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A personal thanks to Dana Brass, interim Head Coach of Go For It Gymnastics in Vegas, for organizing our clinic / camp last week. It was great.

Shout out to Kyle Shewfelt, inspirational headliner at camp. He made a lot of kids very happy.

From the Facebook album: Wall Photos by Amber

… Many of the girls had attended the UCLA camp with Nastia earlier in the summer. They told me they didn’t see any Olympic medals there. (Likely Nastia has hers locked up in a vault.)

more photos from Go For It

Divers are much more artistic than Artistic gymnasts.

… But are they are allowed to “cowboy” saltos on some skills. Leave a comment if you know the rules on that. (Perhaps we could get more specific on our gymnastics regulations.)

UPDATE: From Mike:

D 8.5.2 During the flight, the position of the dive shall be at all times aesthetically pleasing. Should any of the positions not be shown as described below, each judge shall deduct ½ to 2 points, according to his opinion.

Tuck (C)

D 8.5.7 In the tuck position the body shall be compact, bent at the knees and hips with the knees and feet together. The hands shall be on the lower legs and the toes pointed.

It’s not specifically “allowed”. But is used as judges evaluate from the side.

(… I moved the other photo to the comments)

Everyone is surprised at what a success YOG turned out to be. It looks like the Youth Olympic Games are here to stay.

I’ve not heard of a single overage athlete scandal.

Better athletes will be coming to the next Youth Olympics, IOC president Jacques Rogge said Thursday. ..

The head of the U.S. Olympic Committee on Tuesday blamed scheduling conflicts for the Americans’ woeful performance in the inaugural Youth Olympics, where their gold medal tally is less than Hungary and Azerbaijan. …

The Youth Olympics, which closed Thursday, were dominated by China, which won 30 gold medals and 51 overall. Russia was second with 19 gold medals and South Korea was third with 11.

The United States won only four gold medals, and U.S. Olympic Committee chief executive Scott Blackmun said earlier this week that scheduling conflicts had kept some top American athletes from competing in Singapore.

The Youth Olympics featured 3,600 athletes aged 14 to 18 from 204 national Olympic committees competing in 26 sports. …

“These Youth Games have definitely exceeded vastly my highest expectations,” Rogge said. “I did not expect this level of perfection in organization. Hats off to Singapore for what they have done.”

Rogge says Youth Olympics to have better athletes

The inaugural youth winter games will be held in Innsbruck, Austria, in 2012 and the summer games in Nanjing, China in 2014. Lillehammer, Norway, which hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics, is the only city that has expressed an interest in hosting the 2016 winter games, and has until November to submit a formal bid, the IOC said.

related – Missing top talent hurts US team at Youth Olympics

The IG interview with Adrian Stoica, president of the International Gymnastics Federation Men’s Technical committee is now online.

IG editor Dwight Normile asks all the right questions.

Stoica confirms that he plans to run for F.I.G. President one day. (I’d vote for Slava Corn.)

Stoica also defends the current Men’s Code of Points, explaining that eventually coaches will invent shorter routines with fewer execution deductions. That’s not what’s been happening, so far.

There’s been a big increase in C, D and E parts. Gymnasts are trying to win by getting the highest start values.

Stoica agreed with Normile that the rules on Horizontal Bar are flawed. Changes will be seriously considered for after London.

Click through to the September 2010 issue of International Gymnast. It’s a great interview.

There are a number of wrap-ups on the Youth Olympic Games.

Gymnastics – No Ceiling posted videos of 10 of the best performances at the YOG.

One of the biggest surprises was Guatemala’s Ana Sofia Gomez Porras on Beam. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

That was also posted on Amy’s The All Around tumblr blog.

Watch Beam Finals highlights on the official YOG YouTube channel.

Congratulations to Oleg and Ukraine.

Here’s The All Around wrap-up of the last day of Finals, including a description of his win on P Bars.

Oleg Stepko

From the Facebook album: 2010 Youth Olympic Games by Grace Chiu GraceClick

The biggest surprise of the morning was that these two gymnasts finished GOLD and SILVER on Vault in a competition that has the word “Olympics” on top of the banner.

Vault: 1. Ganbat (MGL) 2. Arican (TUR) 3. Abad (ESP)

… Erdenebold Ganbat took gold in the vault to give Mongolia its most successful result in history. With a handspring double front and a double-twisting Tsukahara, Ganbat edged Turkey’s Ferhat Arican (handspring full to piked front, Tsukahara 2 1/2), 15.650-15.662. Top qualifier Nestor Abad (Spain) won the bronze (15.450). …

IG

Erdennbold Ganbat of Mongolia:

And here’s Ferhat Arican of Turkey.

