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Yelena Isinbayeva … is a two-time Olympic gold medalist (2004 and 2008), a three-time World Champion (2005, 2007 and 2013) and the current world record holder in the event. As a result of her accomplishments, she is widely regarded as the greatest female pole-vaulter of all time. …

Born to a Tabasaran father and a Russian mother in Volgograd, Isinbayeva trained as a gymnast from the age of 5 to 15. She ultimately left the sport because as she grew she was considered too tall to be competitive in gymnastics, ultimately attaining a height of 1.74 metres (5 ft 8.5 in). …

IAAF World Championships Moscow 2013 Russia AUG 2013

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

“I’m not talking about retirement. As of now I’m just going to take a break! I’ll miss 2014. Hopefully, I will be busy with pregnancy. I really want to have a baby! And then I’ll try to come back. If all goes well, I will still compete for gold in Rio 2016,” Isinbayeva told ‘Ves’ Sport’ periodical.

End of career? Pole vault queen Isinbaeva takes gold, grabbing third world champion title (PHOTOS)

related – Russian pole vault great Isinbayeva condemns homosexuality at track worlds

UPDATE:

She later backed off that statement:

… “What I wanted to say was that people should respect the laws of other countries particularly when they are guests,” Isinbayeva added. “But let me make it clear: I respect the views of my fellow athletes and let me state in the strongest terms that I am opposed to any discrimination against gay people on the grounds of their sexuality …

Isinbayeva “Misunderstood”

Pretty much as most predicted.

Simone Biles 60.500
Kyla Ross 59.750
Brenna Dowell 58.450
Peyton Ernst 57.450
Maggie Nichols 56.950
Abigail Milliet 56.850
Ariana Guerra 56.550
Madison Desch 56.400

Vault
1. McKayla Maroney, Long Beach, Calif., 15.500
2. Simone Biles, Spring, Texas, 15.400
3. Mykayla Skinner, Gilbert, Ariz., 14.850

Uneven bars
1. Kyla Ross, Aliso Viejo, Calif., 15.500
2. Madison Kocian, Dallas, Texas, 15.000
3. Simone Biles, Spring, Texas, 14.750

Balance beam
1. Simone Biles, Spring, Texas, 14.900
2. Madison Kocian, Dallas, Texas, 14.800
3. Kyla Ross, Aliso Viejo, Calif., 14.700

Floor exercise
1. Simone Biles, Spring, Texas, 15.050
2. McKayla Maroney, Long Beach, Calif., 14.850
3. Mykayla Skinner, Gilbert, Ariz., 14.750

results (PDF)

Simone Biles of Spring, Texas/Bannon’s Gymnastix, leads the senior women’s all-around standings after the first of two days of competition at the P&G Gymnastics Championships at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn. …

Biles came out of the gates strong on the uneven bars, moving nimbly through an intricate piked Tkatchev to Pak salto combination to score 14.750. On the balance beam, Biles was solid again and stuck her full-twisting double back. She earned a 14.900. In rotation three, Biles got the crowd going on the floor where her tumbling nearly hung in the rafters. She executed a tucked double double, a double layout and tucked full-in for a 15.050. In the final rotation, Biles performed an Amanar vault to score 15.800. Biles posted the highest scores of the night on balance beam and floor exercise. …

2012 Olympic team champion McKayla Maroney of Long Beach, Calif./All Olympia, earned a 14.850 for her floor routine that included a double layout, two-and-a-half twist to punch front full, and a double Arabian. On vault, where she is the reigning World champion, she performed an Amanar, which received a 15.700. Maroney performed a Yurchenko half-on to layout front full second vault and scored 15.300, giving her the highest two-vault average of the competition, 15.500.

read more on USAG

Click PLAY or watch Simone’s Floor on YouTube. (15.050)

Biles, Ross and Maroney are the front runners for Worlds 2013.

Triple Twist – Sr Highlights with video

USAG VIDEO playlist Sr WAG – Day 1

For Canadian coaches, I’m leading a (rarely offered) Level 3 Practical “reunion” course in Calgary.

Albert Gymnastics Federation Office, Sunday September 22, 2013, 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

Only 8 spots available. It will fill fast.

details (PDF) | registration link

Eloquent at a young age like Shawn Johnson. And Christine Peng Peng Lee.

Click PLAY or watch the post day 1 interview on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/NzQ3NzE5NTMy?related=1&autoplay=false

Watch more video of 2013 P&G Championships on gymnastike.org

An impressive show. Amelia had a surprisingly nervous making Beam but still finished 4th.

