Author: Rick Mc

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2013 Elite Canada Artistic Gymnastics

February 7-10, Millennium Place, Sherwood Park (Edmonton).

This layout 1/1 twist on Beam is Heaven.

See more Grace Chiu photos on Facebook.

ALL photos will be posted to www.graceclick.ca/photos/13elcanag/ !

Performances at the 2013 Winter Cup Challenge will help determine the 15 men who will comprise the U.S. Men’s Senior National Team through the 2013 U.S. Gymnastics Championships in Hartford, Conn., Aug. 15-18.

The eight members of the 2012 U.S. Olympic squad retain their spots on the national team. The remaining seven spots will be determined based on the following criteria: the top two ranked all-around athletes who are not already on the senior national team; two based on the National Team Points System; two athletes selected by the Men’s Program Committee; and one selected by the national team coordinator …

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prelim results are posted on GYMMIN’ MIEL:

1. Adrian De Los Angeles (Michigan) 85.800
2. Danell Leyva (Universal) 85.500
3. Jacob Dalton (Oklahoma) 85.400

USAG – De los Angeles leads Winter Cup after first day of competition

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… 22nd-24th March at the Echo Arena in Liverpool.

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The IOC has no problem taking away medals awarded many years past.

Why not return the Olympic Gold AA medal 2000 to Andreea Raducan?

Nobody believes she gained any advantage from the cold medicine Pseudoephedrine, administered by the team doctor. AND it was taken off the banned list from 2004-2009.

Most reasonable persons looking at the facts would agree she was deserving of the 2000 Olympic Sydney AA.

On the most recent GymCastic audiocast, Andreea declined to say what would be required for her to be rewarded the Gold, after the fact. But was open to making an appeal in future.

🙂

Her biography is now available in English.

Here’s the link to order the book online. $10-$20 depending on format.

Taking off the high heels on the book tour.

TCG recently caught up with Andreea Raducan, who is now touring the US promoting her autobiographical book, The Other Side of the Medal. She reveals that she was very involved in the process of writing and shares her views about her career and work, retirement, learning new vaults. Discover them along with other interesting confessions in an interview by Bea Gheorghisor:

TCG: Regarding the English version of the book, how was it written, how did you make sure it will keep the quality of the Romanian version, the autenthicity?

Andreea Raducan: For the English version I worked with Magda Petrescu. She is a huge fan of the Romanian gymnasts and very connected to everything that has to do with Romanian gymnastics. And we have known each other for a long time. Then, our editor was Marisa Finetti, a journalist from the US; the modifications she made were minor, for adaptation purposes.

read more – Andreea Raducan: “The Lives of Gymnasts Seems Very Similar……

related – Bea Gheorghisor – Book Review: The Other Side of the Medal

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By now we are all aware that the new 2013 – 2016 CoP places a huge emphasis on artistry on both beam and floor….

At the WAG Brevet Intercontinental Course in December, the judges were shown videos of former Soviet gymnast Oksana Omelianchik. The judges were informed that Omelianchik had perfect artistry, her beam routines flowed as if she were performing on floor. …

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Who’ll be next to show the “Nabieva” release?

See the photo on Facebook.

Perhaps Tatiana Nabieva. She’s on the list of Russian gymnasts training towards the next World University Games.

French Gymnastics Federation:

… video tutorials made by expert trainers in artistic gymnastics high level. Topics are directly related to learning gymnastic figures with different apparatus (vault table, uneven bars, beam and floor) and training. …

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https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=206903376121084

I assume that clip was produced by Gymneo.tv.

Some of the craziest floor passes I have seen on YouTube.

Here is a list of the athletes in this video in the order that they appear.
0:00 – Kohei Uchimura (JPN)
0:16 – Diego Hypolito (BRA)
0:27 – Makoto Okiguchi (JPN)
0:40 – Flavius Koczi (ROM)
0:52 – Steven Legendre (USA)
0:59 – Kohei Uchimura (JPN)
1:17 – Ioannis Melissanidis (GRE)
1:30 – Dimitri Karbanenko (FRA)
1:39 – Shirai Kenzo (JPN)
1:47 – Florent Maree (FRA)
2:00 – Kohei Uchimura (JPN)
2:11 – Sean Doolan (USA)
2:22 – Huang Yuguo (CHN)
2:33 – Kyle Shewfelt (CAN)
2:48 – Stacie Ervin (USA)
2:58 – Gervasio Deferr (SPA)
3:10 – Diego Hypolito (BRA)
3:24 – Anton Golotsutskov (RUS)
3:37 – Denis Ablyazin (RUS)

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Some dangerous stuff there.