Author: Rick Mc

Team USA.

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Andy Thornton:

An Extended Analysis of The Women’s Pacific Rim Championships

@amygymnastike:

This kid is going to be amazing! Norah Flatley of Chow’s.

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http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MzE4NjE5NzY4?related=1

Gymnastike visited Norman.

Go inside the training gym with the #1 ranked men’s gymnastics team in the country, University of Oklahoma.

See how they condition early in the morning and then perfect routines in the afternoon.

… Jake Dalton is the top ranked NCAA gymnast in the all around, floor, and parallel bars.

Also, last year’s Nissen Emery Award winner Steven Legendre has graduated from the team but still trains in Norman alongside his former Sooner teammates and coach Mark Williams. Both guys are training to make the 2012 US Olympic team. …

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http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/NTY2NjE3NjEy?related=1

Watch more video of Workout Wednesday, Season 5 on gymnastike.org

See what I mean.

Jayd Lukenchuk on Facebook:

Hard days work at the gym by @zacharydlang at #gymnastics #gross #crazy — with Zac Lang.

Gym Dynasty, the College recruiting site, linked to some of the top routines this season.

Includes defending Champ, Kat Ding of Georgia.

And Nicole Pechanec of Stanford:

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See the rest – Top 5 College Bar routines

Could YOU be an FIG judge?

Here’s the test. How many twists in this Vault?

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If you guessed 2 1/2, you matched the FIG judges in Seattle.

Gabrielle Douglas VAULT:
Diff: 6.500
Exec: 7.750
ND: -0.300
Final: 13.950

full results AA (PDF)

Is anyone actually supervising judges in 2012?

Please forward this link to Nellie Kim, President of the Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Technical Committee.

She knows all about suspending judges who make ‘mistakes‘. She was once suspended herself.

… Alicia Sacramone, Jonathon Horton, Rebecca Bross, Jordyn Wieber, Nastia Liukin, Shawn Johnson.

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Google+ (pronounced and sometimes written as Google Plus, sometimes abbreviated as G+) is a social networking and identity service …

It’s something of a Facebook alternative. From just about anywhere in the Googleverse you can click G+ 1 to link, including posts on this site.

The past few Google efforts at social networking have failed. But I think this one will survive.

FIG communications depart is hip. They are now on the new service.

I’ve added FIG on Google+ to my Gymnastics Circle.

… a montage with the best parts of the routines on the still rings …

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via Ajit Jarande

Looks that way right now.

Good AA. Reasonable Pommel and Rings, the weakest apparatus for team USA.

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Ron Noe:

… I would say the past few weeks have been pretty good for Mr. Brooks. His performances at American Cup and PacRim have demonstrated that he is healthy and getting a lot closer to his Olympic dream. Brooks’ improving skills on PH and SR are making people take notice. …

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Ono and Clinton are not completely convinced that those routines are strong enough for top 3. Certainly the scores are too high, relative to what they would have scored at Worlds.

On the other hand, consistency over a long series of pressure situations may end up deciding the Team. I like his chances.

If you had Leyva, Orozco and Brooks … who else do you need to have 3 strong routines on each apparatus?