Go Oksana.
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Petition for Chusovitina to get the layout front mount named at ‘22 Asian Games pic.twitter.com/vyWvY2SayH
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keeping girls in sport LONGER
A new study suggests that girls who begin participating in sports from the ages of 6 to 9 have higher retention rates than those who begin participating later in life.
These findings emphasize the importance of targeted retention strategies and supportive sport environments for adolescent girls and women.
Canadian Sport Information Resource Centre
Start young. But keep the main emphasis on FUN and FITNESS, not performance.
Sanne. Be. Crazy.
It’s much harder to counter rotate out of Free Hip than Sole Circle.
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over 10,000 fans at Arkansas
During a pandemic
I volunteer to negotiate Jordyn Wieber‘s next coaching contract. 😀
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197.775 Utah – Oklahoma 196.650
It’s going to be a very competitive season. 😇
Kohei plans on the AA March 12th
… he intends one last hurrah – an exhibition in March during which he will take on all six apparatus.
“I’ll whip this hurting body through to perform on all of them,” he said with a smile.
“It’ll be tougher than qualifying for Tokyo, and that depresses me a bit, but I want to go out this way.”
Nippon.com
He’s calling that last exhibition THE FINAL.
Others will be joining him including members of the Japanese 2016 Rio and the 2009 Tokyo teams.
Celebrating Kohei Uchimura
Blythe Lawrence:
… back-to-back Olympic all-around golds in 2012 and 2016 (the first man to do so since Sawao Kato in 1972), six consecutive world all-around titles collected between 2009 to 2015 (in a sport where no other man has more than two), and 21 world medals (including individual titles on floor exercise, parallel bars, and horizontal bar.) …
“He’s my hero,” echoed Carlos Yulo, the reigning world champion on vault, who on his best days shares Uchimura’s crystal-clear sense of execution and extreme difficulty.
The Philippines-born 21-year-old, who trains in Japan, credits watching Uchimura compete at the London Olympics as a key moment in his childhood. …
In pursuit of perfection, ‘King’ Kohei created pure art
Music professor Lasse Nettum created an original piece to accompany Uchimura’s horizontal bar routine from the 2011 World Championships.
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related – Magnastics – A History of Uchimura Kohei’s Winning Streak
WOW – Audrey Davis – Bars
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Mikaël Kingsbury dominates Moguls
Mikaël Kingsbury (born July 24, 1992) is a Canadian freestyle skier and the most accomplished mogul skier of all time. …
He will defend his Olympic title in Beijing.
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Joe Tracini revisits Beth Tweddle 😀
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