Bailie Key – Texas Dreams 59.200
Lauren Hernandez – MG Elite 58.000
Nia Dennis – Buckeye 57.200
Amelia Hundley – Cincinnati 56.750
Norah Flatley – Chow’s 56.750
Alexis Vasquez – Chow’s 55.350

results (PDF)

… Key, who finished fourth at the 2012 U.S. Championships, started her competition on the balance beam. Her solid set, including two flip flops to a back layout, a switch ring leap and two flip flops to a triple twist dismount score, scored 15.350 points, tying for the highest beam score of the event. In the second rotation, Key earned the highest floor score of the competition, 14.800 points, opening with an Arabian double front to stag jump and finishing with a double pike. On vault, Key’s double-twisting Yurchenko earned 15.100 points and she finished the competition on uneven bars, where she scored 13.950 points.

Hernandez, the only athlete to earn scores higher than 14.000 points on all four events, is currently in second place. …

read more on USAG

Click PLAY or watch Lauren Hernandez DTY on YouTube.

photos

VIDEO Jr WAG – Day 1

Dwight Normile commentary – Key Takes First-Day Lead at P&G Junior Championships

Triple Twist Highlights Day 1 – Juniors (includes videos of favourite routines)

Trade Show and Congress look great this year. Big turnout. Nice space.

I’ll be posting highlights over the coming week.

I’m hanging out with the good folks at the Tumbl Trak booth.

Like Brenna, Marie Sophie Hindermann competed a Tkachev 1/2 varation to straddle back, connecting directly to toe 1/1.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (2009)

Thanks Nicole.

The Puerto Rican Gymnastics Federation hosted the 2013 Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships in San Juan (PUR) on August 8 – 11, 2013. …

Vault
1-Dovelis Torres (CUB) 14.675
2-Leticia Costa (BRA) 13.962
3-Silvia Collantes (PER) 13.925

Uneven Bars
1-Kaitlyn Hofland (CAN) 14.250
2-Jessica Lopez (VEN) 14.125
3-Ivet Rojas (VEN) 13.550

Balance Beam
1-Ana Sofia Gomez (GUA) 14.35
2-Jessica Lopez (VEN) 14.075
3-Dovelis Torres (CUB) 13.175

Floor Exercise
1-Danielle Hypolito (BRA) 13.675
2-Victoria Moors (CAN) 13.500
3-Leidys Perdomo (CUB) 13.25

The Hypolito family is celebrating.

Floor Exercise
1-Diego Hypolito (BRA) 15.700
2-Manrique Larduet (CUB) 15.525
3-Jossimar Calvo (COL) 14.975

Pommel Horse
1-Sergio Sasaki (BRA) 14.850
2-Jorge Giraldo (COL) 14.825
3-Pericles Silva (BRA) 14.450

Still Rings
1-Henrique Flores (BRA) 15.575
2T-Tommy Ramos (PUR) 15.525
2T-Federico Molinari (PUR) 15.525

Vault
1-Manrique Larduet (CUB) 15.362
2-Diego Hypolito (BRA) 15.112
3-Angel Ramos (PUR)14.375

Parallel Bars
1-Manrique Larduet (CUB) 15.725
2-Jorge Giraldo (COL) 15.425
3-Sergio Sasaki (BRA) 15.325

Horizontal Bar
1-Jossimar Calvo (COL) 15.550
2-Nicolas Cordoba (ARG) 15.025
3-Francisco Barreto (BRA) 14.625

details on FIG

Shame that Cuba does not compete internationally more often. They were once one of the Gymnastics super powers.

Click PLAY or watch Hofland’s Bars on YouTube.

… Hofland was quick to point out that she can do better. “I have room for improvement,” she said. …

(Canada’s) world team will be announced August 25, following a selection camp …

AGF

Here’s one way to include that release. 🙂

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… Now 17, he’s the best young male gymnast in the United States, an athlete whose ability invites comparisons to 2004 Olympic all-around gold medalist Paul Hamm.

Kimble lives in Milwaukee and trains at Swiss Turners in West Allis, where Hamm and his twin brother, Morgan, trained.

… Kimble will try to make his first senior national team this week at the 2013 U.S. Gymnastics Championships at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn.

He will compete in the junior men’s session Thursday and if he finishes in the top six he will be eligible to compete in the senior session Saturday. The 15-man senior national team will be chosen at the end of the competition. …

“That is the goal for this year,” said Andrei Kan, one of Kimble’s coaches at Swiss Turners and a 1996 Olympian for Belarus. “I see great potential for him to make the world championship team (in 2014) so it’s important for him to make the senior national team this year.

“We are trying to get prepared for the 2016 Olympics. I believe he has a good chance.” …

read more – Milwaukee gymnast chases Olympic dream

Thank Ron Noe for the link.