Central American & Caribbean Games
1. Marcia Vidiaux CUB 51.750
2. Andrea Maldonado PUR 50.050
3. Dayana Ardila COL 49.700
full results
Click PLAY or watch Marcia’s prelims FX on YouTube.
Watch all of her AA Final routines.
Leeds Gymnastics – Physical Prep
Click PLAY or watch a sample on Facebook.
A visit to Round Lake
“Ozero Krugloye” (Round Lake) is the Russian training centre about 20 miles from Moscow.
Read a recent media report.
Click PLAY or watch a 2012 feature on the Gym.
(via Irish Daniel)
Olivia Vivian 1st woman to Aussie Ninja Warrior Final
She crushed the semi-final … right up until the end.
No worries. Olivia’s into the final where she’ll compete against boyfriend Ben Polson.
Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.
Kristof Willerton LANDING challenge
I’ve never seen any acrobat land as many different fliffus’ as Kristof does here.
Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.
Kristof is that guy you’ve seen competing triple layout. He was World Power Tumbling champion 2013.
(fliffus’ ??)
Faith Torres – standing 1/1
U.S. Classic Jr. preview
This year, none of the juniors are being promoted to compete with the seniors (last year Malabuyo, O’Keefe, Dunne, Lee, and Kenlin competed in the later session with the big girls). I prefer this way. We have age group delineations in place, so let’s follow those rules and not confuse things. If you’re a senior, you’re a senior. If you’re a junior, you’re a junior—even if you can score better than most of the seniors.
Let’s discuss those gymnasts first, the ones in contention …
Click PLAY or watch Leanne Wong’s DTY on YouTube.
Tokyo Olympic Mascots
#Miraitowa and #Someity
Central American Games
Hosted in Barranquilla, Colombia.
MAG
1. Colombia: 249.400
2. Cuba: 245.150
3. Mexico: 236.450
WAG
1. Cuba 150.100
2. Colombia 149.950
3. México 149.900
Takashi Kobayashi at 16 FIG Academies
Hardy Fink put together a photo montage in tribute to one of the world’s top clinicians. Takashi was respected and admired by all who worked with him.
He died July 20th of stomach cancer.
