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Volume one on DVD is the first 10 episodes of season one.
Bonus Features include: Deleted Scenes, Making It An Inside Look At How These Flexible Female Stars Balance Acting With Difficult Stunts For A Gold Medal Performance, Never-Before-Seen Extended Finale
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August, 2009, Nastia and USA Gymnastics announced a new competition be held on March 5, 2010 in conjunction with the 2010 American Cup. On podium!
The Nastia Liukin Cup.
At that time it was explained that the meet would be for Level 10 gymnasts. A high profile event for the best gymnasts below the Elite level.
Gymnasts would qualify from these meets, a series of invitationals known as the Nastia Liukin Cup Series:
CGA Parents Club Coaches Spectacular, Covington, Ky., Jan. 15-17
Flip Fest Invitational, Knoxville, Tenn., Jan. 15-18
Cereal City Classic, Kalamazoo, Mich., Jan. 22-24
Rock-n-Roll Classic, Broadview Heights, Ohio, Jan. 22-24
Parkettes Invitational, Allentown, Pa., Jan. 29-31
Wisconsin Dells Gymnastics Vacation Classic, Wisconsin Dells, Wis., Jan. 29-31
The Fiesta Bowl Classic, Chandler, Ariz., Feb. 5-7
IGI Chicago Style Meet, Chicago, Ill., Feb. 12-14
WOGA Classic, Frisco, Texas, Feb. 13-14
Buckeye Classic, Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 19-21
Circle of Stars, Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 19-21
Excalibur Cup, Virginia Beach, Va., Feb. 19-21
Pikes Peak Cup, Colorado Springs, Colo., Feb. 19-21
Presidential Classic, Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Feb 19-21
The Long Beach Open, Long Beach, Calif., Feb. 26-28
I love the concept. And thank Nastia for helping promote all those gymnastics meets.
So what’s the confusion?
Selected from the first weekend in Covington, Ky were:
Lexie Preissman (Elite)
Amelia Hundley (Elite)
Those girls aren’t Level 10.
Leave a comment if you can explain what’s changed.
UPDATE: The page listing official qualifiers. Thanks sher.
(via Bekah on IG forum)
Harlem Globetrotter star Moo Moo Evans exchanged workout tips and showed off his basketball wizardry with Olympic silver medalists Samantha Peszek and Bridget Sloan. …
photos and more videos – USAG
There’s no audio for the first 1min 30sec.
Barb Durfee sends us an updated list of the 2010 WOGA CLASSIC ELITES competing Feb 13-14th.
WOGA has a great feature on that page. Linked videos and articles for each Elite. For example, when I clicked the name Anastasia Grishina (Russia), I got a list of video links. Here’s one …
Click PLAY or watch her Beam on YouTube.
All 4 four competitors from 2009 Worlds will be at the Elite Session. Bridget Sloan will sign autographs while the other three, Ivana Hong, Kayla Williams and Rebecca Bross, compete.
more information on the meet
About 65 Canadian gymnasts will be competing at all levels, including Elite.
Top-ranked UCLA improved to 2-0 with a 196.125-194.875 dual meet victory over 19th-ranked Washington in Seattle on Friday night. Bruin gymnasts took first place on every event, and senior Anna Li tied for first in the all-around, along with earning first-place honors on bars and beam. …
They had to count a fall on Beam.
Posted by Greg Marsden.
Kyndal Robarts, Jamie Deetscreek and Swoop in a belly flop contest at TCU swim meet
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Swoop wins this one. Easy.
First report on the Utah competition was from Lya Wodraska:
Utah’s gymnastics team kept its promise. Spurred by its disappointing season-opening loss at UCLA a week ago, the No. 11 Utes brought the intensity that was lacking in the first meet to the floor Friday just as they said they’d do.
The result was a 196.3-195.35 win over Iowa State in front of 12,605 at the Huntsman Center.
While the Utes still aren’t where they want to be, the home opener was much more satisfying than their 196.6-195.125 loss to the Bruins.
Good thing the Utes improved, since No. 21 Iowa State proved to be a tough foe never trailing the Utes by more than a couple tenths of a points. If the Utes had counted a fall, they could easily have lost their second meet in a row, something that hasn’t happened to them since the 2007 season. The Utes have never started a season with two losses.
Jamie Deetscreek won the AA – 39.425.
UPDATE: Utah videos from this meet.
The LSU anchor put a great meet together.
But her Tigers (195.350) finished behind Missouri (195.625) and Kentucky (195.525).
Florida had the highest score in NCAA competition tonight, 196.575 over Arkansas 195.925.
Florida Rookie Ashanée Dickerson won the AA, Floor and Vault.
… Last week, she turned in the nation’s second-highest all-around total (39.35) of this very young season. Tonight she raised that total to 39.475. …
Click PLAY or watch her vault on YouTube.
Plenty of power.
Who is this new College superstar?
… Dickerson’s hometown of Jacksonville, Fla., is just 72 miles northeast of Gainesville. …
“It was amazing,” Dickerson said. “I have been coming here since I was eight years old to watch the Gators and just to be out on the floor in a Gator leotard was a dream come true.”
Dickerson said she could hear and see the large contingent from her club gym, as well as the many friends and family, while she was performing on floor.
She’s a 5′-5″ freshman who competed Level 10 for Gymnastics Unlimited.
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