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Between The Olympics on Christmas Eve posted video of gymnasts who used variations of The Nutcracker (1892) as Floor music.
Amanar, Isayeva, Dragoi, Grishina and …
Click PLAY or watch the goddess Mostepanova on YouTube.
See the rest on Between The Olympics: A Gymnastics Blog.
Don Eckert and his wife relocated to the Lost Wages in September. Here’s a mixed edit of the Go For It girls doing their thing. That’s their new gym.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone there.
betweentheolympics has a lengthy post speculating on who will be on the #1 ranked Team Russia in London.
… Anastasia Sidorova is awesome! If she can continue improving at the rate that she has been since the beginning of the year, she will be almost a lock for the Olympic team along with Mustafina, Komova and Grishina. …
Click PLAY or watch her Floor on YouTube.
It’s definitely worth clicking over to betweentheolympics – Voronin Cup Videos.
Interesting commentary on Pavlova, Sophia Lee, Anna Rodionova, Alissa Baumann and many more.
A post in the Christmas spirit …
Barrie Wells in the U.K. has provided funding to “… around 16 elite athletes – in sports he enjoyed, primarily athletics, triathlon, modern pentathlon and swimming …”
Here he is with World Youth heptathlon champion Katarina Thompson:
Details on Ollie William’s Blog – Catching up with the not-so-secret millionaire
Gymnasts have gotten personal sponsorships in the past. Recall Mohini Bhardwaj getting support from Pamela Anderson in 2004.
Perhaps someone should hit up Mark Zuckerberg. He’s promised to give most of his billions to charity.
Leave a comment if you know of other gymnasts personally funded.
China confirms its attendance at the 2011 Triple Flip Wild Rose, March 24-27, 2011.
“We are once again thrilled to host one of the very best gymnastics nations on earth at this year’s Triple Flip Wild Rose. China sent a very strong delegation last year (Deng LinLin, Jiang Yuyuan and Sui Lu). We are confident that they will assign their very best again. …
That’s in Edmonton, Alberta.
Three hours away, same weekend, the Chinese Men will be competing at the Kyle Shewfelt Gymnastics Festival.
4.-10. April 2010 · Berlin, Max-Schmeling-Halle
This features just German gymnasts.
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(via @fangymnastics)
Cheng Fei is …
… a three-time World Champion on the vault (2005–2007) and 2006 World Champion on floor exercise. She was a member of the gold medal-winning Chinese teams for the 2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Aarhus, Denmark and 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. She was also a member of the silver medal-winning Chinese team for the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. …
Photos linked to her Facebook.
From the Facebook album: Women’s Qualification by Grace Chiu GraceClick
From the Facebook album: Apparatus Finals Day 3 by Grace Chiu GraceClick
She’s still planning to try for London, last I heard.
Congratulations Ali Al Asi.
Jordanian gymnast Ali Al Asi has been just crowned Best Arab Athlete 2010 by HE Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Governor of Dubai and Deputy of the United Arab Emirates, at its recent meeting in Dubai.
With this award, Ali goes down as a legend in Arab sports. He owes this honour to his outstanding Rings results for the 2010 season and, more particularly, to the title he claimed over Japan’s Kazuki Machida, China’s Hong Kong native Kiu Chung Ng and the Netherlands’ Jeffrey Wammes at the 2010 FIG World Cup in Qatar.
The Best Athlete 2010 jury selected the Jordanian gymnast from among 132 Arab athletes from a variety of disciplines in contention for this prestigious award. …
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