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Author: Rick Mc
Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.
near falls in Gymnastics …
Colorado Boulder Men’s College Gymnastics
Aussie World Championships trials highlights
Australia sent only 3 gymnasts to Montreal:
Georgia Godwin (QLD / Delta Gymnastics Brisbane)
Rianna Mizzen (QLD / QLD WAG High Performance Centre)
Talia Folino (VIC / Waverley Gymnastics Centre)
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NCAA Gymnastics Camps
Gymnasts interested in any particular school are advised to attend their summer Gymnastics camp.
NCAAgym.com posted a partial list of camps available.
Kohei eats only 1 meal a day
Coffee all day through morning and afternoon trainings. Then one meal 30 minutes after second training.
At least that’s what the translation of this Japanese TV interview says. I’m surprised he has enough energy to train.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Thanks Michael.
Worlds Pommel Final preview
Always a battle. Sadly Berki is out with shoulder surgery.
role models at the Gym
Here’s how it happens.
remembering Věra Čáslavská
Věra Čáslavská died in 2016 at the age of 74.
A sports school in Prague will bear Caslavska’s name as of the next school year.
Winner of a total of 11 Olympic medals, seven of them gold, Caslavska captured the All-around at the 1964 and 1968 Olympic Games, joining Soviet Larissa Latynina as the only female gymnast to to have won back-to-back titles. No other woman has won as many individual Olympic gold medals. …
1968 Olympics
During the medal ceremonies for Balance Beam, won by Soviet Natalia Kuchinskaya, and Floor Exercise, where she shared the podium with Larissa Petrik, Caslavska turned her head to the right and down as the Soviet anthem was played, a gesture widely interpreted as a political protest. She returned home to Czechoslovakia to find herself spurned by the government, which did not initially allow her to work as a coach and blocked her from receiving donors. …
After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, Caslavska was finally recognized as a national heroine. …
Click PLAY or watch her political statement on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch the IOC video on Facebook.
related – I think people should just stick to their profession, that is, unless they agree with me politically 🙂
Zamo interview
Now age-35, Elena “Zamo” Zamolodchikova was one of the greatest ever Soviet gymnasts.
Read a new interview – ELENA ZAMOLODCHIKOVA ON COACHING, JUDGING, AND THE CURRENT STATE OF RUSSIAN GYMNASTICS
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