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Doha World Cup prelims

FIG:

Armenian gymnasts lead the standings in three events after the qualifying round of competition at the Doha World Cup Wednesday in Qatar’s capital city.

Exceptional form and high start values propelled Harutyun Merdinyan (Pommel Horse, 15.45), Artur Tovmasyan (Still Rings, 15.75) and Artur Davtyan (Men’s Vault, 15.175 average) to the top of the leaderboard going into Thursday and Friday’s final rounds.

2013 World Floor champion Kenzo Shirai used his Worlds routine — including eye-popping quadruple twist dismount — to post the highest score of the entire meet so far (15.85).

Meanwhile, Japan’s Yusuke Saito also had a banner day, with the best mark on Horizontal Bar (15.550), surprising Olympic champion Epke Zonderland (NED), who was second …

Romania’s Larisa Iordache looked strong on three events, hitting her notoriously difficult Beam routine for 15.0 (6.4 D-score) to take the lead. Though she struggled on Uneven Bars (11.65), Iordache was also the top qualifier on Floor Exercise (14.55) …

Surprises included Singapore’s Ashly Wei-Ning Lau, who qualified third for the Beam final (14.15), and New Zealand’s Courtney McGregor, who became the first woman from her country to land a double-twisting Yurchenko Vault. McGregor qualified second for the Vault final (13.95 average), while teammate Charlotte Sullivan sits fifth in the standings on Floor (13.2). …

Armenians, Romanians lead as Doha World Cup begins

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Lais Souza not insured …

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The former gymnast paralyzed while training for the winter Olympics is not covered by her sports Federations.

Linked by Ivan Fernandes for WOGymnastika.

Google Translate from the original Portuguese story:

Lais Souza is quadriplegic, someone has to pay for it, and it’s not you.

… Our skier Lais Souza is quadriplegic. … The insurance paid for the operation and treatment. But it will not pay anything more. Because life insurance or disability contracted by the Brazilian Olympic Committee, and the Brazilian Sports Confederation … covers only accidents that happen during the competition, and not during training. …

What will help Lais is money, big money. Now the Brazilian Olympic Committee started a campaign asking financial assistance …

… Any idea how much it costs to be a quadriplegic? I’ll kick down a $15 thousand per month, U.S. $180,000 per year. Lais is 25 years old. …

The Olympic Committee is transferring the responsibility … Brazil invests billions in Cup stadiums, and billions more for the Olympics in Rio in 2016, and leaves a young quadriplegic …

… if you can do something for Lais, do:

Bradesco
Agency: 0548-7
Current Account: 0110490-0
Lais Souza da Silva

Lais Souza

related:

• her first interview (Portuguese)

• LIKE the Força Lais: In Support of Lais Souza Facebook page

Thanks Amanda.

Biles – World Champions Centre

National and world all-around women’s gymnastics champion Simone Biles … will return to competition next month at the International Gymnastics Federation’s Pacific Rim Championships in suburban Vancouver, USA Gymnastics announced Monday. …

Biles’ family disclosed earlier this year that she and her coach would be moving to another gym from Bannon’s Gymnastix in Spring, where she has trained since age 6. She is now training at AIM Athletics in The Woodlands while the Biles family works on a new gym to be called World Champions Centre.

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