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Klara Kesmarky Miller announced the new website.
May 21-26th, 2012
Regina will welcome over 1100 gymnasts, coaches and officials to the 2012 Canadian Gymnastics Championships where four disciplines will hold their championships together. We are looking forward to hosting Canada for this celebration of gymnastics! …
Saskatchewan does a terrific job of hosting major meets.
PEI is hosting this year, 2011.
Full Twist:
The WAG help desk document has been updated for March 2011. The new clarifications and updates of this document have been added in green boxes. …
This is an improvement. But why keep the word “close”?
The 0.1 should be for landing on the line with one foot.
There’s more on the Full Twist post including links to the landings of Nabieva, Mustafina and Sacramone at Worlds 2010 – Attention all Judges!
Starts today in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec.
Good luck to everyone competing tramp, double-mini and tumbling.
Thanks Brett MacAulay.
Update:
Legend Julie Warnock has retired, age-27.
She trained 9000 hours in a career that includes two current World Records. Happily, Julie will continue in the sport as a judge.
Dr. Gerald George, author of the current international best-seller Championship Gymnastics: Biomechanical Techniques for Shaping Winners will be speaking at the following meetings in 2011:
June 11-12, USA Gymnastics (USAG) Region 3 Congress, Vail, Colorado
August 12-14, US Association of Independent Gymnastics Clubs (USAIGC) Educational Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada
August 18-20, USA Gymnastics National Congress, St. Paul, Minnesota
September 30-October 1, Gymnastics Ontario Federation Congress, Ontario, Canada
If you can’t make one of those, check out his YouTube Channel:
BALANDIN Aleksandr (RUS) – ‘Butterfly to Invert Cross’
15.433 (D: 6.7 / E: 8.733)
Rank : 4th
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Watch Scott Rosenthal training the ‘Balandin 2’.
Thanks Geoffrey Taucer.
Dan Purvis, Ashish Kumar, Epke Zonderland, Philipp Boy, Danell Leyva, Oleg Stepko … ??
The funniest response was from Aunt Joyce:
…I believe a more appropriate question would be who is the most overrated gymnast in the world. In terms of underrated, so little attention is paid to men’s gymnastics that it is impossible to discern.
I picked this guy:
Leave your comments or correct answer on the original Gymnastics Examiner post – The most underrated male gymnast in the world?
Update: Dan did not qualify for Europeans. I assume he’s not quite yet ready, physically. Olympics are the priority.
PA Women’s Gymnastics:
A word of caution to all gymnasts and parents of gymnasts around the state. There is an individual going by the name of Jennifer Messelier contacting gymnasts through Facebook pretending to be a gymnast and trying to get them to “friend” “her”.
This person is either claiming to have met them at a competition, or saying that “she” is considering switching to their gym. Please be aware that this person is most definitely not who they say they are and in all likelihood is a man. …
Update:
… i was just informed that “he/she” is now going by the name “Jennifer Elizabeth“, and the picture is of a sitting pose on the beam. Beware, she is adding college girls from all over the country…
via a good thread on College Gymnastics Board
That’s a recent headline on USA Today:
A leading Chinese sports official is calling for the implementation of bone-age analysis to stop athletes from faking their birth certificates to qualify for events.
Cai Zhenhua, the vice president of the State General Administration of Sport, was quoted as saying in Tuesday’s official People’s Daily newspaper that age fraud besmirches China’s national image and tramples on the principle of fair competition.
He also is head of the Chinese table tennis federation and says it will adopt bone-age analysis as a test case.
The IOC stripped China of its 2000 Olympic bronze medal in women’s team gymnastics for using an underage girl. …
Cai Zhenhua has been pushing bone testing over the last year in response to age scandals in Chinese sports.
It’s a specious talking point.
Bone density testing is not accurate enough to determine chronological age.
Is Cai Zhenhua simply trying to deflect criticism? … Or does China have some new more accurate kind of bone density test?
(via Bluffingtongympost)
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