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Will and Sam Road To Rio

British gymnasts Sam Oldham and Will Trood have just launched a new YouTube channel where they will be posting videos of their training as they aim for the Rio Olympics: http://www.youtube.com/user/WillAndSamRoadToRio

Watch their intro video:

Legendre Doing Quad Twisting Double Layout

Great attempt into the pit. He must be one of the most powerful tumblers ever.

Crazy New Combo From Deurloo!

Hold onto your seat this will blow your mind!



That crazy combo is worth a whopping 2.3 in difficulty: Half tak (D) - Kolman (F) - Kovacs (D) - Kovacs half (D) = 1.8 + 0.5 connection.

Draw For Rhythmic Worlds Completed

The draw for Rhythmic worlds was held recently in Kiev:

LAUSANNE (SUI), FIG Office, June 24, 2013: The drawing of lots that determines the starting order for the competitions of the 32nd FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships was carried out in the host city Kiev (UKR) on June 12. Some 300 gymnasts representing 59 countries are registered for the event that will take place from August 28 – September 1, 2013, at Kiev’s Sports Palace.

http://217.158.112.230/vsite/vcontent/content/news/0,10869,5187-191774-208997-44545-318263-news-item,00.html

 

View the draw here: http://fig2.lx2.sportcentric.com/system/files/6717/original/Drawing_of_Lots_Kiev_2013.pdf?1372058329

USA National Team Camp Training Videos

USA Gymnastics has posted a couple of training videos from the national team camp at the Karolyi ranch including some impressive tumbling from Brenna Dowell:





This is really great for fans and hopefully they post some more.

Lauren Mitchell News Alert

Lauren Mitchell appeared in a news story recently as she takes part in a charity run to raise money and awareness for lung disease



Get more gymnastics news on Moss News.

The Story of Shun Fujimoto

Watch one of the most legendary stories of Olympic gymnastics:

1980 Olympic Gymnastics Documentary

Relive the action from 33 years ago. It is amazing to see how much the sport has changed. also, I didn't realise the Roche vault was so old, but his attempt there was a little scary.

Click Play or Watch it on YouTube

Damien Walters Interview

Damien Walters talks about how he went from being a top tumbler to working as a stuntman.

College Gymnastics Back In The Day

See what college gymnastics looked like 60 years ago. Although I can't imagine how hard the landings must have been back then.



Did he say they 'Twittered' the girls?? Wow, Twitter has been around longer than I thought.

Nina McGhee's Amazing Comeback From Injury

Nina McGhee spent years competing in constant pain before learning she had broken shin bones. Her stress fractures had been there so long, the bone around them had died. Before she could make a comeback, she had to make up her mind.

http://www.app.com/VideoNetwork/2282399024001/Gymnast-goes-from-injury-to-inspiration?nclick_check=1

Gymnastics moves into top tier for IOC funding:

2016 Rankings

Group A.

Aquatics, athletics, gymnastics.

Group B

Basketball, cycling, football, tennis, volleyball.

Group C

Archery, badminton, boxing, judo, rowing, shooting, table tennis, weightlifting.

Group D

Canoe/kayak, equestrian, fencing, handball, hockey, sailing, taekwondo, triathlon, wrestling.

Group E

Modern pentathlon, golf, rugby.

http://au.eurosport.com/athletics/gymnastics-and-aquatics-join-athletics-in-main-funding-billing_sto3778718/story.shtml

Based on the 2012 funding this could mean around an extra $25 million for gymnastics. But to be honest, who knows how this funding is used.

Russian Festival of Street Gymnastics

Street gymnastics seems to be quite popular in Russia and you can find many videos of Russians doing high bar on playground bars. They recently held a festival of street gymnastics in Moscow which you can watch below:

More GSP Gymnastics

GSP is back in the gym doing some gymnastics training. Here is his latest video:

Beyond the Routine: John Geddert

A side of John Geddert that we haven't seen before. Oh dear!

Hopefully we don't see it again either.

http://www.gymnastike.org/coverage/250702-Beyond-the-Routine/video/710895-BTR-Outtake-John-Geddert-Can-Sing

Gymnastics Motivation Quotes

Tunegym provides motivation quotes and posters. My personal favourite is this one:



They should also make a WAG one with Chusovitina which you can point to whenever a 21 year old says they are old.

