Keisuke Suzuta – Ri Se-Gwang

Ono tells that Suzuta has been competing this vault for a while.

Cabriole sends these links.

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Would somebody please tell these guys that this vault is not humanly possible. 🙂

This makes 3 who have competed it successfully.

6.400 + 9.400 = 15.800

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via GymFever2012

Longines Award problems

Update – Nora, in the comments, clears up my confusion:

The media doesn’t vote for the winner. The jury decides the winner. The media can win a Longines watch if what they write on their ballot paper matches the decision the jury comes up with. That’s all.

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Every year I’ve voted there’s been confusion, this year more than ever.

I’m never sure of who’s eligible. Never sure of the deadline. Am forced to vote before the AA competition.

@obgymblog:

Yao Jinnan on winning the Longines elegance prize:

“I am not one of the (all-around) medalists so that made me a little uncomfortable.”

Longines

I voted for Oleg Verniaiev and Georgia-Rose Brown.

Unbeknownst to me as a voter, the list of eligible athletes seems to have been, this year, shortened to:

WAG: Larissa Iordache, Simone Biles, Bai Ya Wen, Yao Jin Nan

MAG: Kohei Uchimura, Lin Chao Pan, Kenzo Shirai, Zhang Cheng Long, Den Shu Di, Max Whitlock

How? Why?

I have no idea. That’s the list I found posted in the main press centre the day after the voting concluded.

Yeesh, Longines. Get your act together on this. 😦

beautiful – aerial ski flips to pool

This video is a depiction of our love and dedication to the sport of Aerial Skiing,

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via Greg Roe

circus Bar act – Tournik

Eight artists cross paths in the Tournik Act from Corteo which marries horizontal bar techniques with circus arts. The artists perform on a central cube-shaped structure, with two additional bars on each side of the cube. The various parts of the structure turn, sometimes all in the same direction, sometimes in opposite directions… just to keep everyone on their toes!

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Good and crazy Bar workers, male and female, are pretty much constantly in demand by Cirque du Soleil. If you coach such an athlete, contact Casting for more information.

surfing – Kelly Slater’s 720

A new move, somewhat by luck. 🙂

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via Slate – Kelly Slater, Ageless Wonder

Watch the 11-time world champion pull off a near-impossible surfing move.

Beam – Teramoto v Mustafina

One of the more controversial decisions at Worlds 2014.

Who should have won the Bronze medal in the Beam final?

Aliya Mustafina missing a 0.5 EGR or Asuka Teramoto?

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3 MUSTAFINA Aliya RUS 5.500 + 8.666 = 14.166
4 TERAMOTO Asuka JPN 5.600 + 8.500 = 14.100

Aliya:

“I knew my beam routine was not the most difficult one and I had no expectations to make it to the podium today. It was sheer luck.”

Stars of Gymnastics – Epke

An excellent mini-documentary. Posted just before Worlds 2014. He’d not yet won a World Championships title.

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Podkopayeva – ’96 Compulsory Floor

An example of excellent execution and artistry, here’s what we lost when FIG got rid of compulsories.

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Compulsories had problems, of course. But I do miss them.

Vladimir Zaglada and others have been sharing that on Facebook.