Year: 2011

The 2006 cinéma vérité documentary film, THIN, directed by Lauren Greenfield and distributed by HBO, is an exploration of The Renfrew Center in Coconut Creek, Florida; a 40-bed residential facility for the treatment of women with eating disorders.

The film mostly revolves around four women … and their struggles for recovery …

One of the patients admitted herself after a suicide attempt over two slices of pizza. Sad.

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You can watch the entire documentary on YouTube starting at Part 1.

Artistic gymnasts have a lower incidence of anorexia than the general public. That might, surprisingly, even be true for Rhythmic girls.

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… a little something called swinglining. It’s kind of like the canyon swings that you find in places like Glenwood Springs, Colorado and New Zealand, only of the DIY variety. …

Uncooped – Chris Weiss

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Olympic Gymnastics Champion Kyle Shewfelt chats with Aleena about her interesting L8 Beam routine at the Great West Gym Fest in Idaho.

Cool mount. Series of 5 skills into dismount.

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(via Great West Gym Fest)

via gymnastfix (6.6 difficulty)

Her new opening sequence has never been done before. COOL.

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First comp of season done and dusted! 1st bars 3rd floor! Pleased with new stuff!

Bars 15.75. Floor 13.90.

Beth’s teammates from City of Liverpool dominated the AA. Hannah Whelan was 1st with 56.60. Followed by Jennifer Pinches with 56.050.

Hannah competes American Cup next week.

(via Between The Olympics)

full results (PDF)

2008 Olympic all-around champion Nastia Liukin, 2008 Olympic all-around silver-medalist Shawn Johnson, 2004 Olympic all-around champion Carly Patterson, three-time Olympic champion Svetlana Boginskaya, and 1996 Olympic team gold-medalists Shannon Miller and Dominique Moceanu are participating in BRAVADO, a fundraising auction dedicated to Breast Cancer Awareness co-sponsored by GK Elite Sportswear L.P. and Unite for Her.

The six gymnasts have designed unique GK sport bras that will be offered at a silent auction to raise funds for Unite for HER breast cancer programs and initiatives at the Pink Invitational, Feb. 25-27, at United Sports in Downingtown, Pa. …

details on USAG

photo via GK Elite blog

The Hare, Polar Bear and Leopard have been chosen as the official Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games mascots following the results of a public vote …

The Ray of Light and the Snowflake will be the Paralympic Winter Games mascots in 2014. …

Sochi2014.com

The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXII Olympic Winter Games, will be the next Winter Olympics celebrated from February 7 to February 23, 2014 in Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia.

Apparatus Finals

Vault:
1. Tatiana Nabieva – 14.475
2. Anna Pavlova – 14.413
3. Alena Polyan – 13.850

Uneven Bars:
1. Tatiana Nabieva – 15.600
2. Anna Dementyeva – 14.725
3. Viktoria Komova – 14.525

via Between The Olympics

‘Tanya’ keeps silencing critics, doesn’t she?

Arkansas recorded its best score of the season and the No. 15 Razorbacks knocked off No. 1 Florida in Barnhill Arena on Friday, 196.70-196.10 …

Arkansas tops No. 1 Florida

Jamie Pisani of Arkansas had the 39.6 AA win.

This is probably a good thing for Florida. They can refocus and build for Championships.

Utah went 196.65.

Alabama won 197.675 over Georgia 197.225.

Interestinger and interestinger.

The 2004 Men’s H Bar Olympic champion (over Nemov and Hamm) has retired.

Couch Gymnast has a nice retrospective on his long career:

… He is thirty-two or thirty three now and feels ready to leave the sport. Put it this way, he was the Italian junior Champion in 1992. …

Italian Igor Cassina to Retire

Here’s his winning routine including the ‘Cassina’. (layout Kovacs with 1/1 twist).

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related – Cassina 2 (double twisting Kovacs)

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Three releases are edited together on that clip.

This girl is dynamite.

(via Doble en Plancha – Google Translate)