Click here to go to Tunegym

(via Gymnastics Coaching)

Lyubov Burda and Hidenori Fugati

Learn about a couple of lesser known inductees into the hall of fame:

Lyubov Burda competed for the gold medal winning Soviet Union team at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics



Hidenori Fugati is a philanthropist and former president of Aeon and has been the president of the Asian Gymnastics Union, the Japanese Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation and the Japanese Gymnastics Association

GWS Giants Do Gymnastics

The GWS Giants are a professional sports team in Australian Football based in Sydney. They have recently been incorporating gymnastics into their training as a method of injury prevention:



I think this is a great move and hope we see more of it in the future. Gymnastics has a lot of potential in many sports as it builds great co-ordination, balance and agility. The upper body strength from men's gymnastics would also be a great training aid for sports involving upper body strength as it is much more functional than doing weights and also develops muscle stabilisers which can be great in injury prevention. The flexibility side could also have a great benefit in reducing injuries. I can certainly see gymnastics being incorporated more by many high level athletes in the future.

Discuss on the Australian Gymnastics Forum

Professional Gymnastics Challenge Review

After watching Evolution I was really excited about this format, but this time the Professional Gymnastics Challenge left me a bit disappointed. I still like the format, but ESPN gets a fail for the coverage. This time the meet just didn't flow, camera angles were terrible and the music just didn't fit. Unlike Evolution where skills just flowed from one to the next and it built drama and excitement, this time there were large breaks between skills, there were too many interviews and ESPN decided to do various segments in the middle of events which just broke the flow of the meet. These might work if you do them at half time or at some appropriate break in the meet, but having them halfway through an event was just stupid. The music was also a big fail. It seemed ill thought out and didn't match the skills being tried and at times it was just distracting. Having enjoyed the Evolution event so much I do hope to see this format again, but hopefully next time ESPN can deliver better coverage.

Professional Gymnastics Challenge

You can now watch Part 1 here

Rhythmic Gymnastics Montage

Click play or watch it on YouTube

The Australian Gymnastics Forum is Back

After a few years of inactivity the Australian Gymnastics Forum has been relaunched. The new address is: http://ozgym.supersportsforums.net/.

As We Wait For The Pro Gym Challenge, Let's Watch Evolution

With the Pro Gym Challenge set to air on ESPN tomorrow (and hopefully it will appear on YouTube soon for people like me who don't get the US version of ESPN) I thought it would be good to have a look at the predecessor which was called Evolution. The Pro Gym Challenge have put up a version of Evolution on their YouTube account which you can watch below. Unfortunately the videos seem to stop right before the end so we don't get to find out who won, but nevertheless it was really good to watch. I wasn't sure how this format would work as previously all I knew is that it was skill-for-skill, but with no idea how it would be scored. However, it turned out to be really good. The way it works is that one team gets to choose a skill to do and gets someone to perform it, the other team then has to perform the same skill and the team that does it best gets a point and also gets to choose the next skill. At the end of each apparatus the winner for that apparatus was the team with the most points. It looks like the final winner was decided as the team that won the most apparatus, although the videos don't show the ending. Personally I think it would have been better to accumulate the scores over all events (like in the all-around), nevertheless the scoring still worked quite well, although it could easily lead to 'dead' events if one team gets enough points before the final event. With the inclusion of the rope climb there were 6 events, so once a team gets to 4 they would be unbeatable making any remaining events meaningless. However, it was really good that they showed the scores in the corner of the screen and this is something that should be adopted for more competitions.

Overall, the competition was easy to follow and you could see exactly how each team was going, each skill had meaning and you could see how it contributed to the score. The competition also flowed really well as there wasn't a lot of waiting around for the judges. It was also quite exciting seeing what skills the gymnasts could come up with and to see if the other team could match it.

Evolution also had a few apparatus that are not normally seen. These included the single rail for women's bars (to make it more like men's high bar) and the rope climb. The single rail was cool, but the rope climb was a bit silly and hopefully it doesn't hang around. The competition attire was much also better than in a normal competition, especially for the men, who badly need to get rid of leotards.

