And everyone in Liverpool agrees.
Three ACL tears — 2nd at the Tokyo Olympic — now World Champion.
Heath Thorpe on Twitter
A force for good on social media.
ZHANG Boheng – H Bar
Under pressure in Team, the reigning World AA Champ HITS.
Men’s Team Final in 1-minute
Oleg Vernyayev – Stop War
Oleg calls for the international sporting community to support Ukraine.
From Instagram:
“last saw my native Donetsk back in 2012. And soon the war will take away my opportunity to return home for almost 9 years.
With the onset of a full-scale invasion, training was put on a back burner. From the first days, I started volunteering, as did some of my colleagues, Ukrainian gymnasts. About three thousand athletes and coaches are now defending the Independence of our country. Over a hundred of them will never return home.
Silence settled in our training halls. But we must not be silent!
We should not keep silent about Russia’s crimes against Ukraine, as Russian and Belarusian athletes do.
Their silence is support for the bloody Russian terror. Terrorists have no place in international sports.
I urge all citizens of the civilized world to support Ukraine on the sports front!
Silence kills!”
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World Champions China
Sun Wei, Yang Jiaxing, You Hao, Zhang Boheng and Zou Jingyuan — were able to put a rotten qualification day behind them as they eclipsed Japan and Great Britain for their 10th consecutive team medal at the World Championships and first title since 2018. …
Sun Wei – H Bar
Fan favourite Sun Wei is hurting in Liverpool. Minor injuries.
But in the Team competition he brought his usual beautiful form and style.
MAG TEAM results Worlds 2022
Unofficial
Automatic qualification to Paris for the top 3.
A disappointing Final. Too many falls. It looks bad. Makes Pommels look like a joke apparatus.
Only China improved (a lot) from the qualification round.
Shout out for Italy and Spain, however. Good job.
Men’s Gymnastics is going the wrong direction
My main takeaway from the TEAM competition is that rules reward DIFFICULTY too much. Quality not enough.
Shoyo MIYATA – Vault
Canada coming 3rd with four gymnasts who have never been to Worlds was great. And surprising. BUT Canada does have Ellie Black.
The miracle run of a Japanese team with NO veterans was even more astonishing. Until the very end, they kept putting up routines like this.
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