CA left Canada for the U.K. after the 2008 Olympics and married Eddie Van Hoof, British Men’s Technical Director. Currently she’s GBR Women’s National Coach – Beam & Artistic Preparation.

She’s available for clinics. Click PLAY or watch a short clip on BG TV.

I’m always keen to see how Beam coaches vary the height of the apparatus.

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… Peng Peng Lee’s awesome Homma-variation mount, Dorina Boczogo’s high rated Rankin mount, Ana Porgras’s jump to split and Vanessa Ferrari’s traditional show of brute strength with her planche mount …

read more – Interesting Beam Mounts

Click PLAY or watch Dorina on YouTube.

She’s gorgeous. Watch her Olympics 2008 Beam here. Or a montage titled … How come I have never heard of this incredible gymnast before??!! … here.

On Couch Gymnast’s Facebook, Simone Alexander linked to Sarah Lauren’s “side somi” mount on Beam at the 2001 Aussie Nationals.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Slovenia’s Maja Hribar may have competed that in 2001, as well. Here’s a training video.

Leave a comment if you’ve seen other gymnasts compete anything like a side somi mount.

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“I am completely confident with my ability to catch the line if I were to fall.

Highlining at Cathedral Peak, Yosemite, California
Photograph by Mikey Schaefer

This shot is just one spectacular scene from “The Man Who Can Fly,” an episode of Explorer airing Sunday, February 12, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on the National Geographic Channel. The show captures Potter’s quest for true human flight, with first feats in free soloing and wing suit flying in Yosemite, California, and British Columbia, Canada. …

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Training hasn’t suffered.

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That’s posted on her Facebook Fan page, or go to the video directly if you’d like to comment. See more videos on her YouTube channel.

related – Gymnastike interview after her team’s 2nd highest score ever.

(via Inner Monoblog and Couch Gymnast)

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Thanks George. I think.

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SHOCK! Ana Porgras withdraw only 18! World Champion in 2010 and a beam of hope for gold in London gave up gymnastics

That’s the headline on Sport.ro.

The 2010 World Champion on Beam made the decision after an elbow injury at a Christmas training camp in France.

Read the article via Google Translate.

She won the 2011 Longines Prize Of Elegance in Tokyo. This is a terrible loss for Team Romania, especially on Bars. And for gymnastics fans everywhere.

Update – the Prosport interview translated by Fangymnastics:

From the moment I made this decision there is no turning back. I said stop and I’m not coming back.

(via Fangymnastics on Facebook)

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They won Floor as a team. Ferrari had the highest AA. … But the big reason was the margin (PDF) by which they won Beam as a team.

Watch their highest Beam score, Carlotta FERLITO on YouTube.

14.533 (Difficulty : 6.00, Execution : 8.533).

Click PLAY or watch Francesca D’Agostini on YouTube. 14.525

Slightly over-scored, I’d say.

But a win’s a win. Italy did a fantastic job.

Their Men grabbed the last team qualification spot with a strong performance, too.

I got those links from Between the Olympics, the best page to find routines from London.

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CONGRATULATIONS to Simona Castro.

… University of Denver junior gymnast Simona Castro (Santiago, Chile) made history on her 23rd birthday, becoming the first Chilean woman to qualify for a gymnastics spot in the Olympic Games …

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Click PLAY or watch her Beam from qualifying on YouTube.

GREAT SAVE Simona. And thanks to Coach Carl Leland for introducing me. This is going to be an awesome Olympics for Chile.

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