The biggest con of the event was the time. Although the YouTube videos go for approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes, the actual competition took nearly 4 hours. It sounds like part of the problem was the need to change the apparatus after every event, so the setup might need some tweaking. You could also reduce the time taken by reducing the number of skills per event. I think 1.5 to 2 hours would be the ideal length and certainly it should not be longer than 2 hours.

I'm a bit undecided on the music that was playing. Many competitions have background music playing that just doesn't fit with the gymnastics being performed and often detracts from the competition (sometimes it is so bad I even have to hit mute), but in Evolution it actually worked quite well and complemented many of the skills being performed. On the other hand I love it when the crowd gets involved and roars when someone hits a routine or gasps during a release move, so I think the atmosphere could be worked on to allow for the crowd noise to really contribute to the competition.

The bigger question is how can this format integrate into the gymnastics calendar. Overall there is probably plenty of room in the year for such a format as gymnastics fans are starved of good competitions to watch and outside the top few gymnasts in the world there really aren't enough competitions for the gymnasts to participate in, with the exception being NCAA gymnasts, so it would be great to see more competition opportunities appear. Maybe we could look to cricket which has 3 different formats which it manages to integrate into it's calendar. Could a skill-for-skill format work like the IPL where a month or two is dedicated to this format? This format would certainly work well in a 'league' format where each team gets to compete against all the other teams in the league.

Nemov stars in Mercedes Commercial

Nemov stars in a new ad for Mercedes alongside figure skating champion Evgenyi Plushchenko.

Gymnastics Documentary - Poetry in Motion

This is an old documentary about the former Australian head coach Ju Ping and how she took the Australian women up the rankings in gymnastics. It is an interesting insight into the old AIS program which sadly no longer exists.

Broken Gymnasts

I just stumbled across an interesting short film featuring some Australian gymnasts called Broken Gymnasts:

University of Utah Campus Connection

A collection of Campus Connection segments which take you behind the scenes with the University of Utah:

Aly Raisman: Quest For Gold Documentary

A documentary from Comcast SportsNet which filmed Aly for nine months leading up to the 2012 Olympic Trials.

Manjaks Gymnastics

The coach of 2004 Olympic gold medalist has just opened up a new gym in Canada. Here is a promo video for the gym. It looks like an amazing facility.

I look forward to seeing some amazing gymnasts from this gym in the future.

Lauren Mitchell Update

A short news report on Lauren Mitchell. She is still recovering from shoulder surgery, but hopes to get back to full fitness. The great news is she is still considering Rio, which will be great for the sport in Australia and will also hopefully encourage more Aussies to have longer careers as we are now seeing many female gymnasts from other countries continuing until their late 20's, making Lauren, at 21, still very young.

Uchimura's Incredible New High Bar Routine

From All Japan Championships.

7.0 D-score, including insane half-Takamoto-Kolman connection and triple double dismount!



I also noted that he did a 6.0 vault on day 1. I wonder which one that would have been. Yurchenko triple twist maybe?

Tyson Bull Raising the Bar

As the Aussie men push for higher difficulty Tyson Bull has just raised the bar even more with this incredible combo of Cassina immediate Kolman:



Also check out his Cassina-kovacs:

Ri Se Gwang Feature From North Korean TV

It's not often that we hear anything out of North Korea, but here is a TV feature on insane vaulter Ri Se Gwang. It's in Korean and doesn't have subtitles, but you do get to see some scenes of him training, although it does look more like podium training from a competition rather than a training gym.

Gymnastics in Parliament

It's not often the gymnastics is mentioned in Parliament, but here it is being used as part of an example to promote the cause of regional Australia:

WAG Vault Guide

MostepanovaFan has another great video. This time showing the values of many vaults from the WAG code:

Meet the Gym Dog

You might think he's from Georgia, but no, he's part of the Utah Utes.

Behind the scenes at a Rhythmic gymnastics club

Unfortunately most artistic gymnasts have little exposure to rhythmic gymnastics as most gyms don't include a rhythmic program. So, it is great to have a look at what it is like at a Rhythmic club:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbhnIC3pMxA

Uchimura Becomes a Dad

IG has just reported that gymnastics legend Uchimura and his wife have just announced the birth of a daughter

World and Olympic all-around champion Kohei Uchimura is enjoying life as a new dad. The gymnastics superstar revealed his daughter was born April 19. "She is very cute," he told media Thursday, describing himself as a "doting dad." Uchimura, who declined to share his daughter's name, was married last fall to a former gymnast.

