Japan's Kohei Uchimura started the evening with a brilliant 15.625 floor routine, and after he turned in a 14.90 on pommel horse, it became a foregone conclusion that the World title was all his. Uchimura blitzed the field of twenty-four to win his first world men's gymnastics all-around championship with a big score of 91.50. His nearest competitor was Great Britain's Daniel Keatings, who finished a staggering 2.575 points behind. Uchimura hit on all six events in a dominant display of consistency, style and confidence. He was clearly in a world of his own.
Although American Tim McNeill [...more]
After a marathon of three qualifying sessions in London, Japan's Kohei Uchimura was the leading qualifier going into Thursday's all-around finals at the 2009 World Men's Gymnastics Championships. Uchimura was at the top of his game tallying the day's highest score of 90.925. Hitting on all six events, Uchimura had scores of at least 15.00 on every event except for pommel horse (14.75). His floor and high bar routines were outstanding, and his 15.775 was the highest score of the day on floor. Uchimura undoubtedly remains the prohibitive favorite to win the all-around title.
Tim McNeill and Jonathan Horton finished in the top five in the [...more]
Jonathan Horton signed an endorsement deal with GK Elite Sportswear, the world’s leading supplier of gymnastics apparel. The 2008 Olympic silver medalist on high bar, Horton is America’s leading gymnast and a force on the world scene. The former All-American Oklahoma gymnast is now training in Houston under Coach Tom Meadows. Horton, the newly crowned […] [...more]
According to Blythe Lawrence's blog at Examiner.com, a lot of exciting Junior assignments have been doled out by USA Gymnastics. Jake Dalton and John Orozco will be competing at the Japan Junior International Competition in Yokohama September 20-25. Dalton is now a freshman at Oklahoma. In fact he went straight from Dallas to Norman, OK right after VISAs. Dalton is also reportedly first in line for [...more]
Jonathan Horton can finally claim that elusive prize of U.S. Men's Gymnastics National Champion. The anchorman of our men's program ran away with the title by a margin of 3.4 points over surprise runner-up Tim McNeill. Running on sheer talent and adrenaline, Horton was easily able to absorb a fall on [...more]
Today's New York Daily News posted an outstanding article about John Orozco. The article went into detail about his family and the long daily commute Orozco and his mother make every day to the gym. Orozco's father suffered a debilitating stroke two years ago and his mother suffers from various health maladies. Even if she is in severe pain, she gets up and gets her son from the Bronx to [...more]
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The recent Japan Cup was quite a learning experience for Danell Leyva. Though it wasn't his first international competition, it was definitely his first major one. Leyva was the youngest member on Team USA and was probably the youngest gymnast in the entire field. Pretty heady stuff for the 17 year-old from Miami, FL. He was rubbing elbows all week with past and future [...more]
USA Gymnastics released the start list for VISAs, which will be held August 12-15 in Dallas. Included on the list for the Senior Division qualifiers are age-eligible Junior Division qualifiers Jake Dalton, CJ Maestas and Alex Naddour. Dalton and Naddour will be competing for Oklahoma next season. Jacob Dastrup, who competed as a Level 9 […] [...more]
The News Transcript published a great story about David Durante’s recent visit to Classic Gymnastics in Marlboro, NJ. Tricia Adamo, one of the owners of Classic Gymnastics, successfully recruited Durante to visit her gym, and Durante was happy to pay back to the local community where he grew up. This visit was all about the […] [...more]
Japan's Kohei Uchimura made a statement to the world today at the 2009 Japan Cup. He hit on all six events to post an outstanding 92.75 to win the men's all-around competition, thus establishing him as the favorite going into Worlds in October. Germany's Fabian Hambuchen followed-up his impressive performance in yesterday's team competition, tallying a 92.10 to finish [...more]
