Author: Rick Mc

Brett MacAuley linked to this terrific highlights slideshow.

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Melissa Marlowe linked to a disturbing HuffPo article.

Flame-retardant chemicals permeate the world, and the bodies of nearly every person. But a new film and a new scientific study point to two groups of people whose risks of exposure may be particularly high: firefighters who venture into burning buildings and gymnasts who tumble into pits of foam blocks. …

…the new study … found four to 6.5 times more flame retardants in the blood of 11 collegiate gymnasts than in the U.S. general population.

In their attempts to pinpoint the source of exposures, the team found air and dust samples with concentrations of flame retardants greater than in residential homes. Hand-wipe samples showed the athletes had higher levels of the chemicals on their skin after practice than before practice …

Flame-Retardant Chemicals Endanger Firefighters, Gymnasts

No need to panic. Yet.

But if there’s even a slight risk I’d rather Gyms use foam without fire retardant chemicals. They’ve never been needed.

JAO

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Men pole dance?

Yep.

Click PLAY or watch Evgeny Greshilov on YouTube.

Pole Art 2013 Men’s Champion

… graceful and impossible bike tricks by virtuoso BMX freestyler Tim Knoll, who is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. …

Boing Boing

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… The first women’s Olympic (GYMNASTICS) competition was primitive, for it involved only synchronized calisthenics, was held at the 1928 Games, in Amsterdam. …

This seems to be a routine new to YouTube.

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As cheeky as they come, is it true that Tatiana is all grown up now? And Serious?

A moment at the 2013 FISU Games. 🙂

(via wogymnastike and GymFever)

Jeroen van der Eb, Bert Coolen, Chris Laumans, Rik van der Sar, Andreas Daffertshofer

VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands

31 International Conference on Biomechanics in Sports (2013)

Abstract:

We developed a video-based analysis system to monitor and analyze performance in technical sports, the CoachCockPit.

The CoachCockPit captures footage of a performance, stores and presents it instantly.

Footage can automatically be analyzed and fed back. We show how daily training activity of trampolinists is monitored and parameters like number of routines, number of jumps per routine, or jump height, can be extracted.

Over weeks and month these parameters display trends that provide information about training progress in relation to the aimed-for training results. Overtraining and stress fractures are crucial risk factors in trampoline jumping. The deployment of the CoachCockPit in trampoline jumping will, in the future, help to predict these risk factors at an early stage.

MONITORING TRAINING LOAD OF ELITE TRAMPOLINISTS; FIRST RESULTS; AN AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS SYSTEM FOR DAILY USE (PDF)

🙂

Thanks Topaze.

Thanks Sports Girls Play.