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Bridget Sloan wins the Honda
She is this year’s Honda Sports Award recipient for gymnastics, distinguishing her as the nation’s top collegiate female athlete in the sport. The honor was based on the results of national balloting among all NCAA member schools as part of The Collegiate Women Sports Awards program, now celebrating its 40th year. The other finalists were Lindsay Mable (Minnesota), Nina McGee (Denver) and Elizabeth Price (Stanford).
This is the second such honor for Sloan, as she won the award as a freshman in 2013. A Gator gymnast has claimed the honor four of the last five years, as Kytra Hunter was the 2012 and 2015 recipient. …
What a career!
Isabella Amado – Olympian
An Olympian for the tiny nation of Panama. Congratulations.
She was awarded the Tripartite commission spot.
Isabella trains at Excalibur Gymnastics, Virginia Beach but has competed for Panama many times already.
Lauren Hopkins explains the process by which she was selected.
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worst Olympic Gymnastics story (so far)
The Olympic year always results in hilariously inaccurate cut-and-paste news reports from general sports media. The worst I’ve seen was written by Devin Neal on an Indian site:
… Currently, Dipa is known to be a phenomenon in the vault event that requires an athlete to sprint towards an apparatus and acrobatically jump over it, do multiple somersaults and execute a ideal landing.
She will be chosen following the selection trial at the Australian Gymnastics Championships, to be held at Melbourne’s Hisense Arena on May 23. …
… she’ll be the first gymnast to represent Jamaica at the Olympics.
Olympic qualifiers: Gymnast Dipa Karmakar bags gold at Rio event
Here’s the PDF version in case that gets taken down.
Olympic qualifiers- Gymnast Dipa Karmakar bags gold at Rio event
NOW Dipa has to survive intense media scrutiny until the Olympics. Best would be to leave India and train somewhere where she could focus.
In 2004 I recall Kyle Shewfelt hiding out from the Canadian media. Limiting training distractions. 🙂
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Austria’s Lisa Ecker to Olympics
This post was updated to correct numerous errors. Oops.
Like Marisa Dick, Jasmin Mader from Austria arrived in Rio just hours before the competition.
But had falls on Bars & Beam.
Jasmin was replacing Elisa Hämmerle who tore her Achilles tumbling in podium training. (I saw that tumbling pass. It did not look like a full Achilles tear. I assumed it was an ankle injury, at the time.)
Lisa Ecker hit 4/4 in the AA for 53.132 to qualify herself & Austria to the Olympics.
R5 Dream Team L10 Jr A
Region 5 Gymnastics Insider does a fantastic job promoting WAG in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio.
Click PLAY or watch some of the 2016 Nationals qualifiers on YouTube.
Spieth America rebranding
SA Gymnastics equipment out of Orillia, Ontario was once called Spieth-Anderson. The NEW SA stands for Spieth America.
There’s been a rebranding for both offices: Canada (Orillia, Ontario) and USA (Aledo, Texas).
related – History and tradition of Spieth Gymnastics Germany
Alberta T&T Championships photos
Looks like this competition was a blast. 🙂
Olympic, Paralympic logos announced
Tokyo 2020 have today unveiled the logos for the Olympics and Paralympics, entitled “harmonised chequered emblems” which organisers claim reflect the spirit of the Games. …
Some will like the elegant simplicity. I find them pretty dull and uninspiring.
My favourite was Barcelona.
The first Tokyo I like better.
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