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Podium #WChAntwerp.

So far, so good. Simone is in the zone.

Click PLAY or watch Bars on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Beam on YouTube.

Interview after podium training.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/OTY3NzIxMDcx?related=1&autoplay=false

Watch more video of 2013 World Championships on gymnastike.org

Brenna is tough. Chellsie Memmel tough, I believe.

She should hang in for Elite. If she’d only stabilized that Bar routine, she’d be competing in Antwerp.

Marta values consistency above anything else. I could easily see her on the Worlds 2014 team where the AA becomes more important.

Britain’s Nikki Hanley will create history during the 2013 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Antwerp as the first female to judge a men’s artistic World Championships.

… E-judge for Floor Exercise during qualifications next week. …

British Gymnastics

Canada’s Gord Bennett will be judging WAG vault.

Are there any other wrong gender 🙂 judges at Worlds 2013?

… Speaking of Moors, she tweeted the Canadian training leos, which are, as ever, botanical (thanks, Lyn G)! …

Couch Gymnast – What Did I Miss? Worlds Edition

If you’ve been too busy this weekend to follow World’s Podium training, that’s a good catch-up.

The “inverted swallow” or “inverted Maltese” was a skill of fiction until just a few years ago. I thought it was physiologically impossible.

It is possible.

But not many of the guys who tried it got close to straight and horizontal.

Ali Zahran of Egypt is about to redefine expectations for hold position.

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If he competes back lever pull to Victorian in Antwerp, it will be given an F value. And named for Zahran.

It’s one of 16 new men’s elements accepted for evaluation by FIG MTC.

MAG coaches should follow Uncle Tim. He’s watching every video coming out of Antwerp and posting the best on his site.

This one was linked from Men’s Podium Training Round-Up: Part 2.

The Men’s Technical Committee agreed to assess two gymnasts planning to compete the vault in Antwerp.

Kenzo SHIRAI (JPN) & Hee Hoon KIM (KOR)

Click PLAY or watch Hee Hoon KIM on YouTube.

• Value 6.0, if accepted

From Sept 28th FIG memo – Sixteen new men’s elements accepted for evaluation

Zeng Siqi, Yao Jinnan & Huang Huidan

Blossom:

Where’s Shang Chunsong?

Taking the photo, I’m guessing. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/NzM0NzIxMDQ5?related=1&autoplay=false

Watch more video of 2013 World Championships on gymnastike.org

You’re right. That’s not Elizabeth Seitz.

gymm confirms it’s Ida Gustaffson from Sweden. Sweet, girl! 🙂

Click PLAY or watch Elizabeth’s Bars on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/NjY4NzIxMDYy?related=1&autoplay=false

Despite her many form breaks, Elizabeth really impressed me in Podium training today. She’s so aggressive. So tough.

Anne Phillips is at #WChAntwerp for Gymnastike. The hardest working person in media, I’d say.

piibunina‘s here too, uploading Podium videos. These will stop during the competition. After the TV cameras arrive.

Easily her best apparatus today at #WChAntwerp Podium training.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I’m not a big fan of the Mo. But the rest of the routine is pretty awesome.

Decision at #WChAntwerp.

Do you compete Mckayla Maroney on Beam / Bars?

Or Brenna?

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

To be fair, the miss on the straddle back half was edited out. That’s been Brenna’s problem on that extremely difficult set.

Brenna Dowell is one awesome athlete. Ask anyone who’s trained with her.