Florida #1 in preseason poll

  1. Florida (1167 points)
  2. Oklahoma (1152 points)
  3. LSU (1076 points)
  4. Utah (1073 points)
  5. Michigan (1060 points)
  6. Alabama (944 points)
  7. UCLA (943 points)
  8. Denver (919 points)
  9. California (919 points)
  10. Georgia (847 points)

Russia loses in Court of Arbitration

Russia will not be able to use its name, flag and anthem at the next two Olympics or at any world championships for the next two years after a ruling Thursday by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

The Lausanne-based court halved the four-year ban proposed last year by the World Anti-Doping Agency in a landmark case that accused Russia of state-ordered tampering of a testing laboratory database in Moscow. The ruling also blocked Russia from bidding to host major sporting events for two years.

Russian athletes and teams will still be allowed to compete at next year’s Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, as well as world championships …

AP

Europeans preview

BBS – WOMEN’S EUROS PREVIEW

The senior team competition will be a fight between Ukraine and Romania, one will come down exclusively to who has the fewest meltdowns in the team final. …

… Hungary should advance to the team final comfortably and be in compelling position for bronze, though the Czech Republic and an unproven-but-talented Turkish squad will be thinking, “Hey, why the hell not?” …

Click PLAY or watch a podium training montage on Twitter.

Zou Jingyuan training AA

We know Zou Jingyuan as the greatest P Bar competitor of all-time.

But he’s training the AA and has a goal to count on 3 apparatus for team China at the Olympics.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

R.I.P. Pam Collett

Terrible news.

Canadian coach, judge and coach educator Pam Collett died this week. Unexpectedly in her sleep.

Everyone is shocked. Pam was always so full of life.

Photo – Grace Chiu GraceClick

MAG All-Japan AA results

Crazy depth.

  1. Kaya Kazuma 173.764
  2. Kitazono Takeru 173.262 (High School)
  3. Tanigawa Kakeru 173.096
  4. Tanigawa Wataru 173.096
  5. Hashimoto Daiki 171.964
  6. Chiba Kenta 171.429

The brothers exactly tied. No bragging rights.

Full results.

Ferhat Arican – P Bars

Super difficult routine. But he pulled it off.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.