On Monday during the World Team Selection Camp, Mackenzie Caquatto of Naperville, Ill./Legacy Elite, sustained a bi-lateral ankle sprain from a low landing on a beam dismount. She is responding well to treatment, according to Larry Nassar, the women’s team physician. …
Accidents happened. Gymnastics is a dangerous sport. The timing of this one is really unfortunate, though.
John Geddert on Facebook:
sorry the updates from the Ranch have been a little less detailed than normal. We have been told what happens at the Ranch is to stay at the ranch thus we are not supposed to post the verification scores. All I can say is USA is looking good and Jordyn is doing very well.
Larry Nassar on Facebook:
Wednesday is the final selection for the World and Pan Am teams. Ready for a very exciting day. Too much detailed information being sent out on Tweets and Facebook so will be keeping things limited.
Is such secrecy necessary?
I’m not sure. Rumours leak out anyway, especially to Aunt Joyce. And the information vacuum results in wild speculation.
Team announcement will be made (likely) tonight via @USAGym. The conference call with the members of the U.S. Women’s Team for the 2011 World Championships Team has been changed, however, to 2:30 p.m. ET on Sept. 22.
Even without Mackenzie’s Bars I still see USA as the favourite in Tokyo. I’m cheering for Chellsie to hit Bars today.
That’s pretty much my favourite way to start the ‘whip layout’ forward. Additional steps could include 1-arm flyspring with each arm. And finger tip flyspring.
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MTV News: ‘Gymnasts: Parallel Lives‘, is a new series starting October 17th, the story of seven young Italian athletes
… emotional sporting adolescents (aged 14 to 20 years) who live, study and train in the Federal Center of Artistic Gymnastics in Milan, in view of the World Championships in Tokyo in October 2011 and the Olympics London in 2012.
Girls grappling with the relentless pace of athletic training, the pressure of international competition, discipline and daily sacrifices. Not only that, there are also the first flirting and love troubles, school concerns, changes in growth and body changes, shocks due to isolation from their families, friendships and rivalries with teammates. …
Doug Davis of Tumbl Trak feels the new air floors are good enough for the most advanced tumblers. Even for Trampoline Gymnastics Power Tumblers who compete Rod Floor.
I have my doubts. The timing is so different.
But Doug just might be right, the technology improving.
Alexandra Orlando is an Olympic athlete who dedicated seventeen years of her life to the sport of rhythmic gymnastics, winning almost two hundred medals. She was Senior Canadian National Champion by the age of sixteen— a title she won five times, earning her the reputation as one of the few non-Europeans competing at the highest level in this sport …
Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships is in progress in France.
… Gymnasts placing among the top 15 in the All-around qualify their country directly for the Olympic Games 2012 in London, while ranks 16-24 will have participation rights at the second Olympic qualifier, the test event on January 16-18, also in London. …
The gymnastic set piece has been praised as “anxiety-filled”, “a beautiful example of successful comic suspense”, “Hitchcockian edge-of-your-seat suspense”, and “inventively grotesque”. …
I wouldn’t go that far. But it is slightly more realistic than Make It or Break It. (renewed for another season)
Will Emily Kmetko come back to training with a baby !?
Click PLAY or watch the movie clip on YouTube. (stop at 4min to avoid the death on Beam)
Candice, is played by actress Ellen Wroe, a former gymnast for Crenshaws. She did much of that footage herself.
One of the stunt doubles is Canadian gymnast Brittany Rogers.
Anne from Gymnastike continues her series on the new College recruits.You can click on the gymnast’s name to watch video interviews and routines.
STANFORD will be even more insanely great than last season. I can hardly wait. (They do lose Kristina Vaculik for a year.)
Alex Archer, Precision, L10
Pauline Hanset, Premier Athletics, L10 Ivana Hong, WOGA, Sr. international elite
Samantha Shapiro, All Olympia, Sr. International Elite
Becky Wing, UK National Team, elite
… this team will be one to watch! This recruiting class has it all – artistry, international flare, and experience. Ivana Hong was a 2008 US Olympic alternate and 2009 World bronze medalist on beam, and a 2-time US National Champion. Hong has not competed since 2009 when she tore her ACL in the selection camp for the 2010 American Cup and I believe gymnastics fans around the world share in my excitement to see her back out on the floor. To continue, former US National team member Samantha Shaprio will add immense artistry to the lineups and college training should be easier on her injury-prone body. Becky Wing was a member of the 2008 British Olympic team and the 6th place British team at the 2007 World Championships. She is an elegant gymnast, a mature competitor, and is exceptional on bars and beam.
Jordyn’s training great at World’s camp. Hit 4 routines day 1 aside from over-rotating one tumbling pass. She’s the favourite in the AA for Tokyo, I’d say.
On Monday during the World Team Selection Camp, Mackenzie Caquatto of Naperville, Ill./Legacy Elite, sustained a bi-lateral ankle sprain from a low landing on a beam dismount. She is responding well to treatment, according to Larry Nassar, the women’s team physician. …
