… a listing of high level skills performed by Women in the 2019 Season. To make this list, the skill had to be successfully competed in a meet sometime during the season. The skill competed must have an FIG rating of “E” or “F” or “G”, or an FIG Vault Difficult Value of 5.3 or higher.
Henrietta is one of five “Gymnastics Legends to be honored by the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame“.
• Cathy Rigby (USA) -1970 World Championships, Silver medal on Balance Beam
• Henrietta Onodi (HUN) – 1992 Olympic Gold and Silver Medalist
• Yuri Korolev (RUS) – 1981 and 1985 World All-Around Champion
• Mikhail Voronin (RUS) – Winner of 9 Olympic medals in 1968 and 1972 (deceased)
• Eileen Langsley (GBR) will be awarded the International Order of Merit for her contributions as the most prolific photographer of major gymnastics competitions for nearly 30 years.
The weekly Gymnastics Examiner post is packed with links:
Zhang Nan, Longines, Dynamics Unlimited Gymnastics, Wu Jiani and Li Xuejiu, Fu Bo, Kristina Goryunova, Nastia Liukin & Jared the Subway guy, Grace Taylor, Hollie Vise, Sarah Shire, Dominic Morris, Viktoria Komova, Marissa King, Cameron Rogers, Beth Tweddle, Danusia Francis, … and many more.
Alabama: Not Invincible … Oklahoma: Can they stay undefeated? … UCLA: Finding consistency … Florida: Don’t count them out … Georgia: Needs a road win …
The winning team at Championships must hit 24 for 24.
UCLA I’d call the favourite. But can they hit 24 routines under pressure?
If you believe in momentum, pick Oklahoma. It seems to be their year.
I think Alabama has a good chance to hit 24 routines. If they do, it will be tough to beat the Tide.
Her computer hard drive crashed, many thousands of video clips lost. I left a comment recommending she sign up for Carbonite or Mozy, the two leading online back-up solutions.
This document called Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Help Desk has the intention to clarify and give examples of the different rules of the FIG WAG Code of Points.
The goal of WTC is to reduce different interpretations of the rules, therefore provide a more objective work of the judges. …
WAG Help Desk
It’s a supplement to the code. Here are samples of the kind of “Help” included:
This document would be useful for any Artistic WAG coach. Download a copy to your computer: WAG Help Desk (PDF)
As a PDF document online, it will be inexpensive and easy to update.
Congratulations to the by FIG WTC for putting this together. Good work.
One of the feel good gymnastics stories of the year. The big comeback of Hollie Vise for Oklahoma. She competed the all-around for the first time in her College career, scoring 39.600.
As a trivia side note, when I started my first gymnastics website (for Kyle Shewfelt in 1999), I identified Hollie’s as the best gymnast website online. It’s almost unchanged today, 11yrs-later. I still like it.
With the recent success of Bridget Sloan, Coach Marvin Sharp has made a name for himself in the world of elite gymnastics. Marvin talks about how he got started in coaching gymnastics and why he ultimately decided to open his own gym.
Marvin is the Head Coach of Sharp’s Gymnastics in Indiana and the personal coach to 2008 Olympians Bridget Sloan and Samantha Peszek. Marvin has been coaching Bridget for 13 years and in October of 2009, he coached Bridget to an individual World All-Around title.
… She seems to have peaked in the RQS time frame climbing up the list rapidly the last month or so. Sarah’s RQS for individual events has her ahead of Susan on BB and FX, tied on UB with Susan being ahead in Vault. The total season average has Susan in the lead 39.525 to 39.358 for Sarah. Vanessa Zamarippa actually has a higher season average than both but is tied for second RQSwise with Susan.
The RQS (Regional Qualifying Score) results in some surprising rankings. Here’s how it’s explained by GymInfo:
… Qualification for regional competition is based on a team’s and an all-around competitor’s six best regular-season-meet scores, of which three must be away. To obtain the regional qualifying score (RQS), the high score is eliminated and the remaining five scores are averaged. …
Therefore, if you have 3 meets away in which you got high scores, your ranking may be higher than if all your highest scores were at home meets.
