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GAAR ADAMS penned one of ROADS AND KINGDOMS 14 MOST-READ STORIES OF 2014.

… in the lush highlands that hug sprawling Mumbai, this peculiar sport with apparatuses that look uncannily like medieval torture devises is still practiced. It is in these few ramshackle gymnasiums scattered throughout India’s Maharashtra—the same region where Mallakhamb’s origins are traced back to 12th century Sanskrit texts—where a strange tradition that features swinging clubs, rope burn between toes, and copious amounts of castor oil—is kept alive. …

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The triple Olympic medalist is back on her feet.

Power failure at Visions in South Africa didn’t stop these gymnasts from training. 🙂

Fourteen year old, Chloe Kim, earned gold in superpipe finals at X Games 15 in Aspen, Colorado, and became the youngest athlete of all time to stand atop an X Games podium.

Kim took the win with her last run that included a switch method, cab 9, and a switch backside 7. Despite suffering a gnarly crash in practice, in which she chipped her tooth, Kim was still able to stomp this gold medal run. …

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Georgia 196.975 – Kentucky, 194.225

Elizabeth Grimsley:

One athlete doesn’t make a team, but the past two meets the Gym Dogs sure felt the absence of junior Brittany Rogers.

Rogers only competed bars in the season opener before being held out of the next two — not even traveling to Denver — due to a coaching decision.

But in No. 10 Georgia’s dominant win over No. 14 Kentucky Saturday, Rogers competed her way to a career-high 9.975 on bars and picked up a 9.85 on vault and 9.7 on beam. …

Junior Brittany Rogers returns to lineup for Gym Dogs in impressive fashion

They were 194.3 at Denver without Brittany who had been “sat”, in coaching jargon.

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The Eastern Michigan University gymnastics team recorded its highest team score in 11 years, tallying season highs in every rotation en route to a 195.250-192.425 victory over the Bowling Green State University Falcons …

“I’m really proud of the team tonight,” said EMU Head Coach Jay Santos. “I keep preaching to them that we need to keep improving and each competition so far they keep responding. We followed last week’s performance of 24-for-24 routines by going 23-for-24 tonight.

This is Jay’s first season. Keep up the good work, coach. 🙂

Shout out to Nikki Patterson, Natalie Gervais, Sydney McEachern and the rest of the lady Eagles.

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what we know so far – Legendary Canadian figure skater Cranston dead at 65

Toller Cranston (April 20, 1949 – January 24, 2015) was a Canadian figure skater and painter.

He is the 1971–1976 Canadian national champion, the 1974 World bronze medallist, and the 1976 Olympic bronze medallist. Despite never winning Worlds due to his poor compulsory figures, he won the small medal for free skating at the 1972 and 1974 World Figure Skating Championships.

Cranston is credited by many with bringing a new level of artistry to men’s figure skating. …

Cranston was also a commentator on CBC television for figure skating events. However, in 1991, the CBC fired him, citing concerns from the Canadian Figure Skating Association that his often brutally frank and opinionated commentary was denigrating to Canadian skaters. Cranston filed a lawsuit against the CBC that was eventually resolved in his favor. …

He was brutal. But also very funny. Fans loved his colour commentary.

He was an outspoken critic of bad judging. And spoke passionately in favour of allowing back flips in competition, banned after Terry Kubicka included it at the 1976 Olympic Winter Olympics.

In Toller’s honour, check this round-off triple back handspring.

related – the comparatively boring Progressive SKATING & GYMNASTICS SPECTACULAR 2014.

Thank Dave Adlard for the link.