Eythora Thorsdittor – Beam

Eef van Leeuwen:

… the second Dutch women qualification match for the European Championships 2015 in Montpellier. As in the first qualification, Eythora Thorsdittor won the All-Around.

Thorsdottir scored a massive 57.300 AA after a good competition without any big mistakes. She exhibited some beautifully performed and steady routines for Europeans. …

Couch Gymnast – Dutch Euro Qualification (Part 2)

Eythora shows some fantastic amplitude. 🙂 Click PLAY or watch her on YouTube.

Chusovitina – Cottbus Vault

Cleaner than ever. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

She won this World Cup meet. To qualify to one more Olympics Oksana will need to finish top 3 at Worlds 2015. Not easy. But that’s how she did it for London. Oksana finished 2nd at the 2011 Worlds.

Oksana was 2nd on Vault, but qualified as part of Team Germany. IF Germany had not qualified a Team, she should have been named for Vault. Thanks for clarifying that, Jacob.

Volker points out there are other ways she could qualify, including the Tripartite Commission Invitation. It’s not clear that Uzbekistan is eligible for “Wild Card” selection, however. The rules seem to indicate that Uzbekistan is NOT eligible.

Hopefully FIG and IOC will find a way to get Oksana to Rio. She’s one of the very best stories in our sport.

how NOT to learn Shaposh

🙂 Click PLAY or watch it on instagram.

 
Next time stack up the “cheese” mats sloping towards the low bar. Use 2 spotters.

(via GymCastic)

Utah wins Pac-12s

1. Utah 198.150
2. UCLA 197.350
3. Stanford 197.175
4. Oregon 196.900
5. Arizona 196.225
6. Cal 196.150
7. UW 196.000
8. ASU 192.700

Georgia Dabritz won the AA with 39.775. She was also named Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year.

Utah

Sadly, Utah star Tory Wilson ruptured an Achilles tendon. 😦

related – Cal’s Toni-Ann Williams Voted Pac-12 Freshman of the Year

via @collegegymfans

16 American gymnasts to Jesolo

Announced by USAG via email.

Alyssa Baumann, Plano, Texas/WOGA Gymnastics

Simone Biles, Spring, Texas/World Champions Centre

Madison Desch, Lenexa, Kansas/Great American Gymnastics Express

Gabrielle Douglas, Virginia Beach, Va./Buckeye Gymnastics

Bailie Key, Montgomery, Texas/Texas Dreams Gymnastics

Maggie Nichols, Little Canada, Minn./Twin City Twisters

Aly Raisman, Needham, Mass./Brestyan’s American Gymnastics

Kyla Ross, Aliso Viejo, Calif./Gym-Max Gymnastics

Emily Schild, Huntersville, N.C./Everest Gymnastics

Megan Skaggs, Marietta, Ga./Gymnastics Academy of Georgia

Skinner will not be traveling to Italy.

JUNIORS
Norah Flatley, Cumming, Iowa/Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance Institute

Jazmyn Foberg, Bayville, N.J./MG Elite

Lauren Hernandez, Old Bridge, N.J./MG Elite

Victoria Nguyen, West Des Moines, Iowa/Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance Institute

Ragan Smith, Lewisville, Texas/Texas Dreams Gymnastics

Olivia Trautman, Champlin, Minn./Twin City Twisters

That SUPER TEAM will compete against the rest March 28-29.

Jon Schwaiger – CAN tumbling record

A STAR in the non-Olympic disciplines of double-mini trampoline and tumbling.

Click PLAY or watch a Gymnastics Canada interview on YouTube.

At the recent Canada Cup Jon set a new Canadian Difficulty Record for tumbling. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Jon started as an Artistic gymnast at University of Calgary. At age-16 he walked into the Altadore/Pegasus T&T club with female Artistic gymnast friends. The rest is history.