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UPDATE as of Saturday, April 9th - They have confirmed that Aliya has torn her ACL, a more severe injury that the previously reported meniscus tear. She is scheduled for surgery in Munich on April 12th. This means she will almost definitely miss the 2011 World Championships. We wish her all the best for a speedy recovery.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- World champion Aliya Mustafina of Russia was by far the favorite to win today's all around final at th...

The full 2 days of preliminary competition have concluded in Berlin and it's all finals from here on out! The men took the floor today and World All Around silver medalist Philipp Boy holds the top spot with 90.375. Boy's German teammate Marcel Nguyen is back from injury and sits in second with 89.725, and Russia's Maxim Devyatovsky was third was 89.425. But, they will of course start from scratch for tomorrow's all around finals. Below is the full list of men's all around and event finals qualifiers.   Floor: 1. Alexander Shatilov, 15.45...

All four subdivisions of women's competition are now complete in Berlin and below you can check out the results and who qualified to Event Finals. Vault: 1. Giulia Steingruber, Switzerland, 14.525 2. Sandra Izbasa, Romania, 14.525 3. Aliya Mustafina, Russia, 14.487 4T. Ariella Kaeslin, Switzerland, 14.20 4T. Oksana Chusovitina, Germany, 14.20 6. Tatiana Nabieva, Russia, 14.187 7. Elisabeth Seitz, Germany, 14.175 8. Amelia Racea, Romania, 13.937 Alternates: 1. Julie Croket, Belgium, 13.912  2. Nastassia Marachkouskaya, Belarus, 1...

The 2011 European Championships are taking place right now in Berlin, Germany. This year's competition will not feature a team final, only individual all around and event finals. The first day of competition kicked off this morning with the women's qualifications. Midway through, reigning World Champion Aliya Mustafina leads the way in the women's all around with a 59.760. On vault, she played it safe today, competing only a double twisting yurchenko instead of her 2.5 twist.  One of the highlights from the subdivision was reigning World ...

On Saturday, the 12 qualifiers to the 2011 NCAA National Championships were decided. Today the draw for the Championship meet has been announced. This is important because only the top three teams from each qualifying session will advance to the Super Six Finals. You can also view the images below to see where each team will be starting during the prelim competition, and which teams each individual qualifier will be rotating with as they hope to make event finals. Session 1 / Friday, April 15 at 12 p.m. (ET) Rank/Team Regional Score NQS Startin...

The 2011 Men's NCAA Gymnastics Conference Championships took place across the country this weekend. Here's a rundown of this season's conference Champions. The guys are now preparing for the NCAA National Championships which will take place April 15-17 at Ohio State University.  Big 10 Championships Even without top all arounder Paul Ruggeri, the Illini won their 3rd straight Big 10 title. TEAM RESULTS: 1 Illinois 355.55 2 Michigan 352.75 3 Ohio State 350 4 Penn State 349.00 5 Minnesota 344.40 6 Iowa 339.30   INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONS: AA...

Zou Kai is the 2008 Olympic Champion on both high bar and floor and the 2009 World Champion on high bar. He was mysteriously left off the Chinese World Championships team in 2010, but he's just resurfaced with the most difficult high bar set in the world.  At the recent Doha World Cup, he easily won the event final with the highest marks on high bar in international competition under the current Code of Points. His difficulty score was a massive 7.70 and he totaled a 16.425 for the routine. Here is the video:   Zou and the curren...

The Ann Arbor Regoinal Championships just concluded and after much confusion with a tie for second between #1 seed Stanford and #5 seed Minnesota, then a frozen score sheet not reflecting the final scores for Kent State and Ohio State, we have our final results! #6 seed Kent State University pulls the upset and qualifies to the 2011 NCAA National Championships!  Michigan dominated the competition with a 197.075 and senior Kylee Botterman won the all around with a 39.50 and floor with a 9.925.  The Athens Regional meet was the first to...

The future continues to look bright for the #1 ranked NCAA Gymnastics team. After landing US National team member Alaina Johnson, USA World Team member Mackenzie Caquatto, and a verbal commit from her sister Bridgey Caquatto,  they've just gained another marquee athlete. It's official, 2008 Olympian and 2009 World All Around Champion Bridget Sloan has verbally committed to the University of Florida. Over the past few months she took visits to Florida, Georgia, and Utah but made the announcement that she would compete for Florida. How...

2008 USA Olympic team member Kevin Tan has announced his retirement. Tan was most known for his impressive work on still rings where he won a few US titles and he was an NCAA National Champion for Penn State. Below is the press release from Penn State Athletics and our interview with Kevin reflecting on his Olympic Trials and Olympic Games in 2008.  UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Olympic bronze medalist and current Penn State assistant coach Kevin Tan has officially announced his retirement from competitive gymnastics, bringing to an end a storie...