Simone’s 2.7 lead on the world

1. Simone Biles (USA) | 25.4
2. Melanie de Jesus dos Santos (FRA) | 22.7
3. Angelina Melnikova (RUS) | 22.6
4. Morgan Hurd (USA) | 22.3
5. Flavia Saraiva (BRA) | 22.2

Simone Biles Leads D-Scores At 2018 Gymnastics World All-Around Final

The world’s least respected coach thinks Simone “doesn’t look invincible any more“.

That’s absurd, of course. If the greatest female gymnast all time wants some serious competition she’ll have to challenge the men. I’d love to see MAG vs Simone on a vault table 130cm high.

I’ll be putting my money on Simone. 😀

Bhasvar Challenge

How many can you do in series? 😀

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https://twitter.com/Nikekr0602Rk/status/1061512733600899077

Trampoline Worlds has ended

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full-in triple pike – Vadim Afanasev

World power tumbling champion 2018.

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Canadian coach Denis Vachon said it was the highlight of Worlds.

coach John D. Smith passed away

If you ever met John Smith of NASA Gymnastics in Washington State, you remember him. You admired him. One of the classiest gentlemen in Gymnastics.

A real role model to us all in the sport.

He will be dearly missed.

John died of complications resulting from early, rapid onset dementia.

Rest in peace.

Rosie wins Worlds

Two-time Olympic gold medallist Rosie MacLennan of King City, ON stood on top of the podium on Saturday afternoon in St. Petersburg, Russia after claiming gold in women’s individual trampoline at the 2018 FIG Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships for only the second time in her career.

The battle for gold was clearly between Xueying Zhu of China and MacLennan who entered the final ranked one and two respectively. Zhu actually outscored MacLennan in the final, but was given a 0.2 penalty for taking too long to begin her routine leaving MacLennan with the higher score overall. Zhu ended up with the silver medal while Yana Pavlova of Russia captured the bronze medal.

Gymnastics Canada

via Fans of Canadian Gymnastics

Bar handstand drills

Tom Strange from DeVeaus takes the High Performance camp athletes through a bars complex that works the handstand lines and pirouette shapes.

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Olympic Studies Centre, Switzerland

The IOC Olympic Studies Centre collections “include the IOC archives, the official publications of the IOC and the Organising Committee of the Olympic Games as well as books, articles and journals. Our resources cover all the key themes related to the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement and their place within society”.

It’s next door to the very popular Olympic museum in Lausanne.

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