Author: Rick Mc

BEAM
1. Komova 15.325/6.3
2. Mustafina 15.000/6.1
3. Dementieva 14.950/6.4

FLOOR
1. Mustafia 14.750/5.9
2. Komova 14.300/5.8
3. Sidorova 14.150/5.8

Russian training squads for 2012 Olympics named:

Ksenia Afanasyeva, Viktoria Komova, Aliya Mustafina, Anastasia Grishina, Tatyana Nabieva, Maria Paseka, Anastasia Sidorova, Julia Inshina.

Sadly, Dementieva not named. Nor fan favourite 24yr-old Anna Pavlova even though she won Vault.

Commentary by Brigid McCarthy.

Brigid shared a link to a tumblr blog called mustafina2012. It has distant videos of routines from Finals. No embed code. Aliya’s back doing her Bar dismount. Vika falls on her new double twisting double tuck in Finals.

Click PLAY or watch a new Mustafina montage on YouTube.

That edit is from thebeamqueen.tumblr.com. I’m now subscribed.

In 2010 Aliya was perfect. The best routines in the world were easy. … Not so now. I admire her even more now.

(via The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook)

VAULT
1. Ablyazin 15.850/7.2 – 7.0
2. Yakubovskiy 15.233/6.2 – 6.6
3. Lezhankin 14.700/6.6 – 6.2

P BARS
1. Belyavskiy 15.267/6.4
2. Khorokhordin 15.033/6.5
3. Ignatyev 14.767/6.3

RINGS
1. Pluzhnikov 15.533/6.8
2. Ablyazin 15.333/6.6
3. Balandin 15.200/6.7

Russian training squads for 2012 Olympics named

Denis Ablyazin, Aleksandr Balandin, David Belyavskiy, Emin Garibov, Konstantin Pluzhnikov, Nikita Ignatyev, Sergey Khorokhordin, Igor Pakhomenko.

Former European champion Maksim Devyatovskiy announced his retirement.

I got all that from The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook. They are at the competition.

Brigid linked to this tribute to one of the top contenders for an Olympic AA medal.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

She considers her one of the “Big Guns”.

… Elizabeth Price of Parkettes who placed 5th all around at this weekend’s 2012 Visa Championships, advancing to Olympic Trials.

Click PLAY or watch the interview on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/ODU1NjQxMDg0?related=1

Watch more video of 2012 Visa Championships on gymnastike.org

My prototype “Fitness Wheel” from Tumbl Trak has arrived.

I’ll be taking it on the road with me, summer camp to summer camp. FUN.

They can be preordered now. I like the 8 foot diameter Fitness Wheel $1,899.00 over the 5 foot diameter (pictured) $1,399.00 model.

Israeli Olympians. Congratulations.

Alex Shatilov, Valeria Maksyuta and Felix Aronovich are the 3 Artistic Gymnasts who got the Olympic criteria for the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Brigid Couch Gymnast McCarthy on Facebook)

Turkey’s Goksu Uctas will make history come the 2012 London Olympic Games, when she becomes the country’s first ever gymnast to participate in the Olympics.

… as a nine-year-old — a vital stage in a gymnast’s development — she survived a catastrophic earthquake which struck north-west Turkey in 1999.

… killed around 17,000 people and left hundreds of thousand others homeless, including her family. …

Turkey has bid to host the 2020 Olympics in Istanbul and is one of three cities in the running along with Tokyo and Madrid. …

GYMMIN’ MIEL – Uctas Set to Make Turkish History

original photo on Facebook

Noor al-Malki will run the 100m in London, the first female athlete ever to compete for Qatar in the Olympics.

Some IOC members, including Dick Pound, are calling for Saudi Arabia to reverse decision to omit female athletes from their team. It flies against the Olympic Charter.

… not that the IOC has been much of a champion of women’s rights.

Thanks Brigid.

I can relate to this video. Tim Horton’s coffee is my main vice these days.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Looks like Fabian’s comeback plan with a focus mainly for the Olympics is working. He’s back. And a strong contender for an AA medal.

1.Fabian Hambuchen 91.100
2.Marcel Nguyen 89.050
3.Philip Boy 88.200
4.Andreas Toba 87.650
5.Thomas Taranu 85.850
6.Eugen Spiridinov 85.450

full results (PDF)

H Bar 7.5 start, 16.35.

13.750 Pommels this time around. Not bad for Fab.

(via The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook)

H BAR
1.Nikita Ignyatev 14.833 (6.7)
2.David Belyavskiy 14.467 (6.0)
3.Sergei Khorokhordin 14.033 (6.2)

FLOOR
1.Ignyatev 14.633 (6.1)
2.Khorokhordin 14.433 (5.8)
3.Belyavskiy 14.167 (6.0, fall on 3/1)

POMMELS
1.Belyavskiy 15.200 (6.3)
2.Perevoznikov 15.033 (6.6)
3.Pakhomenko 14.766 (6.2)

Elizabeth from TAA:

They competed HB, FX, PH, following the Russians’ start order for the Olympics.