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Let’s say you are the National Coach of China. Or even Russia. …

You’ve got to be worried that the USA is going to get as far ahead on Floor in D-score as they are on Vault.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (6.3)

For the record, I’ve been a big Lexie Priessman fan since I saw her live at Japan Junior a couple of years ago. Super gymnast. Super personality.

Women’s Floor Rankings: Best D Scores

Name Country D-Score Meet

1. Ksenia Afanasyeva Russia 6.4 European Championships
2. Mykayla Skinner USA 6.3 Secret Classic
2. Lexie Priessman USA 6.3 Secret Classic
4. Simone Biles USA 6.2 Jesolo
4. Mai Murakami Japan 6.2 Japanese Nationals
4. Larisa Iordache Romania 6.2 Anadia

Uncle Tim UTRS

From that link you’ll see there are only 2 Americans in the top 15 on Bars — and one is Katelyn Ohashi. I’m not sure if and when we’ll ever get to see her compete again. There are no recuperation updates that I’ve seen.

(via GymCastic)

The CrossFit Games champions have been crowned: Rich Froning and Sam Briggs. …

For Froning, it was his third consecutive win, establishing the first dynasty in CrossFit Games history. …

Both champions will take home US$275,000 in addition to prize money won for placing in various events. The top 10 male and female athletes all received prize money, and more than $1.4 million was awarded to athletes and teams over the week of competition. …

1. Rich Froning
2. Jason Khalipa
3. Ben Smith

CrossFit.com

Respect. This is one seriously harsh and dangerous sport.

… CrossFit is an exercise program which is a mixture of aerobic fitness and weight lifting. It is practised in more than 6000 gyms worldwide and the fad has well and truly caught on here, with CrossFit taking off in larger Australian cities.

CrossFit Workouts are short and intense and has a jargon all to itself.

For example, gyms aren’t gyms. They’re “boxes”. Workouts aren’t workouts. They’re WODs (Workout of the Day). The acronym is a reference to the fact that the workout always changes. Indeed, participants often don’t know what they’re in for when they turn up.

A CrossFit staple is the Filthy 50, a brutal series of taxing exercises conveying the madness of CrossFit.

The circuit includes 50 repetitions of 10 different exercises, all done as quickly as possible. Do 50 Box jumps, with a 60cm/45cm box, 50 jumping pull-ups, 50 kettlebell swings 16kg, 50 walking lunge steps, 50 knees to elbows, 50 push press of 20kg, 50 back extensions, 50 wallballs using a 9kg/7kg ball, 50 burpees (dropping all the way to the floor), 50 double unders. …

Read more on News.com

related – 2013 Reebok CrossFit Games Personifies Continued Growth For Sport And Sponsor

Did you see any of the CrossFit Games on TV?

… The only athletes superior to Artistic gymnasts at some feats of strength.

The firefighter from Manchester, UK is the Reebok 2013 Champion.

1. Samantha Briggs
2. Lindsey Valenzuela
3. Valerie Voboril

CrossFit.com

This sensual performance from a few years ago is being widely circulated on Facebook.

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Ludivine was Bronze medalist on Floor at the 1995 Worlds.

WOW.

She rocks the double double layout. (O.B.)

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Despite weaknesses and errors, I definitely want to see Mykayla compete Floor and Vault internationally.

She competed DTY and an awesome Cheng (6.4 difficulty score)

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Have you read Ender’s Game?

At long last, the film version is coming Nov 1, 2013.

This PROMO video is looking for very young child recruits for Battle School.

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Gymnasts would be ideal candidates.

WOW WOW

Simone Biles is out of this world.

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To me both those last two tumbling lines are weak for a gymnast this powerful.

Simone can do anything. Why lines as traditional as those?

U.S. Secret Classic 2013

Kyla Ross (Gym-Max) 58.650
Peyton Ernst (Texas Dreams) 58.250
Brenna Dowell (GAGE) 57.200

Blythe:

Between Youtube, Twitter, internet streaming, blogs, speciality sites like Gymnastike and USA Gymnastics’s own realization that it needed to up its coverage to compete with all of the above, the presence of a major TV network is no longer necessary for hard-core fans (and even fair weather ones), to follow the competition. …

The energetic Simone Biles, who had a starmarking debut at the American Cup in Massachusetts in March, had an off day …

read more on Examiner …

Peyton had the highest score on Beam.

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2013 Secret U.S. Classic

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Click PLAY or watch vault #2 on YouTube.