Author: Rick Mc

China’s tiny Shang Chunsong added gold medals on balance beam and floor exercise to become the most successful female gymnast of the Asian Championships …

Sixteen-year-old Shang, who is looking more and more like a contender for multiple medals at the 2013 Worlds, earned the highest difficulty and execution scores of the event finalists on both beam and floor. …

Examiner – Shang Chunsong makes a name for herself in finale at Asian Championships

Click PLAY or watch her Floor on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch her Beam on YouTube.

Results: Event Finals Day 2

Looking for a present for a gymnast?

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Floor Training Bar: $169.00

An excellent product. And safer for the wrists than the flat floor.

Uncle Tim:

Russians are basically the pommel horse equivalent of a dog chasing its tale. Woof. Because Russians look so funny, they are pretty easy to spot. (Even a men’s gymnastics neophyte can pick out a Russian in a pommel routine.) So, I have chosen to start my pommel horse primer with the Russians.

Yes, you read that correctly. I plan to write several posts that break down the most boring event on earth, which means…

You’ll no longer have an excuse to call every skill on pommel horse a “spinny thingy.” …

Pommel Horse Primer: What the H is a Russian?

related:

• Pommel Horse Primer: Traveling Russians
• Pommel Horse Primer: Dismounting with a Russian

Blob Jump Official Guinness World Record. … Cham, Switzerland, 17 Metres …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

via Rusty Pierce and Brett MacAulay, who love this kind of stuff. 🙂

The future Florida Gator was #1 at Massilia Junior.

I’m not sure of the age requirement. Silvia competed Senior for Spain last year.

1. Silvia Colussi-Pelaez (Canada); 52.750
2. Louise Vanhille (France Junior); 52.550
3. Sydney Townsend (Canada); 52.450
4. Heaven Latimer (Canada) 51.250
5. Victoria Kayen Woo (Canada) 51.050
6. Ida Gustaffson (Sweden) 51.000
7. Sabrina Gill (Canada) 50.850

TEAM
1. Futures Gymnastics Center Canada (154.850)
2. Sweden (152.600)
3. Canada Open Federation (152.600)

Massilia Report and Results: Canada Dominates Again

It’s great to see Sabrina back. This is her first competition in some time.

Amanda Turner has a succinct wrap-up post on Chinese Championships.

Uneven bars medalists Huang Huidan, Wu Liufang and Sung Ji-Hye

… at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, his moment had arrived: Ning Li won six medals, three of them gold.

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Gymnastics is FUN.

IOC just posted an excellent tribute video – The “Little Prince of Gymnastics” is Born – Ning Li – Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games

This looks cool.

Preview of a new online series of gymnastics videos in French.

https://www.facebook.com/v/515598548470228

I saw it on Facebook, linked by Gymnova Canada.

Update – There are more like this on their Facebook videos album.

The Dutch girls did not qualify as a Team to London. But all 5 elite girls from BOSAN TON Almelo plan to continue training for the coming cycle.

Good luck.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Gymnastike:

The official early period for signing a National Letter of Intent for Gymnastics began on November 14th. It’s an exciting day for athletes around the world to “make it official” with their college of choice. These signings, in addition to another set in the spring, will comprise the incoming class of 2013-2014.

Below is a … list of the female gymnasts who have signed NLI’s for women’s gymnastics thus far. …

NCAA Women’s Gymnastics NLI Signing Week for the Class of 2013!

Coach Mary Wright has had 83 athletes receive full college scholarships. Sydney Townsend (Southern Utah University) and Kana Kobayashi (Oregon State University) this season.