A gym built on fear (CNN investigation: John Geddert)

We knew this was coming... What an A$$ though!!

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2018...geddert-abuse/

A gym built on fear (CNN investigation: John Geddert)

Karolyi Deposition Testimony

CNN exclusive: In depositions, Karolyis say they knew nothing of Nassar's abuse at their ranch https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/28/us/ka...ons/index.html

Boggles the mind what little supposedly anybody ‘knew’.. crazy..

Karolyi Deposition Testimony

2018 Pacific Rim Championships - April 24-30 | Medellín, COL

Starting a thread for this as teams are starting to be announced.

Australia

WAG:
Sidney Stephens
Kate Sayer
Miriana Perkins
Elena Chipizubov
Kate McDonald
Talia Folino

MAG:
Scott Costin
Jack Riek
Heath Thorpe
Jesse Moore
Kipp Smith
Jack Hall

United States

MAG:
Marvin Kimble
Sam Mikulak
Akash Modi
Justin Ah Chow
Asher Hong
Paul Juda

2018 Pacific Rim Championships - April 24-30 | Medellín, COL

William Strampel (Larry Nassars boss at MSU)charged for touching, storing nude photos

Perhaps this should've gone on page 212 of the existing thread.. Unbelievable but believable.. These pigs..

http://www.espn.com/college-sports/s...sexual-conduct

William Strampel (Larry Nassars boss at MSU)charged for touching, storing nude photos

Largest MAG video channel removed from the air Marcos GymArt

The Italian Federation through Mr. David Ciaralli, removed the video channel Marcos GymArt

The withdrawal was summary without the owner of the canal could defend itself. The Federation could have contacted the owner of the channel and requested the withdrawal of the videos, however, preferred to report and so, we fans of gymnastics we lost since this channel was reference in videos including counting on several competitions considered a rarity, an attitude unthinking leaves orphans fans of a sport that is not much publicized, something that this channel did in order to popularize the sport.
I hope that the Italian Federation can rethink its position and with that the channel can return to work.

Blowing up a gym fan

Largest MAG video channel removed from the air Marcos GymArt

2018 Commonwealth Games: April 5 - 9

(Will add information here later.)

2018 Commonwealth Games: April 5 - 9

USA MAG success over the years

I know we're in the midst of World Cup events and NCAA competition is revving up toward post-season, but I decided to procrastinate working out by crunching some numbers :) I'm pretty familiar with the USA women's team results/success over the years but not so much with the men....so I tallied all individual medals won by US men in World and Olympic competition (since 1950) and was kind of surprised at how few (comparatively) medals they have won (of course the 1984 medals should be taken with a grain of salt due to the boycot):



Danell Leyva 6
Kurt Thomas 6
Paul Hamm 5
Bart Conner 3
Mitch Gaylord 3
Peter Vidmar 2
Jonathon Horton 2
Jake Dalton 2
Jair Lynch 1
Trent Dimas 1
Paul O'Neill 1
Tim Daggett 1
Sean Townsend 1
Alexander Artemev 1
Brandon Wynn 1 (forgot about this one)
Steven Legendre 1
John Orozco 1
Donnell Whittenburg 1
Peter Kormann 1
Yul Moldauer 1
(Team medals) 8


So, only 20 men for a total of 41 medals (and only 8 have one more than 1), but 16 medals in the last 10 years. This is compared to 43 medal winners and a total of 127 medals for the women (hope I counted this up correctly). Discussion could be started debating why this is so. Also interesting to think about who are the top American male gymnasts of all time (I think I remember reading a thread regarding this). I still think it's a toss-up between Kurt and Paul. Leyva I think is 3rd best for sure.

USA MAG success over the years

Random Dawes and Borden request

I vaguely remember at some mid 90s meet, Dawes and Borden(not sure if it was the same meet though) finally did a triple twist on FX. Anyone know what meet they did the triple? Any vid?
Any help would be appreciated greatly
Thanks

Random Dawes and Borden request

Birmingham World Cup | March 21-22, 2018

Final results:


Well, Nikita Nagornyy pretty much had this but started to fall apart in the second half of the competition where he landed his Dragulescu very short (his run seemed off), a minor slip on pbars, and a fall on a layout Tkachev on high bar. Floor was great, although he did an easier routine and had 0.4 OOB.

Shogo Nonomura hit all six routines solidly. He's not quite as sharp as he was in the past, but he still has very nice qualities.

James Hall and Dom Cunningham had good days. James had a big stumble on vault and some issues on pbars, but otherwise he did well.

Sun Wei - ugh, why can't we have nice things????!!! Such a beautiful gymnast but so frustrating. Practically the MAG equivalent of Huang Qiushuang.

Donothan Bailey had a rough day. He had two splats on floor and took an extra swing on high bar because his giant out of Tkachev didn't have enough juice. He also underperformed on pommel horse, which is usually his best.

Birmingham World Cup | March 21-22, 2018

Baku World Cup 2018

Baku World Cup 2018

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Biles

Biles Cheating

Ritalin yay or nay? IMO it’s cheating.

