Sunlive International WAG Camps 2019

CAROL-ANGELA ORCHARD, ERIC BOUCHARIN, PEDRO ROQUE, CÉLINE BOUCHARIN, choreographer JADE PATISSON and more.

REUNION ISLAND – 8 to 13 of July

PORTUGAL – 11th to 16th and 18th to 23rd of August ANADIA Camps

For more details e-mail events (a) sunlive.pt

Gymnastics fees ARE your Christmas present

So true. 🎅

You MIGHT find the new club uniform under the tree.

Thanks Kim.

Maggie Nichol’s 2019 choreography

Love it.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

surviving Gymnastics

One former J.O. / College gymnast posted the sad story of her career on a series of Instagram posts.

We were all at the mercy of a coach’s mood on any given day. …

She was a former elite, always unhappy and extremely negative. …

Start on this post. Click forward on the arrow to read it.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq6PclmgEBO/

Rachael Denhollander – SI Inspiration of the Year

In a recent telephone interview, Denhollander said that, “unless the new organization is populated with people who are willing to stand up and say: This is wrong, we are not going to do it this way, this is not the right priority, this is not the right value systems, we’re just going to end up with another organization that repeats the same problem.” …

Rachael Denhollander Wins Sports Illustrated’s Inspiration of the Year Award

Rachael Denhollander (née Moxon; born December 8, 1984) is an American lawyer and former gymnast. She was the first woman to publicly accuse Larry Nassar …

Denhollander is a TIME 100 honoree and a 2018 Glamour Woman of the Year.

STILL trying to understand Olympic qualification

MAGnastics tried a hypothetical scenario using results of Men’s Worlds 2018 to decide most of the Olympians:

  • Team Qualification (12)
  • Individual AA Qualification
  • Individual Apparatus Qualification

Using 2018 rankings Olympians include: Adam Steele, Ireland, Tin Srbic, Croatia, Ri Se Gwang, North Korea, Eleftherios Petrounias, Greece, Lee Chih Kai, Taipei, Artem Dolgopyat, Israel, etc. 

Click through to see how it turned out:

Demonstrating Olympic Qualification Using 2018 Worlds as an Example

World Cup qualifiers are not included.

Petrounias

Men’s NCAA Preseason Coaches Poll

Oklahoma Sooners (419 points)
Stanford Cardinal (390 points)
Illinois Fighting Illini (366 points)
Minnesota Golden Gophers (353 points)
Michigan Wolverines (324 points)
Ohio State Buckeyes (323 points)
Nebraska Cornhuskers (313 points)
Penn State Nittany Lions (301 points)
Iowa Hawkeyes (267 points)
Navy Midshipmen (225 points)

The majority of teams’ seasons will get underway the weekend of January 11 (with meets like the West Point Open and Rocky Mountain Open). The conclusion of the 2019 campaign will come at the NCAA Championships in Champaign, IL on April 19-20.

Make sure to follow all of the action this season on the CGA’s social accounts: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

2019 CGA Preseason Coaches Poll