Year: 2016

Canadians love the Nadia Comaneci Invite

Year after year Canucks do well at that competition. 🙂

Gemini Gymnastics of Oshawa, Ontario, swept the major titles at the 2016 Nadia Comaneci International Invitational, held in Oklahoma City on Feb. 13.

Coached by Yelena Davydova (center in photo), the 1980 Olympic champion, Gemini senior Meixi Semple (right) and her junior teammate Jade Chrobok (left) each won their respective all-around titles, and the pair defeated defending champion Romania-Deva, 113.000-110.450. Dynamo (Ontario), coached by Elvira Saadi, finished third with 106.800 …

Gemini Dominates Nadia Comaneci International Invitational

Meixi Semple went 57.100, a score that would put her in strong contention for the Canadian Olympic Team.

Ebee Price 39.65

Elizabeth Price swept the individual event victories and scored a season-high in the all-around to lead Stanford to a 196.650-196.150 victory at Arizona …

The Cardinal (9-4, 3-2 Pac-12) hit all 24 of its routines for the first time this season …

Go Stanford

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… and you thought Gymkata was good

UPDATE – Gymnast Crossing reports this film is Born to Fight, a 2004 Thai action film directed by Panna Rittikrai. Many of the actors in Born to Fight were Thai national athletes.

This film was clearly inspired by Gymkata. 🙂

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Next time I’m threatened by a machine gunner, I’ll take him out with a double pike.

Thanks Calina.

Gymkata earned a Razzie Award nomination for (Kurt) Thomas as Worst New Star.

It has developed a minor cult following as an unintentional comedy for its dubious premise, poor production quality and strange setting. Maxim lists the film as the 17th “Worst Movie of All Time”. …

Magical Classic competition awards

Feb 12-13, 2016 in Orlando.

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Eastern Michigan goes 196.6

These ladies have been killin’ it. Congratulations on making history. 🙂

The Eastern Michigan University women’s gymnastics team kept up their record-breaking ways today, Feb. 13, in a tri-meet win over Bowling Green and Southeast Missouri State. The Eagles were able to break into the 196’s for the first time in program history, finishing with a huge 196.6 to shatter the old record set Monday, Feb. 8, at Michigan.

“I’m obviously thrilled and extremely proud of the team,” remarked Head Coach Jay Santos. …

“We had a lot of great individual performances, but I think the highlight would have to be Natalie (Gervais) going 9.925 on beam with a gorgeous routine, and Lacey (Rubin) going right after her with a 9.9,” said Santos. …

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