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Remember This? Jiang Yuyuan’s Amanar

Huang Qiushuang has made quite the internet splash since a video of her new Amanar was unveiled online this week: This undoubtedly helps China TREMENDOUSLY. Most fans and experts have been considering China the likely 4th place team in London, primarily due to their lack of Amanars on vault and rather unimpressive performances from multiple Olympic ...
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Tagged 2012 olympics, amanar, andrew thornton, andy thornton blog, Andy's Angle, huang qiushuang, Jiang Yuyuan, yao jinnan
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Are These The Five Chinese Women’s Olympic Team Members? A Wrap-Up of This Weekend’s Chinese Nationals

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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Tagged 2012 chinese national championships, 2012 chinese nationals, andrew thornton, andy thornton blog, Andy's Angle, cheng fei, Deng Linlin, He Kexin, huang huidan, huang qiushuang, Jiang Yuyuan, shang chunsong, Sui Lu, tan sixin, wu liufang, Yang Yilin, yao jinnan
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Cheng’s Chances

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 ...
Don’t Count Out Huang Just Yet…

Huang Qiushuang has a lot to prove over the next eight months. This exquisite Chinese gymnast showed star-like potential the instant she first took to the senior international stage in 2009. With a rare combination of power, artistry, and exquisite lines and balance, the new Chinese sensation was four events deep, and the world immediately took ...
Wieber’s Heroic Comeback…One For The Books!

Well I guess Jordyn Wieber can be emotional after all. After looking at the scoreboard in the final moments of the competition and realizing she had beaten her Russian adversary by just 0.033, the normally stoic American gymnast suddenly burst into tears. Across the floor exercise, a somewhat shocked Komova spilled tears of a different kind, ...
USA Wins It!!!

The team final that most expected would be a tight race between the USA, China, and Russia ended up being a landslide, with the USA easily regaining the world team title it last won in 2007. The Americans were absolutely rock solid and delivered perhaps their best team performance ever under the pressure-filled, three-up-three-count format. The ...
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Tagged Aly Raisman, amelia racea, ana porgras, andrew thornton, andy thornton, andy thornton blog, Andy's Angle, Anna Dementieva, catalina ponor, diana bulimar, diana chelaru, gabby douglas, huang qiushuang, Jiang Yuyuan, jordyn wieber, Ksenia Afanasyeva, mckayla maroney, sabrina vega, sandra izbasa, Sui Lu, tan sixin, tatiana nabieva, viktoria komova, yao jinnan, yulia belokobylskaya, yulia inshina
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Surprises and Opportunities: The Chinese and Russian Women’s World Teams

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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Tagged 2011 world gymnastics championships, andrew thornton, andy thornton, andy thornton blog, Andy's Angle, Anna Dementieva, Anna Pavlova, He Kexin, huang qiushuang, Jiang Yuyuan, Ksenia Afanasyeva, ksenia semenova, mariya paseka, Sui Lu, tan sixin, tatiana nabieva, viktoria komova, wu liufang, yao jinnan, yulia belokobylskaya
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Japan Cup Preview!

Over the last couple of years the Japan Cup, now held in Tokyo, Japan every summer, has become one of the year’s biggest international events. In 2009 the competition was highlighted by exciting team battles on both the men’s and women’s sides; the Japanese men won a shocking at-home upset over the reigning world and ...
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Tagged 2011 japan cup, Alex Naddour, andrew thornton, andy thornton, andy thornton blog, Andy's Angle, cheng fei, Danell Leyva, daniel keatings, huang qiushuang, john orozco, Jonathan Horton, Kohei Uchimura, lauren mitchell, Steven Legendre, Sui Lu, Yang Yilin, yao jinnan
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Five Major Themes From the 2011 American Cup

The All-Around Lives On. I feel like this year’s American Cup ended up being a big step in the right direction for not only this competition, but for gymnastics in general. We can’t forget that just a few years ago, the future of major all-around competitions was looking grim at best, and in fact USAG ...




