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… today’s All-around totals (just isolating day 2 results):

1. Naddour 90.600
2. Orozco 90.400
3. Mikulak 89.750
4. Dalton 88.950
5. Wynn 88.550
6. Ruggeri 88.200
7. Legendre 88.00

Combined day 1 and day 2:

1. Mikulak 181.400
2. Naddour 178.500
3. Dalton 177.600
4. Orozco 176.750
5. Wynn 175.250
6. Steven Legendre 175.100
7. Danell Leyva 174.450
8. Akash Modi 173.450

Watch a 90min rebroadcast of 2013 P&G Gymnastics Championships – Sr. Men – Day 2.

Let’s say you were Marta Karoli. And you had to name the team RIGHT NOW.

What two gymnasts would you want in the Finals in Antwerp?

AA = Ross, Biles

V = Maroney, Biles
Bars = Ross, ______
Beam = Ross, Biles
Floor = Maroney, Biles

Truly, there’s only one blank on the dance card.

Yet you can name one more athlete. And one traveling alternate. (I assume.)

Katelyn Ohashi would be your first choice. Unfortunately I’ve heard nothing that makes me hopeful Katelyn will be hitting 12 Beam and 7 Bar routines a day anytime soon. She had shoulder surgery in April.

Perhaps you take one AA back-up with strong Floor and 2 Vaults as insurance policy — best chance for two medals in the AA, FX and Vault.

Brenna Dowell? Lexie” Priessman? … “Ebee” Price?

And one new Senior who could use World’s experience. Preparing for 2014 and 2015.

Kennedy Baker? Peyton Ernst? Abigail Milliet? Maggie Nichols? Madison Kocian?

Click PLAY or watch Marta’s interview on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/OTY5NzE5ODY0?related=1&autoplay=false

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

I’d love to see Mykayla Skinner at a World Championships? But doubt that she’s consistent enough in training to be chosen by a Marta.

Please, please USA send her to a World Cup. Or other major international invitational. Picture a final that included both Skinner and Victoria Moors. 🙂

11:30am Eastern Standard Time.

Stick it Media has a preview – Mikulak, Kimble & Dastrup Dominate 1st Day at U.S. Gymnastics Championships:

Recall I complained that Ruggeri was underscored on Floor. USA FIG judge in the comments says:

The difference was straightforward: Paul’s piked stalder press had a short hold. That’s a 0.3 deduction,

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2013 P&G Championships – Senior Women Day 2 playlist is up on YouTube already.

Click PLAY or watch Kennedy Baker’s day 2 Beam on YouTube.

Named tonight.

Kennedy Baker, Flower Mound, Texas/Texas Dreams
Simone Biles, Spring, Texas/Bannon’s Gymnastix
Brenna Dowell, Odessa, Mo./GAGE
Peyton Ernst, Coppell, Texas/Texas Dreams
Madison Kocian, Dallas/WOGA
McKayla Maroney, Long Beach, Calif./All-Olympia
Maggie Nichols, Little Canada, Minn./Twin City Twisters
Elizabeth Price, Coopersburg, Pa./Parkettes
Lexie Priessman, Cincinnati, Ohio/Cincinnati Gymnastics
Kyla Ross, Aliso Viejo, Calif./Gym-Max
MyKayla Skinner, Gilbert, Ariz./Desert Lights

The SOUND of her hitting the horse is so LOUD.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Speaking of great vaulters … Mihai today at Congress said that he never consciously taught Alicia her “flyspring” style handspring. In fact, at the 2005 Worlds there was discussion amongst judges as to whether or not she should be deducted for piking on. 🙂

See photo and video of her preflight.

Vaulters like Maroney and Sacramone are unique. Don’t assume your gymnast can duplicate their technique.

Wow.

It was a treat to watch the Sr women tonight. So much difficulty … yet you were surprised when anyone missed anything.

Nearing the end of the meet it looked obvious that the top 3 would be the top 3 …

1. Simone Biles, Spring, Texas, 120.450
2. Kyla Ross, Aliso Viejo, Calif., 120.250
3. Brenna Dowell, Odessa, Mo., 116.550

… until Biles and Dowell made major errors on their 8th apparatus. And Kyla had what looked like a near fall on Beam, last apparatus. 😦

4. Peyton Ernst, Coppell, Texas, 115.300
5. Maggie Nichols, Little Canada, Minn., 114.700
6. Mykayla Skinner, Gilbert, Ariz., 113.150
7. Kennedy Baker, Flower Mound, Texas, 112.900
8. Abigail Milliet, Denton, Texas, 110.900
9. Madison Desch, Lenexa, Kan., 109.900
10. Erin Macadaeg, Redwood City, Calif., 109.700

Vault
1. McKayla Maroney, Long Beach, Calif., 31.200
2. Simone Biles, Spring, Texas, 30.875
3. Mykayla Skinner, Gilbert, Ariz., 29.600

Bars
1. Kyla Ross, Aliso Viejo, Calif., 30.950
2. Simone Biles, Spring, Texas, 28.950
3. Brenna Dowell, Odessa, Mo., 28.850

Beam
1. Kyla Ross, Aliso Viejo, Calif., 29.950
2. Simone Biles, Spring, Texas, 29.900
3. Kennedy Baker, Flower Mound, Texas, 28.950

Floor
1. McKayla Maroney, Long Beach, Calif., 30.100
2. Simone Biles, Spring, Texas, 30.000
3. Mykayla Skinner, Gilbert, Ariz., 29.750

The level on Floor and Vault is amazing. Only one Senior did an easier vault than Yurchenko double twist. It’s the new normal.

Without a taxpayer dollar going into the coffers of USAG, this is the #1 nation in the world in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics.

Respect.

Click PLAY or watch Simone’s Floor on YouTube.

Here’s full VIDEO coverage of the Sr day 2 competition.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The Jr WAG day 2 video playlist is already up. THANKS USAG. 🙂

I spoke with Ron Brant today. He was generally impressed with the Men’s performances day 1.

Early in the quadrennial you might expect contenders for Rio to be throwing high difficulty, taking many falls. Yet there were surprisingly few falls over the entire competition — though many of those were to the top Sr guys. 😦

Ron hopes that the new Seniors will bring up the Level on Pommel Horse. That didn’t happen in Hartford, however. It’s still the weak apparatus for USA.

He named a number of young guns who could be serious candidates in time for 2016. Sean Melton, one of those.

Unfortunately medical decided to have Sean withdraw from Championships due to possible concussion.

Again that was on a Thomas roll-out skill, seemingly well executed.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Better safe than sorry. This was the right call.

Putting Yusuke Tanaka back into competition after his concussion at the Tokyo Worlds was the wrong call.

related – recent concussions …

via Uncle Tim