Sloane Blakely training Nabieva

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Cal Seniors video

Great season. Great meet.

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more selfies from Stuttgart

Love it.

Russia, Germany … Japan

1 RUSSIAN FEDERATION 170,995 points
2 GERMANY 1 168,162 points
3 JAPAN 168,065 points

4 BRAZIL 166,263 points
5 ITALY 162,897 points
6 SPAIN 157,897 points

Full results.

my favourite Gymnastics photo … maybe ever

Friendship through sport at the Stuttgart World Cup.

Olympic Charter: “… a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play …”

Thank Cordelia Price for posting it from the live video stream.

Baku World Cup results

Olympic qualification points on the line.

Vault
🥇 Jade Carey USA 14.766
🥈 Oksana Chusovitina UZB 14.450
🥉 Alexa Moreno MEX 14.249

Bars
🥇 Lyu Jiaqi CHN 14.266
🥈 Anastasia Iliankova RUS 14.133
🥉 Georgia-Rose Brown AUS 13.566

Diana Varinska had 13.566 as well, but lost out in the tie-break.

Click PLAY or watch Lyu Jiaqi on Facebook. LOVE the double twist. Surprised at the loose form. And always disappointed in routines where gymnasts switch one hand at a time.

Beam
🥇 Emma Nedov AUS 14.100
🥈 Marine Boyer FRA 14.100
🥉 Mana Oguchi JPN 13.200

Click PLAY or watch Emma’s Beam on Facebook.

Floor
🥇 Jade Carey USA 14.600
🥈 Lara Mori ITA 13.866
🥉 Vanessa Ferrari ITA 13.733

Jade Carey – Floor

Baku Final

1. Jade Carey USA 14.600
2. Lara Mori ITA 13.866
3. Vanessa Ferrari ITA 13.733

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter. No sound, but that’s a good way to evaluate her choreography rather than musicality.

She won Vault, as well. Olympic qualifying points!

Stuttgart World Cup – Simone, Ana, Elisabeth

Simone BILES 58.800
Ana PADURARIU 55.132
Elisabeth SEITZ GER 54.399

All hail the greatest of all time.

Blythe Lawrence reports that the staging of the competition was awesome. Gymnasts entered running through a corridor of local gymnasts with superb lighting and smoke.

Worlds Stuttgart should be even better.

https://twitter.com/thegymterdotnet/status/1107242679354736640

And read Blythe’s LIVE blog.

Note – There is a huge Octoberfest-like festival in Stuttgart concurrent with Worlds. Very little accommodation is available at any price. 😕

dancing for Miss Val

How do you honour everything Valorie Kondos Field has done for UCLA?

Dance flash mob on Senior night!

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To remember her into the future, the FLOOR in Pauley will have her name on it. … I like it.

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