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Things get interestinger and interestinger in College Gymnastics.
… OU women’s gymnastics squad remained undefeated on the year (8-0, 1-0 Big 12) with a wire-to-wire triangular victory over No. 10 Nebraska (6-1) and TWU (3-5) in front of 1,405 fans at Lloyd Noble Center on Friday.
The Sooners scored a season-high 196.825 despite counting a fall on beam …
The formatting of the names in the press release from USAG is confusing. (As was the live scoring website for the Winter Cup.)
But I still managed to decipher who was named to the National Team:
Brooks, Bunthuwong, Cameron, Dalton, Gentry, Haagensen, Hagerty, Horton, Ishino, Legendre, Leyva, McNeill, Mizoguchi, Naddour, Ruggeri, Tan, Wynn.
… The 17 gymnasts named to the U.S. Men’s Senior National Team will be on the team through the 2010 Visa Championships in Hartford, Conn., Aug. 11-14. Based on the Winter Cup results, 10 qualified for the team using the National Team Points System, and the remaining were selected by the Men’s Program Committee from among the Winter Cup participants and athlete petitions. …
Danell Leyva is the next great American gymnast, most reckon:
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And it’s great to see young Tyler Mizoguchi, son of coaching great Hideo Mizoguchi, on the list.
The latest from MostepanovaFan.
Success was worked out by: total number of World and Olympic individual medals won (no team medals counted), if there were ties it was split by number of golds, then number of silvers, then number of bronzes. If there was still a tie, Olympic medals were given precedence.
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Nadia is only #6. That’s surprising.
There’s a discussion on the most “beautiful” Romanian Gymnasts on IG forum right now. I voted for Aurelia Dobre. She has 4 sons, I just learned.
Here’s my vote: X-C Snowboarding
Get PHLAT, dude. Funny.
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(via The Outside Blog)
For the first 5 weeks of the NCAA season Susan’s been ranked #1 in the all-around. Yet there’s not all that much information about her on the interwebs.
One thing for sure, she’s got legs.
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Aside from the cute back headspring, a somewhat conventional routine by College standards. Strong tumbling, however. Love the amplitude.
Inside Gymnastics is live blogging.
Finals Results 1.Brooks 2.Horton 3.Cameron 4.Leyva 5.Gentry 6. Legendre
full results (PDF)
UPDATE: Highlights and commentary on Gymnastics Examiner.
Gymnastics Examiner posted a summary of everything that happened Friday, Feb. 5th.
High scores and surprises highlight Friday’s NCAA gymnastics meets
Bottom line: Many teams are “finding their groove”. This was the best night of gymnastics so far this season. The sport is very attractive to fans. And I’m expecting escalating excitement leading up to the Championships in Florida.
Kudos to the NCAA.
UPDATE: BYU women’s gymnastics team ecstatic
UCLA posted a season-high 196.725 to easily defeat Arizona (193.8) in a dual meet in Tucson on Friday night. Bruin sophomore Vanessa Zamarripa won the all-around with a career-high 39.675 and captured first place on bars (career-high 9.95) and beam (9.95). She also picked up a season-high on floor with a 9.9. …
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I’m still projecting the Bruins to be the team favourites come SHOW TIME in Gainesville, Florida, April 22-24, 2010. They’ve got depth and star power.
But who will be the top all-arounder for UCLA?
Who can challenge LSU’s Susan Jackson?
I should be picking 2008 Olympian Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs. But I find myself cheering for the charismatic Miss Zamarripa. She reminds me of Kristina Baskett, my favourite from last season.
Leave a comment (aren’t comments great?) if you’ve got your own prediction on team or all-around.
It’s one of the major plot lines in the TV show Make It or Break It.
But how many gyms, in reality, have such an unenforceable restriction?
A gymnast from Tennesse recently had that rule imposed. And started a thread on the Chalk Bucket forum.
In fact, at her gym the rule is in effect for competitive and non-competitive kids.
Like that’s going to work.
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