MCSMaria's Artistic Gymnastics Blog

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...

The excitement of the World Championships continues with the final day of event finals and the final day of the championships. With five packed finals, this day is sure to offer up some heartbreaks, tears and more tears and possibly some blood. Let's take a look at what's in store for the final day of event finals and the World Championships. The events for today are men's vault, parallel bars and high bar and women's balance beam and floor exercise. I'll start with the women's events since that's what I'm most familiar with.

We've had an exciting week of highs and major heart breaks and beautiful memories made at the Montreal World Championships. There's still more to come with the event finals. Refresh the page about every five minutes to get the most recent updates. Here are the start lists for today: Warm ups are going on for the guys on floor. Lots of glorious shots of six packs. Oh hi Paseka with your construction worker back brace. Another random observation: Bram Verhofstad looks a lot like Grant Gustin, aka "The Flash." I'm just going to call him Flash from now on. Because that's what he reminds me of. The intro music is Ellie Black's floor music, I think.... I know it's someone's and I cannot remember whose it is at the moment. Walk outs are starting here in a sec. Camera is panning over the crowd. That is a MASSIVE stadium. You've got to make a grand entrance from a cloud of steam. Hello Kenzo! He's getting tons of cheering from t...

So now that our new all-around champions, Xiao Ruoteng and Morgan Hurd, have now been crowned, it's time for the event finals. Without further adieu, let's take a look at what's in store for us during event finals. Men: Floor, Pommel Horse & Still Rings Women: Vault & Uneven Bars

The favorite topic of discussion this quad (besides the hideousness of wolf turns) is the triple twisting Yurchenko. Many have been rumored to be training it, North Korean gymnast Hong Un Jong submitted the triple twisting yurchenko, (known about the gymternet simply as the TTY) at the 2013 world championships,

World team champion Alyssa Baumann has been caught on video upgrading her skills.  A video has surfaced of Alyssa training an Amanar (yurchenko style vault, round off on, 2 1/2 twists off). This video has been floating around Tumblr for a while (yes, I am very behind and I am sorry) and  The Magnificent USA, Russian and Romania confirmed that this is Alyssa.

McKayla Maroney has been in the news for reasons not related to her gymnastics. Instead of talking about what she does in her private life, it's time to talk about her gymnastics, specifically, her vault.

Worlds preparation is entering the home stretch. This means getting in routine shape and putting together new skills. Olympic vault bronze medalist, Russian gymnast Maria Paseka has been seen training a handspring Rudi vault.

Spain's Roxana Popa is the latest gymnast to join the Amanar club.

Last week, at the Pacific Rim Championships, the story was yet again, "Bailie Key Rules the World" literally.

2013 World Champion Simone Biles is the latest gymnast to get on the triple twisting yurchenko trend.

Larisa Iordache is back for 2014 and as fierce as ever.

Elena Prudunova was fierce. Whether it was the red hair (I'm voting for that option) or her incredible power, she was just awesome.

While everyone else deals with their post worlds depression with tears and videos of their favorite worlds routines, MyKayla Skinner was upgrading her skills.

The first day of the event finals turned out to be a great continuance from the high of yesterday's women's all around finals. USA put four more athletes on the medal podium with three silvers, a gold and a bronze medal.

In the interest of finding things that are related to gymnastics in movies, television and the internet, I am putting a section of this blog called Gymnastics and Pop Culture. For this entry, I am posting this clip of Family Guy's patriarch, Peter and his Yurchenko 1 1/2. For anyone who is not familiar with the show, the show, the are many cut-away vignettes segmented throughout the show that don't really have anything to do with the plot of the episode. This particular clip features Peter performing at the Olympics. He is on the vault and he performs a Yurchenko, 1 1/2. He sticks the landing. This clip is spliced with a clip of Chellsie Memmel performing the same vault.