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McNeill Steps Down a Cal Head Coach

After taking an unexplained leave of absence from Cal this season, McNeill has now decided to step down as head coach. He will have back surgery before trying to return to elite level coaching.

BERKELEY - Tim McNeill, who has served as Cal's head men's gymnastics coach for the past three seasons, is leaving his position with the University. McNeill plans to undergo back surgery and, following a period of rehabilitation, expects to return to a career in coaching elite gymnastics.

http://www.calbears.com/sports/m-gym/spec-rel/050913aaa.html

After a great elite career where he was close to making to 2008 Olympic team and had great showing at the 2009 Worlds his own career took a back seat in order to keep the Cal NCAA program alive. It was then a big surprise when he went on leave earlier this year and left assistant coach Colin Christ at the helm, leaving many questions as to why. Hopefully some more details emerge soon to clear things up.

Ruggeri Kolman on Uneven Bars

Another Uneven Bars attempt from Paul Ruggeri. He almost made it, although I'm not sure he could do it with the 2nd bar there.

I'm still waiting to see a kovacs competed on Uneven Bars.

Aly Raisman DWTS Interview

An interview from the US version of Dancing with the Stars.

She hopes the show will help her create a better floor routine:

Grandi's Guide to Waffling

FIG president Bruno Grandi has just released his latest letter from the President.

http://www.fig-gymnastics.com/vsite/vcontent/content/transnews/0,10869,5187-187975-19728-49291-318084-20935-5233-layout210-205197-news-item,00.html

But, to be honest it is kind of hard to work out what he is trying to say. In about 800 words he waffles over a couple of random thoughts but doesn't really say anything. Actually no, he does (poorly) say one thing in a very roundabout way. Basically he is saying, the code of points is not very good, so don't base your training on it.

Great work Bruno!

Meet of the Week

The 1992 Hilton Superstars of Gymnastics. Well, not really a meet, but a show. But it's still worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2czS6K1-KKo

Roblox Gymnastics

Roblox:

User-generated MMO gaming site for kids, teens, and adults. Players architect their own worlds. Builders create free online games that simulate the real world.

Watch the video to see gymnastics in the Roblox world:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcJwCYLBliY

Wade Petersen in the Narcoleptic Gymnast

Former Australian gymnast, Wade Petersen, who also performed in Cirque Du Soleil stars as coach Serge Bielnikov in the short film "The Narcoleptic Gymnast":

New Combination for Wiwatowski

After failing to reach the top 16 in 2011, the Aussie men are making a big push to increase their difficulty levels.

Watch Luke Wiwatowski work on a big new combination on high bar

The Victorian High Performance centre has also posted a few videos of new skills from a range of levels:

http://www.youtube.com/user/VWHPC?feature=watch

Twisters Gymnastics

A look at the Twisters gymnastics club in Vancouver, Canada:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KS9qFKVtdk

Yana Kudryavtseva Wins Rhythmic World Cup

Russia's Yana Kudryavtseva won the recent Rhythmic World Cup in Sofia, Bulgaria, ahead of hometown girl Miteva. Russia's Margarita Mamun took 3rd.

1 Yana KUDRYAVTSEVA RUS 16.900 18.600 18.050 18.600 72.150
2 Silviya MITEVA BUL 17.650 18.150 17.900 17.850 71.550
3 Margarita MAMUN RUS 17.700 18.350 17.350 18.000 71.400

View Complete Results

Watch Miteva's ribbon

Massachusetts Reviews Decision To Drop Boys' Gymnastics

A few months ago there was much dismay as Massachusetts decided to drop boys' gymnastics as a high school sport, leaving only a handful of states offering boys gymnastics. But now some of the coaches have been able to get decision reviewed:

Richard Ellis, coach of the Braintree High School boys gymnastics team, and Braintree Athletic Director Michael Denise, presented evidence in support of the sport to the MIAA Executive Board. In an email to Braintree Patch, Ellis said both "gave compelling reasons to secure the recognition in the Commonwealth."

http://attleboro.patch.com/articles/miaa-to-revisit-decision-to-drop-boys-gymnastics-d75cffd6

The review will occur on June 6.

