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Canada has a lot of depth right now. To make this team wasn’t easy. Congratulations Audrey.

First-year senior Audrey Rousseau of Canada told IG she is confident that she can deliver good performances at the world championships in Glasgow later this month.

“I’m really focused right now on my work and on this great opportunity that I have,” said Rousseau, who trains under coaches Dany Gilbert and Nathalie Turner at Club Equilibrix in Sainte-Catherine, Quebec. “This competition will be a great experience on all points, and of course my first objective is to do the best I can to help the team to reach the objectives.”

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IG – Rousseau ‘Really Focused’ For Worlds Debut

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High ceilings. A higher power. 🙂

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(via Gymnastics Canada)

Simone Biles, Spring, Texas/World Champions Centre
Gabrielle Douglas, Virginia Beach, Va./Buckeye Gymnastics
Brenna Dowell, Odessa, Mo./GAGE
Madison Kocian, Dallas/WOGA
Maggie Nichols, Little Canada, Minn./Twin City Twisters
Aly Raisman, Needham, Mass./Brestyan’s American Gymnastics
MyKayla Skinner, Gilbert, Ariz./Desert Lights Gymnastics

Two additional athletes – Alyssa Baumann of Plano, Texas/WOGA, and Bailie Key of Montgomery, Texas/Texas Dreams Gymnastics – are remaining at the Ranch to train with the team.

USAG

Nick Zaccardi:

The U.S. women’s gymnastics team that will try to win a fourth straight global title at the World Championships in three weeks in Glasgow, Scotland, is arguably the most accomplished in American history.

It’s the first time a U.S. men’s or women’s team for Worlds has included two past Olympic or World all-around champions — Simone Biles and Gabby Douglas.

It’s the first time a U.S. men’s or women’s team for Worlds has included any past individual Olympic champions — Douglas and Aly Raisman. …

The team includes zero women under the age of 18, a first in U.S. gymnastics World Championships history. That hasn’t happened at the Olympics since 1952, according to sports-reference.com. …

NBC

Lauren Hopkins:

… All ground is covered in terms of both the team final as well as maximum individual medal potential …

If I was Marta, I’d be most worried about Beam.

The last Worlds with a reigning Olympic AA champion competing was 2001 – Andreea Raducan*. 🙂

related – Balance Beam Situation commentary

… Gymnast Ellie Black was the most decorated Canadian after delivering a stellar performance at the Pan Am Games.

The accolades continued on Wednesday as Black was chosen by you for having the best Canadian sports moment of the summer. …

CBC

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This stuff is really, really difficult.

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Cirque La Nouba Head Coach Matthew Sparks.

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Lauren Hopkins:

Elena Skripel, chairwoman of the Belarusian Gymnastics Association, did an interview with Minsk Capital Television in which she discussed everything having to do with the decision to allow Americans compete at World Championships over her own Belarusian gymnasts.

We have translated the interview and have it in full below.

Recently you announced that American gymnasts will compete for Belarus in this discipline.

… Since November, we have been trying to figure out what’s going wrong with our artistic gymnastics. Unfortunately, our women currently have no prospects. We watched training sessions and received advice from some women’s coaches and then we as a group decided to accept the offer from the American side regarding the involvement of the American girls.

I’ll explain a little bit more. The thing is that we need to earn a spot for the Olympic Games at this World Championships. Therefore it is very important all the same to try to do everything possible to earn at least one spot so that Belarus is represented at the Olympics in this sport. Belarus has such a strong history in gymnastics, but over time, we’ve grown weaker. Therefore, we are moving in several directions. We have attracted American girls as a short-term solution, while at the same time we are working to invite a new head coach for our women’s team.

A new head coach will be invited.

Yes. We have reached an agreement with Oleg Ostapenko. …

In America, everyone is shocked, I believe.

Yes, already everyone is shocked. Now we’ll wait for the results.

In Translation: Elena Skripel on BelarusGate

I don’t like the decision. But we must be careful not to blame the gymnasts.

If you don’t like random gymnasts being allowed to join any Team in the world, blame the FIG. Blame the adults involved.