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Tracee Talavera is one of my favourite gymnasts. Along with her teammate Julianne McNamara.
Tracee was famous for introducing the Flair on Beam. She worked on it with the Men’s club coach at the time Hideo Mizoguchi.
Dvora Meyers posted a new interview:
Click PLAY or watch her 1981 Worlds Beam Bronze medal on Beam on YouTube.
Dave Tilley has a very comprehensive program for assessing each gymnast — then prescribing the conditioning to improve physical ability.
The motor component — balance — can be trained separately.
Step one is assess active flexibility:
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Click over to his Common Handstand Problems post for details.
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Russia has been kicked out of international events for four years, with no official team, officials, flag or anthem allowed at Olympics, Paralympics and World Championships. It is a ban on a Russian identity at these events. Nor can they host.
Russia, meanwhile, is set to appeal via the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas), and has portrayed the sanction as excessive, unfair and politically motivated.
Putin loves sport. There’s overwhelming evidence of top-down government sponsored doping in Russia, though not in the Gymnastics sports.
Russia was afforded every opportunity to get its house in order and re-join the global anti-doping community for the good of its athletes and of the integrity of sport, but it chose instead to continue in its stance of deception and denial.
The WADA Executive Committee unanimously endorsed the ban. I think it should and will stick.
This looks great.
Italy’s team podium finish at Worlds was no fluke. They are a serious contender for Tokyo 2020.
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Team Italy training in China.
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Gymnastics Canada and the Institut national du sport du Québec (INS Québec) are pleased to announce a partnership confirming the establishment of a national training centre at the INS Québec Complex for artistic gymnastics and trampoline gymnastics.
The INS Québec also becomes the primary site for Olympic preparation for Tokyo (2020) and Paris (2024) Olympic Games for artistic gymnastics.
“We are so excited to have the INS Québec as our national training centre,” said two-time Olympian Ellie Black from the women’s artistic gymnastics national team. …
The facility has so much to offer other than a great gymnastics area. They have a workout gym downstairs and many recovery tools such as the hot/cold tubs that will be so beneficial at keeping our bodies healthy. All of this will help keep our team motivated, excited, and supported on our journey to Tokyo 2020 and beyond.”
Read more on GymCan.org
Click through to watch it on The Olympic Channel.
