NCAA Gymnastics in Texas?

Dwight Normile got the gymternet buzzing with this post:

Why Doesn’t Texas Have Division I Gymnastics?

Great question.

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For the second year in a row the NCAA Women’s Gymnastics National Championships will be held in Fort Worth, Texas. April 15-17th, 2016.

Attendance was disappointing last year, I thought.

USA Gymnastics Team 2015- Runnin’

It was another incredibly dominant year for Team USA.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Arabian Punch Front)

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shake-up in Romania

Bea Gheorghisor:

Here are the 12 gymnasts that are training for Rio:

Larisa Iordache
Catalina Ponor
Diana Bulimar
Andreea Iridon
Laura Jurca
Anda Butuc
Andreea Ciurusniuc
Ana Maria Ocoli
Denisa Stanciu
Dora Vulcan
Maria Holbur
Silvia Zarzu

… coaches Lacramioara and Cristian Moldovan have resigned …

Couch Gymnast – Changes in the Team

The most important goal is to qualify for Rio by being one of the top 4 teams at the Olympic Test Meet.

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Voronin Cup Results

1 Maria Kharenkova Russia 57.000
2 Anastasia Dmitrieva Russia 56.450
3T Evgeniya Shelgunova Russia 55.950
3T Polina Fedorova Russia 55.600

Maria Kharenkova

The 2015 Voronin Cup was held from December 14 through December 16 in Moscow, Russia.

Gymternet has full WAG results.

Papa Liukin watched the LIVE stream.

Men’s Apparatus Finals results

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skier Sammy Carlson is crazy

Teton Gravity Research and 7-time X Games medalist and 3-time Real Ski Champion Sammy Carlson is pushing the limits of what’s possible.

He set a world record on the largest ski jump in the Western Hemisphere – and he did it backwards.

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Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

That’s part of a two year film deal called the Sammy C Project.

Click PLAY or watch the trailer on YouTube.