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The 2019 Summer Universiade will be hosted by Naples, Italy fromΒ 3 – 14 July, 2019.
Universiade (or “World University Games“) is the internationalΒ multi-sport event, organized forΒ universityΒ athletes by theΒ International University Sports FederationΒ (FISU).
ButΒ what is FISU?
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Megan Rapinoe scored the only two goals against France (in France) in the Women’s World Cup quarter-final match, but her glorious goal celebration has already been hailed as an “iconic” moment in soccer and all sports.
A photo of a triumphant Rapinoe with her arms outstretched, a pose she struck after scoring both goals, quickly set Twitter ablaze.“This is one of my favorite sports pictures of the decade,” sports pundit Bill Simmons tweeted, adding that Rapinoe was an “inspiration to [his] daughter.”
Megan was the first out lesbian to pose for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue.
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Vault
1. Kayla DiCello USA 14.166
2. Jennifer Gadirova GBR 14.133
3. Vladislava Urazova RUS 14.116
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Bars
1. Vladislava Urazaova RUS 14.433
2. Viktoria Listunova RUS 14.200
3. Wei Xiaoyuan CHN 13.800
People were generally unimpressed with Bars judging in this final.
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https://twitter.com/russiangymstan/status/1144978610471809026
Junior men are judged out of 8 skills, not 10 as done in Senior. Therefore scores are lower than Senior.
Floor
1. Ryu Sung-hyun KOR 14.166
2. Felix Dolci CAN 14.000
3. Nazar Chepurnyi UKR 13.866
Pommels
1. Takeru Kitazono JPN 13.966
2. Shinnosuke Oka JPN 13.766
3. Edvins Rodevics LAT 13.233
Rings
1. Felix Dolci CAN 13.600
2. Diogo Soares BRA 13.500
3. Yang Haonan CHN 13.475
Unlike the Team / AA day, Olympic Channel did broadcast apparatus finals. Watch day 1 online.
Read the FIG summary post.
Or skip the serious report and click over to Spencer’s take:
I mostly just want to talk about Shinnosuke Oka, who is a cool 16 inches tall and the future king of earth.
Guan Wenli
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Men would call this a Scherbo entry vault.
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GAGE is using the Tumbl Trak T-Trainer.
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The great Kyle Shewfelt won Floor in the Athens Olympics, but no Canadian had won a gold in an Artistic Gymnastics World Championships before FΓ©lix Dolci.
I guess so.
1. David Belyavskiy RUS 85.465
2. Oleg Verniaiev UKR 84.632
3. Vladislav Poliashov RUS 84.464
https://twitter.com/russiangymstan/status/1144999299660615680
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1. Angelina Melnikova RUS 54.498
2. Lorette Charpy FRA 54.166
3. Diana Varinska UKR 52.766
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https://twitter.com/UEGymnastics/status/1144972665809248256
https://twitter.com/russiangymstan/status/1145002851183353856
