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Are These The Five Chinese Women’s Olympic Team Members? A Wrap-Up of This Weekend’s Chinese Nationals

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The American women’s team isn’t the only gymnastics powerhouse with five out of six returning Olympic veterans trying to make a run for London.  Like the American squad that it battled with for gold in Beijing four years ago, the Chinese team also has five returning members from its historic gold medal winning squad from ...

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Cheng’s Chances

Cheng Sacramone

With so much hype surrounding the American and Russian women’s teams – which have split the last two world team titles and are expected to battle for gold in London – it’s easy to forget that the defending Olympic women’s team champions are still the Chinese.  Perhaps it was the inspiration of a home Olympic ...

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Don’t Be Fooled…A Look At The Real Scores From Qualifications

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What if…   …we took the top three scores only from the top four teams from preliminaries?  After all, that’s exactly what’s going to happen in team finals.  The only difference is each team will have to pick their best three gymnasts BEFORE they compete, rather than retrospectively picking the top three scores out of five on ...

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Women’s Team Qualifications…Themes From The Top Three

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American Rookies Come Through!  The USA faced quite the challenge at these world championships.  This team has suffered numerous recent major injuries to several veterans who would have provided experience, inspiration, and big scores on the world stage: Rebecca Bross, Chellsie Memmel, Mackenzie Caquatto, and Alicia Sacramone…and Shawn Johnson and Bridget Sloan weren’t quite physically ...

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Surprises and Opportunities: The Chinese and Russian Women’s World Teams

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As announcements of the six-member squads for the world championships from various teams around the world continue to trickle in, we get a better and better sense of how the competition in Tokyo might shape up.  The “Big Four” in women’s gymnastics over the past 30 years have been Russia, China, Romania, and the USA.  ...

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Crazy Women’s Team Final Ends In Historic Moment

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Russia wins its first ever women’s world team title.

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Some thoughts on Day 1 of women’s prelims…

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Andy’s thoughts on Day 1 of worlds…women’s prelims.

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Will these six make up China’s women’s world team?

Based on last week’s Chinese nationals, here are the six I am guessing will make up the Chinese women’s world team in Rotterdam.

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Thoughts on some recent events…

Some thoughts on some of the recent events in the gymnastics world, including the Romanian coaching scandal, Samantha Peszek’s comeback, and the women’s Chinese nationals.

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