Jason Burnett of Canada competes during the men’s qualification at the 2007 Trampoline Gymnastics International Invitational Tournament in Beijing, China, Nov. 30, 2007
Canadian Head Coach Dave Ross also manufactures some of the world’s best trampolines. He was not happy with the venue, timing or format of the competition in Beijing:
“I think there are mainly three reasons for the mistakes and accidents that happened to the athletes today. First reason: I think it’s the podium. It’s not stable and as men are more powerful than women, when men are landing, it moves and causes the problems. The second reason is the time for this competition. It is not long after the World Championships competition, so the athletes seem to be relaxed. So they were not well prepared for today’s performance. The third is: there is no warm-up. We wanted to do a warm-up but we are not allowed because of the regulation. It should be changed. It’s good for the audience to enjoy the performance, but bad for our athletes to prepare and get ready for competing. We know how important warm-up is for the athletes, as a coach. We do hope that in 2008 in the Olympics there will be the warm-up for trampoline.”
Competitors are saying the bed is “hard”.
… six athletes failed to finish their routines in the men’s preliminaries at the star-studded trampoline Olympic test event here on Friday.
Finals to come.
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