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The first World Championships after the Olympics I call the “unimportant” Worlds.

Balance Beam Situation explains why.

That said, I’m going. 🙂

Worlds 2013 in Antwerp looks to be really entertaining.

There’s no Team competition, so nations can send the individuals with the best chance of qualifying for a Final. By 2014 it will — again — be all about Team.

Uchimura will again be the man to finish second behind. He was happy with his performance this weekend at NHK Cup.

Click PLAY or watch his Pommels / Rings on YouTube.

It sounds like Ryohei Kato has also confirmed an AA spot to Worlds 2013 for Japan.

(via Gymnast #391)

Kristen Ras is posting a series of on the best all-around gymnasts of all time, starting with the Soviets:

Larissa Latynina
Lyudmila Tourisheva
Natalia Yurchenko
Olga Mostepanova
Oksana Omelianchik
Aleftina Pryakhina

Couch Gymnast – Best of the All Arounders Series: The Soviets

Obviously there are some big, BIG names not included.

While Tokyo 1964 saw the final performances of the Soviet gymnastics legend Larissa Latynina at the Olympic Games, it also marked the rise of new upcoming star, Czechoslovakia’s Vera Caslavska, who would also gain iconic status in her career.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

What does Saskatchewan Gymnastics do for FUN?

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Edited by Ariel Crawford. 🙂

Gym Blog Brazil is confirming the rumour we heard first from Rewriting Russian Gymnastics:

Is not yet official, but a very reliable and secure source confirmed the arrival of Alexander Alexandrov in Brazil later this month. More details soon! …

Things are looking up for the Olympic host nation. 🙂

UPDATE. The video has been changed to PRIVATE. Likely at the photographers request.

Photoshoot.

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via GymFever

Update the list of female gymnasts who have competed Yurchenko 2 1/2 twist.

The up-and-coming Brazilian superstar has got a good one.

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(via Kazukuni Ohno on Facebook)

Last weekend a competition took place for the British girls in Ipswich where they took part in a trial meet for the European Youth Olympic Festival which is due to take place in Utrecht, Netherlands next month.

Also in attendance was two teams from Brazil which included rising star Rebecca Andrade. She scored a whopping 15.7 on vault …

Andrade also won the junior division ahead of British hope Tyesha Mattis …

read more on Couch Gymnast – British Clubs and Brazil face in Ipswich

Brenna Dowell trains at the May Women’s National Team Camp, including a new Amanar and two new tumbling passes.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

When I was at GAGE two years ago, Brenna was doing Amanar this well in training. Perhaps it’s new to show at Camp.

Oldies. But goodies. 🙂

1. Oksana Chusovitina 1975 56.050
2. Anna Pavlova 1987 55.200
3. Barbora Mokošová 1997 52.750

Six-time Olympian Oksana Chusovitina (Uzbekistan) won the all-around and vault titles at the 26th Gym-Festival Trnava, held Saturday and Sunday in the western Slovakian city.

Chusovitina, who turns 38 on June 19, topped fellow veteran Anna Pavlova (Russia), 56.050-55.200. Slovakian first-year senior Barbora Mokošová won the bronze (52.750).

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They were teammates at Pro Gym Challenge.

… at the May Women’s National Team Camp, including new sequences on bars, beam and floor.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via USAG on Facebook)

May Camp videos like that will be rolled out one-a-day over the next 3 weeks. Well done USAG. 🙂

Coach Markos Baikas is frustrated.

Frustrated that Parallel Bar locking mechanisms fail so quickly. Frustrated that replacement parts from Spieth in Europe would cost a fortune.

Instead, we’re trying to find a local machine shop that could rethread or, perhaps, replace the locking mechanism.

Leave a comment if you’ve any advice.