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Remembering Rotterdam…Flashback to the Men’s Team Final
Chinese Win Men’s Team Final at 2010 Worlds The names were Teng Haibin, Chen Yibing, Yan Mingyong, Lu Bo, Feng Zhe, and Zhang Chenglong…one returning Olympic champion from Beijing, one from back in Athens, a rings world champion, a world p-bars silver medalist, and two worlds rookies. The results that evening in Rotterdam were no surprise ...
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Tagged 2010 world gymnastics championships, 2011 world gymnastics championships, andrew thornton, andy thornton, andy thornton blog, Andy's Angle, chen yibing, feng zhe, li xiapoeng, Lu Bo, teng haibin, xiao qin, yan mingyong, yang wei, zhang chenglong, Zhang Hongtao, Zou Kai
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Meet The Chinese Men’s World Team…Are They Beatable?
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That must have been the philosophy of the Chinese delegation when putting together this year’s men’s world team, which consists of five of the same members of last year’s gold medal team from Rotterdam. The only gymnast left off was 2009 world rings champion and 2010 world rings silver ...
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Tagged 2011 world gymnastics championships, andrew thornton, andy thornton, andy thornton blog, Andy's Angle, chen yibing, fabian hambuechen, feng zhe, guo weiyang, Kohei Uchimura, Lu Bo, teng haibin, xiao qin, yan mingyong, zhang chenglong, Zhang Hongtao, Zou Kai
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Some more “perfect tens” on the men’s side
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 ...
A look at the Chinese men’s team…
Following the recent Chinese men’s nationals, much talk began to circulate about the “crisis” of the Chinese men’s team…notably, the absence of world medal contending all-arounders and a surplus of individual event specialists. Let’s see if the Chinese men still have what it takes to field one of the very best teams in the world.
Watch the new world’s best pommel horse swinger!
The most recent Chinese nationals took place last weekend in Xiantao, and it was a great opportunity to see some of their very best gymnasts – both old and new – on their specialties.
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Tagged Chinese nationals, Pommel Horse, Zhang Hongtao, Zou Kai
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