College Gym News used computer software to predict how the post-season 2025 will go.
Oklahoma had a 57.94% chance of winning Nationals.
LSU 28.53%.
Florida 8.01%.
Check it out here:
Data Deep Dive: Simulating the 2025 Postseason
evaluating March 2025 ‘perfect 10s’
College Gym News – Judge’s Inquiry: Breaking Down March’s Perfect 10s
Article by Rhiannon Franck
In NCAA Gymnastics, some 10s are better than others. 😀
Selena Harris-Miranda on Beam, for example.
Straps Bar on a WAG rail?
Putting safety straps on a traditional Asymmetric Bar has been done — but many have been injured when the the hands stop unexpectedly, and the gymnast keeps swinging. Dangerous.
However … it looks like this club in Australia has taken an old women’s rail. Stripped off the wood laminate. And used it as a straps bar.
The BOUNCE of a WAG rail is a little different than the metal MAG rail normally used as a straps bar. So this could be a good idea.
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Japan wins Men’s DTB Pokal 2025
Spain wins DTB Pokal 2025
Brooklyn Moors – Strong & Beautiful
Is there anyone left who STILL thinks that athletic women can’t be beautiful?
How dumb could they be? 😀
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2025–2028 Olympic Solidarity $650 million
I’ve volunteered many times to lead Olympic Solidarity coaching courses. Those are the BEST, in my opinion, offered through the International Gymnastics Federation.
And education courses are only one of many Solidarity initiatives .
- The IOC redistributes 90 per cent of its revenue to sport worldwide, which means that in the 2021-2024 period, every day the equivalent of USD 4.7 million went to help athletes and sports organisations at all levels around the world. This is up from USD 3.25 million in 2014.
- The budget for the 2025–2028 Olympic Solidarity plan has been increased by 10 per cent to USD 650 million.
DETAILS ➙ Solidarity has been greatly reinforced by the Olympic Agenda
NCAA Conference Championships highlights
The rest of the world is mostly baffled why seeming random teams are competing in “Conferences” — and why anyone cares, aside from bragging rights.
2025 competitions were excellent, however.
Here are a few highlights:
Meet of the Week ➙ ACC Championship ➙ Stanford upsets Cal
Gymnast of the Week ➙ Haleigh Bryant, LSU
Hidden Gem of the Week ➙ Utah State is back!
Also, there were many perfect 10s. And some of those were actually perfect. Under the weird NCAA judging. 😀
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IG Magazine Hall of Fame 2025
Congratulations to the new inductees:
- Beth Tweddle 🇬🇧: Three-time World Champion, and 2012 Olympic bronze medalist on the Uneven Bars.
- 🌟Andreas Wecker 🇩🇪: Four-time Olympic medalist including 1996 Olympic gold on High Bar, and six-time World Championship medalist.
- 🌟Catalina Ponor 🇷🇴: Three-time Olympian 2004, 2012, 2016, and winner of five Olympic medals, including three golds in 2004. (Previously honored in 2022, but was unable to attend the official IGHOF ceremony)
- 🌟Paul Ziert 🇺🇸: Legendary gymnastics coach, entrepreneur and generous philanthropic supporter of numerous gymnastics related causes including the IGHOF.
BAD judging Nebraska v Michigan !
Kensley on the Neutral Deductions podcast, details the absurdly bad judging errors made at the Nebraska vs Michigan competition last weekend.
In one case, a Floor routine was awarded 0.9 too high on the D score.
I was a FIG judge for decades — and can’t imagine how ANY judge could be that far off on Floor.
Kenseley feels Michigan probably would have won the competition, anyway, with competent judging.
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