Author: Rick Mc

Orozco music video. Cool.

Gym Class Heroes: The Fighter ft. Ryan Tedder [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

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Thanks Brigid.

Busy at the Canadian Championships, I’ve not had time to follow Men’s Europeans. But I had time to watch THIS.

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Reminiscent of Paul Hamm in the 2004 Olympics debacle.

related – American Gymnast – The Coolest Routine of Men’s European Championships Thus Far

(via Examiner)

1. Kristina Vaculik 56.700 (fall on Beam)
2. Victoria Moors 56.300
2. Dom Pegg 56.300

4. Jessica Savona 54.800
5. Maddie Gardiner 54.350
6. Brittany Rogers 54.200
7. Ellie Black 53.600
8. Stefanie Merkle 53.150
9. Anysia Unick 52.850

Couch Gymnast:

The Canadian National Champion all-around finals has wrapped. …

One sad absence, of course, was Peng Peng Lee, who, as most of you know, injured her knee in training at the start of the Championships and had to withdraw. She was expected to challenge strongly for the title and is hoping to still vie for the Olympic team. …

It wasn’t so long ago that Canada was only able to send two women to the Beijing Games due to a dearth of national elite gymnasts available to put together a fit, competitive team in the preceding quad. …

All of a sudden they have the potential to make regular top eight teams like Japan, Italy, Australia and Great Britain peer nervously over their shoulders.

All through these ups-and-downs of the last few years has been one steady-and steadying presence in this year’s National Champion Kristina Vaculik. One of those consummate quiet achievers, Vaculik has been the one gymnast who has been present on all of these teams since 2008, when due to a complex and befuddling selection system she was not selected to compete in Beijing …

read more – Canada: The Getting of Depth

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Globe and Mail – Vaculik moves one step closer to Olympic team by winning national championship

related – Aussie girls looking strong for Olympics too

National Championships:

1. Ashleigh Brennan – 57.350
2. Emily Little – 57.050
3. Mary-Anne Monckton – 56.900

Lauren MITCHELL competed only 3 apparatus.

results

It’s looking that way so far, after Nate hit a BIG 7.1 Horizontal Bar routine last night

… Gafuik placed first in three of six events for a total score of 85.300 points to claim his second Canadian all around title in the last three years. …

… took a huge step towards clinching the highly-coveted Olympic men’s berth with one of the most difficult high bar routines in the world.

Gafuik’s high flying routine was awarded 15.300 points, a score that would have placed him fourth in the event at the 2011 world championships.

“When I saw the score it there was a huge sigh of relief,” said Gafuik, a 10-year national team veteran and two-time Olympian. …

Gafuik and others in the running have four meets, including the Canadian championships, to earn a score in an individual event that would have put them in a final at the most recent world championships last October in Tokyo. The gymnast with the highest ranking among those that meet the standard wins the Olympic berth. So far only Gafuik has met the standard with the two final selection meets coming up next month in Europe. …

Gymnastics Canada – Calgary’s Gafuik inches closer to claiming Canada’s only berth in men’s gymnastics at national championships

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Here’s another angle. (VIDEO)

And an interview with Nate. (VIDEO)

related – CTV – Kyle Shewfelt on What It Takes to Make the Games

A unique and haunting montage of Karolyi camp clips in front of Marvin Gaye’s National Anthem.

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Nice work, Chris.

See 4 different ads via Gymnastics Flowers.

Gary Connery is apparently the first person to skydive out of an aircraft and land on the ground without injury without the use of a parachute.

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(via Kottke)

1. Shallon Olsen BC

2. Victoria Woo QC
3. Rose Woo QC

results will be posted on Gym Score Depot

1. Kristina Vaculik
2. Victoria Moors
2. Dominique Pegg

4. Jessica Savona
5. Maddie Gardiner
6. Brittany Rogers

Photo via Dave Brubaker on Twitter.

Dave added a photo of the results.

official results will be posted on Gym Score Depot

The veteran looked great tonight. He easily won the all-around in a competition where the guys were trying the maximum start scores on their best apparatus. (25 competitors)

1. 85.30 Nathan Gafuik AB
2. 83.75 Jayd Lukenchuk SK
3. 81.95 Robert Watson BC
4. 80.55 Anderson Loran SK
5. 79.75 Tariq Dowers ON
6. 79.00 Hugh Smith NS

Talk is that Nate will be awarded the sole Men’s Olympic spot for Canada.

His 7.1 start on H Bar scored 15.30. That would rank him higher than any other Canadian man on any apparatus.

Nate was 17th AA in Beijing. And took the Bronze medal at FISU 2011 with a 60+ score.

… Still, there are several World Cup meets left where Canadian men can try to top Nathan’s ranking on Horizontal Bar. Nothing’s been decided yet. Good luck to the rest of the guys at those events.

Hugh Smith is the first Canadian to compete Tsukahara with 3/1 twist (7.0) … but fell on landing. He was trying to make a claim on the Olympic berth.

Scott Morgan won Floor 6.2 / 14.30 and Rings 6.5 / 13.80

Ken Ikeda won Pommels 6.0 / 14.65

Nate won Vault, P Bars and Horizontal Bar. But Jayd had a 6.90 start on pipe. Anderson and Jackson Payne a 6.80.

results will be posted on Gym Score Depot