First The Beatles. Then Elvis. You had to guess that Cirque would get Michael Jackson.
The magic of Cirque du Soleil and the genius of the King of Pop will be combined in the creation, development, and production of Michael Jackson projects based on the music and songs of Michael Jackson.
An arena-touring show is expected to debut in late Fall 2011 and a Las Vegas permanent show is expected to open in late 2012.
Men’s Russian team, unfortunately, will not be able to participate in the European Championship, as there is the slightest opportunity to get to Birmingham because of the volcanic eruption in Iceland, which resulted in the British sky was in a fog of volcanic dust. Told head coach, a member of the Board UEG, Andrei Rodionenko: “In this situation, due to the volcanic eruption in Iceland were all deleted from the British team. At the European Championships did not go as teams of Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia and Armenia. There are reports that the Portuguese are also unable to get to the United Kingdom. It is known that Belgian national team traveled to Birmingham 11 hours, while the Spanish national team, this trip took 30 hours. Therefore, UEG and the Organizing Committee along with the national federations have done everything that the team could come to the continental championship. UEG will not apply any sanctions against those teams, who were unable to get to Birmingham. ”
As told Andrei Rodionenko, UEG collects a separate meeting on the issue of selection to the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, as the European Youth Championship is a qualifying for these games. UEG will do everything to athletes who have suffered from natural disasters, could pass a full selection at Youth Games to be held this summer. According to the Rodionenko currently FSGR and the organizing committee of women’s European Championship are doing everything that the Russian women’s team was able to easily get to England.
Thanks Kaoru-no-kimi.
Update – Portugal did find a way to get to the competition.
I’d earlier predicted that Susan Jackson of LSU would, again, win Vault. She has two proven different vaults for Finals.
Several people repled with this:
If you remember, last season Vanessa made the NCAA vault event final but didn’t have a second vault so just competed a yurchenko layout. This summer, she learned a PodkapayevaLopez (layout Podkapayeva) vault:
Video posted by Trampolining on Facebook. (Sorry for the crappy quality of the video. Fact is, video and photos on Facebook are crappy. Please post videos to YouTube, then link them from Facebook.)
The Steering Committee has been in contact with the IHSA this morning with regards to the “5 to 10%” issue.
The IHSA has assured us that they are not targeting boys gymnastics and has no plan to eliminate any sport.
The Board of Directors is well-aware of the passion that is out there for gymnastics and the storm of emails from coaches, athletes, parents, AD’s and principals over the past few days has driven that home.
At this point, we need to take a deep breath and ease up on the tension; yet remain on our guard for any future actions or decisions by the IHSA.
More details about this will follow at the meeting Wednesday.
On behalf of the Steering Committee and Executive Board, I can’t thank you enough for your rapid and wide-reaching response.
It is a testament to the tenacity and intensity of our Association.
Steve
Steve Foerch
Science Teacher, Varsity Boys Gymnastics Coach
IHSGCA President
Niles West High School
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A vote today – Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 – may result in the elimination of the entire State program.
You might be able to help.
Here’s the appeal letter:
The IHSA — the governing body that oversees high school sports in Illinois — is considering making a rule change that would drastically impact boys (and girls) gymnastics.
Currently the sport must field boys gymnastics teams from at least 5% of the schools in the state in order for the IHSA to officially sanction our sport.
The proposal — which will be voted on this coming Tuesday, April 20th — would increase that requirement from 5% to 10%.
There is no way that boys gymnastics can reach the 10% target next year.
If this proposal passes, boys gymnastics would most likely be dropped by the IHSA and would cease to exist as a high school sport in Illinois.
Please help us convince the IHSA Board of Directors to vote down this proposal and keep the participation threshold at 5%. We need your support.
Please email each of the board members listed below and:
· Tell them what this sport has done for your son/daughter
· Urge them to continue to support boys and girls gymnastics
· Urge them to keep the sport¹s participation threshold at 5%
IHSA Board of Directors
Jim Woodward President jwoodward@ajchs.union.k12.il.us
Ron Conner Vice President rconner@cusd15.k12.il.us
Paul Whittington Secretary WhittPau@EP309.org
Gregory Bradley Treasurer (Non-Voting) bradleyg@mtzion.k12.il.us
Joyce Kenner jdkenner@cps.k12.il.us
Daniel Klett dklett@d118.org
Michael Gardner mgardner@lw210.org
Jim Boyd Jb2111@riverdale.rockis.k12.il.us
Gregory Jones gjones@sparta.k12.il.us
Jeanette Nuckolls nuckolij@unit5.org
Joseph Schmidt jschmidt@stpatrick.org
I’ll email them tonight. Please do too, if you support High School Gymnastics.
She is happy to answer questions from coaches and gymnasts posted in the comment box at JustGymnastics.com .
Or you can email Inquiries @ JustGymnastics.com.
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From Judge Judy:
Recently a coach approached me at a competition about a seemingly inexplicable Start Value issue. He had two Level 9’s doing identical uneven bar exercises as often is the case according to a club’s skill development strategy.
One gymnast fell off and got a Start Value 0.50 higher than the one that stayed on, essentially putting them in equal scoring range.
Explanation?
Level 9 bars has a 0.50 Special Requirement for “2 Bar Changes (LB to HB, HB to LB).”
The coach knew the routine only had 1 Bar Change and should have received the 0.50 lower Start Value. He was not aware of an obscure rule that states,
“After a fall, climbing onto the low bar, then jump to high bar is considered a bar change.”
According to that statement, had he lifted the gymnast up to the high bar after the fall, she would not have qualified for the 0.50 addition to her Start Value.
I have no idea why this counterintuitive rule is in the book but it awards a Special Requirement for committing a large error, a fall, and encourages an undignifiedclimb onto the apparatus rather than the permitted assistance from the coach directly to the high bar.
Don’t consider Judge Judy’s interpretation as “official”. Double check in your own Region.
Leave a comment if you have “dumb rules” in your own competitions.
gymnastics issues posted the top European Bar routinesby difficulty score in random order.
Beth Tweddle’s difficulty score is #1 #2 with 6.80.
#1 is Youna 6.90 … with the Def.
Update: From Justin in the comments:
Even though Beth has always scored higher than Dufournet, if we are ranking them by D-Score, Dufournet is ahead. She competed a 7.0 at the French Euro Trial and a 6.9 at the French International.
Internationaux de France de Gymnastique 2010 – Finales
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