A new exposé from Romania. In Romanian.
Olaru is opening up about her life, her struggle at home, the suicide of the father, her mother’s struggle with alcohol and the hard training sessions which at times involved beatings. …
Month: May 2016
Nina Derwael – Bars podium
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#GymCdnChamps coverage
I’ll be LIVE on twitter @GymCoaching.
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RESULTS (updated links)
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Mobile LiveMeet:
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$1 of every ticket sold will be donated to Red Cross supporting Fort McMurray.
Nikita’s gold medal Floor 15.566 Floor
day in the life of Olympian Courtney McGregor
Christchurch gymnast Courtney McGregor will join the New Zealand Olympic team for Rio, alongside fellow gymnast Misha Koudinov and trampolinist Dylan Schmidt.
They are New Zealand’s first Olympic gymnasts since Sydney 2000 and the largest contingent since three gymnasts went to the Tokyo Games in 1964. …
She’ll be competing for Boise after Rio.
Douglas Family Gold – review
GymCastic will be reviewing the new reality TV series. The overwhelming response is that viewers will be pleasantly impressed.
Douglas Family Gold (season one, episode one) Jessica,Spencer and Spanny recap the episode.
Fans of Canadian Gymnastics
Just in time for the 2016 Canadian Championships, we’re announcing a new public Facebook page called Fans of Canadian Gymnastics.
Since it’s a public group many young gymnasts will be checking it out. Therefore we ask you keep the comments and posts family friendly. 🙂
“Don’t say anything in this group that you wouldn’t say to the gymnast, their families or coaches”
Here are the guidelines.
New Quad, New Rules
Justine Kelly on FloGymnastics put together a series of posts on changes in the 2017-2020 Code of Points:
• 2017-2020 Code of Points – Part 1
• 2017-2020 Code of Points – Vault & Bars
• 2017-2020 Code – Beam & Floor
Beam should have more variety next cycle as many skills have been raised in difficulty.
Don’t count on all those changes surviving, however. A new President is coming in. I’ll be surprised if this is the final draft.
Kristian Thomas on Zika
Olympic bronze medallist gymnast Kristian Thomas told BBC Sport: “We were over there in February for a training camp and we followed all the advice from the doctors, the BOA (British Olympic Association) and British Gymnastics and we were all fine.
“I think we’ve just got to make sure we’re on top of this and following the guidelines, make sure we’re protecting ourselves and each other …”
I was in Rio for 17 days in April and saw only 3 mosquitos. There will be fewer during the Olympics.
The risk of Zika infection is far lower than the risk of getting into a motor vehicle accident on the way to the Olympic venue.
Guatemala Age Group camp
This camp, hosted in Guatemala City, was unique in that it was the first one that combined an Olympic Solidarity technical course with the full content and focus of the FIG Age Group Programme for Artistic Gymnastics. Indeed, the entire development and world-wide dissemination of the age group programmes has been subsidised annually by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). …
Guatemala has had a surge of interest in Gymnastics with the success of 2012 and 2016 Olympian Ana Sofía Gómez. …
Myself and José Súcart were the experts for this one. We both agreed it was as good as any of the 5 day camps we’ve led.
The quality and variety of demonstrators at the Camp was a highlight. Some gymnasts are resident at the Gym, doing their schooling upstairs between training sessions.
Jorge Vega Lopez, Floor gold medalist at the 2015 Pan American Games, participated as a demonstrator. He was one of the first gymnasts to join the residential school.
Considering they have only 8-9 clubs in the entire nation, Guatemala is doing great things. Beam is particularly strong.
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