Author: Rick Mc

Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.

Beth Tweddle – reality TV show – The Jump

Olympic hero Beth Tweddle is said to have signed up for the third series of Channel 4’s daring winter sports challenge The Jump.

The 30-year-old champion gymnast … will join a host of other celebrities in Austria as they are tasked with executing risky tasks such as bobsleigh, ski cross and snowboarding. …

Beth Tweddle lined up to appear in Channel 4 gameshow The Jump

Beth Tweddle on the red carpet

The End of the Perfect 10


The Making and Breaking of Gymnastics’ Top Score from Nadia to Now – July 5, 2016
by Dvora Meyers

Just in time for the 2016 Olympic Games and the fortieth anniversary of Nadia Comaneci’s “Perfect 10,” an exciting and insightful account of the controversial world of gymnastics, the recent changes of the scoring system, and why those changes will drive American gymnasts to the top of the sport in the twenty-first century.

It was the team finals of women’s gymnastics in the 2012 London Olympics and McKayla Maroney was on top of her game. The sixteen-year-old US gymnast was performing arguably the best vault of all time, launching herself unimaginably high into the air and sticking a flawless landing. But when her score came, many were baffled: 16.233. Three tenths of a point in deductions stood between her and a perfect score. But if that vault wasn’t perfection, what was? …

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