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Former Stanford standouts Grant Breckenridge, Robert Neff, Akash Modi and Eddie Penev will be joined by several other Cardinal men’s gymnasts at the 2020 Winter Cup Challenge this week from the Westgate Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Action begins Thursday.

Current Stanford gymnasts Brandon Briones, Ian Gunther, Riley Loos and Brody Malone will compete in the senior division alongside the alumni. Colt Walker, part of a stellar recruiting class set to enter Stanford next year, will also compete.

On the junior side, future Cardinal Jeremy Bischoff and Brandon Nguyen will compete as performances at the Challenge help determine the 12 men who will comprise the U.S. Men’s Senior National Team through the U.S. Gymnastics Championships in Fort Worth, TX.

Following the first day of competition, the top six ranked all-around athletes will automatically qualify to the 2020 senior national team.

The Men’s Program Committee will select six more athletes for the senior team based on final results.

The U.S. men have qualified a team of four athletes to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. They have the ability to qualify up to two more individual athletes through the All-Around/Individual Apparatus World Cup series as well as through the Pan American Championships.

Assignments to the All-Around and Individual Apparatus World Cups will be finalized based off results from the Winter Cup Challenge.

By Staff report

By Staff report

By Staff report

By Staff report

By Staff report

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  1. While the City of Las Vegas is seemingly lax on COVID-19 concerns, will this event be held in an attendance-free gymnasium for safety precautions?

    Then again, gymnastics does not generally draw the same amount of interested viewers/fans as does a typical NBA game so perhaps this competition will not pose any problems.

    Chances are, most active sports fans would rather turn their attention to MLB, NFL, NBA & NHL productions + TV & merchandising advertisers are not going to devote much money to gymnastics anyway…unless it was the Olympics.

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