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In case you missed what happened last week, here are a few follow-ups.

• Gymnastics Canada’s Facebook summary.

• Results: Men’s Canadian Nationals Event Finals

• Canadian Championships Concludes with Event Finals

• MacLennan, Burnett win trampoline gold at Canadian gymnastics championships

I’m predicting that these fierce ladies will have the highest AA start scores at Commonwealths. If they hit, they’ll be difficult to beat.

Taylor Lindsay-Noel:

… almost six years ago. After an unexpected and rare fall from the high bar, I… a Canadian National Gymnast, was instantly paralyzed from the neck down.

Looking back, if you were to ask me at 14 years old, where I saw myself at 20, my answer would probably go something like this….

“I’m currently on a gymnastics scholarship at a nationally recognized University in the US, I’m finishing up my third year of undergrad and my aspiration in life is to become a sports doctor.”

Now… Let’s look at the reality,

“I’m about to enter my third year of my undergrad at Ryerson’s Radio and Television Arts program, I attend therapy multiple times a week, and my aspiration in life is to become an entertainment reporter and a motivational speaker.”

read more – UNPREDICTABLE LIFE

Taylor competed for the Seneca School of Gymnastics.

Now that the Air Flare is established as a desirable element on Men’s Floor Exercise, why not one of the Tricking elements?

It was 1985 that Tong Fei competed Butterfly with a 1/1 twist, not so dissimilar to this shown here by Kieran Behan.

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My first attempt.

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… Oh, that might have been Brandon Wynn. Not me. 🙂

(via Gymnastic Bodies)

Ouch.

… “This is why Olympians used to perform naked,” said Elle deputy editor Damien Woolnough. …

The Age – Dreadful Australian Commonwealth Games uniforms will challenge athletes

via @lukewiwa

… 2012 Olympic all-around champion Gabrielle Douglas will be on hand as Pittsburgh-area gymnasts gather to set a world record for most simultaneous cartwheels. …

… Gabby is in Pittsburgh to promote the 2014 P&G Gymnastics Championships, scheduled for Aug. 21-24th

USAG

Beautiful gymnastics.

6.2 + 7.833 = 14.033

Sadly, fall on dismount. 😦

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Brigid)

The 3-time Olympian competed well into his 60s.

Video recap of Klaus Köste’s career and achievements, as he was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame on May 17, 2014, in Oklahoma City, OK, USA.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

He’d started the day doing one thing doctors said he might never do — walking out of a Ft. Worth hospital at noon. Two hours later he walked again, along a path of love and admiration and prayer from his friends and classmates.

It was three months and a week after a crippling gymnastics accident almost cost him his life, and the 15-year old was happy to be here. …

Standing ovation for injured gymnast who returns home

Click PLAY or watch it on ABC News.

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On February 18th at a gym in Waco, TX, Blake jumped into a foam pit. He hit his shoulder on the edge of the pit “whiplashing his head into the surrounding concrete“.

There can never be any exposed concrete anywhere near a safety landing pit.