safety strap giants … on Rings

Lee Woolls.

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triple Olympian Ana Rente is a doctor

Behind the glitz and glamour of the Games, many world-class athletes must work around the clock to fund their Olympic dream.

Three-time Olympian Ana Rente stumbled into a medical career, but although finding time for training is draining the rewards are huge.

The Olympic Channel – EP 12. MEET THE OLYMPIAN BOUNCING BETWEEN TRAMPOLINE AND HER CAREER AS A DOCTOR (8min)

That mini-documentary includes the moment her boyfriend Gustavo proposed at the Rio Olympics.

After placing 16th at Beijing 2008 and 11th at London 2012, Portugal’s Ana Rente has another date with the Olympics, in Rio 2016 this time, and joined by her boyfriend Gustavo Simoes who qualified for men’s artistic gymnastics!

UEG (2016)

Division 3 NCAA Gymnastics

Check out the 2017-2018 National Collegiate Gymnastics Association promotional video.

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how high is Kenzo’s triple twisting Yurchenko?

This high.

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Simone … that didn’t take long

Biles returned to work in Texas on Nov. 2 under a new coach, Laurent Landi …

… she said. “I’m more excited than I thought I would be and I already have all of my skills from the Olympics and I haven’t been doing gym for a year-and-a-half, so that’s kind of exciting.” …

Newsday

incline cartwheels for beginners

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Good idea. Uphill to encourage a good lunge and strong leg action. Downhill to help the newbie land in a more vertical position.

Bermuda Gymnastics Association 2017

Over the past year I’ve been assisting Head Coach Adriana Forde and her staff in Bermuda. With a population of only 65,000, the sport is quite advanced. They have MAG up to USA JO L8 and WAG up to L10.

Click PLAY or get a glimpse on YouTube. Bars is highest priority for WAG right now.

No MAG jump to prone after landing

Though a crowd pleaser, that’s a 0.5 deduction for 2020.

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when your Kas is a stagger hand Handspring

The second vault should not get credit as Kasamatsu. He doesn’t show a 90 degree twist on, 90 degree twist back. Deduction -2.0 from the average.

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(via @papaliukin)

Artem Dolgopyat interview

Artem Dolgopyat (Hebrew: ארטיום דולגופיאט‎‎; born June 16, 1997) is an Israeli artistic gymnast. At the 2017 World Championships, he won the silver medal on floor exercise.

… the second Israeli gymnast to win a medal in gymnastics world championships (after Alex Shatilov) and the first to win a silver medal.

Born in Ukraine, his family moved to Israel when he was age-12.

Click PLAY or watch his Worlds qualifying FX on YouTube. Zapata mount.

Gymnovosti:

He became an overnight sensation in Israel  …

“For years I’ve been spending at least 4 hours a day on the buses. I had to wake up at 6 am in order to arrive in time to practices, classes and physical therapy. It was very hard to stay stuck in traffic so many hours a day. On my last birthday, my dad gave me his old car as a gift, this made my life so much easier.”

He is currently in the army, serving in the rank of a junior sergeant. As an athlete, he receives a special permission to serve only half a day and can train the rest of the day and it’s very hard for him to combine training and the service:

“I come to the gym half-dead after a day at the army base. Athlete-soldiers have to work in the army for 6 hours a week but my commander allows me to leave after five hours”.

… For his medal at Worlds he received a special prize from the government – NIS 84,000 ($24,000) and his coach also got a prize – half this sum. He also got a raise and now receives NIS 8,500 a month ($2500) …

DOLGOPYAT: THE DAY OF THE FLOOR FINAL I COULDN’T STEP ON MY FOOT

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