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Circles/Virgin Flares - The legs stay together and straight. In gymnastics, it is referred to as a circle and is considered the prerequisite for a flare. Hopping Flares/King Flares - Hopping on the available (load bearing) hand as the legs swing through from the front to the back. C-zeching is required for this move.
In 1979, while training for the 1979 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Mukhina suffered a broken leg, which kept her out of the World Championships in Fort Worth, Texas, a competition in which the Soviet team suffered its first defeat at the hands of their arch-rivals from Romania, with only Nellie Kim and Stella Zakharova able to medal ...
A college gymnastics star has announced her retirement from the sport after suffering a gruesome injury during the NCAA Regional Semifinal in Baton Rouge, La., on Friday.. Auburn University senior ...
Kerri Allyson Strug (born November 19, 1977) is an American retired gymnast from Tucson, Arizona.She was a member of the Magnificent Seven, the victorious all-around women's gymnastics team that represented the United States at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Brody Malone stuck his high bar dismount, his legs practically magnetized to the mat. The sound that echoed through Dickies Arena after the first night of the U.S. Championships on Thursday was a ...
Olympic breaking star Sunny Choi didn't mean to get into breakdancing—she was originally a gymnast. Here's how she got into the sport and how scoring works. Sunny Choi Was Feeling ‘Burnt Out ...
There are many variations of form and performance of splits, including: Oversplit, in which the angle between the legs exceeds 180 degrees. Suspended split, in which the body is static and supported only by the feet. Split leap or split jump is a split that is executed after leaping or jumping, respectively, while still in the air.
After 22-year-old Alexa Moreno represented Mexico at the Rio games, some took to social media to body-shame her -- but many came to her defense.