Author: Rick Mc

The rumors have been swirling about the possible cast for the seventh season of Donald Trump’s “Celebrity Apprentice,” which will be Season 14 of the franchise overall.

The official cast announcement is set for Thursday, March 20, with the season shooting this spring and airing sometime later this year on NBC. …

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If true, I’m not convinced this is a good career move for Shawn. For one thing, Trump is in the IDIOT Hall of Fame.

Recall that Nadia did not fare too well in that show. She was fired.

Craig reports on the 2014 English Championships held 2 weeks before the British Championships March 28-30.

Espoir:
1 50.000 – Lucy Stanhope (City of Liverpool)
2 49.550 – Alice Kinsella (Park Wrekin)
3 47.950 – Olivia Williams (City of Liverpool)

Junior:
1 55.300 – Tyesha Mattis (East London)
2 54.750 – Catherine Lyons (Europa)
3 53.850 – Amy Tinkler (South Durham)

Senior:
1 54.350 – Ruby Harrold (The Academy)
2 53.950 – Kelly Simm (Dynamo)
3 53.650 – Claudia Fragapane (Bristol Hawks)

Couch Gymnast – 2014 English Championships: Results

Click PLAY or watch Catherine Lyons’ pretty Beam on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Georgia Mae Fenton’s Bars on YouTube. LOVE the line.

Georgia-Mae won Jr Bars.

GymFever linked to this routine.

Craig Tilly:

You can hear the chain snap when she does the Pak.

Actually, the Bars themselves were OK. Something in the anchor itself failed.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Seems they moved the Bars to the Horizontal Bar tie down after the men’s competition.

She re-did the routine for 14.350.

Update from Susanne in the comments:

Becky didn’t re-do her routine. She was given the opportunity but decided against it as her score from the botched routine still put her in second place behind Ruby Harrold.

FIG specs for tie downs are not sufficient. Not safe.

When, oh when, will a safer mechanism be required for FIG meets?

Pricing Goes Up March 18th.

Independent Gymnastics Conference GymConUSA 2014, June 16 – 18 at the Mirage, Vegas.

Speakers: Shannon Miller (Guest of Honor), Tony Retrosi, Jeff Lulla, Tammy Biggs, Frank Sahlein, Gina Pongetti, Rick McCharles, Michelle Kocan, Nate Hendrickson, Carrie Spender Lennox, Terry Gray, Dayna Waroe, Stacy Clark and Dan Niehaus

See the full CONFERENCE SCHEDULE.

USAG via email:

The team was finalized at the U.S. Women’s National Team training camp that just concluded …

Seniors
Alyssa Baumann, Plano, Texas/WOGA
Madison Desch, Lenexa, Kan./Great American Gymnastics Express
Peyton Ernst, Coppell, Texas/Texas Dreams Gymnastics
Rachel Gowey, Urbandale, Iowa/Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance Institute
Madison Kocian, Dallas, Texas/WOGA
Maggie Nichols, Little Canada, Minn./Twin City Twisters
Kyla Ross, Aliso Viejo, Calif./Gym-Max
Mykayla Skinner, Gilbert, Ariz./Desert Lights Gymnastics

Juniors
Jordan Chiles, Vancouver, Wash./Naydenov Gymnastics
Nia Dennis, Westerville, Ohio/Buckeye Gymnastics
Norah Flatley, Cumming, Iowa/Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance Institute
Emily Gaskins, Coral Springs, Fla./Cincinnati Gymnastics
Bailie Key, Coppell, Texas/Texas Dreams Gymnastics
Ragan Smith, Dacula, Ga./Texas Dreams Gymnastics

We finally get to see Mykayla Skinner compete for the USA. 🙂

Gymnastike will be in Jesolo providing exclusive coverage of the podium training and competiton. Gymnastike Gold subscibers will have access to the only podium training videos …

Again. 🙂

Greg Marsden and his team truly deserve the success they’ve had.

Congratulations.

related – Recap: No. 5 Utah women’s gymnastics takes down No. 6 Georgia (VIDEO)

via @UtahGymnastics

Just getting my flights organized.

Schedule:

Friday April 18th, 2014
Semifinal 1 (Session 1) – 1 p.m. start time
Semifinal 2 (Session 2) – 7 p.m. start time

Saturday April 19th, 2014
Super Six (Session 3) – 6 p.m. start time

Sunday April 20th, 2014
Individual Event Competition (Session 4) – 2 p.m. start time

related – Regionals: April 5:

• University of Minnesota – Minneapolis, Minn.
• University of Georgia – Athens, Ga.
• University of Arkansas – Fayetteville, Ark.
• Louisiana State University – Baton Rouge, La.
• Pennsylvania State University – State College, Pa.
• University of Washington – Seattle, Wash.

Highlights of Ebee, Brenna, and Victoria at the 2014 American Cup

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

… Right now, there are 8 teams in contention for one of three remaining spots at Regionals. …

All of this extra drama will make the Conference Meets more interesting.

College Gym Fans

An attempt to clarify new FX rules coming into effect May 2014.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.