South American Games MAG results

Konner out of Worlds trials

We hate injuries.

Woodward drops Gymnastics & Cheer

Damn.

I loved my weeks coaching at Woodward West.

Recall a company called the Powdr Corporation purchased Woodward in 2011.

I suspect this has everything to do with sexual misconduct lawsuits against coaches, including Nathaniel Singer in 2022.

Announcement:

We have made the difficult decision to discontinue gymnastics and cheer programming at all Woodward locations, including Woodward Pennsylvania and Woodward West Camps.  …

For those of you looking for other camp options, we would encourage you to reach out International Gymnastics Camp (IGC) or Flip Fest …

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Woodward West

USA MAG Worlds Trial day 2

Donnell Whittenburg and Brody Malone already qualified for Worlds.

WHO will be selected for the other 3 competition spots. Plus traveling alternate.

Day 2 AA results were not all that great:

1. Shane Wiskus 82.900
2. Colt Walker 82.800
3. Yul Moldauer 82.700
4. Asher Hong 81.500

USA has a chance at top 3 teams in Liverpool. Therefore they should be taking chances to try to finish 3rd, not 4th. TOP THREE automatically qualify to Olympics Paris.

Kensley Behel was on site for GymCastic. LIVE tweeting @kensleyanne. Kensley will be at Worlds, as well.

PREDICTIONS:

The team is weak on Pommels and H Bar. The defending World Champion likely earned his spot with this set today.

Spencer’s LIVE blog

Lauren’s LIVE blog

Becky Downie & Danusia Francis LIVE

I’ll be attending the GymCastic LIVE show at Worlds Liverpool 8:00pm local (GMT+1/1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern) on November 5th, 2022.

Tickets went on sale today.

If you won’t be in Liverpool, you can attend virtually for $25.

No doubt we’ll see additional surprise guests make an appearance.

Brazil coach sentenced to 109 years

A former coach of Brazil’s national gymnastics team …

… Fernando de Carvalho Lopes was sentenced to 109 years and eight months in prison on Monday …

He was found guilty of assaulting four athletes, including a minor aged 13 at the time, according to Globo Esporte, which did not specify the age of other gymnasts.

Carvalho Lopes can still appeal the decision …

He faces further accusations: four years ago, about 40 athletes claimed to the Globo TV channel that they had been victims of psychological, physical or sexual abuse. …

Today Online

NCAA “name, image, likeness”

Sponsors like female gymnasts.

related – What is NIL?: Everything you need to know about the NCAA and name, image and likeness

Kaylia Nemour 6.95 E-score

Many were surprised at this evaluation for Kaylia’s awesome Bars routine.

Aside from the great SAVE on one regrasp, most of the deductions were for handstand angles, something for which FIG WAG puts far too much importance IMHO.

As a coach, I’d recommend Kaylia switch to straddle cast handstand, used in 2022 by almost every Elite past about age-10.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Asher Hong – Ri Se Gwang

Day 1 of the USA MAG Worlds trials.

All the men at Trials will be named to the team. Biggest decision is which 3 will be named to the competition team alongside Brody Malone and Donnell Whittenburg who already qualified.

The rest will be officially replacement athletes.

Read Spencer’s analysis.