Triple double. 15.267 (6.8/8.467)
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
(via papaliukin)
Rhythmic Gymnastic cherubs
A decidedly unique painting. 🙂 Only C$250.
Wilson. Nile Wilson.
Check the British Olympic formal wear on twitter.
British men win Quad friendly
The British men topped France, Germany and Switzerland in a quadrangular meet held Saturday in the Swiss city of Zuchwil.
The competition was held less than an hour outside Bern, site of the upcoming European championships for men, May 25-29.
2014 Junior European champion Nile Wilson led Great Britain to an easy victory with 267.500, more than 7 points ahead of Switzerland (259.250). Germany finished third (257.750) …
beam …
China’s (nominative) Men’s Olympic team
The preliminary men’s team, seeking a third straight Olympic title, includes 2012 Olympian Zhang Chenglong and four Olympic rookies — Deng Shudi, Lin Chaopan, You Hao and Liu Yang. …
The most notable omission was Zou Kai, who earned Olympic team and floor exercise gold in 2008 and 2012 and high bar gold in 2008. …
Nick Zaccardi – China leaves 5-time gold medalist off preliminary Olympic roster
I was surprised Long Zhang made this list. It’s not easy to hang on with so many good younger guys still improving.
Papa Liukin was hoping that Pommel master Weng Hao might make it. VIDEO 16.250
China’s (nominative) Olympic team
Shang Chunsong, Fan Yilin, Mao Yi, Wang Yan and Liu Tingting
The federation released a nominative list of its Olympic team following the Chinese national championships held over the past week, where Shang dominated to earn the all-around, beam, and floor titles. While the selection was nominative and is open to future changes, Shang – a member of each of China’s world championships teams this quad who played a crucial role in back-to-back silver team medals – is essentially a lock at this point and will almost assuredly compete in Rio as an individual medal hopeful in addition to leading the team. …
Several gymnasts were taken out of consideration for Rio following their performances at nationals, including 2012 Olympian and 2014 world bars champion Yao Jinnan, 2013 world bars champion Huang Huidan, two-time worlds team silver medalist Chen Siyi, 2014 worlds alternate Zhu Xiaofang …
National Championship AA
1 Shang Chunsong 59.550
2 Mao Yi 58.100
3 Liu Tingting 57.950
partial results
Click PLAY or watch Fan Yilin’s Bars on YouTube. (7.0 + 8.734 + 0.1 CHN bonus = 15.834)
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