Interviews with Abie Grossfeld

Abie was a dual-Olympian for the US in 1956 and 1960. He has also coached many top US gymnasts from the 60's through to the 80's.

In an interview with Tom Pace he discusses how different gymnastics was back in his time:
http://youtu.be/iI21uDNUHnQ


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvHcRpXRplE


Watch him in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LOV3WHjIU


See all the videos from the interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl4dJsQT5T0&playnext=1&list=PLdDelfjAHNC78GByT_DZCAzlKFWWeVPL5&feature=results_main

Florida Gators Win Fueled By 2012

A video about their lead-up to their first win at the 2013 NCAA's

Watch below or on YouTube

Utah Utes 2013 Season Montage

Watch below or on YouTube

Epke Zonderland Performs for the King

Epke Zonderland performed a high bar routine during the crowning of the new Dutch King in Amsterdam. It wasn't his full routine, but it was amazing considering the setup.



Click here to see his routine:

http://www.telegraaf.nl/telesport/21527876/__Zonderland_verrast_koning__.html

Georgia GymDogs Season Review

The GymDogs have put together a great video recapping their 2013 Season:

Alabama Women's Gymnastics

Behind the scenes at 'bama:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCYjR3S_RGI

More Than A Sport Gymnastics Documentary

This is a great amateur documentary about some UK gymnasts.

A film made by Alyssa Patel. This is a short fly on the wall documentary looking into the sport of Gymnastics. It focuses on 3 elite gymnasts that train at the Dynamo School of Gymnastics: Laura Edwards, Kelly Simm and Casey Spry.

Why Do Kids Drop Out of Gymnastics?

British Gymnastics has just conducted a study to find the answer to this question. Overall the findings are what one would expect:

Found it ‘boring/repetitive’ – a lot of people said it became boring partly due to waiting around and partly due to repeating the same sort of warm-up or activities in each session. “More time doing actual gymnastics, less warm-up and standing around” “They just did the same thing every week and the classes were very big so it was on a sort of a circuit. So I could see they were getting a bit bored when it was the same thing each week”

http://gymnasticscoaching.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Website-dropout-research.pdf

Of course, this does provide the challenge to coaches to make classes more interesting for the gymnasts while still developing the required skill, which can be quite difficult.

Jair Lynch Gets Skill Named After Him ... After 20 Years

One of the big trends in men's gymnastics at the moment is the Tkatchev half turn. In the code the layout Tkatchev half is known as the Moznik:



But the straddle Tkatchev half is merely a side note. But over 20 years after it was first performed someone has finally discovered who first performed it. Turns out it was 1996 Olympic silver medalist Jair Lynch

The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) recently approved naming a horizontal bar flight element after the USA's Jair Lynch, who won the silver medal on the parallel bars at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and is currently a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee's Board of Directors. Lynch was the first gymnast to compete the skill at an official FIG competition, having performed what is now known as the "Lynch" as far back as the 1992 season, and the skill is included in the FIG's 2013-16 Code of Points for Men's Artistic Gymnastics.

https://usagym.org/pages/post.html?PostID=11910&prog=pb

MAG Europeans All-Around Coverage

The MAG version is now available:

WAG Europeans All-Around Final

The full coverage is available (Russian version):

WAG NCAA Podium Training

Gymnastike are helping to build excitement for the WAG NCAA's with some great videos and interviews from podium training.

Watch more video of 2013 NCAA Women's Championships on gymnastike.org

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Watch more video of 2013 NCAA Women's Championships on gymnastike.org

NCAA Men's Previews

Here are a number of interviews with the coach of the NCAA qualifiers

Europeans WAG Day 1

As many predicted Iordache topped qualifications on day 1, but Mustafina had 2 falls and fell to 4th. But finals starts from scratch, so it could still be a tight battle.