How fantastic for those up-and-coming gymnasts, their coaches, their federations.

The absurdly difficult open-ended F.I.G. rules have not slowed the progress of international development on the Men’s side.

Here’s the IG write up on the last day of Artistic competition at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore:

In the wake of mistake’s from all-around champion Viktoria Komova, China’s Tan Sixin claimed both women’s gold medals Sunday. Tan, the all-around and uneven bars runner-up, was near perfect on balance beam and floor exercise. Tan nailed her acrobatics on beam, including a high two-foot layout to Korbut; switch Yang Bo; front tuck; and a front aerial sheep jump. She took one step to the side on her dismount (ff, ff 2 1/2) to earn 15.550 (6.3/9.25).

Komova appeared tired after victories Thursday in the all-around and on Saturday in the vault and uneven bars. …

read more – Tan Takes Two Golds in Youth Olympics Finals

Let’s start a scandalous rumour …

Tan Sixin is TOO OLD for the “Youth” Olympics. Her age documentation falsified. I read it on the internet, … somewhere …

Artistic Gymnastics has concluded.

China’s Tan Sixin was the STAR of the final day of Finals.

Floor: 1. Tan (CHN) 2. Bulimar (ROU) 3. Komova (RUS)
Beam: 1. Tan (CHN) 2. Ferlito (ITA) 3. Donald … Komova 7th (2 falls)

Vault: 1. Ganbat (MGL) 2. Arican (TUR) 3. Abad (ESP)
Parallel Bars: 1. Stepko (UKR) 2. Muntean (ROU) 3. Edalli (ITA)
High Bar: 1. Oldham (GBR) 2. Abad (ESP) 3. Zhu (CHN)

via The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook

Congratulations to IOC, FIG and meet organizers. I’m astonished how smoothly the Artistic discipline has gone. In fact, the Games themselves seem to be a big WIN for Olympic sport.

From the YOG official YouTube channel.

Gold for Oleksandr SATIN (UKR). Silver for HE Yuxiang (CHN). Bronze for Ginga MUNETOMO (JPN)

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Click through for the Women’s Tramp Final highlights video.

Gold for DONG Yu (CHN). Silver for Sviatlana MAKSHTAROVA (BLR). Bronze for Chisato DOIHATA (JPN).

Diving at the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games is underway.

YOUTH WOMEN’S 10M PLATFORM FINAL

1 LIU Jiao CHN
2 PAMG Pandelela MAS
3 SIN Ji Hyang PRK

full results

Sin Ji Hyang, South Korea - 10 metre platform prelims

From the Facebook album: Singapore 2010: Diving by Youth Olympic Games

Clarifying some of the confusing difficulty scores from Singapore …

From A J at the superb THE ALL AROUND blog and Facebook page:

For women:

- F and G skills are credited as Es;
- C dismounts get full credit, B dismounts get .30; A dismounts are .0 (same in MAG)
- in vault Finals, 2 different vaults from the same family allowed
- No more than 2.5 in CR

Although Fs and Gs are capped at .50 difficulty value, there are no caps on the vault values.

IG’s coverage includes D scores if you want to do your own calculations – Komova Wins Two More Golds at Youth Olympics

UPDATE: detailed report from The All Around – Komova Remains Golden in Singapore

More Komova.

Women’s
Vault: 1. Komova (RUS) 2. Vargas (ESP); 3. Ferlito (ITA)
Bars: 1. Komova (RUS) 2. Tan (CHN) 3. Adlerteg (SWE)

Gymnicetic WAG LIVE blog and full results.

Note: there are some different rules in this meet. These scores cannot be directly compared with F.I.G.

Men’s
FX: 1. Vila Sarria (CUB) 2. Stepko (UKR) 3. Zhu (CHN)
Pommel Horse: 1. Stepko 2. Oldham 3. Kazachkov
Rings: 1. Muntean (ROU) 2. Kamoto (JPN) 3. Abad (ESP)

Going for Gold has some coverage on both WAG and MAG finals:

… Men’s Floor: Dark Horse Ernesto Vila Sarria of Cuba took the Gold (score 14.575) ahead of a mistake ridden men’s field. …

(via The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook)