4 U.S. Athletes Set To Compete In World Cup Events This Week
4 U.S. Athletes Set To Compete In World Cup Events This Week
The U.S. is sending four U.S. athletes to FIG World Cup events this week. What can we expect in Birmingham and Doha?
Margzetta Frazier, Donothan Bailey, Marvin Kimble, and Alec Yoder will represent the U.S. in two World Cup events this week in Birmingham, England, and Doha, Qatar.
Birmingham
Frazier and Bailey will compete in the Birmingham World Cup, taking place Wednesday, March 21, and Thursday, March 22. The women’s event starts Wednesday at 2 PM ET, while the men compete Thursday at 2 PM ET.
The Birmingham World Cup is one of four all-around World Cup competitions this year.
Birmingham stages the penultimate meet of the 2018 Artistic #Gymnastics All-around World Cup series this week.
— FIG (@gymnastics) March 20, 2018
Event website ? https://t.co/X4lFiHffEh
? Highlights ? Friday on the FIG YouTube channel pic.twitter.com/oCg0GgAAYy
The Birmingham event will be Frazier's first international assignment. The 18-year-old just missed the 2017 World Championships, but she came out on top in the February 2018 verification event where she earned a chance to compete in a World Cup event.
"I feel like I'm at an all-time high," Frazier said in an interview with local Pennsylvania newspaper The Morning Call. "I want to make everybody proud."
From Bailey, we can expect to see solid performances on pommel horse and parallel bars, where he shows the most difficulty.
Doha
American men Kimble and Yoder will be featured in the Doha World Cup on March 21-24. The event finals will take place in Qatar on Friday and Saturday.
The Artistic @gymnastics World Cup will gather the best gymnasts in the world here in #Qatar this week from 21-24 March at the Aspire Dome!https://t.co/XBGxwYVYTo pic.twitter.com/rKoztjiJXB
— DohaGym2018 (@DohaGym2018) March 20, 2018
In this event, the athletes will contend for individual apparatus titles. Kimble is set to compete on pommel horse, rings, parallel bars, and high bar, while Yoder is expected to compete on pommel horse, parallel bars, and high bar.