1. Larisa Iordache 14.766 12.966 15.066 14.400 57.198 Q 2. Diana Bulimar 14.833 12.700 14.366 14.233 56.132 Q 3. Anastasia Grishina 14.833 13.566 13.400 14.266 56.065 Q 4. Aliya Mustafina 15.066 15.025 11.666 14.300 56.057 Q 5. Ksenia Afanasyeva 14.900 12.466 13.100 14.633 55.099 6. Roxana Popa 14.566 13.633 13.166 13.700 55.065 Q 7. Ruby Harrold 13.833 14.133 13.433 13.400 54.799 Q 8. Elisa Meneghini 14.016 13.800 14.033 12.933 54.782 Q 9. Giulia Steingruber 15.300 12.466 13.033 13.933 54.732 Q 10. Giorgia Campana 13.500 14.066 14.033 12.700 54.299 Q 11. Ana Filipa Martins 13.333 13.466 13.200 13.100 53.099 Q 12. Maria Paula Vargas 14.000 12.933 12.966 13.133 53.032 Q 13. Dorina Böczögö 13.800 13.166 12.633 13.133 52.732 Q 14. Noémi Makra 14.133 13.500 11.833 13.233 52.699 Q 15. Charlie Fellows 13.900 13.100 13.200 12.366 52.566 Q 16. Noël van Klaveren 14.866 13.000 11.566 12.633 52.065 Q 17. Lisa Katharina Hill 12.966 13.933 12.100 12.966 51.965 Q 18. Ilaria Käslin 13.300 12.633 12.933 12.633 51.499 Q 19. Jana Šikulová 13.633 13.833 11.600 12.066 51.132 Q 20. Olena Vasilyeva 13.733 13.200 13.600 10.400 50.933 Q 21. Lisa Ecker 13.733 12.400 12.300 12.433 50.866 Q 22. Ida Gustafsson 13.866 14.066 10.800 11.966 50.698 Q 23. Cagla Akyol 13.600 11.233 12.900 12.766 50.499 Q 24. Angelina Kysla 13.733 12.066 11.633 13.000 50.432 Q 25. Laura Schulte 13.800 12.250 11.633 12.700 50.383 26. Elisa Hämmerle 14.000 12.666 11.866 11.833 50.365 Q

UCLA WAG Highlights

A great highlight video from UCLA:

Workout Wednesday with the Michigan Men

Just in time for NCAA's here is the latest in Gymnastike great segment, Workout Wednesday:

Watch on Gymnastike: http://www.gymnastike.org/coverage/238390-Workout-Wednesday-Season-5/video/706005-Workout-Wednesday-with-the-3-Ranked-2013-Michigan-Men

Watch more video of Workout Wednesday, Season 5 on gymnastike.org

Europeans Day 1

With no team competition Max Whitlock topped the all-around standings on day 1. Although he was only a hair ahead of favourite Verniaiev. It was also notable with the lack of Germans in the top 10 after the retirement of Boy and Nguyen and Hambuchen not doing the all-around.

1 WHITLOCK Max 89.365 Q GBR 364 15.466 15.533 14.433 14.933 14.800 14.200
2 VERNIAIEV Oleg 89.331 Q UKR 455 14.600 15.066 14.833 15.066 15.566 14.200
3 BELYAVSKIY David 88.265 Q RUS 433 15.433 15.000 14.366 13.900 15.066 14.500
4 STEPKO Oleg 88.224 Q UKR 456 15.125 14.333 14.800 14.533 15.700 13.733
5 WILLIG Arnaud 86.623 Q FRA 356 14.400 14.533 14.350 14.266 14.708 14.366
6 GONZALEZ Fabian 86.057 Q ESP 349 14.966 13.600 13.666 14.800 14.500 14.525
7 IGNATYEV Nikita 85.364 Q RUS 436 14.333 14.166 15.066 13.766 14.733 13.300
8 PURVIS Daniel 84.966 Q GBR 362 15.100 13.100 14.566 14.800 13.900 13.500
9 PRINCIPI Paolo 84.598 Q ITA 395 14.633 13.766 13.966 14.200 13.500 14.533
10 AUGUGLIARO Guillaume 84.565 Q FRA 360 13.166 14.000 14.433 14.200 14.433 14.333
11 BYKAU Artsiom 84.265 Q BLR 321 13.933 14.300 14.633 14.200 13.466 13.733
12 BATAGA Cristian Ioan 83.731 Q ROU 427 14.600 13.933 14.166 14.166 14.133 12.733
13 TOBA Andreas 83.723 Q GER 373 13.666 14.233 14.191 14.833 13.300 13.500
14 DAVTYAN Artur 83.165 Q ARM 304 14.133 13.800 13.166 14.833 14.033 13.200
15 EDALLI Ludovico 82.515 Q ITA 394 14.200 12.600 13.833 13.933 13.833 14.116
16 CAPELLI Claudio 81.998 Q SUI 441 14.933 11.600 13.133 13.500 14.866 13.966
17 VERBAEYS Jimmy 81.672 Q BEL 316 14.066 12.200 13.433 14.166 13.841 13.966
18 SOGHOMONYAN Serob 81.665 Q ARM 303 13.666 13.000 13.400 14.100 14.033 13.466
19 BARKALAU Dzmitry 81.447 Q BLR 322 14.166 11.266 13.700 14.266 13.583 14.466
20 LOPEZ Ruben 81.255 Q ESP 348 14.666 11.633 14.608 14.816 12.766 12.766
21 KENIS Daan 81.147 Q BEL 317 13.700 12.366 12.566 14.283 14.166 14.066
22 TALAS Bence 81.064 Q HUN 379 13.433 13.866 13.533 13.933 13.466 12.833
23 ARICAN Ferhat 80.981 Q TUR 450 14.000 13.600 13.416 13.866 13.766 12.333
24 RACZ Attila 80.931 Q HUN 380 13.533 13.000 14.133 13.266 13.466 13.533

