Year: 2010

Olympia Gymnastic Sports, in Christchurch, is seeking a competitive MAG coach.

The position primarily includes coaching MAG gymnasts in the national levels stream, however ideally it would also
include WAG coaching.

Full-time but part-time is also possible.

Relevant MAG coaching experience and a high level of spotting ability. Start date ASAP. Pay rate and hours negotiable and dependent on experience.

Please email CV to maree @ olympia.org.nz

This video is going ballistic. Must see. Post it to Facebook.

I’m so happy that Acrobatic Gymnastics getting this kind of popular recognition. It’s truly the most interesting discipline of all

Season 4 Ep. 2 — Britain’s Got Talent: Gymnastics group Spelbound all come from different backgrounds and are just trying to get as far as the Royal Variety Show. …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Spelbound jumped to the odds on favourite to win Britain’s Got Talent.

Facing Simon Cowell was their greatest fear in trying out.

They train train three times a day. These are serious athletes.

UPDATE: GymNiceTic links to the team, Spelthorne Gymnastics.

In a continuing series on the gymnastics issues blog:

I think the Russian Team as a whole will be points ahead of everyone else on this apparatus. The top 2 should be Viktoria Komova annd Anastasia Grishina. The rest of the team are also good on bars and are worthy of the bars final if one of the top 2 messes up in qualification: Anastasia Sidorova (D Score: 5.40), Maria Paseka (D Score 5.80) and Violetta Malikova (D Score: 5.90).

Although it will be close I think Komova will win ahead of Grishina but either way they are both excellent on this piece and have start values of 6.50 …

The second best routine, he feels, is Anastasia Grishina. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

With very similar construction, the #1 pick is Viktoriya Komova (VIDEO).

read commentary with more video links – gymnastics issues – What are the best in Europe doing? – Junior Bars

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Those two Russians are “front-runners for the All Around titles in the junior category” too. Check the astonishingly detailed statistical analysis done by The All Around in advance of European Championships – WAG Europeans preview

That site is doing an unbelievable amount of coverage worldwide in different languages.

Thanks to Publisher / Executive Editor Elizabeth Long. And News Editors Albert Minguillón i Colomer and Nora Schuler. We appreciate all your work. Especially on Facebook where you break many stories first.

… starting to appear on YouTube, though it will be weeks before delayed coverage goes up on TV.

Click PLAY or watch Vanessa Zamarripa’s winning Vaults on YouTube.

Looks like she could easily add another twist to both those vaults. They’re so high and extended.

In College Finals the girls must show two different vaults, not necessarily from two different families. Yet they qualify to Finals with only one vault, a safety concern as kids (not Vanessa) “chuck” vaults they’ve hardly done all year. … Or compete vaults of less than 10.0 start value.

It was obvious to anyone who sat through 1hr 40min of Vault Finals on Saturday that the current scheme is a disaster.

I’d have gymnasts compete one vault in Finals, instead. But many people I talked to at Championships, including College coaches, preferred having kids that want to compete Finals, do two different vaults in team preliminaries. Mathematically, that would reduce the number of Finalists.

Update: College Gymnastics Board discussion – Let’s talk vault event finals – how do you fix it?

Aunt Joyce has commentary and links to more videos: Anna Li’s vault, Brittani McCullough’s winning Floor, Hollie Vise’s Floor, Courtney McCool’s Beam. AND Susan Jackson’s very difficult Beam routine to win Finals. Susan killed it, the most convincing win in Finals.

The gold medal-winning gymnast best known for her heroic vault in the 1996 Olympics, married attorney Robert Fischer … Sunday. …

… The couple invited a few familiar faces, too: Strug’s Olympic teammate Dominique Moceanu and her former coach, Bela Karolyi. …

read more on People Magazine

related – media perpetuates the myth of Kerri Strug

Update: Apologies on translations of some of the names.

FLOOR
Matthias Fahrig, Germany
Eleftherios (Lefteris) Kosmidis, Greece
Daniel Purvis, GBR

POMMELS
Dan Keatings, GBR
Louis Smith, GBR
Saso Bertoncelj, Slovenia

RINGS
Matteo Morandi, Italy
Ait Said Samir, France
Jordan Iovchev, Bulgaria … congrats to the old man of Rings

VAULT
Tomi Tuuha, Finland
Matthais Fahrig, Germany
Flavious Koczi, Romania

PARALLEL BARS
Yann Cucherat, France
Vasileios (Vasilis) Tsolakidis, Greece
3T – Hamilton Sabot, France
3T – Adam Kierzkowski, Poland

H BAR
Maras Vlasios, Greece
Epke Zonderland, Netherlands
3T Fabian Hambuechen, Germany
3T Philipp Boy, Germany

full results

Read details on what happened on Blythe’s live blog: 2010 European Championships, senior men’s event finals

Britian’s Louis Smith (L) and Daniel Keatings celebrates with their silver and gold medals in the Pommel Horse.

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Coach Paul Hall is talking about the goal of an Olympic Team medal for the hosts in London 2012.

Yeesh. That would be the greatest seismic leap forward for any gymnastics team in history. MAG is very, very competitive.

Certainly, Great Britain is the most improved nation in Men’s Gymnastics.

Vault
1. Vanessa Zamarripa – UCLA – 9.925
2. Susan Jackson – LSU – 9.8938
3. Mandi Rodriguez – Oregon State – 9.8438

Uneven Bars
1. Carly Janiga – Stanford – 9.9375
2. Summer Hubbard – LSU – 9.925
2. Hollie Vise – Oklahoma – 9.925

Balance Beam
1. Susan Jackson – LSU – 9.9625
2. Carly Janiga – Stanford – 9.8875
2. Courtney McCool – Georgia – 9.8875

Floor Exercise
1. Brittani McCullough – UCLA – 9.9375
2. Hollie Vise – Oklahoma – 9.900
2. Sarah Shire – Missouri – 9.900
2. Brandi Personett – Penn State – 9.900

Only one of my pre-meet picks to win, did. Brittani.

The 2010 season is ended. What will College gymnastics fans and stalkers do with their lives now?

(via amygym’s new blog … that now has a name – The All Around)

This last poster was made by Hollie Vise’s Mom the night before the final meet in her daughter’s career. Hollie was the 2003 World Champion on Bars. It’s been a LONG career.

During march-in for Finals I was struck how many of the top gymnasts were Seniors. Departing.

College gymnastics is going to be fresh in 2011. Some epic Florida vs UCLA battles to come, I expect.

Somebody call security …

FIP Centercourt Charity Golf Tournament 2010 by Robin Sutton Hardwicke

on Facebook.

This miscreant has the same name as Olympic gymnast Raj Bhavsar.

Don’t you love those hilarious The Onion fake news stories?

Like this one:

… Olympic 400-metre champion LaShawn Merritt of the United States has been suspended after testing positive for an anabolic steroid contained in an over-the-counter penis enlargement product. …

The 23-year-old American, who faces a two-year ban, said: “To know that I’ve tested positive as a result of a product that I used for personal reasons is extremely difficult to wrap my hands around. …

Read more: Examiner – Olympian LaShawn Merritt fails drug test after taking male enhancement herb

How do they think these up?

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… wait a minute. This one is true.

Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is a legal over-the-counter drug in the United States … but banned for competitive use in sport.

Well, … banned in every legitimate sport. Baseball still allows DHEA. But those guys need enlargement.

I’m happy Brittani won, though it wasn’t her best routine of the year. And there’s a built-in deduction on the 1/1-in.

LOVE the choreography.

Second best routine, for me, was Marissa King.