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Quite slick. Featuring these main subcategories:

Home
News
Athletes
Photos
Video
Social Wall

Of those, Social Wall is the coolest. Choose between athlete tweets, Facebook status updates, photos and more.

USAgymnast.com

Sadly, there’s no RSS feed aside from Comments. And who wants to read online comments?

Don’t bother clicking on any RSS icons. You’ll be wasting your time. Web site designers who pretend to embrace social media without actually providing an RSS feed are conflicted, at best. Delusional, at worst.

USAG still owns Gymnast.com, as well. And is still not doing anything with that domain name. Somebody should make them an offer to buy it. $100,000+, I’d expect.

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From Susan P. Shaw by email:

Thank you for your interest in the 2012 Visa Championships/U.S. Olympic Trials – Gymnastics, but unfortunately, we are unable to approve your media credential request.

Due to high demand and in order to maintain a professional work environment, it is necessary to limit available work space.

The USA Gymnastics Communications Staff

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The end of Steph’s FX at NCAA team finals, with Utah fans in the background in yellow t-shirts. Yellow? I know… don’t ask, it’s a long story. 200 followed us to GA. Best fans ever… Utes Rocked the House!

Stephanie McAllister - NCAA Championships 2012

Check right away to see more.

Impressive as Utah’s fan base is, Corvallis (Oregon State) pop: 45,000 draws more fans / capita than does Utah in Salt Lake City.

Thanks American gymnastics.

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It’s called: Blossom, Chinese Gymnastics Flowers.

The editor is Chinese, but living in the USA.

A sample post:

Chinese National Championships will be held next month in Shanghai. All of the Olympic hopefuls are expected to compete there. The competition also serves as a big part of the selection process for the Chinese Olympic team. …

The girls can be roughly grouped in these 5 categories (forgive me for my super relaxed standards when I put certain people into certain groups):

All Around Yao Jinnan, Huang Qiushuang

Bars & Beam Wu Liufang, Huang Huidan, Tan Sixin

Beam & Floor Sui Lu, Zeng Siqi, Shang Chunsong, Deng Linlin

Vault & Bars Jiang Yuyuan, He Kexin, Luo Peiru, Yang Yilin

Vault & Floor Cheng Fei

… The preliminary released competition schedules are as follows:

• 5/8 – Men’s Qualifications

• 5/9 – Women’s Qualifications

• 5/10 – Men’s & Women’s All Around

• 5/11 – Event Finals Day 1 (MFX, MPH, WVT, MSR, WUB)

• 5/12 – Event Finals Day 2 (MVT, WBB, MPB, WFX, MHB)

14 Girls, 5 Spots, 1 Common Olympic Dream

There are other specialists not listed. And those gymnasts are also training other apparatus. He Kexin does Floor, for example.

But that’s an overview of the strongest contenders at this point in time.

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This past season the family was forced to change gyms. Adjusting and adapting to a new gym culture.

The family made new friends. New gym relationships.

DD was injured just before the State Championship, and had to learn to handle accepting a zero score on two apparatus.

I expected my daughter to excel both as an athlete and as a young woman if I provided her with the right environment. I knew a team of good role models and like-minded families would reinforce the values that our family strives to protect everyday. What I didn’t realize, was that by creating this type of environment for my daughter, I was also molding myself into a better individual too.

read more – Gymnastics teaches lessons I didn’t know I needed to learn

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I’ve broken the rules of sponsor branding for that … that big thing happening this summer. You know. With gymnastics.

… Using one of those words with London, medals, sponsors, summer, gold, silver or bronze is another likely breach. The two-word rule is not fixed, however: an event called the “Great Exhibition 2012″ was threatened with legal action last year …

Guardian – Olympics 2012: branding ‘police’ to protect sponsors’ exclusive rights

The IOC branding “police” will be busy, busy this year.

JGC mocks the restrictions:

… My blog is in no way associated with the Londinium … Demonstrations of World Class Athletic Ability. But if you do wish to talk about them, may I suggest the official name Londinium MMXII and hash tag #mmxii. And here’s an alternative logo representing the five interlocking benzene rings of benzopyrene:

Here’s a summary of legal ways of using the brand.

Happily the IOC seem to have given up trying to police social media. It’s impossible.

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Tom Winter, 68-year-old University of Nebraska classics professor, rose to Internet stardom after a picture of him riding his skateboard, with a briefcase in hand, became a Reddit top post on Thursday. …

Mashable

He’s already atop of one list of the 30 Best Teachers Of All Time.

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Here’s 13yr-old gymnast Mia Dumas, a spokes-gymnast for the Canadian National Gymnastics Championships 2012.

Mia did great. A natural.

… The six-day event will attract approximately 1,000 gymnasts from across the country, including athletes who are on their way to London, England for the 2012 Summer Games. …

“I’m using the same chalk as they use and I’ll be on the same beam and using the same floor as them,” said Dimas, a 13-year-old, Grade 7 student at Dr. A.E. Perry School. “I’m competing at the same event and in the same building as them. You’re so close to being an Olympian and you feel like an Olympian because they’re right there beside you …

Leader~Post – Local athletes to mingle with Olympians

We’re hosting Nationals in Regina May 21-26th, 2012. Artistic, Trampoline and Rhythmic. Please plan to join us.

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Gymnastike earned the top spot for Best Gym Website, for the second year in a row.

This site was a distant 3rd place.

That didn’t surprise. But this did:

Well-known brand Ten.0 took the prize as best grip, with 59 percent.

The Runners-Up:

Reisport: 24%

US Glove: 5%

Bailie: 5%

English Bulldog: 4%

Are Ten.0 really that popular? I tell all girls to buy Reisport.

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