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Five Highlights From Event Finals Day 2!

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Danell Leyva’s Golden Moment.  U.S. National Champion Danell Leyva hasn’t quite had the world championships he had dreamed of.  Although he did stand with his teammates on the world team medal podium for the first time, mistakes on high bar in qualifications and on vault and high bar in the all-around had already dashed a ...

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Five Things To Watch In The Men’s All-Around Final

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Can Kohei Make History?  Kohei Uchimura has won the last two world all-around crowns, and has the unique opportunity in this year’s competition to become the first gymnast in history to win three consecutive world all-around titles.  Kohei has shown his mortality here in Tokyo, suffering falls on vault in the qualifications and high bar ...

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Top Five Things To Watch in 2011!

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Andy’s Top Five Things To Watch In The Gymnastics World in 2011

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Some more “perfect tens” on the men’s side

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A few more “perfect ten” routines on the men’s side in my book.  Note that four of them come from some of the top Chinese men over the last couple of years, including three from the incredible 2008 men’s Chinese Olympic team.  Looking back at history, routines done by those guys were truly some of ...

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From the Judge’s Chair: Marian Dragulescu!

I’ve decided I would like to periodically do some posts entitled “From the Judge’s Chair” in an effort to increase awareness about how some of the top routines in the world are being judged on both the men’s and women’s sides. My main focus will be on the D-Score (Difficulty Score), since that is certainly the most complex and the most difficult for even us seasoned fans to calculate in our heads

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Dragulescu looks ready to challenge for world floor and vault title…and watch two rarely done twisting passes on floor from another Romanian star!

A look at the Romanian men’s team…

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