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Awesome. … This should be hugely popular. The fittest athletes in the world doing spectacular things.
… photographed and edited by The Lighthouse Film Company for the open of Evolution, a gymnastics event between two teams of Olympians, World Champions and National Team Members.
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Tom Forster and Todd Gardner explain how they use the “Al Fong” bar.
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Sadly, Dave Adlard borrowed mine. 🙂
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I’m surprised to see such a strong line-up competing the FIG Artistic Gymnastics Challenge Cup Ghent including:
Marco Baldauf (AUT), Diego Hypolito, Jade Barbosaet, Diana dos Santos (BRA), Zou Kai and Wu Liufang (CHN), Tomi Tuuha (FIN), Vlasos Maras (GRE), Kirsztian Berki (HUN), Dutch trio van Gelder, Wammes, Zonderland, Diana Anton Golotsukov (RUS), Regulo Carmona (VEN). …
Rumour is that Olympic Floor champion Zou Kai has a HUGE Floor difficulty start score.
Jiang Yuyuan is there, too, perhaps to prove herself ready for Tokyo.
Prize money of 25,000 CHF makes the event appealing. But we can already predict that somebody will be injured, forcing them to miss World Championships.
Canadian Kristina Vaculik took a year off school at Stanford to try for Worlds and Olympics. She qualified for Worlds Tokyo this past weekend.
But Mackenzie Caquatto is trying to do both Collegiate gymnastics and National Team, simultaneously:
… Caquatto and other members of the U.S. National Team will compete for a spot on the world team. The group meets in Houston once a month to work with Martha Karolyi, the team’s coordinator since 2001, in preparation for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
That’s why Caquatto will keep such an insane schedule the next several months. And we haven’t even mentioned she is planning to compete for the Gators once the NCAA season starts in January. …
“She really has her mind set and we are going to do everything we can to help her achieve this goal,’’ (coach) Faehn said. “It’s very rare. There have been some athletes who have come back after college and have done it, but while trying to tackle a full [class] load and do this, it’s very rare and extremely challenging.
“I really think she can stay disciplined and focused and give it a shot.’’ …
Gators gymnast Caquatto is keeping a busy schedule as she attempts a rare challenge
I’m not liking her chances. Marta will want total focus on Tokyo and the Olympics.
Florida has a gorgeous new Player Bios section, by the way.
On GymNiceTic I saw the news that our Worlds Silver medalist from 2010 has his own line of Adidas garb.
Click PLAY or watch his Adidas TV ad on YouTube.
The German male gymnasts seem to be doing alright, even if nobody seems to be able to market the American MAGs.
… Check the many comments on that link. Or the same discussion on Tony Retrosi’s Gymnastike post – The Marketing of Men’s Gymnastics
To help the MAG cause, I voted for Leyva over Wieber and Ohashi on the next Inside Gymnastics magazine cover.
(via GymNiceTic)
CALGARY — Big air, soft landing.
Freestyle skiers and snowboarders rocketing off a jump into an enormous air bag Monday at Canada Olympic Park compared it to jumping into a giant marshmallow. …
The behemoth landing cushion — 17 metres long and 11 metres wide — is the first one in Alberta and one of the few air bags in Canada. …
… The International Olympic Committee recently added freestyle and snowboard slopestyle, as well as women’s ski halfpipe to its Winter Games menu.
CFSA Chief Operating Officer Peter Judge estimates there’s between six and a dozen air bags operating in the country …
This version is only for age group athletes. The big guns still train into water.
Brett MacAuley linked to this story from Facebook. Thanks.
Check out some amazing photos from the “Evolution” competition in Pennsylvania.
This was my first time shooting a gymnastics event, and I have to tell you—it was very challenging. …
Scott Kelby – Shooting My First Gymnastics Event, Thanks to Dave Black
Click through to Scott’s site for some of the best photos I’ve seen in a long time.
Grace Chiu is uploading today to the Gymnastics Canada YouTube channel.
OTTAWA – Gymnastics Canada has announced its seven-member women’s team for the 2011 world artistic gymnastics championships in October.
Members of the team are Dominique Pegg, Talia Chiarelli, Kristina Vaculik, Peng Peng Lee, Mikaela Gerber, Coralie Leblond-Chartrand, Madeline Gardiner …
Team selection criteria included recent results from both national and international competitions and performance at trial meets held in Oakville, Ont., on August 25th and 28th.
… a bid to qualify a full team for Canada at the 2012 Olympics next summer in London.
The top eight teams in Tokyo will clinch an Olympic berth and the final four of the 12-country quota for full teams will be determined early next year at a final qualification meet in London.
Here’s the highlights video previously only posted on Facebook.
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UPDATE: Chris points out it’s actually a full twisting Maloney.
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We’d heard the rumour Elisabeth Seitz was working on it. Here’s the evidence.
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… Seitz began on uneven bars, where she debuted her new full-twisting Shaposhnikova for 14.750 (6.4 D), her highest mark of the day. …
Elisabeth is only the second girl I’ve ever seen do any variation of this super skill. Chelsey Colman did it from free hip. (VIDEO)
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