Biles Cheating

Who should make GBR Men 2018 European Team?

Hopefully I remembered all the options

Who should make GBR Men 2018 European Team?

Who Should Make Ladies European Team?

Currently it seems that both Downies, Fenton, and Fragapane are injured, and for the sake of this poll I will assume all but Frag are back in action by then...

Who Should Make Ladies European Team?

Who should fill Fragapane's and Fenton's spots at Commonwealth Games?

I am assuming Fenton will be out due to her low scores/injuries at Nationals...I would have included Methuen and Emily Thomas but they are already on the Welsh team.

Who should fill Fragapane's and Fenton's spots at Commonwealth Games?

Change of Worlds/Olympic format again?

One of my gym friends brought this to my attention. Some murmurs of possible changes (again!) in the World and Olympic competition format after 2020. These are from the US Men's Program Committee minutes:



The split of team and individual Worlds is ??? They did that in 1994 where Individual AA/EF Worlds were held in Brisbane, Australia in spring, and Team Worlds were held in Dortmund, Germany later that fall. That's the only time I recall when that happened.

I think most people would be on board with the 5+1 Olympic teams again if there's any truth to that.

All these changes though. It's starting to feel like the 1990s again where FIG experimented with a lot of different formats.

P.S. Obviously 2012 has passed, so I'm inclined to believe that's just a typo.

Change of Worlds/Olympic format again?

More Successful Career

Little game in the off-season. I’ll list two gymnasts. The next poster answers who they think had the better career of the two and why and lists two more gymnasts and so on. If you want to hear more opinions just list the same two. But no just going back to a previous pairing and not answering and no talking about previous pairings.

Example:

Person 1:A or B?

Person 2: B because blah. C or D?

Person 3:

Things that are ok: C because blah; E or F?
C because blah; C or D? (to keep the next person on C or D)
C because blah; A or B?

Things that are not ok: C because blah; I think A is better than B
A because blah; E or F?

People can use whatever criteria they want and no disparaging others opinions

So I’ll start

MADISON KOCIAN or KYLA ROSS

More Successful Career

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IGHOF Class of 2018

On May 19, 2018, Nastia Liukin, Andreea Raducan and Paul Hamm will be inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Alexei Nemov will attend after being inducted last year but was unable to travel to the ceremony last minute in 2017.

http://intlgymnast.com/index.php?opt...ews&Itemid=166

IGHOF Class of 2018

Nadia vs. Teodora

Ok. I was bored and was rewatching the 1976 Olympics. Had never really watched all the routines before. This has probably been discussed to death, but I don’t see any threads on it since it was so long ago. Does anybody here know the politics of the situation? I mean, why was Nadia the “chosen one”? Seems like Teodora had just as much difficulty, and I actually prefer Teodora’s floor exercise to Nadia’s. In fact, I think Teodora should have been in floor finals and won the gold over Kim. What is the conventional wisdom on this subject?

Nadia vs. Teodora

floor exercise mat colors

Was watching one of my favorite floor routines and released how yellow the floor mat was. Hit me that I had never remembered seeing a yellow floor mat. Then, of course, I tried to remember the different colored floor exercise mats I've seen. Generally I think of floor mats as blue.

What are the different colors you've seen?

Is there an official rule about floor exercise colors?

I see a future of sponsors or designs on the actual floor mats themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeIqPqSVXdY Yellow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH-VBHvxNuE Pink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPrV6GwS7Ss white mat

floor exercise mat colors

Doha World Cup: March 21-24, 2018

I have to admit the field for the Doha World Cup is pretty stacked especially on the men's side. Clearly quite a few gymnasts see this as an opportunity to get a feel for Worlds.

Men's list of competitors:
https://sports.app.box.com/s/6op6e5x...e/281226318574

Women's list of competitors:
https://sports.app.box.com/s/6op6e5x...e/280917808222

Day 1 start list:
https://sports.app.box.com/s/6op6e5x...e/280922252890
https://sports.app.box.com/s/6op6e5x...e/281221955333

Day 2 start list:
https://sports.app.box.com/s/6op6e5x...e/280920492072
https://sports.app.box.com/s/6op6e5x...e/281224412420

Kohei attending a World Cup is still a shock to me because it's been 10+ years since he's been to one lol. I'm willing to bet the Chinese heard the news of Kohei going that they decided to send their very best to this.

Good to see some Russians on the list because they haven't been to Doha in years. Denis Ablyazin was on the list originally but he's now replaced with Dmitry Lankin.

And probably the most surprising entries are the North Koreans with 3 MAG and 3 WAG. Ri Se Gwang is marking his return to competition since Rio.

Meanwhile I'm surprised Anamaria Ocolisan still exists.

Doha World Cup: March 21-24, 2018

1997 American Cup Video?

I was trying to find the 1997 American Cup in USAG's Youtube channel and for some reason they don't have it up at all, which is weird with everything else they included. Does anyone know of someone who could post it? I've found a few individual videos, but I'd really like to see the Kerri Strug update they did on there again.

1997 American Cup Video?