The biggest story at yesterday's Winter Cup preliminary competition was Chris Brooks' dominating all-around performance. Brooks (88.30) easily outlasted fellow Oklahoma alum Jonathan Horton (86.50), and also posted the day's highest scores on [...more]
2010 is the year of the freshmen in NCAA men's gymnastics. This season's crop of freshmen is making a dramatic impact for their respective teams. After three weeks of competition, seven freshmen are [...more]
The second weekend of NCAA men's gymnastics is now in the books. Michigan showed great improvement over last weekend and ended up with the young season's highest team score (355.65) in their easy romp over Penn State. The Wolverines' top performers, Chris Cameron and Thomas Kelley, put it together to enable an early showcase as to why Michigan [...more]
2009 was a great season for men's gymnastics! Japan's Kohei Uchimura and Germany's Fabian Hambuchen dominated. It's too bad that Hambuchen's injury prevented a match-up of the two best gymnasts at the London Worlds. Still, these two gymnasts are pretty much locked in as the two All-Around favorites at the '12 Olympics. Uchimura is now unquestionably the world's top gymnast. On the U.S. side, Jonathan Horton has moved into the role of [...more]
True to form, USAG is spreading the wealth when doling out international assignments. USAG announced the other day that Sasha Artemev, Alex Buscaglia and Tim Gentry will be competing at the 2009 Toyota International Gymnastics Competition in Toyota City, Japan (December 12-13). This will be Artemev's [...more]
Last week was the start of the early signing period for men's club gymnasts eager to commit to Division I programs for the 2010-2011 season. Most signees have not been officially announced, but so far, Illinois has landed two of the top recruits. Today, the Illini announced the signing of [...more]
The 2009 Junior Pan American men's gymnastics competition concluded yesterday in Aracaju, Brazil. The U.S. contingent performed admirably as they brought home a total of seven medals. Gold Cup's CJ Maestas won gold on rings and silver in the all-around, pommel horse and parallel bars. SCATS' Sam Mikulak took silver on floor and bronze on vault. The team, consisting of Maestas, Mikulak, Orlando Metro's Jake Martin and SCATS' Jesse Glenn, won the [...more]
The gymnastics world received the horrible news that Russian gymnast Yury Ryazanov was killed in a car accident Tuesday morning just outside of Moscow. Ryazanov, the recent bronze medal winner in the all-around at the World Championships, was returning to his home in Vladimir when tragedy struck. He was Russia’s brightest star over the past […] [...more]
The 2009 World Gymnastics Championships have come and gone. The all-around finals did not excite much except for Kohei Uchimura. Although Tim McNeill and Jonathan Horton qualified, neither seriously challenged for the top spot. In fact, Horton's session was disastrous, given his falls on floor, pommel horse and high bar. His bad luck continued on high bar in the event final where he once again tumbled doing a Kolman. Knowing Horton, he will be highly motivated to make 2010 a season to remember, with a lot fewer distractions. McNeill had a solid 7th-place finish and is now poised for another [...more]
Romania's Marian Dragulescu has done what Brett Favre probably won't be able to do, which is to retire, unretire and win a title. Dragulescu not only won a title, he won two! He was the surprise winner on floor, easily overcoming the heavily favored Kohei Uchimura. He then topped things off by hitting two outstanding vaults to capture yet another world championship. The 28-year-old Romanian was the only gymnast to [...more]
