Author: Rick Mc

The International Federations for karate, roller sports, sport climbing, wakeboarding, wushu, baseball/softball, squash and wrestling all made 30-minute presentations prior to voting in Saint Petersburg.

The IOC Executive Board then selected three sports by secret ballot with baseball/softball, squash and wrestling all being proposed for possible inclusion on the Olympic programme for the 2020 Games. …

Team GB – IOC PRESIDENT ROGGE BELIEVES RIGHT THREE SPORTS CHOSEN

It sounds like only one Sport will be added.

To me Wrestling is a no-brainer. It obviously should be in the Olympics.

Swimming and gymnastics were the big winners Wednesday in a new revenue-sharing ranking of Olympic sports, signaling the start of the debate over how to split the money from the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.

The IOC executive board promoted the international swimming and gymnastics federations into the top tier along with track and field in a list of five groups comprising the 28 summer Olympic sports.

Previously, the International Association of Athletics Federations was ranked alone in the highest of four groups and received the biggest share of the hundreds of millions of dollars generated from television rights and other deals from each Summer Games. …

Swimming, gymnastics get Olympic revenue boost

The obvious question — Why can’t our National Governing Bodies better market one of the top 3 Olympic sports?

(via FIG)

A kickstarter proposal:

Join Maddy Curley in making the next great Gymnastics Movie: CHALK IT UP!

CHALK IT UP is a family friendly gymnastics film about a girl named Hannah, who overcomes her past to build a very unlikely team of misfit gymnasts at Harvard University. …

Click PLAY or watch it on kickstarter.

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The goal is donations totalling $110,000.

Madelyn “Maddy” Jane Curley is an American actress and former gymnast. She competed for North Carolina Tar Heels. …

Curley played gymnast Mina Hoyt in the 2006 film Stick It

(via Dominique Moceanu on Facebook)

Prior to opening Physiotherapy On Wheels, Alan was a three time Olympic gymnast (1988, 1992, and 1996) …

Alan also achieved a silver medal in the all-around at the 1990 Commonwealth Games, was an individual gold medalist in the high bar at the 1990 and 1994 Commonwealth Games, and a member of the 1994 Commonwealth gold medal team. …

His name lives on in the Code of Points (C part)

He dropped by Manjak’s Open House so his kids could have some fun.

With that other triple Olympian, Kyle Shewfelt.

See a few more photos from the Open House.

Watch a gymnastics dance number choreographed by some of the younger gymnasts. (VIDEO)

related – Top gymnastics coach opens new gym in Erin Mills

@GraceClick:

Webified & posted 70,000 photos of #GymCC2013 to graceclick.ca/photos/13cdngy… <- 9 days, 5 photogs, 4 disciplines, 0 sleep.

Grace answered a few questions on Facebook:

Heaven had very recent surgery on a broken bone in her foot from a 2011 car accident.

Aleeza repeated her FX routine because Elena protested that she was hearing overlapping music being played.

It was the announcer’s mistake that Vic was named 3rd instead of Maegan. Corrected on Saturday.

Olympic Vault finalist Ellie Black had problems vaulting at Canadian Championships.

Coach David Kikuchi wondered if the spring board was slipping forward as she punched.

To check, they carried over a package of heavy shingles to BLOCK the board from moving forward.

Ellie did vault well in that training session.

The shingles, by the way, were being used as weights for the free standing equipment.

I’m at Kelly Manjak’s new gym in Toronto.

July 1st Kelly begins full training for the 2013-14 season. For the first time in his career, he can run a program exactly as he wants. 🙂

A number of new coaches start July 1st. But there are jobs still open.

Email resume and cover letter to ManjakGym (a) gmail.com if interested in getting in on the ground floor of a brand new program. New facility. New equipment.

Positive coaching style a must. Happy, healthy gymnasts the goal.

Beam, Dance, Choreography expertise most needed.

Liang Cheng is a very successful Men’s coach out of Capital City Gymnastics in Canada. He coached Brandon O’Neill, Jackson Paine and many other internationals.

Liang is also the founder of Inspire Sports. They bring in gymnastics apparatus and clothing from China.

The newest Inspire initiative is an English language gymnastics club outside Shanghai.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

He’s done it. 🙂

Taken western Recreational Gymnastics to the nation of Olympic Champions.

Much of our Recreational philosophy is NEW in China.

Li Ning is doing something similar.

We can foresee a future where cities in China have clubs much like cities in the rest of the developed world.

related – Liang is hosting the national Team Champion WAG gymnasts from Shanghai right now. Cirque du Soleil has invited them to see the show Amaluna in Edmonton.

Lausanne (SUI), FIG Office, May 28, 2013:

In the dispute between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), relating to the sanctions imposed on Uzbek gymnast Luiza Galiulina, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has ruled in support of WADA. As a result, the athlete has been suspended for a period of two years, with the ban effective from August 1, 2012.

The gymnast was tested positive during an anti-doping control carried out during a training session ahead of the Olympic Games on July 25, 2012. The B sample analysis confirmed the presence of the banned substance furosemide. …

via email from FIG

Examiner commentary:

Doping cases in gymnastics are extraordinarily rare, but the ones that do occur usually involve furosemide, which is used to treat hypertension, edema and keep racehorses from bleeding through the nose during races (seriously.) Thailand’s Do Thi Ngan Thuong was banned from the 2008 Olympics after testing positive for furosemide (she said she had taken it as a weight-loss supplement) and Brazil’s Daiane dos Santos tested positive in 2009. Both continued competing internationally following their suspensions.

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Jr Canadian Champion

Beam Final – Difficulty: 5.6, Execution: 8.6, Score: 14.40, Gold Medalist

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.