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Yamilet Peña – coaching problems

A big success story for the Dominican Republic is 2012 Olympian Yamilet Peña Abreu.

But gymnastics in that tiny nation has a troubled history.

The training equipment has not been well maintained.

Gymnasia Latina is now reporting (Spanish) that her coach, Frank Susana, stopped working due to insufficient salary.

Edwin Rodriguez, president of the Dominican Federation of Gymnastics:

“We do not have that amount of money required, we are a federation poor, but we know he deserves it. We will appeal to the Minister (Jaime David Fernandez) to see if we get a coach. It is difficult to get a good one, try to keep up, but could not, “Rodriguez said. …

Peña is still hoping to compete at Worlds in Belgium this October.

YP Vault

Mai Murakami tumbling

Japanese news edit.

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Kazukuni Ohno linked to the video on Facebook.

Irving Nóchez posted some video clips from our FIG Age Group Camp in San Salvador earlier this year. We focused on drills for beginner competitors, even though many of the demonstrators are older.

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That’s a great gym in an ideal multi-sport facility.

Shallon Olsen – Beam

5th in Jr Finals
13.525

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Sydney Soloski from Calgary won the apparatus with 14.400.

related – Gymnastike – Phenom: Shallon Olsen

width of Horizontal Bar mats

Nathan Gafuik was competing H Bar.

On a Stalder Rybalko one hand slipped. He fell, landing hard on the red safety edge matting.

Mats of this width were only introduced at Canadian Championships two years ago.

Formerly they were only as wide as the support standards.

Thank Gymnova for bringing such wide landing mats.

Curse FIG MTC for not devaluing Rybalko this Code. It’s obvious that those elements are overused, poorly executed and very dangerous. 😦

foam pit cube colour

JAO:

While researching pit blocks to order for our gym, one company sent us a sample of their white cubes. Good thing we ended up buying the dark blue ones…

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