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These days I pretty much link to every video posted by Chris. Thanks for all your time.

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Good luck to all the young ladies competing today.

Beam complex in the Dumke Gymnastics Training Center… — with Nansy Damianova, Mary Beth Lofgren and Hailee Hansen.

via Facebook

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Really good insights into life at Camp:

… we wake up around 6:45 a.m. and head straight for breakfast. Most of the girls grab eggs and coffee before we go back to our cabins and get ready to hit the gym. National team coordinator Martha Karolyi has an unwritten rule: if you’re not 30 minutes early to practice, you’re late. So although practice starts at 8:30, we all get there at 8. …

At 8:30 on the dot, Martha walks out of the office. It’s a signal — we stand up, line up and address her. She gives our assignments for the day, and we start practice. …

read it all – Shawn Johnson takes us inside training camp

I especially like her comparisons of being a rookie in 2004 … vs how she and Alicia treat camp now.

After getting one of new Tumbl Trak Air Floors, @CMemmel is tumbling again. The first double pikes since surgery.

I’m testing one of the new Power Launch Air Floors, our gymnasts inventing new applications.

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It’s light. Easy to move around the gym quickly.

BGtv visits the WAG Training Camp to meet the Potential Squad

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British Gymnastics TV is now on YouTube, as well as the Federation home page. I’ll link to the YouTube versions as they stream faster.

From FIG Challenge Cup C III Apparatus. Doha (QAT)

Horizontal Bar
1- ZOU Kai CHN 16.075
2- CUCHERAT Yann FRA 15.275
3- GUO Weiyang CHN 14.900

Our Olympic Champion wins again. He’s consistent. But this slow motion clip reveals his poor form and toe point.

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D: 7.9 E: 8.175 Score: 16.075

It’s an injustice that he can score higher than Uchimura. The Execution judges are simply not separating the best from the average.

related – Second Day finals China dominate MAG and Romania WAG event

See more videos from Doha. (MAG and WAG)

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NCAA WAG Regionals April 7th | Zibo China April 7-8th | Zibo preview and results / videos
Elite CAN T&T results and videos
Japanese Nationals – results and videos

This is the kind of thing that happens when you host the Olympics. Infrastructure money suddenly becomes available.

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Amazing. But operating budget after the Olympics will be an issue. I predict.

That video is from a detailed Couch Gymnast post:

This week in Rio De Janeiro, a new gymnastics training facility was opened with new equipment and facilities and multi[ple apparatus. This is all part of a big plan to prepare for hosting the 2016 Olympic Games, but is of immediate benefit to the Brazilian gymnasts …

Seven gymnasts have already begun training in the new structure, including;

Adrian Gomes Nunes (Gremio Nautico Union-RS), Ana Claudia Silva, Bruna Leal Yamamoto, Mariko Harumy Ethiene Franco and de Freitas (CEGIN-PR), Daniele Hypolito and Priscilla Cobello Domingues (Flamengo). Four coaches will accompany the team: Iryna Ilyashenko, Ricardo Pereira, Adriana Alves and Viviane Cardoso.

According to another article, Jade Barbosa is not yet training with this group due to some contract issues, but soon will be, the article assures readers. …

read more – Brazilian Gym News (Updated with translation!)

related:

Grace Chiu linked to a photo of the renovated Nissan Gymnastics Stadium in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Here’s how it looked during the 2011 Pan-American Games.