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Chinese National Games Bars Final

1 Shang Chunsong 6.7 8.667 15.367
2 Yao Jinnan 6.5 8.700 15.200
3 Huang Huidan 6.6 8.267 14.867
4 Fan Yilin 6.4 8.434 14.834
5 He Kexin 6.8 7.867 14.667
6 Huang Qiushuang 6.1 8.367 14.467

Click PLAY or watch Shang Chunsong on YouTube.

Couch Gymnast has a write up by Bea Gheorghisor, Sarah and Fern providing results.

Team and All Around Finals

Team
1. Shanghai 224.540
2. Zhejiang 222.436
3. Hunan 222.337

AA
1. Yao Jinnan 57.801
1. Shang Chunsong 57.801
3. Deng Linlin 55.168 (retiring)

With a total of 57.801, both Yao Jinnan and Shang Chunsong demonstrate that they will be favorites for a “top five” all around finish at Worlds.

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China will select the other two Worlds team members based on potential to medal on Beam & Bars.

Who will be the 3rd Beam?

Our Olympic Silver medalist?

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I wasn’t ruling out He Kexin for Bars. But she was inconsistent here again. Most likely she will retire as planned.

Perhaps they’ll have a Camp with all the top contenders on Beam & Bars.

And choose the most consistent. 🙂

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The National Football League voluntarily handed over $765 million to over 4,500 former players “to fund medical exams, concussion-related compensation, and a program of medical research” …

That’s chump change for the NFL.

It postpones the inevitable. They MUST find a way to reduce the number of concussions.

What about Olympic sports?

Rosalind Stefanac, Courtesy Coaches Plan Magazine:

Andrew Lahey, a two-time gold medal winner in short track speed skating, has represented Canada at four world junior championships. But today, at the age of 31, he can barely take a light jog around the block let alone a race on the ice. Despite a promising future with Speed Skating Canada’s national short track team, Lahey was forced to retire at the age 21 because of symptoms related to repeated concussions. In fact, he estimates he had 10 concussions caused by skating falls over the course of his short career. …

Ottawa-based sports medicine physician Jamie Kissick says coaches are in the best position to note symptoms pre- and post-concussion because they get to know their athletes and can quickly see when behaviour is off-kilter. …

According to a recent study from the National Institutes of Health, the three highest frequency and rates of concussion in NCAA-level Olympic sports from 1988-89 through 2003-04 were ice hockey, soccer and basketball. …

Robin Bone competes in the pole vault event while wearing a helmet. She has received five concussions in other activities including gymnastics and basketball.

Photo: The Canadian Press

… another major misconception is that helmets will protect against concussion.

read more – Are concussions draining our talent?

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At 335-pounds, nobody gives Armand Fernandez-Pierre any grief when he gets out of the pads, into his Cheer outfit. During the same game.

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This is no gimmick. University of Miami and and UCLA have already expressed interest in the Texas High School nose tackle.

… while explaining how muscular “preloading” can be used for POWER.

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Tony’s working a few days with SALTO Gymnastics in Edmonton.

… careful if he aims anything at you.

Despite being paralyzed from the waist down, Jacoby Miles has a powerful presence. …

It ’s been a whirlwind of treatment and family activities since last Nov. 16, when Miles was doing a double back dismount off the uneven parallel bars, a move she had performed many times. Miles got lost in the move, untucked early and landed on her neck …

Immediately afterward, Miles didn’t have any feeling in her arms or legs. Since then, treatment, physical therapy and a stem cell procedure have shown a little progress. …

The stem cell procedure was performed in Tijuana, Mexico. Miles had stem cells removed from her bone marrow and inserted into her neck. The treatment was meant to speed her recovery and help repair the damaged area. Miles then received follow-up treatment in California. …

… more fundraisers are scheduled, including the first Jacoby Miles Classic on Oct. 5 at Roach Gymnastics and Cheer. For more information, visit www.goteamjacoby.com. …

read more – Paralyzed, but making progress

(via Couch Gymnast)

Congratulations to Simone Biles and Sam Mikulak on earning their titles as ‘National Champion’ at the 2013 P&G Gymnastics Championships AND the October COVER of Inside Gymnastics!

This issue will hit subscribers’ mailboxes in late September, and will be available in an advanced copy through the Inside Gymnastics App.

The Inside Gymnastics App has been a big hit. Great idea giving it to digital subscribers early.

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via GymFever

Couch Gymnast and others are reporting that Vika’s doctor decided she needs another month recovery.

This makes Antwerp a whole lot less beautiful. 😦

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