Eight all-around champions were crowned at the 2011 Junior Olympic National Invitational Tournament (NIT), held in conjunction with the Women’s National Junior Olympic Championships, at the Long Beach Sports Arena.
The Junior Olympic NIT was developed to allow an additional 192 athletes an opportunity to compete at the national level and features gymnasts who ranked eighth and ninth in the all-around in each of the eight age divisions at the Level 10 Regional Championships (provided they achieved a minimum all-around score of 34.00), plus any Regional individual event champions who did not qualify to the Junior Olympic Nationals or the Junior Olympic NIT in the all-around qualify for that event.
The competition features eight age divisions (Junior A, Junior B, Junior C, Junior D, Senior A, Senior B, Senior C and Senior D), which are determined by age and birth date. …
I talked to a couple of the Alabama coaches at JOs. It was awful. … But there’s a bit of an upside in rebuilding Tuscaloosa. Better than ever, they say.
A paralyzed Chinese gymnast has added sexual abuse claims against her caretakers to her $2 billion lawsuit over Ted Turner’s allegedly broken promise to provide her with lifetime medical coverage. …
Chinese gymnast Sang Lan suffered spinal cord injuries when her head hit the ground during a training exercise at the 1998 Goodwill Games in New York, organized by Turner. She was permanently disabled from the chest down. …
The amended complaint adds claims that Liu and his stepson, Wilson Xue, sexually abused Lan. They unnecessarily bathed her nude and touched her inappropriately, according to a report she says she filed with the Westchester County, N.Y., district attorney’s office. …
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Moscow, having concluded the 2011 FIG World Cup Series with Individual Apparatus Finals, also awarded the following winners of the overall series.
Men Floor: BOUHAIL Thomas (FRA)
Pommel Horse: SELLATHURAI Prashanth (AUS)
Still Rings: BALANDIN Aleksandr (RUS) and PLUZHNIKOV Konstantin (RUS)
Vault: BOUHAIL Thomas (FRA)
Parallel Bars: PETKOVSEK MITJA (SLO)
Horizontal Bar: ZONDERLAND Epke (NED)
Women Vault: MUSTAFINA Alina (RUS) and TKALCEC Tijana (CRO)
Uneven Bars: SEITZ Elisabeth (GER)
Balance Beam: DEMENTYEVA Anna (RUS)
Floor: DEMENTYEVA Anna (RUS)
Are you getting pumped for the first ever Global Planking Day? More than 10,000 people who like to lie face down straight as a board sure are.
Planking, a phenomenon that started in Australia, is simple enough: “You must always lay face down, ensuring your face remains expressionless for the duration of the plank. Your legs must remain straight, and together with toes pointed.” …
The Canadian gymnast Jessica Dowling (16) wants to play for the upcoming World Championships Netherlands. Dowling, daughter of a Canadian father and a Dutch mother, wants to try at the national championships in Heerenveen …
… a “unique opportunity”. “I will do my utmost to me at the Dutch Championship …,” said the Canadian. …
