This is how you do it.
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Kazakhstan’s Milad Karimi interviewed
How is Gymnastics in Kazakhstan these days?
Not good according to a very personal, outspoken interview with the World’s 2017 FX finalist:
Other guys and I were always told the same thing: if there will be medals, we’ll create good training conditions for you. Great, I gave results in 2017, why hasn’t anything changed? For example, we have really bad conditions in Almaty. When it snows, it becomes impossible to train in our gym in the Kazakh Academy of Sports and Tourism – we can get seriously injured because it’s too cold in the gym. So it means that in winter we don’t have a place to train properly, we’re only doing conditioning because it’s not comfortable to train fully clothed in our only gym. …
A: I’m getting paid a bit more than 200,000 tenge a month now [around $600].
Q: What salary did you have before, if it’s not a secret.
A: In 2015, I was paid 15,000 tenge [$45], in 2016 – 30,000 tenge [$90], from January till May 2017 – 110,000 tenge [$333] and from June till September 140,000 tenge [$424]. …
MILAD KARIMI: KAZAKHSTAN’S NATIONAL TEAM DOESN’T HAVE PROPER TRAINING CONDITIONS
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Gymnova P Bar rail breaks
Alexei Nemov’s memoir “Fair Play”
Luba Baladzhaeva:
The book (2009) is absolutely fascinating and also includes chapters by his coach and his wife. However, it’s never been translated into English and likely won’t ever be. I am currently reading the book and posting the highlights in English on twitter. All the tweets are then assembled into a story on Storify.
His first coach kept notes and wrote that at the beginning Nemov was physically weak, lacked endurance, poorly behaved and was prone to sudden mood changes …
He talks about food and hunger a lot. He still remembers (and holds a grudge) how Voropayev stole his breakfast …
He bought his first car in 1995. At the time coaches didn’t like when gymnasts left the Round Lake territory even on the days off, so Arkayev often confiscated his car keys …
Between 1995 and 1997 there was a huge drug problem at Round Lake. Mostly weed, but some heavier drugs as well …
Storify – Fair Play by Alexei Nemov
Elisabeth Seitz – Bars
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Ponor retires at the Mexican Open
One of the all time greats.
Age 30, Cătălina Ponor, is a triple Olympian. (2004, 2012, 2016)
During her career, she won 23 Olympic, World and European medals. More than a half of them (12) were gold.
Turnier der Meister – day 2 finals
GREAT Beam!
Beam
1. WANG, Cenyu CHN 14,166 (8,766 E-score)
2. SCHAEFER, Pauline GER 14,000 ( 8,800 E-score for the World Champ)
3. KHARENKOVA, Maria RUS 13,766
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Floor
1. AKHAIMOVA, Liliia RUS 14,000
2. KHARENKOVA, Maria RUS 13,600
3. SCHAEFER, Pauline GER 13,500
Liliia is the most powerful Russian tumbler we’ve seen in … perhaps ever. 🙂
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Vault
1. ASATO, Keisuke JPN 14,966
2. RADIVILOV, Igor UKR 14,883
3. REMKES, Christopher AUS 14,816
P Bars
1. TAN, Di CHN 15,566
2. VERNIAIEV, Oleg UKR 15,166
3. NGUYEN, Marcel GER 15,133
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H Bar
1. BRETSCHNEIDER, Andreas GER 14,566
2. KIMBLE, Marvin USA 14,033
3. GIACHINO, Pietro NOR 14,000
– TAN, Di CHN 14,000
FIG – Ten take gold at Cottbus Individual Apparatus World Cup
One of the oldest international tournaments in Artistic Gymnastics, the event has been held in Cottbus annually since 1979.
judging angles on Bars
This is something like how a computer would do it.
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That last pirouette is probably OK, I’d say. There would need to be sensors on the rails to confirm time of regrasp on pirouettes.
“middle” loops on Pommels
Nick Blanton:
If you want to swing good Pommel Horse, master the middle loop early on!
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quad twist attempt
Japan’s Chiaki Hatakeda. Younger sister of Hitomi and daughter of 1996 Olympian Yoshiaki Hatakeda.
via Gymternet Clan
