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Taking aim at a record fourth straight Olympic medal in trampoline, Toronto’s Karen Cockburn tuned up with a vintage performance at the Canadian gymnastics championships on Saturday, winning her 13th women’s individual title with a personal best score.

“This was definitely a step towards London,” said Cockburn. “I feel like I’m right on track and I’m not getting too stressed out with the Games getting closer. I feel like I’m in a really great place right now. My routines are set and now I’m fine tuning trying to get more execution points and more flight time points.” …

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Coach Dave Ross is still waiting to be certain that Rosie MacLennan will be good to go for Olympics. After a fall in training, she suffered some concussion symptoms. Can’t be too careful.

Canadian Olympians have two World Cup tune-up events before London.

Click PLAY or watch Karen’s 55.625 on YouTube.

Fans are angry that Chellsie Memmell was not petitioned through to Visa Championships.

Andy Thornton:

… On one hand, it just sounds brutally fair. After all, Martha and the rest of the selection committee stated upfront they were looking for 14’s, on average, from gymnasts vying to qualify for the upcoming nationals.

Chellsie competed just one event at today’s U.S. Classic in Chicago, and her two falls from beam plummeted her score to a disastrous 11.95. …

But on the other hand, it feels like a slap in the face. After all, Chellsie is one of the most successful, most valuable, and most tenacious gymnasts the U.S. has ever produced. She’s a former world all-around champion, world bars champion, world team champion, world beam medalist, and Olympic medalist. She’s proven time and time again her unmatched ability to return to top form after injury, and to compete brilliantly under unimaginable pressure …

Chellsie Memmel’s Petition Denied…Fair Or Ludicrous?

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Marta loves Aly

Marta loves a girl who can hit consistently under pressure.

1. Raisman; 2. Ross; 3. Baker; 4. Vega; 5. Price; 6. Jay; 7. Brown; 8. Li.

@shannonmiller96:

Tough night for Li/Memmel. Great for Liukin/Wieber/Raisman/Finnegan/Ross/Maroney. Mixed for Douglas …

Examiner Quick hits: Senior women’s finals at the Secret U.S. Classic

FX
Sr – Robert WATSON and Scott MORGAN
Jr – Damien CACHIA

PH
Sr – Ken IKEDA
Jr – Zach CLAY

R
Sr – Scott MORGAN
Jr – Josh STUART

V
Sr – Scott MORGAN
Jr – Zach CLAY

PB
Sr – Jayd LUKENCHUK
Jr – Samuel PAQUIN and Josh STUART

HB
Sr – Nathan GAFUIK
Jr – Josh STUART and Kevin HSIAO

full results are posted on Gym Score Depot

VAULT
1. Shallon OLSEN
2. Rose-Kalam WOO
3. Victoria-Kayen WOO

BARS
1. Victoria-Kayen WOO
2. Rose-Kalam WOO
3. Shallon OLSEN

BEAM
3. Rose-Kalam WOO
2. Shallon OLSEN
3. Ivy LU

FLOOR
1. Heaven LATIMER
2 Shallon OLSEN
3 Taylor CHAN

full results are posted on Gym Score Depot

BARS:
1. Kristina Vaculik 14.4/6.0,
2. Victoria Moors. 13.65/5.6,
3. Laura Ann Chong 13.45/5.2

VAULT
1.Ellie Black 14.475,
2.Brittany Rogers 14.425,
3.Dominique Pegg 14.275

BEAM
1. Kristina Vaculik 14.60
2. Maddie Gardiner 14.40
3. Dominique Pegg 13.95

FLOOR
1. Victoria Moors 14.60
2. Kristina Vaculik 14.00
3. Ellie Black 13.95

full results are posted on Gym Score Depot

Points towards Olympic selection accumulate for the top 4 gymnasts on each apparatus.

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1. Biles, 2. Desch, 3. Hundley, 4. Priessman, 5. Key, 6. Ernst, 7. Guerra, 8. Hults, 9. Shchennikova, 10. Skaggs

results

Quick hits: Junior women’s finals at the Secret U.S. Classic (rotations 1 & 2)

Quick hits: Junior women’s finals at the Secret U.S. Classic (rotations 3 & 4)

Click PLAY or watch Simone Biles’s Amanar from earlier this season on YouTube.

Olympic host Great Britain continued its romp at the 2012 Men’s European Championships in Montpellier, France, capturing the senior team title Saturday.

The British men won their third straight gold medal of the championships and their first senior continental title with a tight victory over Russia, 266.296-265.535. Romania won the bronze with 261.319. …

The British owed their victory in large part to their supremacy on pommel horse …

IG – British Best Russia for First European Title

Click PLAY or watch Louis Smith on YouTube 15.900 (Difficulty : 6.900, Execution : 9.000).

4. Belarus
5. Ukraine
6. Germany
7. Switzerland
8. France

Augers well for GBR in the weeks left before the Olympics. They did this without Daniel Keatings.

Disappointing for Germany. Gawd awful for France.

There’s a bit of a discussion in the comments on this post — bad technique on double tuck.

Most coaches, I’m sure, agree with me that a double tuck with hands on the shins is superior (and prettier) than with hands on the back of the thighs.

Of course there are many superb gymnasts that use what I call the inferior technique. Both work. But I much prefer hands on shins, tight tuck. GS George would agree. In trampoline sports, grabbing the thighs is not only an inferior technique, it’s a deduction.

What do Artistic gymnasts use for triple back on Floor Exercise?

Click PLAY or watch Liukin on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Eddie Crane on YouTube.

Hands on shins.

Click PLAY or watch Li Xiaoshuang on YouTube.

Hands on the back of the thighs.

Both work. Shins is the preferred technique, especially for beginners.

Leave a comment if you have an opinion, especially if you disagree.