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Yana KUDRYAVTSEVA – Ball

Rhythmic World Championships Stuttgart prelims.

18.933 (Difficulty : 9.500, Execution : 9.433).

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Beautiful.

It’s a shame the sport is beset with one judging scandal after another. One judge assigned to judge Worlds was suspended for 6 months. But not informed until close to her arrival in Stuttgart. She will appeal.

Morgan Hurd – TV spot

The fan favourite Junior is coached by Slava Glazounov at First State Gymnastics in Newark. She’s a wonderful interview.

Click PLAY or watch it on Delaware Online.

http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isSlim=1

via GymCastics

Rhythmic Worlds start today

34th Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships, Stuttgart (GER), September 7-13, 2015. …

This competition serves as a qualifier for the 2016 Rio Olympics. Almost 300 gymnasts from 57 nations are expected to compete …

Click PLAY or watch a promo video on YouTube.

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related – 5 questions with: Nataliya Kuzmina, FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics Technical Committee President

Great interview. Despite multiple judging scandals, Rhythmic is really pushing to make the discipline more popular worldwide.

USA Women’s Olympic trials July 8-10, 2016

This is a repost. (Cordelia noted that I got one of the details wrong, the first time. 🙂 ) It’s correct this time.

San Jose, California.

San Jose was a terrific event last time. Friends are already booking travel for next year. 🙂

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details – sanjose2016.com

Tickets for all sessions are $115 and up.

The USA Men’s Olympic trial will be held in conjunction with the P&G Gymnastics Championships for women in St. Louis from June 23-26, 2016. MAG wants more time between the final trial and the Olympics themselves. That’s why they are not picking the team in San Jose.

Rings – introducing handstand

Lazzarich at the 2015 EUG training camp in Tirrenia, Italy.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (50min)

The video continues with swing drills.