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individuals to Olympic Test Meet

There’s much discussion in Glasgow regarding WHO will compete … aside from Teams 9-16.

NATIONS qualify for those positions. Trinidad and Tobaggo, for example, has two strong WAG gymnasts: Thema Williams & Marisa Dick.

It will be up to that nation to decide whom to send to Rio.

Note: The Olympic Committee in some nations decide NOT to send gymnast invited by FIG. Some don’t want to spend the money. Some have performance requirements. “Athlete must have proven potential to finish in the top 50% of the field at Test Meet“, for example.

Kohei 90.564 | Oleg 90.131

Prelims #Glasgow2015.

Neither had a particularly great day. Both could be significantly better in the AA Final.

On the other hand, so many of the top Pommel specialists have missed (Berki, Sellathurai, Tomassone, Filip Ude) that both MIGHT qualify for that apparatus Final.

Click PLAY to watch Oleg’s P Bar routine on YouTube. He’s defending World Champion.

Kovacs with an extra salto

Timo Niemelä from Finland.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

He’s been training it since at least 2011. Despite suffering a type of chronic fatigue syndrome.

Thanks Carolien.

Men’s Worlds day 1 photos

Sports2Visuals is posting great great photos to Facebook to Facebook VERY quickly.

Dan Purvis

Here are some of Grace Chiu’s pics.

Gymnastics training snack breaks

Around the world most male gymnasts do not take one. Most female gymnasts do.

Average time of a snack break seems to be 10 minutes, based on one informal survey.

I recall arriving as the new Head Coach of one major Gymnastics Club. My first action was to cancel all snack breaks for all groups. (It wasn’t a very popular move with some parents.)

The girls would be allowed to grab a snack as needed, instead.

Snack breaks aren’t needed during a 4hr training, clearly. Many Gyms do not schedule them.

It’s a waste of valuable training time, in my opinion.

Leave a comment if you disagree.

healthysnacks for gymnast

Theatre of KÀ

If you’ve seen this Cirque show in Vegas, you know that the stage is the star.

Amazing technology.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(When did Cirque get Morgan Freeman to do voice overs? 🙂 )

HERO of day 1 – Eleftherios Petrounias

Leading RINGS preliminaries, so far.

LIKE and SHARE this video on Facebook. His father recently passed away. 😦

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.