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Wow.

If only I could read Russian. This looks terrific.

Issue #1 is posted online. But it’s in one of those new magazine formats that cannot be translated. (Leave a comment if you know of some way to do it.)

Production values are high.

This issue has a lot of Liukins.

I truly hope we can find a way to make it available in other languages.

Thanks Jennifer Isbister for sending us the link.

The URL for the mag is SportGymRus.ru. Leave a comment if you know anything about how we can get our hands on it.

UPDATE: more information in the comments.

ESPN RISE is a high school sports magazine published monthly during the school year in 25 markets around the United States. …

… during the 2007-08 school year, RISE began publishing GIRL, a first-of-its-kind magazine dedicated solely to girls’ high school athletics. …

A younger Shawn Johnson is cover girl for the fall 2009 edition.

Nice promotion for our sport.

ESPN has already posted the article online:

… When Shawn began competing at local meets, believe it or not, she spent a lot of time at the back of the pack. “In gymnastics, the ribbons for third, second and first are red, white and blue,” she says. “The farther out you go, the prettier the ribbon.” And for a long time, Shawn came home with pretty ribbons. “I got the lowest scores and came in 33rd place all the time,” she says. …

read the rest – For Johnson, mind is what matters

(via the GKelite blog)

1996 Olympic gold medalist Dominique Moceanu and her husband, former-gymnast-turned-surgeon Michael Canales, blog on the hits and misses of the 2009 World Gymnastics Championships, taking place this week in London.

Dominique Moceanu was a wonderful gymnast. But her involvement in gymnastics since has been controversial:

• suing for legal emancipation from her parents
• coming out of retirement in 2005 (after 5yrs)
• competing in 2006

Whenever the media needs someone outspoken, they go to Dominique. Especially to get a negative viewpoint on her former coaches, Marta and Béla Károlyi.

You could call Dominique a loose cannon. Or “flaky”.

Yet, I was very surprised how insightful and interesting I found their commentary on International Gymnast magazine. Check it out at:

From the Stands: Women’s Qualification

Kathy Kelly and Marta Karolyi

Yes, there are shots at the Karolyis.

Inside Gymnastics has an entertaining daily review they call The Daily Nine.

(Not sure why it isn’t The Daily Ten.)

… This is the first World Championships where Twitter is playing a big role in dissemination of information and instant commentary from competitors, media outlets and fans. Tweets are flowing freely! … find us at www.twitter.com/insidegym …

check it out – The Daily 9, Thursday Oct. 15th

I love this feature. … But could they not have published a better photo of Bridget Sloan?

International Gymnast – digital

You can read the first pages of the magazine for free as a “teaser” to encourage subscription to the print or digital versions.

In response to a recent post:

We apologize for the crash of our site during the Inside Gymnastics radio show. However we will be posting the radio show as soon as possible on our website and through iTunes. We have lots of great things coming in 2010 and hope the gymnastics community enjoys what is on the horizon.

Remember – follow us on Facebook and Twitter (@insidegym) for live updates. Our Worlds section of InsideGymnastics.com is launching very soon. A big shout-out to our sponsors for making this great section possible!

Shane Womack
Director of Marketing
Inside Gymnastics Magazine

Thanks Shane. Looking forward to your audiocasts being posted on iTunes. As well as the archive being available to stream from your site.

That magazine does a terrific job of updating on both Twitter and Facebook.

If you are using Facebook, find them on this page.

As you know, Facebook is confusing. Often I click links from their posts expecting to go to the online magazine, … only to find myself on the Inside Gymnastics Facebook page. Recently Facebook bought Friendfeed, a far better competitor, but one that never caught on. Hopefully Facebook will adopt some of Friendfeed’s simpler “river of news”.

The Inside Gymnastics site seem to crash today during the live broadcast of their Radio show with host John Roethlisberger. The Radio page is back up now. Hopefully they will post it soon so we can listen to a “repeat”.

Better than this, of course, would be a regular gymnastics audiocast available from the Podcast section of iTunes. There are no gymnastics audiocasts available currently.

If you are a Twitterer, follow them at twitter.com/insideGym

A new YouTube poster on bartgym’s Channel posted a “crash” video called Gymnastics Bloopers 2.

I stopped watching crash videos some years ago. But they are popular.

bartgym’s Channel?

Is that Bart Conner?

The video is overlayed with www.intlgymnast.com.

Does International Gymnast magazine have their own videos? I thought they linked only to Universal Sport.

Leave a comment if you can answer any of these questions.

I’m generally critical of Inside Gymnastics magazine.

Last December Marketing Manager Nicole Harris told us that their very cool audiocast with John Roethlisberger would be available as podcasts on iTunes. And that the radio show would be a monthly broadcast throughout all of 2009.

It’s May.

That did not happen, yet.

There’s been no update either to their very potentially cool IGtv feature.

Now they’ve posted another upbeat promise of improvements. More great things to come.

We’ll see.

The one thing Inside Gymnastics magazine is doing better than anything else is twittering. They are the best source of gymnastics news on twitter, so far.

… We’ve also recently joined Twitter (twitter.com/InsideGym). You can follow us at Twitter handle “InsideGym” for exclusive behind-the-scenes tidbits, breaking news, contests, announcements of upcoming features and interviews, and much more. …

If you don’t use Twitter, the same posts are expanded on their Facebook fan page.

Perhaps I am being too critical. Inside Gymnastics online is free. And they have a lot of great content.

I simply wish they would not announce things … then not deliver.

Check out their other publications: Inside Cheerleading and the Coach’s Resource Guide.