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Remember This? Jiang Yuyuan’s Amanar

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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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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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USA Wins It!!!

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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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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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Some Highlight Routines From Women’s World Cup in Ghent

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Jade Barbosa Vault 2011 Ghent World Cup     Gold medal with a 14.437 (5.8, 8.85 and 5.6, 8.725)   So great to see this gymnast back and looking better than she has in the last couple of years.  She may not be the world medal contender she was back in 2007, but this Brazilian team has three very experienced ...

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Top Ten Most Intriguing Senior Women of 2010

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1.              Alicia Sacramone, United States Alicia Sacramone Vault 2010 World Championships Event Final Alicia Sacramone Beam 2010 World Championships Event Final For the past two years, the former world floor champion and multiple world vault medalist has unfortunately been most associated with her disastrous performance in the team finals in Beijing.  This year the popular Sacramone  launched ...

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Bross makes valiant comeback to salvage bronze medal

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Recap of women’s world all-around final

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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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