Rick Mc

H Bar 9.0 D-score

When FIG started this experiment not many (really) believed that scores with 9.0 difficulty would be seen anytime soon …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Tak half D
Cassina G
Kolman F
Rybalko D
Piked Pegan F
Liukin F
Hop 2/1 twist D

Stalder Rybalko E

Tak full to undergrip E

Fedorchenko F

Difficulty: 5.3
Connection: 1.2
Element Groups: 2.5

… Could have been 9.1 with the Pineda …

Oregon State highlights vid

Perhaps the best competition review I’ve seen this season out of the NCAA. Short and sweet.

OSU vs UW 2012 Highlight

Oregon State Gymnastics at University of Arizona 2012

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

By assistant coach John Carney.

Iordache at London Olympics

I’ve seen a few people, including Brigid, considering Larissa Iordache a possible Olympic AA medalist.

Since she’s Romanian, I assume Bars would nix that possibility.

Am I wrong?

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

She’s young and still improving.

I wish her well.

Miss Val – recruit who got away?

UCLA Head Coach Valorie Kondos Field was asked what recruit ‘got away’ over her long, successful career.

She replied …

Kristina Baskett

Since the retirement of Suzanne Yoculan at Georgia, Miss Val has been the most interesting and entertaining NCAA coach interview.

That’s from the Feb. 9th Ask The Bruins page.

Canadian Olympic Selection

The final OLYMPIC GAMES SELECTION PROCESS for the Canadian Team is posted. (PDF)

No later than June 2, 2012, up to 12 athletes will be invited to the Olympic Selection camp.

Some will be selected by a confusing “points system”. The rest by the Selection Working Group (SWG) composed of:

– Lise G. Simard, WAG Program Director (Chair)
– Kyna Fletcher, WAG NT Director
– Chris Baraniuk, coach and member of the WAG PC
– Hélen Laliberté, Brevet judge (World Championships and Olympic Games)
– Liz Armitage, Brevet judge (World Championships

Final Olympic Selection Camp goes June 24-29th.

The SWG is experienced and knowledgeable. I have faith they will make the best decisions possible.

My main worry is the “points system”. Last Olympics it seemed to require candidates to compete too often, risking injury. Let’s compare the number of competitions leading up to London — Canadians v American Olympians.

Leaders like Kristina and Peng Peng (who earned the team spot) should be automatically invited to Camp so they can focus on the BIG goal.

Elite Canada goes this weekend in Mississauga, ONT.

details

EC results are NOT part of the Olympic selection criteria. But it will qualify gymnasts to the “High Performance” pool of athletes eligible. It’s also used to select teams to International Gymnix and Pacific Rim Championships — both of which do garner “points”.

Recall that Peng Peng won last year, her “comeback” Elite Canada.

But I don’t see her on the list of competitors. What’s happening with that?

I’m legally LINsane

Most entertaining SPORTS NEWS story of the year, so far. 🙂

NBA overnight sensation Jeremy Lin.

• no athletic scholarship offers out of high school
• undrafted out of college
• Harvard University graduate who considered a religious vocation
• first player of American Chinese or American Taiwanese descent

Breaking barriers. Defeating Kobe & the Lakers (VIDEO).

first Rio Olympics venue opens

… host to the archery events and the start and finish of the marathon during the 2016 Olympic Games …

The renovation work has been completed in time for the 2012 Rio Carnival and four years ahead of the Games. Four new grandstands have been built on one side of the Sambodromo, increasing the venue’s capacity from 60,000 to 72,500 people …

Olympic.org