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Youth Olympic Games AA preliminaries standings:
1. Giarnni Regini-Moran (GBR)- 84.400
2. Nikita Nagornny (RUS)- 83.500
3. Botond Kardos (HUN)- 83.275
4. Vladyslov Hryko (UKR)- 81.700
5. Kenya Yuasa (JPN)- 81.200
6. Alec Yoder (USA)- 80.550
7. Zachari Hrimeche (FRA)- 80.500
8. Yue Ma (CHN)- 80.475
The biggest tumbling in today’s YOG prelims should be our girl from Japan.
Click PLAY or watch a 2013 routine on YouTube. Front whip to double front mount. Double layout dismount!
(via Examiner – Five envelope-pushing gymnastics videos you should be watching right now)
Chellsie Memmel is soon to be a Mom. I think she’ll be a great one. 🙂
Chellsie:
I first want to thank the parents who put their kids in our great sport! Without parents, we wouldn’t be here or have any of the amazing opportunities that we do. With that said, I believe there should be boundaries in parental involvement in sports.
Do watch practices….but only once and a while. If you just can’t stay away, don’t bring up things that happened or any trouble they may have had in practice that day. Let your child talk to you. If they want to vent, listen. If they would rather leave their bad day behind, let them. If they had a great day and are super pumped to tell you about it, be excited and happy about it.
Don’t set your own goals for them…
Tumbl Talk – Do’s and Don’ts of Parent Participation by Chellsie Memmel
That’s the Tumbl Trak blog. If at Congress Pitsburg, be sure to stop by and say hi to everyone at the Tumbl Trak both. I’m going to miss the P&G Championships. I’m presenting at the Gymnastics B.C. Congress instead this year.
Begins today. Good luck guys.
4. When someone talks about going to the “gym” you still think of a gymnastics gym.
see the rest on Gymnastike – 10 Signs You Are an Ex- Gymnast
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The listicle has arrived on the gymternet big time. Especially on The Gymternet.
I’ll capitalize the new website. Use the lowercase gymternet to refer to the old gymnastics internet.
🙂
Gymnast Crossing:
This was the last week of summer camp and the theme was “Welcome to the Wild West“. …
… “how fun would it be to play “bustin’ bronco” atop an octagon barrel by suspending it over the top of a pit? …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Games on.
Youth Olympics begin with festive Opening Ceremony in Nanjing (photos)
The theme song “Light Up to Meet the Future” pumps up the audience as the #Nanjing2014 #OpeningCeremony wraps up. pic.twitter.com/P4w8Bwsc7z
— nanjing2014 (@nanjing2014yog) August 16, 2014
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MK was flag bearer for South Africa.
Here are some Opening Ceremonies highlights posted by the IOC. (VIDEO)
There was some doubt whether Flavia would end up being Brazil’s representative.
She is.
FIG posted a terrific interview from podium training:
Just 1.33 metres tall, Brazil’s Flavia Lopes Saraiva is the shortest gymnast of the Nanjing 2014 Women’s Artistic Gymnastics line-up, but she certainly did not go unnoticed at Friday’s podium training. With her remarkable form, difficult elements and beautiful presentation the tiny teenager drew attention to herself and made us want to get to know her better. …
Q: Looking at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, where you could make it on the Brazilian team, what is your goal?
Flavia: I want to win a medal for Brazil. The YOG are a first step for me on the road to Rio. …
Q: Do you have a favourite apparatus?
Flavia: Yes, the beam.
Q: What is your goal at this competition?
Flavia: I want to score 57.000 points, no matter the ranking. …
read more – Brazil’s Flavia Saraiva aiming for Rio 2016
Alexandrov has them training every day. Up to 3 sessions a day. Sundays and holidays included.
I hope Brazil does not burn out before the qualifying Worlds.
According to the latest update from The All Around, here are the highest BAR scores of the year:
1. Ashton Locklear (USA) 15,600 US Classic (0.1 stick bonus)
2. Rebecca Downie (GBR) 15,500 Europeans EF
3. Yao Jinnan (CHN) 15,500 China Ch AA
4. Larrissa Miller (AUS) 15,475 AUS Ch Day 2
5. Rebecca Tunney (GBR) 15,400 British Ch EF
6. Shang Chunsong (CHN) 15,400 China Ch AA
Ashton is great, but not in the same league as Aliya or these other 5 routines if compared by the same judging panel. The Classics judges got a little too excited.
Still, Marta needs consistent and high scoring Bar routines. Ashton’s got a chance to be selected for Worlds 2014 if consistent enough.
Long term, stoop Stalder elements need to be devalued by FIG. Or the gymnasts deducted correctly 0.1 for flexed feet.
Click PLAY or watch Yao Jinnan on YouTube. D7.0 + E8.434 = 15.634 (+0.2 bonus) … or was the final score actually 15,500?
Click PLAY or watch Rebecca Downie on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch Ashton on YouTube.
6.6 + 9.1 + 0.1 bonus = 15.60
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