Author: Rick Mc

That Japanese robot keeps improving. 🙂

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Cirque’s Marceline Goldstein linked to this indiegogo teaser for a proposed documentary on Cambodian circus artists training at a school called Phare Ponleu Selpak.

Sopha Nem and Dina Sok are two phenomenal teenage circus students from Phare. With great administrative assistance from Phare, they were accepted into the prestigious National Circus School of Montreal in 2011, where they are training now. …

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Here’s an extended trailer for the proposed film.

related:

• Phare Ponleu Selpak’s official website

• Sopha and Dina’s personal crowdfunding page

1974.

Thank Dagmar Nissen Munn for this edit.

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I’m not quite old enough of an old timer to have a dozen personal Mark Davis stories. I never got to Muscle Beach until 1977 or 1978. Mark wasn’t doing the Quad off Swinging Rings the year I was there.

Great interview.

Gigi Khazback Farid:

Fadwa Mohamed is an Egyptian gymnast who won the gold medal on vault at this year’s Mediterranean Games. …

Gigi: You perform the most difficult and dangerous vault in women’s gymnastics, how long have you been training the vault?

Fadwa: I have been training it for three years but still i need more time.

Gigi: The Produnova is an incredibly dangerous vault, have you ever been afraid of attempting it.

Fadwa: I was never scared of doing it. Its not dangerous for someone who has a body like mine. …

WOGymnastike – Exclusive Interview With Egypt’s Fadwa Mohamed

If FIG rules keep rewarding her for falling. And she’s not afraid.

Why stop chucking that Vault? 😦

Obviously Vault landing deductions need to double, at least.

Examiner was there:

Eight 2012 Olympians, including European vault champion Giulia Steingruber and two-time Olympic finalist Tomas Gonzalez, won the team title at the Tournoi de Schilteigheim Saturday afternoon near Strasbourg, France.

It was the first time the Schiltigheim tournament, organized by the Alsace club of the same name, has held a team competition. The program was inspired by the Pro Gymnastics Challenge held in Pennsylvania earlier this year, with gymnasts from each team facing off rotuine-for-routine on each event.

For example, the competition began with Russia’s Anna Pavlova, representing the blue team, and Greece’s Vasiliki Millousi, representing the red team, facing off on floor. Each performed their routine, but Millousi’s score was the higher of the two, so the red team earned a point. …

… what was most notable about this tournament was the exceptional goodwill and camaraderie between the two teams, who openly supported each other during every routine and gleefully clowned around when not on the apparatus. …

Both teams gladly posed for photos with young gymnasts from the Alsace region before heading off to a banquet dinner followed by a soiree in a Strasbourg nightclub.

Why everyone’s a winner at the 2013 Tournoi de Schiltigheim (Video)

Yep, that’s Ruggeri. Blythe notes he’s “recently moved to train at the U.S. Olympic Training Center under Vitaly Marinitch”.

I’m really looking forward to Peng Peng Li in the NCAA. 🙂

She’s a trickster. And entertainer.

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Watching old videos & Charlotte caught me doing the not impressed face… Again https://t.co/16e20aQ7i2

— McKayla Maroney (@McKaylaMaroney) October 27, 2013

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Bloggers rehash some of the most discussed Floor routines of the past.

Kristen Ras:

Here, our esteemed panel discusses the nuances of the routines that demand to be noticed—love them or hate them, they get people talking and challenge the notions of what can be done with choreography.

To begin our series, I wanted to start with the generation that inspired this article—the Athens 2004 Era. …

Love It or Hate It: The Athens Era Edition (VIDEOS)

And the winner is …

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Recall that lunges were allowed. 🙂

A worthy World Champion. And great role model.

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