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Joanna Sampson 39.550
Rheagan Courville 39.525
Nicole Artz 39.375
Senior Joanna Sampson (Willow Grove, Pa./Upper Moreland) had the highest all-around score of any competitor in the afternoon session (39.550) and advanced to Individual Event Finals on Sunday (April 20) on uneven bars and floor exercise. …
Joanna, Michigan Captain, is the defending NCAA FX champion.
Her team, sadly, had to count a fall on Beam. 😦
Blythe Lawrence:
Under coach Suzanne Yoculan and 2004 Olympic medalist Courtney Kupets, the Gym Dogs built a dynasty during the mid-2000s with five straight national titles.
It didn’t last: Yoculan retired, Kupets graduated, and the team has not been the same since.
After a few embarrassing seasons by Georgia gymnastics standards (one in which the team didn’t make it past regionals), second-year head coach Danna Durante has started a turnaround. It may be too little, too soon to call No. 6 Georgia a title contender again, but if sophomores Brittany Rogers (a 2012 Olympian for Canada) and Brandie Jay can lead their team to a podium finish, it would be the first time in the five years since Yoculan’s retirement.
I’d say the Gym Dogs are back, already.
NCAA Semifinal 1 – Georgia 197.3 without Brittany Rogers at full strength. 🙂
The best 3 teams moved on. No controversy.
NCAA Semifinal 1
Oklahoma 197.5
Georgia 197.3
LSU 197.1
Stanford 196.6
Michigan 196.425
Illini 195.80
I’m still liking LSU in the Team Final. 🙂
Florida’s Mackenzie Caquatto’s bars at podium training.
Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.
http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/NTI3NzQzMzM3?related=1&autoplay=false
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Gymnastike had some free videos up in advance of the competition, but watching the competition itself requires Premium Gold membership.
Jessie DeZiel? Lindsay Mable? Alaina Johnson? Kytra Hunter? Joanna Sampson? Emily Wong? Katherine Grable?
A betting man would put money on Sam Peszek or Bridget Sloan. Sam may have paced herself perfectly this season. She has terrific presence on the Floor.
I’m all in for LSU, so I’m all in for Rheagan Courville. 🙂
Click PLAY or watch her Beam Arabian on Gymnastike.
http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/NzY0NzQzMjc5?related=1&autoplay=false
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Awesome, but she had a fall on it too in Podium training.
Click PLAY or watch her interview with Jennifer from Gymnastike. (Who’s picking LSU.)
http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/Nzk4NzQyOTQ0?related=1&autoplay=false
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Check Balance Beam Situation‘s excellent preview of the AA competition.
The AA is decided during today’s preliminary competition.
Almost.
Click PLAY or watch his Doha routine on YouTube.
Men’s Floor is stupider than ever now. Who needs to see so many variations of twist?
No double somersaults.
Merde. 😦
via @OnoNoKomachi1
Dear Normal People,
Don’t be discouraged; you’re probably really good at grocery shopping or something. 🙂
International Gymnastics Federation:
“We have many meetings, the same meetings, but nothing happens. That is probably due to the lack of full-time competition directors on site. We are very worried about our test event, about accommodation and the type of apparatus to be used. We have still not heard anything on this side. We are in a period where those details now should be decided.” …
Over half of Olympic sports cite major concerns over Rio 2016, with calls for IOC contingency plans
Brazilian authorities unveiled an infrastructure budget of 24.1 billion reais ($10.76 billion) for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, 25 percent more than planned, as they try to reassure the world they can deliver facilities on time.
Jessica O’Beirne showed me this Facebook post from Terry Steiner, USA National Coach for Women’s Wrestling.
Gutsy move.
The only similar action I can recall was by Bernard Petiot, then head coach of Gymnix, Quebec.
He hired Boris Verkhovsky to visit Gymnix, challenging him and his coaching staff on their training system.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 