Gymnastike’s next Beyond the Routine will feature one of the hottest NCAA programs this season, the LSU Tigers. LSU has been on fire in 2014. They will enter the NCAA Championships with a legit chance of winning the program’s first ever NCAA team title.
AMANDA TURNER has the best results summary I’ve seen.
Flavia Saraiva (Brazil) and Martin Stretch (United States) captured the all-around titles at the 2014 Junior Pan American Championships, held Friday and Saturday in Aracaju, Brazil. …
The 2014 Junior Pan American Championships serve as one of five continental qualifiers for this summer’s Youth Olympic Games, taking place in August in Nanjing, China.
The top placing gymnasts each earn one berth for their respective National Olympic Committees. Nine women and eight men can earn berths to the Nanjing through the competition in Aracaju. …
WOMEN’S ALL-AROUND 1. Flavia Saraiva BRA 56.167
2. Rebeca Andrade BRA 55.833
3. Rose-Kaying Woo CAN 54.966
4. Megane Roberts CAN 54.200
5. Sydney Townsend CAN 53.267
6. Shallon Olsen CAN 52.967
Women’s all-around medalists Saraiva, Rebeca Andrade and Rose-Kaying Woo form an “L” in support of two-time Brazilian Olympian Lais Souza, who was paralyzed in January while training to compete in aerial skiing at the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Will Brazil end up sending Saraiva or Andrade to YOG?
WOMEN’S TEAM 1. Canada 164.233
2. Brazil 163.566
3. Mexico 153.399
MEN’S ALL-AROUND 1. Martin Strech USA 83.367
2. Alec Yoder USA 81.768
3. Lucas Cardoso BRA 78.934
4. Davis Grooms USA 78.801
5. Matthew Wenske USA 78.000
6. René Cournoyer CAN 77.467
Marty
MEN’S TEAM 1. USA 245.870
2. Brazil 235.400
3. Canada 233.033
USA did not send a Jr women’s team this year. When is Marta retiring, again?
This meet was very, very good for a young Nastia Liukin.
… African championships is the first of five continental qualifications events this spring for artistic gymnastics …
Each of the five regions can secure a specific number of berths to the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China. The artistic gymnastics competition — for female gymnasts born in 1999 and male gymnasts born in 1997 and 1998 — takes place Aug. 17-24 at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium.
The inaugural Youth Summer Olympiad took place in 2010 in Singapore, where Viktoria Komova (Russia) and Yuya Kamoto (Japan) were crowned as the first Youth Olympic all-around champions …
Click through for details on how athletes qualify. Africa, for example, could send 4 MAG, 4 WAG.
On Thursday, Egypt dominated day one of the African championships. In the junior men’s competition, the Egyptian men won the team title over South Africa and Morocco. Egypt’s Ahmeed Youssef (76.000) topped teammate Ahmed Amin (75.133) to take the junior all-around title. South Africa’s Muhammad Khaalid Mia (73.433) won the bronze. …
Egypt can send 1 male gymnast. South Africa one, most likely Muhammad Mia.
Of course those nominations must be approved by the Egyptian and South African Olympic Committees. That’s not guaranteed.
Steve Penny says that USA, again, will not send a female gymnast to YOG. When is Marta going to retire? 😦
Brigid McCarthy picked Kirsten Beckett one of the gymnasts who most impressed at Worlds 2013. On the list with Mai Murakami, Victoria Moors, Ruby Harrold, …
Kirsten won the AA here with 53.800. And brought home a medal on all 4 apparatus. She’s truly one of the best gymnasts in the world.
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