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Back in shape. Could Nabs be the 3rd Russian Bar routine in London?
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
If she adds the Nabieva release, for SURE. 🙂
But will her Vault be strong enough to contribute?
… here are Grishina’s Bars (VIDEO), for comparison.
Fall on the new dismount. But the routine looks better than ever.
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See more videos on the semenova15650 YouTube channel.
BEAM
1. Komova 15.325/6.3
2. Mustafina 15.000/6.1
3. Dementieva 14.950/6.4
FLOOR
1. Mustafia 14.750/5.9
2. Komova 14.300/5.8
3. Sidorova 14.150/5.8
Russian training squads for 2012 Olympics named:
Ksenia Afanasyeva, Viktoria Komova, Aliya Mustafina, Anastasia Grishina, Tatyana Nabieva, Maria Paseka, Anastasia Sidorova, Julia Inshina.
Sadly, Dementieva not named. Nor fan favourite 24yr-old Anna Pavlova even though she won Vault.
Commentary by Brigid McCarthy.
Brigid shared a link to a tumblr blog called mustafina2012. It has distant videos of routines from Finals. No embed code. Aliya’s back doing her Bar dismount. Vika falls on her new double twisting double tuck in Finals.
Click PLAY or watch a new Mustafina montage on YouTube.
That edit is from thebeamqueen.tumblr.com. I’m now subscribed.
In 2010 Aliya was perfect. The best routines in the world were easy. … Not so now. I admire her even more now.
VAULT
1. Ablyazin 15.850/7.2 – 7.0
2. Yakubovskiy 15.233/6.2 – 6.6
3. Lezhankin 14.700/6.6 – 6.2
P BARS
1. Belyavskiy 15.267/6.4
2. Khorokhordin 15.033/6.5
3. Ignatyev 14.767/6.3
RINGS
1. Pluzhnikov 15.533/6.8
2. Ablyazin 15.333/6.6
3. Balandin 15.200/6.7
Russian training squads for 2012 Olympics named
Denis Ablyazin, Aleksandr Balandin, David Belyavskiy, Emin Garibov, Konstantin Pluzhnikov, Nikita Ignatyev, Sergey Khorokhordin, Igor Pakhomenko.
Former European champion Maksim Devyatovskiy announced his retirement.
I got all that from The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook. They are at the competition.
Brigid linked to this tribute to one of the top contenders for an Olympic AA medal.
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She considers her one of the “Big Guns”.
… Elizabeth Price of Parkettes who placed 5th all around at this weekend’s 2012 Visa Championships, advancing to Olympic Trials.
Click PLAY or watch the interview on Gymnastike.
http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/ODU1NjQxMDg0?related=1
Watch more video of 2012 Visa Championships on gymnastike.org
My prototype “Fitness Wheel” from Tumbl Trak has arrived.
I’ll be taking it on the road with me, summer camp to summer camp. FUN.
They can be preordered now. I like the 8 foot diameter Fitness Wheel $1,899.00 over the 5 foot diameter (pictured) $1,399.00 model.
Israeli Olympians. Congratulations.
Alex Shatilov, Valeria Maksyuta and Felix Aronovich are the 3 Artistic Gymnasts who got the Olympic criteria for the 2012 London Olympic Games.
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Turkey’s Goksu Uctas will make history come the 2012 London Olympic Games, when she becomes the country’s first ever gymnast to participate in the Olympics.
… as a nine-year-old — a vital stage in a gymnast’s development — she survived a catastrophic earthquake which struck north-west Turkey in 1999.
… killed around 17,000 people and left hundreds of thousand others homeless, including her family. …
Turkey has bid to host the 2020 Olympics in Istanbul and is one of three cities in the running along with Tokyo and Madrid. …
GYMMIN’ MIEL – Uctas Set to Make Turkish History
original photo on Facebook
Noor al-Malki will run the 100m in London, the first female athlete ever to compete for Qatar in the Olympics.
Some IOC members, including Dick Pound, are calling for Saudi Arabia to reverse decision to omit female athletes from their team. It flies against the Olympic Charter.
… not that the IOC has been much of a champion of women’s rights.
Thanks Brigid.
