abigail

whaddup im abigail, im not 19 anymore, and i never fuckin learned how to shut up about gymnastics.

[aliya-ilyankova]

Dying

[twoflipstwotwists]

Mai Murakami of Japan finds her mother in the crowd after winning the silver medal in the all-around final at the 2018 World Championships

[griffinssclarke]

Doha 2018 | Women’s AA medalists:

Simone Biles (USA) -  57.491 

Mai Murakami (JPN) -  55.798 

Morgan Hurd (USA) -  55.732

[illyria-and-her-pet]

Luo Huan’s handstands today 😍

cast to handstand to start her routine 

cast to handstand after her pak

cast to handstand after her van leeuwen

handstand after her healy

and the most impressive one of them all: handstand after her healy ½

[gymnasticscrazy]

This is art

[16-233]

Cheng fei and He kexin were doing livestream commentary during TF and according to ppl who watched it they were savage as fuck. 

Some quotes according to tieba:

Cheng Fei thinks all of team russia’s execution is ugly af except aliya. 

“I want to know whether or not some male gymnasts are ashamed of themselves watching simone’s FX” - kexin

Cheng Fei also said anything less than a DTY is worthless, and that she #cantrelate to people (going up on TF) who use double tucks and double pikes as their opening pass on fx.

[wolfkino]

holy SHIT

[mo-salto]

Ok why did Russia get the “pain of a nation” edit tho? 

Also Melka’s slow blink is my new favorite reaction gif.

[gelya-melnikova]

aliyaaa

[stone-faced-sunset]

[morgihurd]

I am…deceased

[rebecaandrade]

[literallyygarbagee]

Okay the sweetest moment in my life was just now when I asked if I could talk to Irina Alexeeva and she came running over and was like “are you Lauren?!” She is the sweetest baby angel and I’m so happy she is finally an international competitor.

[lobaznyuk]

[lobaznyuk]

[lovevolley3]

Alkass Sports Channels - Sports News and videos

STREAM FOR DOHA!  

If anyone is looking for a free stream, no VPN required, check out this website (the Alkass website).  One the horizontal menu at the top of the page, the first drop down has a list of channels: Alkass one, Alkass two, Alkass four, etc.  Gymnastics is being streamed on Alkass four!!!

[gelya-melnikova]

yo!!!

[komova2020]

Is it working for WAG? it’s showing me football right now?

[wolfkino]

they’re not streaming gymnastics until the second subdivision apparently. and i havent been able to find any broadcaster streaming it. not even the countries competing. so.

edit: fourth subdivision*

[wolfkino]

hi i need help. pls read.

this is basically a copy/paste from twitter but im taking a course on fandom studies this semester and i need to interview someone that’s very into a fandom (probably gymnastics) about how they interact with their fandom. i have a list of like 12 questions to ask and its nothing instrusive (or that would give away identifying information). 

the whole point is to interview someone thats different from me, so if you are not a college-aged white woman and would like to help me out, please message me!

[gymfanconfessions]

“Raise your hand if you fear for Ragan”

[vanschapman]

[twoflipstwotwists]

fsgym: Morning in Doha

[tutyayilmazz]

why couldn’t have montreal been an outlier… two years in a row equipment at worlds is basically sabotaging the competitors. why is there no one checking these? why isn’t there more care put into the biggest competition of the year, by fig and the organizers? why can’t these problems be discovered before they’re made? why do the gymnasts have to face this on the eve of competition? why why why