weak Canadian Gymnastics Championships

The year after the Olympics is often a time of rebuilding, Junior gymnasts moving up to Senior for the quadrennial.

But the results in Senior Women’s preliminary competition do not look good:

Lemieux-Guillemette finished with a total score of 53.35 points followed by Kristin Klarenbach of Edmonton with 52.3 points and Ashley Quinton of Calgary at 49.5

Gold medal contender Britanny Rogers of Coquitlam, B.C., sustained a rib injury in the warmup and did not compete.

This year’s line up in the women’s competition does not include 2008 Olympians Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs of Toronto or Nansy Damianova of Montreal and several other top-ranked competitors from last year.

Hopfner-Hibbs and Olympic team alternate Alyssa Brown of Oakville, Ont., left the national team and recently finished their first seasons on athletic scholarships at UCLA and Stanford, respectively.

Damianova remains on the national team but has not competed since the Olympics last August. …

Gymnastics Canada – Lemieux-Guillemette takes the lead in women’s competion at the Canadian gymnastics championships

The highest score is 53.35.

Ouch.