BEST CHENG EVER !

I can’t stop watching this Vault.

In regular speed I’d have to award a 10.0 Execution score.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

PanAm Apparatus Finals – day 2

Beam

Every once-in-a-rarely you see a good Beam Final. This was one.

🥇 Rebeca Andrade, Brazil, 14.166
🥈 Flavia Saraiva, Brazil, 14.033
🥉 Ava Stewart, Canada, 13.900

Ava had the highest start score. She’s going to be amazing for Minnesota.

CBC Olympics on X: ""Fantastic stuff from Ava Stewart!" The Canadian delivered an impressive performance on beam @gymcan1 Continue watching the Pan Am Games LIVE with host @anastasure, @RunJumpStefReid and reporter @robpizzo

Floor

🥇 Kaliya Lincoln, United States, 14.233
🥈 Flavia Saraiva, Brazil, 13.733
🥈 Kayla DiCello, United States, 13.733

So high. This is how to sprint into a tumbling pass.

Vault

🥇 Audrys Nin Reyes, Dominican Republic, 14.466
🥈 Arthur Mariano, Brazil, 14.466
🥉 Félix Dolci, Canada, 14.383

P Bars

🥇 Curran Phillips, United States, 15.400
🥈 Colt Walker, United States, 14.366
🥉 Isaac Nuñez, Mexico, 13.833

Incredible.

H Bar

🥇 Arthur Mariano, Brazil, 14.333 … (2019 World Champ)
🥈 Bernardo Miranda, Brazil, 14.133
🥉 René Cournoyer, Canada, 14.066

Brazil had a fantastic PanAms, as did Canada.

And what a way to finish!

Full results.

related:

Belgium WAG Head Coach Needed

Belgium hosted Worlds again in 2023.

Sadly, two of their top WAG were injured.

They are advertising for a new WAG Head Coach starting as soon as possible.

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PanAm Apparatus Finals – day 1

A great day for the Canadian men.

Brazil and USA on the women’s side.

Vault

🥇 Rebeca Andrade, Brazil, 14.983
🥈 Jordan Chiles, United States, 14.150
🥉 Natalia Escalera, Mexico, 13.333

Amazing.

Bars

🥇 Zoe Miller, United States, 14.666
🥈 Rebeca Andrade, Brazil, 14.333
🥉 Flavia Saraiva, Brazil, 13.733

Floor

🥇 Félix Dolci, Canada, 14.233
🥈 Arthur Mariano, Brazil, 13.933
🥉 Juan Larrahondo, Colombia, 13.366

Pommels

🥇 Zachary Clay, Canada, 14.400
🥈 Jayson Rampersad, Canada, 14.333
🥉 Nelson Guilbe, Puerto Rico, 14.133

Rings

🥇 Donnell Whittenburg, United States, 14.200
🥈 Daniel Villafañe, Argentina, 14.133
🥉 Félix Dolci, Canada, 13.800

Full results.

Andrade and Maroney

We have to start ranking Rebeca’s Cheng from PanAm Vault Final 2023 with the BEST Vault of all time. #respect

celebrating Félix in Canada

I’d say Canada has 3 all-rounders who could qualify to the final in Paris.

  • Félix Dolci
  • William Émard
  • René Cournoyer

But today in Canada we are celebrating Félix. 🎈

USA all-female PanAms delegation

Chellsie Memmel:

… Obviously, there’s a lot of great male coaches, but it feels really special to have a whole delegation of women.”

In addition to Landi, who coaches Jordan Chiles, Tiana Sumanasekera and Zoe Miller, and Memmel, who helps oversee the U.S. program, personal coaches Kelli Hill (coach of Kayla DiCello), Haiou Sun (Kaliya Lincoln) and Marnie Futch (Katelyn Jong) round out the delegation. …

Olympics.com

Luisa Blanco to Paris for Colombia

With the top AA score for any gymnast not yet qualified for the Olympics, Luisa punched her ticket at PanAms.

PanAm Champion Kayla Dicello

A strong competition in the AA.

Happiest on the list might be Louisa Blanco who will qualify for the Paris Olympics.

Jordan competes for UCLA. Kayla for Florida, though she’s taking a year off to train towards trying to qualify for Paris.

Audrys Nin Reyes to Paris

Unofficial, as I post, but for real …