Powerful.
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How to Save Youth Sports: A Manifesto
Parents in 2025 are worried about peer pressure, teen mental health, teen addiction to screens, and even childhood obesity.
As coaches, our goal is that kids get hooked on fitness and achievement through sport. Being an athlete is one of the best ways to grow up.
Here’s a terrific article by Steve Magness for your parents:
How to Save Youth Sports: A Manifesto
Sports are a great way to establish basic psychological needs: autonomy; mastery and skill development; mattering and belonging
Nobody remembers (or cares) if you won your first-grade league championship.
Youth sports should be about having a space for kids to challenge themselves healthily and explore their interests and limits.
Youth sports should be a place where kids can learn how to be a good teammate, navigate conflict, and develop tools to regulate their emotions.
Perhaps most of all, youth sports should be about developing a positive relationship with physical health and fitness. …
Ashlee Sullivan wins Winter Cup 2025
- Ashlee Sullivan 53.550
- Jayla Hang 53.000
- Simone Rose 52.700
- Tatum Drusch 52.550
- Nola Matthews 52.400
- Alicia Zhou 51.950
USAG recap ➙ Sullivan wins senior women’s Winter Cup all-around title
2025 Cottbus World Cup RESULTS 1
The 2025 World Cup season takes off 19-22 February from a familiar launchpad: “gym city” Cottbus (GER), where the first gymnastics club was established in 1861 and an annual elite tournament has been organised for nearly half a century. …
The field of more than 120 gymnasts representing 28 nations includes many who have already tasted World or Olympic success …
Everything you need to know about the 2025 Artistic Gymnastics Apparatus World Cup in Cottbus
Results – day 1
Vault
🥇 Teja Belak 🇸🇮 13.299
🥈 Tjasa Kysselef 🇸🇮 13.266
🥉 Oksana Chusovitina 🇺🇿 13.249
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Bars
🥇 Zhang Kexin 🇨🇳 13.900
🥈 Charlotte Booth 🇬🇧 13.300
🥉 Yamada Chiharu 🇯🇵 13.033
Floor
🥇 Milad Karimi 🇰🇿 14.133
🥈 Minami Kazuki 🇯🇵 13.666
🥉 Niccolo Vannucchi 🇮🇹 13.533
Pommel
🥇 Shiao Yu-Jan TPE 14.433
🥈 Ahmad Abu Al Soud 🇯🇴 14.233
🥉 Edoardo de Rosa 🇮🇹 13.966
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Rings
🥇 Vahagn Davtyan 🇦🇲 14.133
🥈 Nikita Simonov 🇦🇿 14.066
🥉 Mehmet Kosak 🇹🇷 14.000
WHY are A.I. generated Gymnastics videos so bad?
I created this bit of hilarity using the FREE Adobe Firefly web page.
It let me make 2 video clips before my free trial ran out.
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NEW – Mixed Synchro Trampoline
A Mixed Synchronised event will make its World Championships debut this year at the magnificent Navarra Arena in Pamplona (ESP).
This exciting addition brings the number of medal events at the World Championships to 16, joining individual and team competitions in Men’s and Women’s Individual Trampoline, Tumbling, and Double Mini-trampoline (DMT) as well as Men’s and Women’s Synchronised Trampoline and an All-Around team event. …
Zhang Yihan – Free Hip to Layout Tkachev!
progression – landing in Handstand on Low Bar
Hauke Narten – Wheel gymnastics
Impressive.
Wheel gymnastics (German: Rhönradturnen) is a form of gymnastics that originated in Germany. Wheel gymnasts do exercises in a large wheel or hoop known as the Rhönrad, gymnastics wheel, gym wheel, or German wheel …
German Champion 2024 🥇 @djtuxeedo
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Elite Canada 2025 recap & results
Elite Canada, Markham, ON, from February 14 to 16.
Photos via GymCan.
GCG – COMPETITION RECAP – ARTISTIC ELITE CANADA 2025
WAG – Novice (11–14) All-Around
Gold: Zoe Ewens (Calgary Gymnastics Centre, AB)
Silver: Nelly Dube (Quebec Performance, QC)
Bronze: Eden Belay (Toronto Gymnastics International, ON)
WAG – Junior (14–15) All-Around
Gold: Coralie Demers (Gymnix, QC)
Silver: Aila McKinley (YEG Gymnastics, AB)
Bronze: Mackenzie Grant (Edge Gymnastics, ON)
WAG – Senior (16+) All-Around
Gold: Lia Monica Fontaine (Wimgym, QC)
Silver: Gabrielle Black (Oakville Gymnastics, ON)
Bronze: Alyssa Guerrier-Calixte (Wimgym, QC)
MAG – Aspire All-Around
Gold: Olivier Lapointe (Laval Excellence, QC)
Silver: Mikaël Morin (Imagym, QC)
Bronze: Miles Hii (Phoenix, BC)
MAG – Junior (15–16) All-Around
Gold: Eito Fujihara (Calgary Gymnastics Centre, AB)
Silver: Reuben Dykstra (Langley Gymnastics Foundation, BC)
Bronze: Ethan Lee (Langley Gymnastics Foundation, BC)
MAG – Junior (17–18) All-Around
Gold: Liam Vanounou (Vaughan Gymnastics, ON)
Silver: Evan Aliwalas (Toronto Gymnastics International, ON)
Bronze: Rishi Sheoran (Gymnastics Mississauga, ON)
MAG – Senior Next Gen All-Around
Gold: Matteo Bardana (Gymnastics Mississauga, ON)
Silver: Connor Fielding (Twisters Gymnastics Abbotsford, BC)
Bronze: Raphael Madore (Gymnika, QC)
MAG – Senior (21+) All-Around
Gold: Elel Baker (Gymnastics Mississauga, ON)
Silver: Kenji Tamane (Laval Excellence, QC)
Bronze: William Black (Halifax ALTA Gymnastics Club, NS)
