… Just as he’d recovered from planned shoulder surgery (postponed last year to train for Beijing), Artemev suffered another setback, this time in form of a back fracture that is slowly starting to heal.
“I got back to really doing all my skills in late April,” Artemev recalls. “Then I hurt my back [about a month later]. I was doing too much I think, and this is what happened.
“I’ve been wearing a brace and just getting massage work, lots of massage,” Artemev adds of the treatment for his latest injury. “Other than that, it’s just staying careful. I haven’t tumbled or vaulted much yet.”
This latest injury has put Artemev’s entire season in question. Though he hopes to compete at least a few events at next month’s U.S. Championships, Artemev’s goals have shifted away from Worlds and moved solely to regaining his strength. …
It seems former Romanian Women’s National Coach, Octavian Belu, resigned as Secretary of State at the at Ministry of Youth and Sport.
… “I asked to be dismissed … I see no perspective for the function in the Ministry. The Romanian sport is in collapse”, said Octavian Belu at RealitateaTV. …
Alex Seifert … posted victories in tumbling and double mini trampoline on Wednesday at the Canada Cup competition.
The meet was the last of three qualification events for the trampoline and tumbling world championships this fall in St. Petersburg, Russia, with athletes in various age categories vying for spots on the Canadian team. …
“It was a great competition for me,” said Seifert, who competed last week at the World Games in Taiwan.
“In double mini, I executed a routine with a very high degree of difficulty and in tumbling I completed a pass that had never been done by a Canadian.”
In the women’s trampoline final, Olympic finalist Rosannagh MacLennan of Toronto won with 104.00 points …
“I tried a new routine and I got through it,” said MacLennan, seventh at the Beijing Games last year.
“There were a couple of rough tricks but overall it was pretty good. I was a little more nervous than usual because it was a new routine. There’s some uncertainty but it does help you focus a little more.”
In men’s trampoline, Japan’s Yasuhiro Ueyama held on to first place with 112.5 points. Olympic silver medallist Jason Burnett of Toronto was second at 110.00. …
Corissa Boychuk of Airdrie, Alta., won the women’s double mini trampoline …
Emily Smith of Burlington, Ont., took the women’s tumbling crown, with Ashley Speed of Etobicoke, Ont., second and Jordan Sugrim, also of Burlington, third.
In youth competition, Red Deer’s Keegan Soehn was a double winner placing first in men’s double mini trampoline and trampoline. …
… “Hartford, you got it,” shouted former Olympic coach Bela Karolyi, who played the role of fight promoter at Wednesday’s news conference, billing the event as a clash between the old guard of gymnasts, who won 10 medals at the Beijing Olympics, and the next crop of champions. “You got the best coming up.” …
Legendary women’s gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi greets Jordan Fulchino, 10, right, along with three other aspiring gymnasts from Dearys Gymnastics of Danielsen, Conn., as they waited in the hallway of the State Capitol for the start of a news conference in Hartford, Conn., on Wednesday, July 29, 2009. It’s being billed as the biggest sporting event to hit Connecticut since the NHL’s Hartford Whalers left town more than a decade ago. …
… Hartford will play host to next year’s gymnastics national championships. State economic development officials expect at least 25,000 people to attend the event, which will be held Aug. 11-14, 2010.
The men’s and women’s championships will be held at the 15,000-seat XL Center while the rhythmic, acrobatic and trampoline and tumbling competition will take place at the Chase Arena at the University of Hartford, which seats about 3,500.
The Connecticut Convention Center, which opened in 2005, will host the organization’s national congress and trade show that week. …
… Halfway through its 10-episode freshman run, the drama series set in the world of competitive gymnastics has received an additional 10-episode order.
The second batch of 10 segments is slated to air in the first quarter of 2010.
Airing after ABC Family’s top-rated series, “The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” “Make It” ranks as the network’s second-highest-rated series ever. …
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