Simone can stick

With plenty of rotation, Simone almost never lands “short”.

BUT I wouldn’t say she’s one of the greats at “sticking” landings. It does happen, however.

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Spanish Olympic gear

Marina González.

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top 10 MAG Olympic medalists

Alexei Nemov ROC
Endo Yukio 🇯🇵
Tsukahara Mitsuo 🇯🇵
Ono Takashi 🇯🇵
Vitaly Scherbo 🇧🇾
Nakayama Akinori 🇯🇵
Viktor Chukarin URS
Boris Shakhlin URS
Nikolay Andrianov URS
Kato Sawao 🇯🇵

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R.I.P. Barbara Tonry

Yale’s Barbara Tonry, the longest-tenured coach in NCAA gymnastics history, has passed away at 84. …

An outstanding athlete in her own right, Tonry (then Gallagher) made the training squad for the 1964 Olympic team in artistic gymnastics. She also won multiple AAU national championships in tumbling and state championships in trampoline, tennis and diving. …

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Simone vs Herself – July 13

This edit starts with her current Floor choreography.

I’d say it’s the best episode so far. Introducing the Yurchenko double pike at the U.S. Classic.

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Giorgia Villa injured

Worst possible timing.

Many are questioning the wisdom of Italy competing on hard surfaces so close to departure for the Olympics.

Angelina’s Olympic prep has changed

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Angelina Romanovna Melnikova talks to the Olympic Channel about her evolution since the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio, she was 16 years old and now 5 years later she finds herself captain of a team of newcomers. She is ready to take on her new responsibilities as a leader to help the younger generation succeed.

Oleg tested positive for meldonium

Oleg says he only once tested positive for the recently banned drug.

But was banned for 4 years.

He’ll appeal the ban.

Meldonium was added to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) list of banned substances effective 1 January 2016 because of evidence of its use by athletes with the intention of enhancing performance. …

 A high prevalence of meldonium use by athletes in sport was demonstrated by the laboratory findings at the Baku 2015 European Games. 13 medallists or competition winners were taking meldonium at the time …

Meldonium use was detected in athletes competing in 15 of the 21 sports …

Most of the athletes taking meldonium withheld the information of their use from anti-doping authorities by not declaring it on their doping control forms as they should have. Only 23 of the 662 (3.5%) athletes tested declared the personal use of meldonium. However, 66 of the total 762 (8.7%) of athlete urine samples analysed during the Games and during pre-competition tested positive for meldonium. …