#shang chunsong

[gymfanconfessions]

“I think everyone's forgotten, so lemme just say that songsong was robbed :)”

[morgihurd]

Who is your favorite non-American gymnast?

bro way too many to have a single favorite but I suppose the notable mentions are Mustafina, Melnikova, Shang Chunsong, Melanie de Jesus, Loretta Charpy, Wang Yan, Heath Thorpe

[big-bad-bhardwaj]

Whos your favorite or best gymnast who does not have an individual world or Olympic medal?

I cant think of many: Flavia, Shang Chunsong…

Who else?

[miss-mollys-ballet-blog]

Gymnastics Master Post: Women’s Quals

In regards to team USA:

1. Is anyone else not surprised at all to see that the individual spot that should have been Riley was wasted on Skinner?  What exactly was the point in bringing her, we all knew she wouldn’t get in on any finals or the all around, whereas Riley had a chance on bars.

2. Insanely underwhelming.  That’s it.  That’s the comment.  They’d better get it together if they want to win the team again because right now it’s not looking great.

3. Also those leotards were tacky as hell, I wish they had worn the podium training ones instead.

Now onto subdivision 2

I love that Listunova’s floor main theme is Russkaya (Russian Dance) by Tchaikovsky in Swan Lake, it’s very fitting!

It’s nonsense the Downies aren’t there, team GB messed up massively with that.

Melnikova’s floor routine is more entertaining than literally any of the US gymnasts.  She even did an entrechat, we love seeing gymnasts doing ballet and they actually look like ballet.

It’s so cool there’s a Sri Lankan gymnast and after the fall on the first, she looks so good!  

I miss Shang Chunsong.

Double layout dismount will forever be the most beautiful dismount for bars and I miss Gabby’s.

I’m obsessed with China’s leotards, especially Fan Yilin’s blue and white, they’re actually elegant which so many leos aren’t anymore.

MASKS GO OVER THE NOSE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.  OVER. THE. NOSE.

Okay in the dance elements of floor, someone please tell the gymnasts to extend their entire arm and have the energy go all the way down so they don’t just flop but actually look elegant and beautiful and meaningful.  Please.

I know it’s super common, but I love the back dive to candle mount on beam.  It’s so elegant!!

I’m so sad Sanne didn’t make it back to the beam finals, it was so nice to see a gymnast who wasn’t tumbling focused win in 2016.

Were Elisa Haemmerle’s legs supposed to be that bent in her vault??  They weren’t bent enough to look like a tuck, but also not straight at all...

Halfway through Russia’s bars, I’m falling asleep.  I’m just excited for men’s gymnastics.

[queen-chengfei]

songsong 3.5 D score on vault actually she had 7.0 d and the judges cut it in half bc she had too much of an advantage so CORRUPT JUDGES CORRUPT FIG

[shxngchunsong]

i have figured out photoshop

[retrodancefreak96]

Songsong is back to her old olympic level tumbling passes! 3.5 twist + punch front, and 1.5 twist step out to triple twist +punch front 😍

[tutyayilmazz]

apparently songsong is doing parkour now instead

[griffinssclarke]

[hardtchill]

Have you always liked gymnastics or is it a more recent sport you got into?

I have always liked it, been watching since 2008 i think? But it kinda goes on and off like basically every sport i follow. Right now i watch everything i can, but some years i only watch the highlights or major tournaments.

I like the sport, but it's the personalities and individual athletes that draw me in. Right now i really like Simone and Suni for the US, Mai (Murakami), Angelina (Melnikova), Nina (Derwael) and Li (Shijia).

I always really admired Shang (Chunsong), i'm sad she retired when she did.

[gymfanconfessions]

“ Shang Chunsong is still my queen. She looked amazing at Chinese Champs, I loved her music, her leo, her tumbling, she looked really happy and healthy. Literally the cutest moment of the competition was when she was laughing and smiling and waving to the crowd after her routine. “

[flaviasrings]

anastasia motak x shang chunsong🌝🌝

credits: @211ukrjump

[golden-china]

Team Beijing, Guangdong and Hubei are ready for the National Games! Podium training starts tomorrow!

Wang Jingying, Qi Qi, Wang Yan, Tang Xijing, Lin Haibin, Du Siyu, Wu Boyang Tang Xijing, Qi Qi || Wu Boyang, Du Siyu Liu Tingting, Luo Rui, Sun Xinyi, Ou Yushan, Liu Xinyu, Wu Ran, Bi Qingqing, Chen Yile || Guo Fangting, Shang Chunsong Source: 杜思雨, 陈一乐, 商春松

[queen-chengfei]

AA Performances of the Decade—as voted by the gymternet

Ok some of you might remember I put together a vote for the best routines of the decade as a run-up to the Olympics, and then I TOTALLY forgot to post the final one in the series, which was favorite all-around performances. Since Tokyo 2020 isn’t happening, I thought I should go back and finish off writing out this one. For your quarantine viewing pleasure, here are your favorite all-around performances of the decade, as voted by the tumblr gymternet.

