Tag Archives: Zou Kai

Five Highlights From Event Finals Day 2!

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Andy Thornton
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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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Olympic Tickets and Redemption Highlight Event Finals Day 1

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Andy Thornton
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Men’s Floor Highlights Kohei Uchimura’s unveiling of the extremely rare triple twisting double back – a skill competed by only a very small handful of gymnasts EVER - appeared so effortless that the judges somehow completely missed it!  Flavius Kozci’s 3 ½ twist to punch front full is an unprecedented pass that he’s been nailing throughout ...

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Remembering Rotterdam…Flashback to the Men’s Team Final

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Andy Thornton
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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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Meet The Chinese Men’s World Team…Are They Beatable?

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Andy Thornton
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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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Check out these amazing Chinese men’s videos!

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Andy Thornton
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Some amazing Chinese men’s floor routines from the Chinese Nationals Event Finals: Zou Kai Floor 2011 Chinese Nationals Event Finals Still got it!  It will be interesting to see if they leave him off the world team this year like they did last year…I’m guessing they don’t. Du Wei Floor 2011 Chinese Nationals Event Finals Unfortunately I think he’s ...

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A look at the Chinese men’s team…

Posted on June 6, 2010 by Andy Thornton

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.

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From the Judge’s Chair…Zou Kai!

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Andy Thornton

We’ve already taken a look at how to calculate D-Scores of the best floor and parallel bar routines in the world, and now it’s time to do the same on what most consider the most exciting men’s event…high bar!

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Watch the new world’s best pommel horse swinger!

Posted on August 2, 2009 by Andy Thornton

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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