World Champion, Lauren Mitchell, back on beam at the 2014 Australian National Championships.
She has been named to the Commonwealth Team for Scotland later this summer.
In the news, Uncle Tim, Brigid head honcho at The Couch Gymnast, Evan, and Jessica chat about:
- Bela Karolyi style scratch-and-petition-nastics at Australian National Championships and the Godwin Factor for Commonwealth Games team.
- The Russian men dominate with gorgeous, clean, high flying skills at European Championships while Ukraine earns a spot on the podium despite war at home and neck tattoos.
- Max Whitlock beats Krisztian Berki on pommel horse!
- Fabian Hambuechen had a scary fall, did Epke Zonderland's hair cut help his high bar form, and should Mr. Alexander Shatilov have won the Mr. Sofia title?
- Mtv Germany has a shirtless gymnastics video shoot that we investigate like Grandi at a rhythmic judging exam.
- The shinning hope for Australia after a dark time, Larissa Miller of tribe Uneven Bars.
We get to the bottom of the top news stories from around the gymternet :
- Anna Pavlova's fall out of the show and down the stairs
- THIS KID! Emmy doing the most adorable routine we've ever seen.
- New skills submitted for evaluation at the European Championships
- Updates from The Ranch: Laurie Hernandez, MyKayla Skinner and Maggie Nichols
- Steve Butcher, Men’s Tech Committee Chair , sounding reasonable.
Pre-sale tickets for 2015 World Championships in Glasgow are on sale here. Full results from the 2014 Australian National Championships here
Igor Radivilov's neck tattoo.
2014 Australian All-Around Champion, Georgia Godwin of Queensland. Click on this Post
by Gym Qld WAG High Performance Centre to watch the video of her beam routine that Jessica references in this episode.
