… Universal Sports made its DirecTV debut July 27 on channel 625. For the first time ever, DIRECTV’s 19.4 million U.S. customers will be able to watch the world’s top athletes competing … including the Visa Championships next month in Saint Paul …
DirecTV is a California based TV broadcaster with 19.2 million subscribers.
Even if you are not one of those 19 million, this should mean that highlight routines make their way to YouTube even faster.
As of July 2011 the only platform that reliable plays video on most devices in most nations of the world over WiFi is YouTube. Universal Sports is improving, but still leaves many potential customers frustrated.
The 2011 Canada Cup Trampoline & Tumbling competition is ended. Gymnastics Alberta has made videos available online. Free.
Canada Cup gold medal favourites Karen Cockburn, Jason Burnett and Corissa Boychuk didn’t disappoint on the final night of competition, sweeping gold on Saturday in the men’s and women’s individual trampoline events and women’s double-mini. …
Former UCLA gymnast and team manager Alyssa Kitasoe talks about her eating disorder that started the year after she left the Team.
… Since she was no longer working out 25 hours a week, the pounds crept onto what had been her fit 5-foot-1, 115-pound frame — a frightening prospect for a girl who for nearly 10 years had endured weekly weigh-ins.
“You still have the mind-set that you need to be tiny,” said Kitasoe, now 24 and four years removed from the most dramatic of her struggles. “You compare yourself to the way you were.”
It was the start of a destructive cycle. …
At least one-third of female college athletes have some type of eating disorder, according to studies published in 1999 and 2002 by experts Craig Johnson and Katherine Beals, who together examined nearly 1,000 female student-athletes participating in various sports. …
Shout out to the Ensoul team, a team of extremely talented bikers , break dancers, poppers, and free runners. We had several of their team members doing the stunts for the video. ..
George Eyser was a German-American gymnast who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics, earning six medals in one day, including three gold and two silver medals.
Eyser competed with a wooden prosthesis for a left leg, having lost his real leg after being run over by a train. Despite his disability, he won gold in the vault, an event which then included a jump over a long horse without aid of a springboard. …
The Paralympic Games began 1948. Most physically challenged athletes now compete there.
Prior to 2008, Eyser was the only person with an artificial leg to have competed at the Olympic Games. In 2008, Natalie du Toit, a South African swimmer who lost her left leg in a traffic accident, participated in the 10 km marathon at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and finished 16th …
” Due to major illnesses in families of two (2) key members of the Organizing Committee, the 2012 Triple Flip Wild Rose has been cancelled. This decision was not made lightly. Both families are now focusing on their loved ones as they will be going through a difficult time in the next few months. “
I’ll be posting video highlights over the next few days.
… unsurprisingly, Larisa Iordache of Romania has taken the AA crown at the 2011 EYOF meet in Trabzon. The little Romanian s capable of massive difficulty across all the apparatus and is shaping up to be Romania’s future star performer. Hot on her heels was were two star Italian juniors, Erika Fasana and then Elisa Meneghini. ..
Add the double layout second pass, and this is a top routine at any level. Smart choreography … aside from the inexplicable sequence to finishing pose. What’s with that?
Jordyn Wieber is one of the favourites to win World Championships 2011.
What does her coach, John Geddert, think of the current Code of Points?
… It’s just the level of difficulty expected; we’ve got to start thinking about the health of the athletes and if you look at the number of injuries in this sport there is obviously something wrong in its current state.
That’s where I think we should start, looking at safety and asking, “what can we safely expect from our athletes and not just make the sport Russian roulette, going into the gym and wondering if the gun will go off every day. …
… Universal Sports made its DirecTV debut July 27 on channel 625. For the first time ever, DIRECTV’s 19.4 million U.S. customers will be able to watch the world’s top athletes competing … including the Visa Championships next month in Saint Paul …
