“I Think We Broke the Aly Raisman”

Balance Beam Situation’s hilarious recap of day 2 women’s prelims. 🙂

related – his day 1 review – “I Think We Broke the Romania”

Leyva on the competition H Bar

He’s not the only competitor who found that pipe different than the ones in the training halls. His strategy was to swing harder. Faster. And it worked.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Leave a comment if you find that video geo-blocked from where you live. I won’t link to any others, if so.

Worlds women’s team final

Anticipating a great show later today 5:50 pm Glasgow time. The arena will be packed with fans cheering GBR.

Start list for Women’s Team Final here.

Max Whitlock – #hydroHandstand

Share Max’s tweet.

If you are in Glasgow, share your handstand on Twitter or Facebook with that tag.

watch for Xiao Ruoteng

First Worlds for Xiao Ruoteng (born 1996). He’s qualified to the AA Final along with their #1 Deng Shudi.

Click PLAY or watch his Quad twist on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/NjQ1Nzk4NjQ1?related=1&autoplay=false

Watch more videos on Gymnastike

Gabby Douglas defies expectations

Yep.

Nancy Armour:

No one but Martha Karolyi had her on the team for the 2011 world gymnastics championships and, yet, there she was. No one thought much of her chances in Tokyo, so all she did was post the fifth-highest total in qualifying, make the uneven bars final and help the Americans win the team title.

She was supposed to be the odd-American out in the all-around at the London Olympics, and we all know what happened there.

So it should come as no surprise that Douglas’ name was near the top of the standings after qualifying Saturday. Olympic champions aren’t supposed to come back, and they’re sure not supposed to make their first major international meet in three years look easy. …

USA Today – Olympic champ Gabby Douglas at her best when defying expectations

Men’s Worlds AA Finalists

1. Kohei Uchimura, JPN
2. Oleg Verniaiev, UKR
3. Daniel Purvis, GBR
4. Danell Leyva, USA
5. Deng Shudi, CHN
6. Xiao Ruoteng, CHN
7. Manrique Larduet, CUB
8. Kazuma Kaya, JPN
9. Max Whitlock, GBR
– Nile Wilson, GBR*
10. Arthur Oyakawa Mariano, BRA
– Yusuke Tanaka, JPN*
11. Pablo Braegger, SUI
12. David Belyavskiy, RUS
– Lin Chaopan, CHN*
13. Nikolai Kuksenkov, RUS
– Nikita Nagornyy, RUS*
14. Christian Baumann, SUI
15.Park Minsoo, KOR
16. Lucas de Souza Bitencourt, BRA
17. Bart Deurloo, NED
18. Dzmitry Barkalau, BLR
19. Axel Augis, FRA
– Nikita Ignyatev, RUS*
20. Ruben Lopez, ESP
21. Andrey Likhovitskiy, BLR
22. Fabian Hambuechen, GER
23. Cristian Iona Bataga, ROU
24. Jim Zona, FRA
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R1. Florian Landuyt BEL
R2. Donnell Whittenburg USA
R3. Artur Davtyan ARM
R4. Filip Ude CRO

full results
I’m liking newcomer Manrique Larduet for the podium along with Kohei and Oleg. It’s great to see CUBA back and very competitive with the best in the world.