I previously linked to Yong Hwa Cha’s 2009 Hop 1/1 to Def.
Anne-Sophie reminded that the combination was made famous by the Olympic Bars Champion Athens 2004.
Emilie Le Pennec (France)
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. 9.687
DENG Shudi to challenge Kohei
Deng said he hopes to rise to the level of world and Olympic champion Kohei Uchimura, who won an unprecedented seventh consecutive Japanese national title on Sunday.
“I feel calm and really relaxed,” Deng said. “Actually, my Difficulty points are higher than Uchimura, around 40.4. It’s good enough that I could finish all the routines I have prepared, but I have to go after the quality. Once I have good enough quality to finish the routine, then I have the confidence to compete with him.” …
Amanda Turner has full results WAG & MAG via that link.
Click PLAY or watch his winning P Bars on YouTube.
D7.1 + E8.800 = 15.900
Over-scored, I’d say.
… Have you ever noticed you cannot find Amanda’s posts from the International Gymnastics magazine home page?
They are planning to update their site. Long overdue.
Rahma Mohammed Al Dulaimi to YOGS
Congratulations Qatar.
… Rahma Mohammed Al Dulaimi, … has qualified to represent the country at this year’s Summer Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing.
She earned her place after finishing sixth in the all round at the Junior Asian Gymnastics Championship in Tashkent …
love Laura Jurca
Darling of the European Championships. Second all-around. Charming. And with personality. This girl has a future.
Click PLAY or watch her Beam on YouTube. One section will make you laugh out loud.
Some great photos are featured in this montage linked by Couch Gymnast.
TCG Junior Watch: Laura Jurca (March 2013)
Pauline Schäfer – side somi 1/2 on Beam
via @theallaround at European Championships
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
1/4 twist one direction, 1/2 twist back in the other direction.
shutupmckaylasvaulting posted the GIF.
We’ve yet to see anyone compete 3/4 twist in the same direction.
(via GymFever and WOGymnastika)
whither Russia?
Queen E:
I personally think that winning the bronze was a great achievement for this inexperienced team. Aliya Mustafina proved that, even at 50%, she is 100% boss. Kharenkova established herself as a real little scrapper who is now a leader in the team and even in world gymnastics. Even with the unpredictable Komova I doubt Russia would have done much better today; it comes down not so much to the errors that were made, as to the low difficulty rating of those floor exercises. The team needs its Olympians for good floor scores, but they just aren’t available at present, nor perhaps in the future if I am reading Afanasyeva’s rather damning account of the handling of her injury correctly.
I wonder if there will be any fall-out or consequences after this result? No blame should lay at the gymnasts’ feet, they gave their all; only Anna Rodionova perhaps let the team down somewhat, but since when did a Russian team go error free in a team final?
Spiridonova is forgiven her beam error as she did so well elsewhere in her first big assignment. Sosnitskaya, Mustafina and Kharenkova couldn’t have done much more, and I think Mustafina and Kharenkova will both be going all out for gold in tomorrow’s event finals. …
Bronze or Silver was the expected result for Russia competing Yurchenko 1/1 and low difficulty Floor.
But Andrei’s usual line to the press is GOLD is the goal. Always.
Lizzy LeDuc to Philippines?
via Couch Gymnast comes this news:
I'm ranked #1 in the Philippines!! ?
— Lizzy LeDuc (@lizzyleduc) May 15, 2014
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I’d love to see the Texas gymnast compete for Philippines.
Update. Shergymrag adds to the good Filipino news:
• WOGA’s Ava Verdeflor qualified to represent the Philippines at the Youth Olympic Games.
Claudia Fragapane – Floor
In Team Finals. Even BETTER than prelims. 🙂
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
That’s the most exciting routine at Europeans this year, in my opinion.
via GymFever
Romania, GBR, RUS
European Championships Team Final
Romania 172.754
Great Britain 170.663
Russia 169.329
Germany 166.796
Italy 161.488
Spain 160.921
Belgium 160.728
Switzerland 160.397
Romania kicked off their day with three strong DTY vaults to claim the early lead, which they maintained during the second rotation despite a form break and a near fall from anchor Larisa Iordache on a low-bar handstand. On the balance beam, Munteanu and Iordache wowed the crowd with two-foot bhs, tucked full tumbling series (earning scores of 14.533 and 14.7 respectively) to maintain their first-place rank. A strong showing on the floor, highlighted by Bulimar’s stuck double layout and full-twisting double pike, solidified their rank and secured them the gold.
… (GBR) started off with a clean set on beam but lost a bit of momentum on floor when Ruby Harrold sat down her third tumbling pass. Sitting in third place after two rotations, team GB performed three clean vaults to move ahead of the Russians. Three high-flying bars routines, capped off by Becky Downie’s 14.833, secured them the silver medal. The British team and fans alike were ecstatic with this outcome!
… Spiridonova (RUS) fell on her double tuck dismount and scored a disappointing 12.3 …
read more on Gymnastike
Bea Gheorghisor – 2014: Senior Team Final Results and Report
Stan Lee – Parkour Master
Stan Lee … is an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, media producer, television host, actor, voice actor and former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.
In collaboration with several artists, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Thor, X-Men …
Click PLAY or watch him superhero it up on YouTube.
Pretty good for age-91. 🙂
Thanks to Vadim Golub for the link.