I found individual links to routines for every gymnast on the list, and full replays for all the AA competitions featured:

2010 Worlds 2010 YOG 2011 Worlds 2012 Olympics 2014 Worlds 2016 Olympics 2017 Worlds 2018 Worlds 2019 Euros 2019 Worlds

1. Aliya Mustafina (RUS)—2010 Worlds (40 votes)   VT / UB / BB / FX The winner by a LANDSLIDE. Proud of all of you—time could not erase the euphoria of witnessing the coronation of Queen Aliya. And because I know we all live for this shit, here’s Aliya+Russian anthem

2. Simone Biles (USA)—2016 Olympics (19 votes) VT / UB / BB / FX The GOAT. One of the most dominant AA showings in history.

2. Morgan Hurd (USA)—2017 Worlds (19 votes) VT / UB / BB / FX She is the only gymnast who has won a World all-around title since the Simone era began, though her 2017 program deserves more than just comparison. As a first year senior, facing immense pressure and Montreal’s horrible lighting, she produced a clean and consistent day, topped off by a well-executed and difficult floor routine with beautifully interpreted choreography.

4. Larisa Iordache (ROU)—2014 Worlds (15 votes) all routines Romania’s best AAer in recent years, Larisa gave Simone a run for the gold, missing out by only a few tenths. Only #TrueLegends take an extra long choreo break in the corner to decide if they should upgrade their last pass to a piked full-in, and then actually go for it in a final bid for the gold.

5. Shang Chunsong (CHN)—2016 Olympics (10 votes) VT/ UB/ BB/ FX I AM ETERNALLY SAD ABOUT THIS. She finished at a heartbreaking 4th place, just 0.116 away from bronze, reigniting complaints from 2015 about underscoring and generating the #SongsongWasRobbed movement.

6. Mai Murakami (JPN)—2018 Worlds (8 votes) VT / UB / BB / FX One of the best Japanese female gymnasts ever, Mai has been a force on the international stage since her senior debut in 2012. In 2017, she had a golden opportunity to win AA gold over Hurd, but fell off the beam and the medal podium. In 2018, she took her opportunity and won silver, showing her chops as a floor champion with a routine featuring a double double and double layout. She became Japan’s first ever (edit:)silver AA medalist (sorry i forgot u Koko), and jumped tearfully into the stands to hug her equally tearful mother.

7. Gabby Douglas and Viktoria Komova (USA)—2012 Olympics (7 votes each) Gabby VT / UB / BB / FX Vika VT / UB / BB / FX

I PROMISE I DIDN’T RIG THIS, but it’s maybe fitting one of the biggest AA controversies of the last decade ended up tying each other, head to head. Gabby, a dark horse prior to the competition, made history and became the first black Olympic AA champion. With high difficulty and clean execution highlighted by a stand-out bars routine with soaring flight elements and difficult floor routine, Gabby edged out Viktoria Komova to become Olympic champion.

And Vika. Oh Vika. Ever since her rocket to fame at 2010 YOG, she was hyped to become the next great Russian star. With amazing toepoint, gorgeous lines and huge difficulty, she seemed set to fulfill her destiny when she came first in qualifications. However, despite a strong performance including a near-perfect floor routine, she fell short of gold by just a few tenths. Curses to those extra steps she took on her vault!!

9. Aly Raisman (USA)—2016 Olympics (6 votes) all routines YES I CRY WHEN I WATCH HER FLOOR, WHAT OF IT.

10. Tang Xijing (CHN)—2019 Worlds (2 votes) all routines After spectacularly choking in qualifying and getting 2 per’d out of the AA final, Tang Xijing got a second chance when she was substituted for her teammate Liu Tingting, and took full advantage by becoming the first Chinese AA medalist since Yao Jinnan in 2011, and matching the highest result achieved by Jiang Yuyuan in 2010.

The following received one vote apiece

Angelina Melnikova (RUS)—2019 Worlds VT / UB / BB / FX

Viktoria Komova (RUS) 2010 YOG  all routines 2011 Worlds VT / UB / BB / FX

Melanie De Jesus Dos Santos (FRA)—2019 Euros VT / UB / BB / FX

Ellie Black (CAN)—2017 Worlds all routines

[shxngchunsong]

[tutyayilmazz]

Translated answers from songsong's q&a relayed by chngymternet! (The second one is about tokyo) im excited she's enjoying herself now and wants to compete at universiade though!!