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Winter Cup Kicks Off 2016 Olympic Season

Winter Cup Kicks Off 2016 Olympic Season

If you're a men's gymnastics fan, Las Vegas will be the place to be this weekend. A two-day extravaganza kicks off the Olympic year. Winter Cup will play a major role in determining who will go to Rio. The meet is not as important for members of last year's World Team, but it has huge ramifications for those not currently on the Senior National Team. Eighteen gymnasts will emerge from Winter Cup as [...more]

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Wenske, Valdez & Justus Top MAG Signees for 2016-2017

Wenske, Valdez & Justus Top MAG Signees for 2016-2017

Oklahoma signed two Junior National Team recruits, and Penn State nabbed another one to highlight this year's early signing period. Matt Wenske and Tanner Justus, fresh off a trip to the Czech Republic for the Olympic Hopes Cup, will make their collegiate debuts for the Sooners, while Valdez will be taking his talents to Penn State. Compared to the past several years, this year's signing period activity has been [...more]

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Leyva & Whittenburg Capture Medals at 2015 World Championships

Leyva & Whittenburg Capture Medals at 2015 World Championships

Danell Leyva and Donnell Whittenburg earned the first medals for the U.S. Men's Gymnastics at the 2015 World Championships in Glasgow. In the day's first event, Whittenburg nailed his Dragulescu and Tsuk full-in (15.35) to win the VT bronze. After failing to repeat as medal winner on PB, Leyva turned in a beautiful, gutsy [...more]

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Whitlock & Smith Provide 1-2 Punch for Brits on Pommel Horse

Whitlock & Smith Provide 1-2 Punch for Brits on Pommel Horse

British Men's Gymnastics is having a remarkable World Championships. After winning their first medal (silver) in the team competition, the Brits added to their medal haul in the first day of Event Finals. Max Whitlock earned silver on FX (15.566) and won his first World's gold medal on [...more]

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Uchimura Makes it a Half-Dozen World All-Around Titles

Uchimura Makes it a Half-Dozen World All-Around Titles

Japan's Kohei Uchimura--The King--has dominated men's gymnastics like no other has done before. He makes it look so easy that many almost take him for granted. He's a reliable entity, like the sun rising every morning. Only fitting--Japan is called "the [...more]

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Uchimura Leads Japan to World Men’s Gymnastics Title

Uchimura Leads Japan to World Men’s Gymnastics Title

The monkey is finally off their collective backs. Kohei Uchimura and his teammates finally won a World Team title, their first since 1978. Incredibly, it wasn't their long-time nemesis, China, who they ended up edging out. It was Great Britain! The Brits won their first team medal in the history of the World Championships. Rather historic, especially after their [...more]

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Danell Leyva Leads Team USA to Finals and ’16 Olympic Berth

Danell Leyva Leads Team USA to Finals and ’16 Olympic Berth

The U.S. men's gymnastics team looked a little sloppy and raggedy at times, but they got the job done. Their 5th place finish in the qualifying round of the 2015 World Championships guaranteed their placement in Team Finals and an all-expenses paid trip to Rio next summer. For good measure, our guys qualified for eight Event Finals spots, led by Danell Leyva in the [...more]

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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Jake Dalton?

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Jake Dalton?

How do you solve the problem of deciding the best team of gymnasts to represent your country in a Worlds or Olympics? How much do you need to know and when do you need to know it? There are some opinions that the United States men’s gymnastics program is choosing its team too early and should follow the lead of [...more]

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Intercollegiate Gymnasts on the World Stage

Intercollegiate Gymnasts on the World Stage

Check out this list of current and former male NCAA gymnasts on the nominative list for the 2015 World Championships! [...more]

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NCAA Men’s Gymnastics Update From Coach Mike Burns

NCAA Men’s Gymnastics Update From Coach Mike Burns

University of Minnesota Head Coach Mike Burns has submitted the following update on the status of NCAA Men's Gymnastics. He has made us all aware of the top mandate for gym fans... We need to fill up St. John Arena April 14-16. Ohio State will be hosting the 2016 NCAA Championships, and will be a logistically desirable location to draw large numbers of fans from all over the midwest and beyond. We've received our marching orders... Let's Fill Up St. John! [...more]

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