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

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 ...
Women’s Team Qualifications…Themes From The Top Three

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 ...
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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Top Ten Most Intriguing Senior Women of 2010

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 ...
Crazy Women’s Team Final Ends In Historic Moment
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Tagged 2010 world gymnastics championships, alicia sacramone, Aliya Mustafina, Aly Raisman, ana dementieva, andrew thornton, andy thornton, Andy's Angle, bridget sloan, Deng Linlin, ekaterina kurbatova, He Kexin, huang qiushuang, Jiang Yuyuan, Ksenia Afanasyeva, ksenia semenova, mackenzie caquatto, rebecca bross, Sui Lu, tatiana nabieva, Yang Yilin
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