Nastia Liukin (the 2008 Olympic All-Around Champion) lives in Plano (a suburb near us). Her Dad, Valeri, hosts a yearly invitational in his Frisco gym. In years past, Nick has never participated in this invite because his Level and Age Group seemed to have fallen on a Sunday.
This year Nick's age group (8 & 9) and Level (6) competed on Friday night. It was FUN to be competing in our hometown of Frisco at a world-premier gymnasium (WOGA). There was excitement in the air! Teams from all over the world were competing! And how did Nick do...
Here are the stats from what I can remember:
8th in the All-Around (85.6). 1st through 7th were from out-of-state/country.
4th in the pommel horse (14.2).
2nd in the rings with a 15.2 - a 15.3 took 1st.
All of his other scores were very presentable (13.6 on p-bars, 14.2 on vault, 14.0 on floor, 14.4 on high bar), for those are all figured into his All-Around score. The Team, Eagle Gymnastics, received 7th overall.
As we can see, the gymnasts are "thinning" and it's much much harder to bring home those 1st, 2nd and 3rd place medals as in years past. But Nick is one dedicated gymnast and this is only the BEGINNING of his season for 2010-2011. Go Nick!
(The "bobble" you will see during the handstand cost him 3/10 of a point.)
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3 comments:
WOW!!!!!! He is seriously amazing!!! What an incredible experience! Probably many more to come!
Way to go Nick!! All of the hard work is paying off!
That is soooo cool!
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