Team Results
Scotland 246.450
Wales 236.350
India 231.750

AA
Daniel Iley (SCO) 81.600
Asish Kumar (IND) 80.750
Adam Cox (SCO) 79.500

Results: Commonwealth Invitational 2014 AA & Team

This competition is kind of a big deal because many of the athletes are trying to secure a spot on their nation’s Commonwealth Games Team. That competition will also be hosted in Scotland. This was something of a test meet.

Vault (Average):
1 14.000 – Dipa Karmakar (India)
2 13.900 – Emma White (Scotland)
3 13.725 – Marisa Dick (Trinidad & Tobago)

Bars:
1= 13.200 – Marisa Dick (Trinidad & Tobago)
1= 13.200 – Emma White (Scotland)
3 12.600 – Erin McLachlan (Scotland)

Beam:
1 13.450 – India McPeak (Northern Ireland)
2= 13.300 – Marisa Dick (Trinidad & Tobago)
2= 13.300 – Dipa Karmakar (India)

Floor:
1 13.650 – Emma White (Scotland) – VIDEO of her 13.10 prelims routine
2 13.450 – Erin McLachlan (Scotland)
3 13.150 – Farah Ann Abd. Hadi (Malaysia)

full WAG Apparatus Finals results

Floor:
1 14.350 – Ashish Kumar (India)
2 13.550 – Douglas Ross (Scotland)
3 13.300 – Adam Cox (Scotland)

Pommels:
1 13.175 – Daniel Iley (Scotland)
2 13.150 – Luke Carson (Northern Ireland)
3 13.000 – Joseph Rowland (Wales)

Rings:
1 13.900 – William Albert (Trinidad & Tobago)
2 13.375 – Georgallas Irodotos (Cyprus)
3 13.275 – Daniel Iley (Scotland)

Vault (Average):
1 14.162 – Ashish Kumar (India)
2 14.000 – Ryan McKee (Scotland)
3 13.900 – Aizat Bin Muhammad Jufrie (Singapore)

P-Bars:
1 14.075 – Luke Carson (Northern Ireland)
2 13.775 – Ashish Kumar (India)
3 13.500 – Daniel Iley (Scotland)

H-Bar:
1 14.300 – Liam Davie (Scotland)
2 13.675 – Daniel Iley (Scotland)
3 13.325 – Papavripidou Xenios (Cyprus)

full MAG Apparatus Finals results

Click PLAY or watch Liam’s prelims H Bar on YouTube.

Shout out for the guys in green.

One day recovery. Start training for Nationals on Monday.

The Canadian National Championships go May 26-31st in Ottawa.

Some interesting ideas from JAO.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The President of the Gymnastics Federation of Nigeria, Folusho Adefemi, has said that lack of funds was responsible for Nigeria’s inability to participate at the last African Gymnastics Championship in South Africa.

Nigeria had qualified for the competition, which was held from March 27 to 30, but had failed to participate in any of the over 20 categories of events at the competition.

Adefemi said, “It was not as if we don’t want to go to South Africa, it is because we have no fund available, that’s why we couldn’t go to that competition.” …

Gymnastics laments poor funding

On the other hand, I was proud to see the guys from Senegal. A very well organized Federation, they found a way. For only the second time in history.

Nigeria is a rich nation, richer than South Africa by some measures. There is money in Nigeria. It’s not being used to support Gymnastics. 😦

“Sarah & Suzanne” tells the story of the greatest rivalry in college gymnastics – between Bama’s Crimson Tide & Georgia’s Gym Dogs. For over 3 decades led by their respective Coaches Sarah Patterson & Suzanne Yoculan, these two programs have been the best in the nation. Yet, as intense as the competition on the floor was, nothing was more heated than the rivalry between these two extraordinary coaches!

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via College Gymnastics Board)