Year: 2011

Started by discussion in blogs and chat rooms, It’s hit the mainstream media, and the IOC.

… “Definitely, if there is a discrepancy it must be solved,” Rogge said Monday in Prague.

… The discovery comes less than a year after the IOC stripped China of its 2000 Olympic bronze medal in women’s team gymnastics for using an underage girl. That violation was uncovered during an investigation into age fraud by China’s team that won the gold medal at the Beijing Games. The 2008 team later was cleared after Chinese officials provided original passports, ID cards and family registers showing all the gymnasts were old enough to compete. …

NANCY ARMOUR – Ages of Chinese skaters in question

… Among the skaters whose eligibility is in question are Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao, the 2006 Olympic pairs silver medalists …

USA Today

My guess is that this one will blow over. No repercussions whether China was guilty or not.

note: this post was originally incorrect. It’s been updated with the correct list. Thanks SEC fan

The Feb. 14th rankings are out from GymInfo.

I said that this past weekend would confirm whether or not Stanford was the #2 team in the nation.

And Stanford won both meets against tough opponents.

And Stanford set a school record for its best start ever.

But I’m still not convinced.

Right now it’s Florida flying high. And a log jam for #2.

The highest scores this year are Florida, Oklahoma, Alabama. I’m not sure Stanford can score high, unless Kristina Vaculik suddenly starts putting up 9.9+ on every apparatus.

I could even see UCLA getting it together for a 197.5 team score by Championships. They very nearly beat Stanford this weekend.

related – NCAA – Gators post fifth-highest total in program history

Amy Van Deusen is the long time editor of the About.com Guide to Gymnastics.

It’s a very popular site explaining our sport to the general public.

Readers nominated finalists in these categories:

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Voting via this page will close March 8, 2011.

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Gymnastics Coaching was nominated in the Blog category.

Thanks About.com.

Called out by the Georgia Head Coach on the shellacking they took at the hands of #1 Florida:

… “There are some positives, but at some point I can not continue to gravitate towards the positives and try to find moral victories in what is, based on what we see every day at the gym, a lackluster, uninspired, chicken performance,” Clark said. …

Red and Black

Are they under performing?

Or out talented by Florida?

Jay Clark’s supposed to be the best recruiter in gymnastics today. He’s supposed to have the talent.

via It’s About Artistic Gymnastics

Scheduled for an April 2011 release:

Mr. Celzani finds himself consumingly in love with an Amazonian gymnast with whom he shares an apartment block. The machinations of their fellow inhabitants notwithstanding, he finds his romantic efforts repeatedly thwarted by his beloved’s single-minded focus on her rigorous physical discipline. …

Amazon

Actually that’s a reprint of a novella by Italian Edmondo de Amicis (1846–1908).

It could be interesting. An exploration of female fitness, sexual stereotypes and gender roles in nineteenth-century Italy

The Bars coaches were not pleased.

… In the second rotation of the team competition, Ontario had major problems. Five of their seven competitors fell on Bars.

… they went to the balance beam and nailed it. Sabrina Gill, 2010 junior national champion, led the team and received the highest individual apparatus score of the evening with a 15.2. All four of Ontario’s scores on beam were above 14.0, totaling an impressive 58.2.

read more on the Canada Games Blog – Strong balance beam earns team gold for Ontario

Oakville coach Lorne Bobkin calls for the Beam coach to ‘get a raise’.

… Actually, the Ontario start scores are so high on Bars that they won the apparatus anyway.

1) Ontario
2) B.C.
3) Quebec

Jenn has more information and links on Gymn.ca.

Watch a video interview with the Ontario team.

#2011gymnastics

The first ‘perfect 10’ of the NCAA season.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

If that’s not ‘Stick of the Week’, I’ll be shocked.

Aunt Joyce linked that and other highlights videos from this weekend.

Unofficial. But I’m getting it from a pretty reliable source – their coach.

Top 3 AA in the preliminaries. Prelim scores do not count towards the top 36 AA Final, though. That’s ‘sudden victory’.

1. Sabrina Gill
2. Silvia Colussi-Pelaez
3. Mikaela Gerber

Congratulations to Sabrina. Another terrific result.

Top 3 teams in the Women’s Artistic competition at Canada Winter Games.

full results (PDF)

7 gymnasts per team All 7 gymnasts compete on each event
Best 4 scores per event contribute to the team score

Top 3 per province qualify for the All Around Finals plus others by AA scores for a total of 36 gymnasts

Top 8 per event qualify for each Event Final with a maximum of 2 gymnasts per province.