Tomas Gonzalez (CHI) in podium training today.
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USA Bars
Dvora Meyers has been following the American girls podium training. She reports they were particularly sharp today.
Bars is no longer the weak apparatus for Team USA. They do the (near) compulsory Bar routine almost as well as Russia and China. 🙂
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Thanks George.
Cincinnati Level 10’s
Region 5 Gymnastics Insider:
In this Workout Wednesday we take a look at a workout with the Level 10’s at Cincinnati Gymnastics. … during their summer camp so it was a modified schedule. In this workout you will see some warm-up conditioning/cardio, bars, floor and beam and a whole lot of great gymnastics.
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Jason’s Region 5 Insider is something of a Gymnastike partner, but I am certainly happy to link to Jason’s work any time. He operates quite independently of Gymnastike.
This is a particularly well edited WOW.
Aussie school bans cartwheel
Not for the first time Down Under, overprotective staff at Peregian Springs State School in Queensland banned handstands and cartwheels on the playground (unless they were supervised) after two children were injured.
Not surprisingly, Principal Gwen Sands was “held up to ridicule by the media“.
It was a bad call.
Unfortunately upset parents at the school launched personal attacks on the Principal via Facebook and Twitter. That’s also wrong. 😦
Thanks George.
double front Beam dismount
Cal Freshman Toni Ann Williams. Super tough skill.
Shek Wai Hung – Vault gold
Asian Games
Hong Kong hero. The 22-year-old pulled off a major upset defeating the Olympic Vault Champion in his own nation. Some guy named Ri Segwang (PRK) finished 4th. 🙂
Gymnastics faced the axe from the elite programme at the Hong Kong Sports Institute if they didn’t win a medal in Incheon.
His gold medal came just in time to save the sport, which sees gymnastics secure elite status for another four years. …
Shek Wai-hung saves his sport after clinching Hong Kong’s first gymnastics gold
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1. SHEK Wai Hung (HKG)
Vault 1: 6.0 9.2 15.2
Vault 2: 6.0 9.233 15.233
15.216
2. YANG Hakseon (KOR)
Vault 1: 6.0 9.1 -0.1 15
Vault 2: 6.0 9.4 15.4
15.2
(via The All Around)
Azerbaijan at Worlds
(via The Liukin)
Guangxi Sports Center
Worlds 2014 host Guangxi Sports Center is incredible. It looks more like an Olympic venue than a Worlds site.
One challenge. Toilets in Japan are ultramodern. But here at the Guangxi, they are all holes in the ground. Lucky we are gymnasts. 🙂
960 volunteers, most of whom speak English, enthusiastically try to help visitors in every way.
Details are first class. And if you get jetlagged in the middle of the day, lie down in the Quiet Room.
Men have their first training on the AAI competition equipment tomorrow.
In case you are worried about unusual Chinese cuisine, turns out, we won’t starve. 🙂
Boguinskaia and Chusovitina
How’s this for gymnastics history?
41yr-old coach Svetlana Boguinskaia stretching 39yr-old Oksana Chusovitina.
