Author: Rick Mc

Class act.

This was the best season ever for Florida Head Coach Rhonda Faehn. They truly did everything right this year. But it turned out to be the toughest, tightest Team finish ever.

http://www.gatorvision.tv/mediaPortal/embed.swf

I’m betting that Florida will be the team to beat again next season.

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Google Translate:

.. he Atlanta Olympic champion gymnast 1996 in (Floor), Greek, Ioannis Melissanidis , will be competing in … the World Cup in Osijek, the end of the month …

At 34 the gymnast is in good condition to develop competency in their unit. “I have never ceased to be a gymnast. I train every day, I’m still the same diet that I had when I was competing. So I think you could do well. “Said Ioannis.

He further clarified: “It would be impossible to reach a level to the Olympics, but there are other competitions – European Championships, the World Cup events of the Mediterranean Games … anything is possible.” …

gimnasialatina.com (Spanish)

Here’s his Gold medal routine. Back in the day when execution was required, and shorts were short.

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No problem. He’s young. Jenny Hansen is age-38 and still trying for the U.S. National Team.

Click PLAY or watch McKayla Maroney on YouTube.

Someone handy with editing software has merged the reigning World vault champion’s two vaults from the 2011 U.S. Championships, showing 98 percent of her Amanar and adding in the last half twist of her second vault (layout Podkopayeva) to make it appear that Maroney is doing a triple twisting Yurchenko. What it does achieve is providing a good visual of what the first TTY will look like whenever it gets done.

Examiner Watch this: McKayla Maroney’s “triple twisting Yurchenko”

Ono sends the link to an NCAA Men’s Apparatus Finals recap video.

Here’s the (astonishing Illinois come-from-behind-on-Pommels victory) Team Finals recap video.

The Illini party like it’s 1989.

I’m watching the full replay of Team Finals right now.

I assume those clips don’t have embed codes because geeks cannot figure out how to add the preroll advertisements. Too bad.

There are more videos on NCAA.com.

It’s always bad news when you have to call a lawyer. I fear there will be more legal cases to come.

The Dutch court ruled that Netherlands cannot name Epke Zonderland and Wyomi Masela as their Olympians for London. Instead Netherlands must wait on results from European Championships and two World Cups.

Jeffrey Wammes and Celine van Gerner both challenged that early decision.

My opinion:

1) The Coach / Federation should be empowered to name the Olympians.

2) The Coach / Federation should have waited as long as possible before naming the Olympians.

related – JOHN CRUMLISH commentary

via GYMpower (Dutch)

NCAA Beam Champion 2012.

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The former Parkettes elite has had an amazing career. Congratulations.

Former Georgia coach Suzanne Yoculan provides terrific colour commentary. Real insight into how NCAA gymnastics works.

NCAA Vault Champion 2012.

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Results and links to photos are posted on Gym Score Depot. Thanks Stu.

Congratulations to all the competitors. Yorkton put on a good show.

The workout AFTER a big meet is a FUN day. No routines. Kids work NEW SKILLS. CONTESTS.

Second workout after the meet is analysis and goal setting.

Your NCAA Champion.

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Aunt Joyce & Catty Comments are happy.

Some felt Elyse should have won.

Balance Beam Situation:

EHH – FX – Didn’t upgrade the mount, so she won’t have enough difficulty, but this is excellent. Beautiful hit routine. Can we give this to her? Performance-wise it was no contest, and that should count in EFs. She goes ahead of Hunter. Could we really see a win here? I’d love that.

Ding – FX – Good first pass with a straddle + punch, drills double pike middle pass, lovely landings on everything in this routine. Best she’s done? Probably. She goes ahead of EHH, which is not appropriate, but this day is all about Kat Ding, and it’s hard to argue with that. Kat Ding NCAA FX Champion?

Neither routine was up to the standards of the greatest routines of the past. I can live with this result.