Full Results: http://www.longinestiming.com/File/Download?id=00000C000000000000FFFFFFFFFFFF04

Here is Max's thoughts on his day:



There is also a livestream for the finals: http://eurovision.digotel.com/ueg/index.html

Although it does say available to European viewers, so I'm not sure if it will work for those of us outside of Europe. We may need a proxy server otherwise.

It's sure looking like a busy weekend of sport, with Europeans and NCAA championships.

Original Beam Mount

I love originality, and this is one of the coolest beam mounts I have ever seen

On Campus With Mikulak

Some behind the scenes with Sam Mikulak

How Real Men Do Weights

Part of a cool series by Damien Walters and Tim Shieff

Mikulak Interview

Sam Mikulak talks about Big 10's and his prepation for NCAA's

Watch more videos on Gymnastike

Kohei Uchimura Documentary

Here is a documentary on one of the greatest athletes in the world. It was made back in 2010, but has now had english subtitles made:

Live Video for Men's NCAA Championships

Live video for next week's men's NCAA championships, held at Penn State, will be on the Penn State website: http://www.gopsusports.com/sports/m-gym/spec-rel/13-gym-ncaa-championships.html You will be able to click on the live video links once the competition commences.

Stanford Blog

Some of the Stanford men's gymnastics team have been blogging from their trip to Norway which they just finsihed

Near the end of the workout, our team and the Norwegians had a ring strength contest, where people on both teams had to hold an iron cross for as long as they could. Our team was led by ringmen James Fosco and Dennis Zaremski, while the Norwegians had quite a collection of guys that could do crosses, including a 45 year old coach. I (Sean) was quite jealous, as I am still unable to pull that off. In the end, Stanford was able to capture the victory!

Spring Break Norway: Blog Nine

Meet of the Week: 1993 Winter Cup

1993 was a time of big change in gymnastics. ROV - risk, originality and virtuosity had just been eliminated and the gymnasts had to get used to a different mindset. I found this competition immensely interesting. There were a number of big names, some at the beginning of their career, some towards the end. Nobody really understood this code at the time and the major trends had yet to emerge, and there was also a great battle for 1st.

Singapore National Championships

Here is a quick highlight video from the Singapore nationals:

NCAA: Looking back

With the finals for the NCAA just around the corner, it is a good time to look back at some previous NCAA championships. Let's go back to 1992. Back then they only had 3 teams in the final, whereas these days they have 6 teams. Personally I prefer 3 teams as it makes the competition easier to follow and has more drama. As a spectator you can't really follow 6 teams at once. However, not everyone agrees. Some feel that 6 has more energy as you have fans from more teams cheering. Anyway, have a look at the competition and judge for yourself.

The Inspirational Ted Brown

I hadn't heard of Ted Brown until recently, but have just stumbled across this video which details his inspirational story.