Shilese JONES leads Worlds

After the first qualifying rotation:

JONES Shilese 55.766

CAREY Jade 55.132

After a terrific first 3 apparatus, Jordan Chiles (53.998) had two surprising falls on Beam. The 11.366 dropped her behind two teammates, so won’t qualify for the AA Final.

USA was impressive, despite one fall on Bars and two on Beam.

Shilese Jones – qualification Bars

Nice.

14.566

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Vasiliki Millousi comeback

Worlds Schmerlds.

The BIG news of the day is that 38-year-old Vasiliki Millousi is going to resume training.

A triple Olympian and many time international medal winner on Beam, she was always a fan favourite.

Married to Olympic Champion Eleftherios Petrounias, Vasiliki only stopped Gymnastics to have 2 kids.

They run a Gym. She started training again for fun and decided to go for Elite again.

Vasiliki Millousi, Greece

WORLDS Liverpool BEGINS

400+: Number of gymnasts competing

74: Number of countries competing

24: Men’s teams competing in Qualifications

Austria, USA, Canada, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, Korea Republic, Great Britain, China, Spain, Japan, Ukraine, Romania, Netherlands, Italy, Colombia, Brazil, Turkey, Egypt, Germany, Chinese Taipei, Belgium, Australia, France, and Hungary.

24: Women’s teams competing  in Qualifications

USA, Belgium, Romania*, Spain, South Korea, Ukraine, Sweden, Australia, Hungary, Canada, China, Mexico, France, Finland, Netherlands, Japan, Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Chinese Taipei, Egypt, Hungary, Austria and Great Britain.

*Romania qualified but is no longer bringing a full team …

Inside Gymnastics – 2022 WORLDS BY THE NUMBERS!

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Inside Gymnastics has an up-to-date PREVIEW of the competition, as well:

READY TO ROCK IN LIVERPOOL!

Daiki Hashimoto – H Bar

The defending Olympic Champ is the favourite for Worlds.

some of the FAVES at Worlds Liverpool

If you ask anyone of these contenders, their goal is simply to MAKE the top 8 final.

Not easy.

Once you make it, you can let ‘er rip in the Final.

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STOP WAR

Illia KOVTUN from Ukraine is wearing a STOP WAR t-shirt at Podium Training. OK, I think.  And of course I agree with him.

Putin’s invasion of a neighbouring nation took out both Olympic Champion teams from our sport.  And killed many innocent people.

STOP WAR.

Of course training for this competition has been super challenging for Ukraine. Their athletes have been all over the world trying to get ready.

Yulo’s Vaults for Liverpool

The defending World Champ looks the man to beat in 2022.

He’s got the difficulty. And the best execution of any of the top guys.

For me he’s the favourite on both Floor and Vault.