Viktoria Listunova leads in Russia

In the qualification round:

  1. Viktoria Listunova
  2. Vladislava Urazova
  3. Yana Vorona
  4. Angelina Melnikova
  5. Lilia Akhaimova
  6. Elena Gerasimova
  7. Maria Minaeva
  8. Angelina Simakova

I didn’t post scores as Russian numbers are about as accurate as Valentina’s media comments. 😀

Click PLAY or watch her lovely FX on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/intlgymnast/status/1370049304694566917

NCAA gymnasts extra year

Due to COVID, Seniors in 2021 could come back for an extra season.

SOME are starting to announce. Sydney Soloski at Utah, for example.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

2021 Nissen-Emery nominees

Andrew Bitner, Bennet Huang, Blake Sun, Brennan Pantazis, Cameron Bock, Danny Graham, Gage Dyer, Griffin Kehler, Matt Wenske, Sean Neighbarager, & Shane Wiskus.

William & Mary Gymnastics permanently reinstated

Great news.

William & Mary announces men’s track and field, swimming and gymnastics are permanently reinstated

Interim athletic director Jeremy Martin, who replaced Samantha Huge after her resignation in October over the uproar created by the proposed elimination of the seven sports, followed Rowe’s announcement with a letter underscoring the fundraising success allowing W&M’s 23-sport roster to remain intact. …

Chellsie – 1st Double Fronts in 8 years

Like riding a bike.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

catching up with Thema Williams

I hadn’t seen Thema since that unfortunate competition — the Rio Test Meet.

She was trying to qualify Trinidad and Tobago to the Rio Olympics.

Recall her coach on the floor — John Geddert — wasn’t happy with podium training. Trinidad replaced him and Thema with another gymnast, last moment.

I was there. Very impressed with Thema in podium training, as usual. She has fantastic physical ability.

Thema’s now age-25.

She’s featured in Olympic Channel’s HER GAME series.

Click over to watch the video. Inspiring.

https://twitter.com/gymnastics/status/1369625243896135680

Dalaloyan leads Russian Championships

Artur Dalaloyan, the 2018 World AA champion and the 2019 World AA silver medalist, predictably took the lead in the competition today with 85.331 …

Dalaloyan was only slightly over 0.1 ahead of the rising star of the Russian team Aleksandr Kartsev (85.198). Nineteen-year-old Kartsev made his senior debut in 2019 and went to a couple of World Cups but wasn’t yet able to break onto major teams.  …

David Belyavskiy finished third with 83.198. 

gymnovosti

Ivan Stretovich didn’t compete due to injury. Nagornyy withdrew due to fever.

Click PLAY or watch Kartsev’s Pommels on YouTube.

Lexy Ramler – Bars

On GymCastic this week, Jessica and Spencer said they felt every other gymnast had to be compared against Lexy Ramler for form — before they could be awarded a 10.

Whyte Review Interim Report

Today’s admission that 390 submissions have been made to the Whyte Review confirms the scale of the problem in gymnastics and comes as a surprise to nobody involved in the sport in Britain. …

Submissions to the review cover over 90 clubs and 100 coaches …

Gymnasts For Change

Read the interim report as posted by Anne Whyte.

She hopes to publish the final report by end of August 2021. After the Olympics.