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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The question being, who’s the one doing the pummeling: the horse or the gymnast?
en.beijing2008.cn/news/sports/headlines/artisticgymnastics/n214065237.shtml
“Chinese gymnast Teng Haibin entered the final of pummel horse at the World Cup series for 2007-2008 season on Friday…”
www.theviewnewspapers.com/printarticle.asp?article=8815
“Blake Collins (16-18) 3rd all around, 1st floor and parallel bars, 2nd rings and high bar, 3rd pummel horse and 4th vault…”
mblog.lib.umich.edu/bit200/archives/2007/04/gymnastics_clas.html
“However, instead of joking with teammates from the next beam over, or the dreaded pummel horse, he instead stands aside in a leg cast..”
www.michigandaily.com/news/2003/02/03/S … 5444.shtml
“Daily Freshman Justin Laury won the pummel horse yesterday with a score of 9.000…”
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