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DVORA MEYERS on Dead Spin:

One year and three leg surgeries after London, McKayla Maroney has returned to competition on the vault. And from a performance standpoint, not much has changed. She does the two-and-a-half twister that made her famous (before the meme made her even more famous) just as well as she did at the Olympics. She even managed to stick a vault that was better than the one she did in the London team finals …

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I’m quoted:

“Nobody is working towards an Amanar any longer. The value is too low for the difficulty”

Kasamatsu and Handspring twists are the way to go in this cycle.

The only girls left training it are those who were close last cycle. It’s undervalued now.

Jessica Lopez had a sore Achilles tendon after prelims. Did not want to risk competing in the AA Final.

She was replaced by Vasiliki Millousi, first alternate.

Click PLAY or watch some of her Bars training on YouTube.

(via gimnasialatina)

I would love to see how high Jessica could place in the AA if she hit 4/4.

Victoria Moors, too. 🙂

Though I was super busy, I managed to follow Apparatus Finals via twitter and Icelandic TV online.

Sweet.

Highlights and commentary yet to come. In the meantime, here are some Day 2 wrap-up posts:

USA increases medal haul to 12 at 2013 World Gymnastics Championships

Examiner – Quick hits: Event finals day two at the 2013 Worlds

Aliya Mustafina and Simone Biles take Golds

Yang, Uchimura, Lin and Zonderland are World Champions

Alyia … on her Beam performances

Triple Twist – Thoughts from the 2013 World Championships (WAG)

Includes Karlsruhes gymnasts Pauline Tratz, Leah Grießer und Maike Enderle. And some … other gymnasts. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Thanks CA.

COACH and gymnast. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch Maegan on YouTube.

4 double somersaults — many of the guys do ZERO.

Click PLAY or watch Cristina Bontas 1991 on YouTube.

Maegan needs to add 1/1-twisting double layout now!

Amazing what those girls tumbled in the late 1980s, early 90s.

Cy Platt of Victory Gymnastics in San Diego throws out some gymnastics challenges. World Records, he calls them. These was part of their National Gymnastics Day 2013 celebrations.

Cy – Most Muscle-Up Exercises While Wearing Snorkeling Mask, Snorkel, And Fins

Click PLAY or watch it on Record Setter.

http://recordsetter.com/embedvideo/33374

Charlie Tamayo – Most Eight-Inch Foam Cubes Stuffed Into A Worn Button-Up Onesie While Performing A Double-Twisting Double Backflip Tumbling Pass On A Tumble Track Into A Foam Pit

Click PLAY or watch it on Record Setter.

http://recordsetter.com/embedvideo/33387

• Most Webster Front Flips In 30 Seconds

• Most Fly-Aways On A Single Bar In One Minute

• Most Flash Kicks Hitting A Pool Noodle In 20 Seconds

• Most Standing Back Flips Performed In A Roll-Off In One Minute

• Most People To Simultaneously Hold A Handstand

Impressive, Cy.

Any challengers?

#WChAntwerp

Kirsten Beckett has a great reason for this proud smile. She just earned South Africa’s record high finish in a qualification, with her 43rd finish and 50+ score. Well done!

Photo: JGC Gymnastics.

I’m planning to visit South Africa in February.

That’s from Couch Gymnast

FIG – Eight nations medal on first day of Antwerp Apparatus Finals (RESULTS)

Examiner – Quick hits: Event finals day one at the 2013 Worlds

RRG – Grebyonkin: Aliya succeeded in spite of knee pain

Bea Gheorghisor – So, What Did I Miss? Worlds Edition Day Eight

American women and Japanese men were the biggest stars of Day 1.

The most exciting apparatus of Day 2 is most likely going to be Men’s Horizontal Bar.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Arthur Zanetti, Brazil, 15.800 (6.8 D)
Aleksandr Balandin, Russia, 15.733 (6.9 D)
Brandon Wynn, USA, 15.666 (6.7 D)

Click PLAY or watch Balandin’s latest NEW skill on YouTube.

CONGRATULATIONS to Brandon on the Bronze medal.

Uncle Tim explains what why Brandon’s start score was 0.1 lower in the Final than in prelims.

Only ONE DAY left at the #WChAntwerp.

Highlights montage of some very tough ladies.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.