Yang competes Tsuk 3 1/2

New Vault.

Actually, Kasamatsu + 2 1/2 twist.

Yang landed his namesake vault (triple-twisting handspring front layout, 6.4 Difficulty) with just one step, but fell on an extremely difficult second vault of Tsukahara with 3.5 twists. …

Hu Yizhou for IG

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Our Olympic Champion doesn’t cheat that, unlike many others. And will be landing it in competition soon.

He’s the man to beat right now.

Japanese Championships results

1. Natsumi Sasada 55.500
2. Yu Minobe 55.250
3. Mai Murakami 55.150
4. Asuka Teramoto 55.000
5. Yuki Uchiyama 54.400
6. Mizuho Nagai 53.750

1. Kohei Uchimura 182.350
2. Ryohei Kato 178.850
3. Yusuke Tanaka 177.300
4. Shogo Nonomura 176.800
5. Kenya Kobayashi 175.750
6. Tatsuki Nakajima 175.050

The competition also served as Japan’s trials for this summer’s University Games in Kazan, Russia. The women’s team will be Minobe, Mizuhi Nagai, Noda Sakura, Arisa Tominaga, Shizkuka Tozawa and Otaki Chinami. The men will be represented by Kato, Tanaka, Shogo Nonomura, Chihiro Yoshioka and Daiki Ishikawa.

read more on IG – Uchimura, Sasada Win Japanese Championships

Sasada

Russia does not rest

Rewriting Russian Gymnastics posted an excellent interview with Russian WAG head coach Evgenyi Grebyonkin:

… Who is training with the Russian team?

‘Aliya Mustafina, Ksenia Afanasyeva, Maria Paseka, Anna Dementieva, Tatiana Nabiyeva, Katya Kramarenko, Evgeniya Shelgunova, Anna Rodionova, Alla Sosnitskaya, Ekaterina Baturina, Olga Bikmurzina.’

Which athletes will participate in the Universiade?

‘It’s a mystery (smiles). We are currently training ten girls, and I do not want to single anyone out. All are prepared and understand who has more chances, who has less. It is clear that the top three contenders are Mustafina, Afanasyeva and Paseka. But Paseka is open to question – she has only two apparatus.

grips

Grebyonkin says that after her qualification fall on bars at Europeans, Afansyeva is now trying out hand grips. But she will not compete on bars at this summer’s Universiade in Kazan.

read more – Evgenyi Grebyonkin : ‘it would be risky to show our whole strategy in the first year of the Olympic cycle’