Year: 2016

David Belyavskiy is married

See this photo on Instagram.

 

(via papaliukin)

start distance for run

None of the kids will be able to say … “I can’t find my run distance.” 🙂

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Manjak’s Gymnastics.

2017 Gymnastics Conference, U.K.

Nick Ruddock, February 12, 2017 – Coventry, U.K.

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Olivia Vivian’s new Cirque act

Ms Vivian, 27, said she could not reveal the specifics of the performance, but said it was along the lines of a trapeze.

“They threw a bunch of trapeze artists and artistic gymnasts in as lab rats to figure out this event,” she said.

“No-one had ever coached it before, no-one had really seen it before, it was exciting and very dangerous.”

Ms Vivian, who officially retired from elite gymnastics on Saturday, said she had dreamed of joining Cirque du Soleil when she was a child gymnast and went backstage at a Perth performance. …

Flipping from one stage to another, gymnast finds new career

Olivia Vivian

Canadian Olympic Hopes team

The Olympic Hopes Cup is set to take place in Liberec, CZE from Nov 2-6 and here are the WAG athletes and coaches that will be attending:

Ana Padurariu and Jade Chrobok (Gemini), Haley de Jong (Flicka), Victoria Jurca (Gym-Fly) and Sophie Marois (Viagym). Coaches: Elena Davydova, Dorina Stan, Jacinthe Emard, and Frank Kistler.

Gymnastics Canada

https://www.instagram.com/p/BL13zVeghLX/
 
via Fans of Canadian Gymnastics

NBC scoring colour code

NBC anchor Tim Daggett in London:

“We have our own little scoring reference,” Daggett explained several times throughout the Olympic competition, “1.2 deductions or less, [the score is] green; it’s a go score. It’s great. Then there’s cautionary… And then there’s red, and that is obviously bad.”

NBC scoring key

Elizabeth Stranahan – Pushing perfection: Exploring activity systems through elite gymnastics scoring (PDF)

In that thesis Stranahan weighs the pros and cons of NBC trying to simplify the new (2006) Olympic Gymnastics scoring.

Personally, I like it.

When I next saw Tim I made a point of telling him that the colour code truly does help the general public. The very worst thing about the Code change was losing the marketing value of “Nadia’s perfect 10.0.