Year: 2010

More pics.

via Gym Fever

Anna sends a link to the International Gymnastics Camp Olympic Gym page. The video highlights their HUGE pit.

Check the excellent IGC TV YouTube channel, as well.

Agressive swing. Interesting skills.

French gymnast Elvire Teza is a fan favourite. She was the first French gymnast to qualify to an Olympic Final. And has 2 elements named after her on Beam.

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Thanks Jerimiah for the link.

3D truly is a whole new ballgame when it comes to the big screen.

A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers, including Luke (Malambri) and Natalie (Vinson), team up with NYU freshman Moose (Sevani), and find themselves pitted against the world’s best hip hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown …

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Impressive how they can convey 3D in a 2D video clip. John Woo is a master.

Thanks Jason.

From the Facebook album: 2010 Canada Cup by Brett MacAulay

Looks very efficient, not easy when you have so many good kids.

… Coaches Chris Burdette and Kim Zmeskal-Burdette will have 6 gymnasts representing Texas Dreams next week in Hartford at the 2010 US Championships.

They have 5 junior elite qualifiers: Kennedy Baker, Dare Maxwell, Claire Boyce, Ashton Kim, and Peyton Ernst (Kiana Winston qualified but won’t compete due to injury). Their lone senior elite is former national team member Chelsea Davis who will be competing in her first major national competition since the 2008 Olympic Trials. Watch how former World Champion and Olympian Kim Zmeskal-Burdette prepares her athletes for US Nationals, a meet she herself has won numerous times. …

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Antonia Markova is currently a member of USA Gymnastics’ national staff, and choreographer for USA Women’s National Team Artistic Gymnastics.

Here Antonia is filmed giving instructions and corrections to an elite gymnast while she performs the complete complex. This complex is designed specifically for gymnasts to improve their dance skills at the highest levels and all levels can begin to use the complex as they move forward. …

Click through to GymSmarts.com for details. ($30 / 14min)

It’s too soon to say whether the YOG will evolve into something equivalent to the Olympics.

I doubt it.

But let’s wait and see.

Competition takes place between 15 and 26 August, where the best performing athletes will be awarded this specially designed medal.

The obverse design was created by Setsuko Fukuzawa from Japan, winner of the Medal Design Competition held by the International Olympic Committee in the build-up to Singapore 2010. Her medal features the flames and waves, symbolising the Olympic spirit and the cheering of athletes. The Olympian’s body shaped in a ‘Y’ is reminiscent of Goddess Nike and stands for Youth, as referred to in the “Yes Youth Can” slogan, the name that Setsuko gave to her creation. …

FIG – First Youth Olympic Games medals unveiled!

official Olympic.org YOG home page

Here’s the list of WAG competitors (so far) with commentary. No USA.

… I expect, as we all probably do, Viktoriya Komova to dominate …

Couch Gymnast

FIG posted the lists for all disciplines.

On June 5, 2010 the Olympic Parallel Bar champion wed Chinese-American model Li “Angel” Anqi, daughter of former gymnasts Li Xiaoping and Wen Jia.

That service was in L.A. On July 11th a second ceremony was held in Beijing.

The groom holds more world titles than any other Chinese gymnast in history, even more than Li Ning.

more California photos and video on Style Me Pretty

(via IG – Wedding Video a HIT)

Of the world’s best on this apparatus, his routines are amongst the most interesting.

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