tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
#Glasgow2015
See the list being considered here.
Looks like Katarzyna opted NOT to compete the Gainer double twist off Beam in competition. If she had, we’d need to learn to pronounce her last name – JURKOWSKA-KOWALSKA.
Click PLAY or watch Katarzyna’s Beam dismount on YouTube.
Her warm-up was surprisingly good. But here’s what happened in the competition. #Glasgow2015
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Neither Abreu Yamilet Pena nor Oksana Chusovitina will qualify for the Vault final. A good thing. Less incentive to CHUCK that dangerous skill.
… It is estimated that at least 20,000 hotel bed-nights have been booked across the city.
A record 594 gymnasts from 87 countries are set to compete …
Ticket sales have now passed the 51,000 mark with the women’s individual all-around final on Thursday evening sold out.
This figure eclipses the 37,000 sold for the artistic gymnastics competition at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
The 2009 World Gymnastics Championships at the O2 in London sold 39,000. …
The 2015 World Gymnastics Championships will be broadcast in 67 countries worldwide. …
Glasgow gears up for record-breaking World Gymnastics Championships worth £5m to Scottish economy
It’s been a long, long but exciting day.
1. RUS: 231.437
2. GBR: 227.162
3. ITA: 224.452
4. JPN: 223.863
5. CAN: 222.78
More HIT routines at Worlds than I can ever recall during a day of preliminaries. And it’s only half over. USA, CHINA and many more coming up tomorrow.
Rewriting Russian Gymnastics has a wrap-up of their prelims competition.
Some speculate that the injury to Aliya Mustafina helped the rest of the team step up.
A new site called The Gym Report has a lengthy post featuring Worlds competitors with strong links to the USA. Many compete or have competed NCAA.
Brit Danusia Francis (UCLA) is here competing for Jamaica.
I’d love to hear what he has to say regarding the excellent performance of Team Russia today. Without Mustafina.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Love this gymnast. But felt 14.633 (6.100+8.533) was too high for that set.
The home team dazzled. Really, really impressive performance. 🙂 And the scary thing is (for their competitors) … both Downie sisters fell on Bars. Imagine what they would have scored if they had HIT.
Results after 4 sessions, women’s qualification:
1. Great Britain 227.162
2. Japan 223.863
3. Canada 222.780
4. Brazil 221.861
1. Black CAN 57.299
2. Tinkler GBR 56.466
3. Harrold GBR 56.398
4. Murakami JPN 56.366
5. Oliveira BRA 56.365
6. Saraiva BRA 55.798
7. Iordache ROM 55.698
8. Downie GBR 55.565
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