GymCastic has a great podcast wrap-up. Very entertaining.
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WAG Team Final in 1-minute
Well.
How do you sum-up one of the most surprising Worlds Team Finals in history?
improving ETHICS / SAFETY
Interesting observation from a top sports journalist.
The top 3 teams at Worlds have all been having a reckoning of how to improve ETHICS / SAFETY — especially because female gymnasts are so young, and the training so intense.
Gymnastics is absolutely the best sport for kids IMHO. But there have been terrible abuses, especially at the highest levels of WAG.
Ellie Black gets emotional
Watching Ellie’s interview was the first time I cried today.
Rebeca’s Bars in Team
Crazy good. The rules don’t reward connected swings nearly as much as they should.
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Rebeca’s “set” on Vault
USA wins 6th consecutive Worlds
Top 3 earn automatic team qualification to the Paris Olympics.
🥇 USA 🇺🇸 166.564
🥈 GBR 🇬🇧 163.363
🥉 Canada 🇨🇦 160.563
- Brazil 🇧🇷 159.661
- Italy 🇮🇹 159.463
- China 🇨🇳 157.529
- Japan 🇯🇵 156.964
- France 🇫🇷 155.863
There are MANY stories to tell.
But for me the biggest surprise was Japan. This team with zero Worlds experience were fantastic. Up until their final routine on Bars.
For Worlds 2023 all eyes will be on Japan. These are going to be some of the top gymnasts in the world very, very soon.
AA at the Team Final
No all-around is calculated during Team.
But here are the top competitors who did do 4 apparatus.
56.698: Rebeca Andrade🇧🇷
55.833: Jordan Chiles🇺🇸
55.166: Ellie Black🇨🇦
53.632: Alice Kinsella🇬🇧
52.432: Martina Maggio🇮🇹
Ukrainian gymnasts in the dark
A timely reminder of why gymnasts from Russia and Belarus were banned from the Liverpool Worlds.
Putin is bombing Ukraine’s power grid, causing grief and suffering for civilians.
IOC should announce what date Russia will be banned from the Paris Olympics, unless Putin’s war is ended.
bribing Gymnastics Media 😀
If you find coverage of the Women’s Team Final more positive and less coherent, I’m NOT claiming it’s because of todays excellent free media luncheon with open Bar.
That would be FAKE NEWS. 😀
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