Year: 2011

2008 Olympian Anja Brinker ruptured her right Achilles tendon on 23 January, the German Gymnastics Federation (DTB) announced in a press release on Monday.

The 20-year-old was performing a floor routine during the gymnastics show Feuerwerk der Turnkunst in Berlin when the tendon snapped. …

THE ALL AROUND

Is there nothing to be done to help prevent this injury?

Georgia third. I’m surprised.

Their new star Lindsey Cheek, from Athens, has the top average AA score in the NCAA. Jay Clark was her first club coach. Watch a lovely video profile on Lindsey.

And Oklahoma is off to another great start. Kudos.

more rankings from 24 January 2011

Don’t count UCLA out. … Until next week. Then we’ve got to start counting them out as having any chance to defend the title. This is getting ridiculous.

And don’t put too much stock in the exact numbers. Teams from the SEC typically get higher scores than anywhere else. That seems to be true this season again, from some of the meet reports I’ve read online.

Fitness guru Jack LaLanne died at age 96 in Morro Bay, Calif., of respiratory failure due to pneumonia.

LaLanne brought fitness to America with his workout show in the 1950s to the ’70s. He demonstrated exercises that used no special equipment, just a chair and a towel. He popularized working out in the home so that more people could participate.

LaLanne was also a friend to USA Gymnastics and was part of the morning fitness activities at the 2007 Visa Championships in San Jose, Calif. LaLanne brought his fitness expertise to gymnastics professionals and San Jose residents. …

USAG

Jack’s best line at that competition:

“I can’t die. It would ruin my reputation.”

Aunt Joyce recommended a montage of Soviet girls, including members of the 1992 team.

The golden age so long ago that … Alexandrov was coaching … with a thick head of hair.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

These girls all grew up with an hour of trampoline and an hour of ballet every day. It shows.

China is criticized for not being innovative. That’s hard to accept after watching these 8 gymnasts:

Zhu Sangsang
Jiang Yuyuan
Huang Ying
Jiang Wei
Li Linjing
Xiang Xuelei
Guan Wenli

Zhou Duan (1997) Gaylord 2. … Wow.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

That was linked by Amanda Turner on Facebook.

Check Vellu at 40sec on this tricking highlights reel.

He’s from Finland. On team Unito.

… Seems to me I’ve seen video of Deferr doing that skill in training.

(via kinesthesist)

Everybody loves Chellsie freaking Memmel these days.

They like that (of the comeback queens) she walks the walk, … not just talks the talk.

She’s competed twice already. That takes guts.

Spanny has a funny take on Chelsea’s recent Gymnastike interview.

Definitely Chellsie needs a Tweddle solid 7.0 start Bar routine to have any chance to make the Olympics. But I sure like how she’s handling this comeback.

Good luck. I’m cheering.

Big Fake Smile – at least i didn’t fall and break my talent.

In the lead-ups to World Championships 2011 and Olympic qualification, all eyes are on Russia.

Anastasia Grishina, Anastasia Sidorova, and several other senior gymnasts (with Kristina Sidorova and Anna Rodionova from junior team) will be competing at the Moscow Championship in the Dynamo gym on January 25’th!

Anastasia Grishina Online on Facebook

A fundraiser of the Men’s Intercollegiate Gymnastics Support Program. $20.

details (PDF)

14th World Gymnaestrada
Lausanne (SUI), July 10 – 16, 2011

… some 20,000 gymnasts from 52 nations, registered for the 14th edition of the World Gymnaestrada. For the first time since 1969, delegations from Algeria, Malta, Mongolia and Uruguay are among the participants. In terms of statistics, female gymnasts make up 78% of the participants with strong representation of 11 to 30 year olds. Switzerland itself, with 3,300 participants, followed by Germany (1,800) and Finland (1,400), represent the largest delegations, while Mongolia (10), Guatemala (10) and Serbia (13) count among the smallest. …

FIG

(via Rec Gymnastics)

… the world’s largest gymnastic sporting event …

Larger than the North Korean mass games, like the Arirang Festival?