MCSMaria's Artistic Gymnastics Blog

Worlds is over for another year (sigh).  While I'm still feeling nostalgic for Worlds, I'm going to recap the best and worst moments of the world championships with my Power Rankings. Power Rankings are a feature I usually do during NCAA season, but it's still appropriate for an event that all roads lead to in elite. For the "rankings" of the "power rankings" I'm going to rate an event on the basis of fail or win (occasionally and epic win or epic fail and the general moments of hilarity and heartbreakers. Let's get started.

They say all good things must come to an end and today, the World Championships will wrap up with the second and final day of event finals. Yesterday, the 2015 World Champions all defended their titles. What will the event finals have in store for us today? We will see the men's vault, parallel bars and high bar and women's beam and floor. Refresh the page every few minutes to get the updates. Here are the start lists for today's events: Currently they're showing warm ups for men's vault and women's beam. Morgan is wearing the ombre raspberry leo with red white and blue sparkles that Jade wore yesterday. Ellie Black is wearing a cerulean leo with sparkles in the shape of a maple leaf. Mai is wearing the leo that has "Nippon" on it in sequins, because rhinestones are for peasants. Men's vault is first and the athletes are being introduced. I don't seen any flame throwers, which is a mistake. HA. They could have Spaceballs the Fla...

Tonight, a new queen of women's gymnastics will be crowned. This is a tight race as Ragan Smith and Mai Murakami qualified in first and second, separated by only 0.001, Mai with a 55.933 to Ragan's 55.932. Also contending is Elena Eremina, Russia's newest little darling with her Nabieva on bars. And you can never leave out the home team as Ellie Black is a major contender as well as Brooklyn Moors with her beautiful nostalgic, wistful floor routine. Also look out for Morgan Hurd, Melanie De Jesus Dos Santos of France, Nina Derwael of Belgium and her ridiculous bars and Diana Varinska of Ukraine. Refresh the page every five to ten minutes for updates. Here are the starting rotations - Starting on vault - Ellie Black Ragan Smith* Mai Murakami Morgan Hurd Elena Eremina Melanie De Jesus Dos Santos Ioana Crisan Starting on bars - Aiko Sugihara Nina Derwael Diana Varinska Tabea Alt Giulia Steingruber Angelina Melnikova Starting on beam - Brooklyn M...

The bad news is that Kohei Uchimura, the king of men's gymnastics has been dethroned due to withdrawing after injuring his ankle in qualifications. With Simone Biles taking time off after the Olympics, this championships marks the first time since 2013 that a new men's AND women's all-around champion will be crowned. So who is the heir to Kohei's throne? Who is the heir to Simone's throne? I'll start with the men tonight. This will be brief as I am not as up to snuff on my men's gymnastics as I should be.

Today is the second and last day of Women's qualifications at the World Championships in Montreal. Today, we will see the Netherlands, Romania, Switzerland, the Czech Republic (Czechia), Norway,  Latvia, Azerbaijan, Mexico Refresh the page every five to ten minutes to follow along.

I'm still really sick, so I'm going to try my best to sound coherent. This is the first subdivision for the Women's competition, featuring Great Britain and Australia. Refresh the page every five - ten minutes for updates!

Well, the time has come. Hot Pink Nation is officially no more. The evidence was clear. All week, we've not seen a hint of hot pink (save for an ombre training leo) from the ladies at Team USA. On Ashton Locklear's Snapchat, the ladies of Team USA were looking lovely in blue podium training leos, complete with tons and tons of sparkles.

Mihai Brestyan, legendary coach of Alicia Sacramone & Aly Raisman, now the head coach in Australia gives an interview to Gymcastic about vaccumming and freeing the Aussies from "gymnastics jail." Best interview ever - below the cut (via Instagram).

Here is the schedule for next week's gymnastics world championships in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. All times listed are for US/Canada Eastern Time

During podium training today for next week's world championships in Montreal, Canada's Brooklyn Moors made thousands of gymnerds squeal with delight over her floor routine. Brooklyn is the younger sister of 2012 Canadian Olympian and floor queen, Victoria. The relation is obvious. She shows the same unique choreography (they share the same coach in Elvira Saadi) and tumbling skills.

With Worlds only a couple days away, the gymnasts are hard at work perfecting their routines before the games start. Of course the best part is all the training videos coming from Montreal.

After weeks of speculation, and two days of worlds selection camp, USA Gymnastics has finally announced their selection for the World Championship team.