Did you see any of the CrossFit Games on TV?
… The only athletes superior to Artistic gymnasts at some feats of strength.
The firefighter from Manchester, UK is the Reebok 2013 Champion.
1. Samantha Briggs
2. Lindsey Valenzuela
3. Valerie Voboril
Nicolas Besnard & Ludivine Furnon
This sensual performance from a few years ago is being widely circulated on Facebook.
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Ludivine was Bronze medalist on Floor at the 1995 Worlds.
Mykayla Skinner – Floor
WOW.
She rocks the double double layout. (O.B.)
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Despite weaknesses and errors, I definitely want to see Mykayla compete Floor and Vault internationally.
She competed DTY and an awesome Cheng (6.4 difficulty score)
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5 BIG H Bar release series
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Ender’s Game film recruitment video
Have you read Ender’s Game?
At long last, the film version is coming Nov 1, 2013.
This PROMO video is looking for very young child recruits for Battle School.
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Gymnasts would be ideal candidates.
the most powerful tumbler
WOW WOW
Simone Biles is out of this world.
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To me both those last two tumbling lines are weak for a gymnast this powerful.
Simone can do anything. Why lines as traditional as those?
Ross, Ernst, Dowell
U.S. Secret Classic 2013
Kyla Ross (Gym-Max) 58.650
Peyton Ernst (Texas Dreams) 58.250
Brenna Dowell (GAGE) 57.200
Blythe:
Between Youtube, Twitter, internet streaming, blogs, speciality sites like Gymnastike and USA Gymnastics’s own realization that it needed to up its coverage to compete with all of the above, the presence of a major TV network is no longer necessary for hard-core fans (and even fair weather ones), to follow the competition. …
The energetic Simone Biles, who had a starmarking debut at the American Cup in Massachusetts in March, had an off day …
Peyton had the highest score on Beam.
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McKayla Maroney can still Vault
2013 Secret U.S. Classic
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Bailie Key wins Secret
Bailie Key of Montgomery, Texas/Texas Dreams Gymnastics, won the junior all-around title at the 2013 Secret U.S. Classic …
Amelia Hundley of Hamilton, Ohio/Cincinnati Gymnastics, and Key’s teammate Veronica Hults of Coppell, Texas/Texas Dreams Gymnastics, were second and third, respectively. The one-day event is the final women’s qualifier for the 2013 P&G Gymnastics Championships, and the gymnasts are either looking to secure a spot at the national championships or using it as a tune-up.
… Based on their scores today, four gymnasts who had not previously qualified were added to the roster for the P&G Championships, where they will compete for berths onto the U.S. National Team. They are Vanasia Bradley of Lincoln Park, Mich./Splitz Gymnastics; Nadia Cho of Plano, Texas/WOGA; Christina Desiderio of Hackettstown, N.J./Parkettes Gymnastics; and Sydney Johnson-Scharpf of Groveland, Fla./Brandy Johnson’s Global Gymnastics. …
Bailie Key 58.250
Amelia Hundley 57.950
Veronica Hults 56.800
Norah Flatley 56.500
Nia Dennis 56.250
Lauren Hernandez 55.950
full results (PDF)
Click PLAY or watch Veronica Hults on Bars (1st at 14.550) on YouTube
Bars is the weakest apparatus for Team USA, so far this quadrennial.
Julie Croket profile
Another trailer for The Hard Way To Success. Full episode will be online on the 5th of August.
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Recall that Julie was on a roll prior to the Olympics. Then tore her ACL. 😦
