NAT Champions – Trautman, Chiles, O’Keefe

Vault – Olivia Trautman
Bars – Jordan Chiles
Beam – Maile O’Keefe
Floor – Jordan Chiles

Adem Asil HITS Europeans AA

Six for six. Well done. Adem couldn’t be happier with his competition to win the AA.

Oklahoma, Michigan, Penn advance

The field is set for Men’s NCAA Championships team final 2023.

No. 1 Stanford
No. 2 Oklahoma
No. 3 Michigan
No. 4 Illinois
No. 5 Nebraska
No. 6 Penn State

Stanford, Nebraska, Illinois advance

Top 3 teams from qualifying session 1 of two.

https://twitter.com/intlgymnast/status/1646955549521596417

Coach Mark Williams is disappointed with the VIDEO coverage this year.

Paul Juda wins Nissen-Emery

Utah, Oklahoma, LSU or Florida?

WHO will be National Champion 2023?

National AA Champion Maile O’Keefe

  1. Maile O’Keefe 39.7625
  2. Jordan Chiles 39.7125
  3. Haleigh Bryant 39.6875

#respect. Maile wins the title competing only Yurchenko 1/1!

Vanessa Ferrari will try for Paris

Vanessa Ferrari, age-32, is a legend in our sport.

Having competed the past 4 Olympics, she’s training for #5.

Mad Apple – Cirque du Soleil

I finally saw Mad Apple, the new Cirque show that opened May 2022 in Vegas.

Quite different than any other of their 20 performances worldwide.

Three bars on the stage open 45 minutes before opening.

Stand-up comedy. Somewhat raunchy.

No theme. Instead it’s a fast paced series of acts all somehow paying homage to the city of New York.

It replaced Zumanity on stage at New York-New York Hotel & Casino. Both minimum age-16 adult-themed entertainments.

As usual, I appreciated the acrobatic performers most. The Wheel of Death included a back tuck — something I’d not seen before.

The Pole Act far above the stage impressed.

Hand Balancer Valentin Chetverkin is fantastic.

The musicians in this show are characters who roam the stage. I found them more entertaining than some of the dancers.

Music so-so. The acoustics in this venue made it difficult to hear some of the lyrics.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Utah and Oklahoma advance

FINAL
Utah 198.225
Oklahoma 198.1625
UCLA 197.9125
Kentucky 197.125

… UCLA gets to feel righteously wronged with their 197.9125 being eliminated from this semifinal, though the scoring in this semifinal was WILDLY different than the second semifinal.

The evolution of that beam scoring from LSU’s opening rotation today to the end was something else. …

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