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🥇 Félix Dolci, Canada, 82.531 🇨🇦
🥈 Diogo Soares, Brazil, 81.865
🥉 Donnell Whittenburg, United States, 81.764
Félix had a great meet until the final apparatus — H Bar. Where he fell on Tkachev.
But it was enough.
Canada’s first AA win since Willy Weiler 1963.
Trivia – Willy’s brother was my first club coach.
Read Kensley’s Pan American Games MAG AA Live Blog
Her best ever?
The best ever from any gymnast?
Simone is amazing. But takes this Vault long. I like the Rebeca’s HEIGHT.
Every coach should emulate her block.
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A new book by Dr. Dave Tilley, CEO/Founder of SHIFT Movement Science, is now available.
My goal with it is simple – help you learn ways to improve your happiness and performance in gymnastics.
Toxic gymnastics cultures, when left unchecked, erode everyone inside making a massive negative impact on their health and performance while healthy gymnastics cultures, when nourished, elevate everyone to their highest levels of enjoyment in the sport.
… I summarize the best tools, strategies, and exercises that I see in gyms with incredible cultures full of happy, healthy, high performing people.
It has 90+ pages over 5 chapters, and 25 hands on exercises for you to do using templates and worksheets.
Click HERE for details.
The launch price is $39.99.
That includes the eBook and some additional benefits:
I thought Brazil might surprise and defeat the mighty Americans. But not this time.
1) USA – 165.196
2) BRAZIL – 161.564
3) CANADA – 154.230
Apparatus finalists:
VT – Andrade, Chiles, Sandoval, Escalera, Pinto, Estarli, Betances, Santi
UB – Miller, Andrade, Chiles, Saraiva, Tran, Sandoval, Campos, Stewart
BB – Stewart, Andrade, Saraiva, Lincoln, DiCello, Tran, Loustalot, Blanco
FX – Lincoln, DiCello, Saraiva, Soares, Heron, Tran, Achondo, Turner
Read Spencer’s LIVE blog.
Lauren is there in Chile. Read her LIVE blog.
No response yet from the University, as I post.
I take that as a bad sign for the Head Coach, Tom Farden, who’s already been investigated and not found guilty on complaints similar to what Kara has experienced.
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At PanAms, Costa Rican gymnast, Andrés Valverde, used what you might call Double Layout over the bar with double twist.
A single twist is named for Dan Hayden.
The Valverde is a dismount I’ve never seen before. Should be a new element in the Code of Points.
Note – Andrés competed in Santiago only 7 months after Achilles surgery.
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Rebeca Andrade has had 3 ACL tears: 2015, 2017, and 2019.
Yet she came back to be competing the all-around right beside the greatest gymnast all time, Simone.
It’s possible.
Since her three major knee injuries, Andrade has picked her spots to compete extremely carefully.
After her 2022 World all-around win, she didn’t compete on the floor exercise again until this year’s Worlds in Antwerp.
“I have complete freedom to talk to Chico [Francisco Porath], who is my coach, and he knows that when I’m in pain, I tell him that, ‘Today, it is very difficult. Is it okay for us to hold off on that workout, to do a lighter workout?’ because he knows that the next day I’m going to arrive at the gym and I’m going to do my best,” explained Andrade of her approach.
“This is very important to me. This exchange that we have, this trust that we have in each other – and also, the physical part, the physical trainer, the multidisciplinary part also with physiotherapy, massage therapy, psychologist [is important].
Olympics.com
The NHL (National Hockey League) was infamously homophobic and non-diverse.
I know. I’m a Canadian.
That league has improved tremendously in recent years, however. Protecting minority players and taking actions so that all in the sport can be treated equally.
But now …
Rainbow-colored Pride Tape has been part of pro ice hockey for seven years, symbolizing the sport’s pledge to be welcoming and inclusive. But the NHL has banned the athletic tape, quickly sparking a backlash.
Critics say the league’s decision is a step backward. …
The tape got a big boost in early 2016, when the Edmonton Oilers used it as a way to support young LGBTQ+ athletes who might otherwise quit playing ice hockey in the face of homophobia and discrimination. …
The NHL bans Pride Tape, setting off a backlash from players and fans
One bit of good news where I live …
An exciting team competition.
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