Author: Rick Mc

The Sooners will be ranked #1 by next week.

Alabama 197.4 – Florida 196.8. Upset.

Auburn 197.025 – Arkansas 196.250. Congratulations. 🙂

LSU 197.350 – Missouri 192.725

Utah 196.725 – UCLA 194.725. Condolences to the Bruins. 😦

Balance Beam Situation is trying to LIVE blog all the Friday night meets.

Click PLAY or watch Oklahoma highlights on Sooner Sports.

http://www.soonersports.com/mediaPortal/embed.swf

I’m not sure Brenna’s Bars were a 10. Until she nailed that full twisting double layout.

Do you collect Topps baseball cards?

A 15-card “First Pitch” subset of ceremonial first pitches is part of the card series this year.

Maroney, part of the 2012 U.S. Olympic champion women’s gymnastics team, threw an acrobatic first pitch at a Chicago White Sox game on Aug. 1, ahead of the Secret U.S. Classic …

Olympic Talk

Those cards will be available Feb 6th.

Incredibly talented 16yr-old Olympic bronze medalist Taku Hiraoka 2nd.

Olympic champion Iouri Podladtchikov was 3rd.

Shaun White 4th.

Click PLAY or watch it on ESPN.

http://player.espn.com/player.js?playerBrandingId=4ef8000cbaf34c1687a7d9a26fe0e89e&adSetCode=91cDU6NuXTGKz3OdjOxFdAgJVtQcKJnI&pcode=1kNG061cgaoolOncv54OAO1ceO-I&width=576&height=324&externalId=espn:12214833&thruParam_espn-ui%5BautoPlay%5D=false&thruParam_espn-ui%5BplayRelatedExternally%5D=true

The south-eastern United States city was this week selected to stage the Games – ahead of Lima, Peru and Ufa, Russia – by the International World Games Association (IWGA) Executive Board following presentations at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters in Lausanne. …

Interviewed face-to-face in a Lausanne hotel before the climactic final day of the contest, David Benck, one of the bid team’s co-chairs, said: “We are 100 per cent built today”.

… 4,500 athletes and 1,000 media representatives for the event which features a selection of around 25 sports …

Any surplus revenues from hosting are said to have been earmarked for local and Alabama state charities.

Birmingham “100 per cent built” for World Games, says bid leader

Click PLAY or watch a cool Games promo on Vimeo. 🙂

Gymnastics events include Synchronised Trampoline, Tumbling, Double-mini Trampoline, Acrobatic Gymnastics, Aerobic Gymnastics and Rhythmic Gymnastics individual event finals.

related – Emily Smith and Jon Schwaiger, two Canadian Trampoline sports competitors from the Cali Games, are in Mexico. Getting married. Congratulations. 🙂

(via FIG)

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

@UEGymnastics:

The ECh MAG & WAG 2017 are attributed to the city of Bucharest, in Roumania !
#UEGymnastics

Bucharest hosted the 1st WAG Europeans in 1957:

1. Larisa Latynina (URS)
2. Elena Leusteanu (ROU)
3. Sonia Iovan (ROU)

The 1st MAG Europeans was held in Frankfort 1955.

via Nico

The European Union of Gymnastics (UEG) supports their own President since 2010, Georges Guelzec from France.

The election will be held October 2016 in Tokyo. No doubt a number of other candidates will come forward before then.

via Nico on GymFever2012

The Korea Times has a good piece on Tabitha’s transition to coaching at her alma mater.

The most decorated gymnast in Stanford history finds peace in coaching

Tabitha Yim was 7th AA at the 2001 World Championships.

NCAA Floor rewards entertainment value. Watch the Kentucky girls break up in the one corner.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Sadly, YouTube doesn’t give much indication of how crowd pleasing it is. I’ll have to see it LIVE.