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At the Athens Regional qualifier. Always colourful. Always interesting.
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(via Aunt Joyce)
related – Florida’s Rhonda Faehn post meet interview
extremely grateful… painful … ugly …
I’m expecting Florida will be ready in 2 weeks, though. Still the team to beat.
Catch up on EVERYTHING on Gymnastics Examiner – The gymnastics week in review: Europeans, Regionals and other significant meets.
Here’s one story I missed:
An idea for saving NCAA men’s gymnastics (maybe): The U.S. Olympic committee has created an “award” (read: cash prize) for schools who produce Olympic medalists who are still in college when they win said medals. The idea seems to be that if the athlete wins hardware, his or her school will get “recognized” (read: paid). (Associated Press)
Lucky us. Gymnastics Examiner editor Blythe Lawrence is in Berlin for Europeans.
2011 NCAA Team Qualifiers to Championships April 15-17 in Cleveland, Ohio.
1. UCLA, 197.425
2. Oklahoma, 197.35
3. Alabama, 197.275
4. Michigan, 197.075
5. Oregon State, 197.025
6. Georgia, 196.75
7. Nebraska, 196.55
8. Arkansas, 196.55
9. Utah, 196.475
10. Florida, 196.425
11. Illinois, 195.925
12. Kent State, 195.45
… The Illini came through in the clutch on balance beam and totaled a 195.925 to edge Penn State (195.850) for the final qualifying spot. …
“I am so proud of this team and how they fought to the end,” interim head coach Kim Landrus said. …
The meet came down to the wire, as the Illini were just .125 ahead of the Nittany Lions heading into the final rotation. The Orange and Blue needed to hit on beam to remain ahead of PSU, who finished the meet on bars. Penn State turned in a 49.125 while the Illini had two gymnasts remaining to perform on their event. Senior Allison Buckley and Melissa Fernandez each nailed their routines with stuck landing …
Rico Andrade at the …
… 2005 Stanford Men’s Gymnastics Alumni meet.
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Must have been an accident. … Right?
… In this video he has not been training gymnastics seriously for over 3 years and does a full twisting kovacs and grabs with ONE HAND. This is nuts – no one does one arm grabs on purpose. He did it by accident the year before and then did it INTENTIONALLY that time. I was at this meet, it was incredible. …
Zou Kai has improved a lot since unexpectedly winning Horizontal Bar at the Beijing Olympics.
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… I’ll throw a party the day Rybalko is devalued out of popularity, though.
(via The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook)
In Sudbury, Ontario.
see more photos – Western Hunter
What is Wheelchair Sports Acrobatics?
In the U.K., it’s a competitive discipline sponsored by British Gymnastics.
… One competitor must be a wheelchair user and the other competitor can be a mainstream competitor or also have special needs themselves.
Special balances have been developed which allows wheelchair users to perform these disability routines however the competitors are still expected to complete the same number of balances and skills as the mainstream competitions. …
(via Rec Gymnastics)
Here’s an interesting edit.
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Sabrina has been competing Senior in preparation for Canadian Olympic Trials. But she’s actually age ineligible for Worlds 2011, but is age eligible for Worlds 2012 and Olympics.
USA Gymnastics updated a list of those no longer allowed to join (as of Feb. 14, 2011).
Some were convicted sex offenders. Some had lesser infractions. Likely a few are truly innocent, but somehow ended up on “the list”.
I only know one person here and make no claims to be able to evaluate who should be BANNED.
The following former professional members are permanently ineligible for membership within USA Gymnastics.
Name State Julian Amaro CA Charles Theodore Bates MN James Bell WA Phillip Bishop MI Patrick Bogan MD Douglas Boger CA Joseph Bowers OH Shawn Bowlden IL Vince Brown SC Edward Trey Coniff TX James Craig III CO Thad Cypher MI Steven Elliott TX Anthony Engelke PA Matthew H. Erichsen WA Rick Feuerstein CA William Foster AL Joseph Fountain MD Roy Larry Gallagher PA Robert Allen (Bob) Garner TN Sean Gilham CA Timothy Glas NE Ricardo “Chico” Goddard NY Marcelo Guimaraes TX Vernor Gumila IL Paul Hagan MI Robert Dean Head KY Ted Hicks TN Michael Hinton TN Nicholas Hitchcock MI Robert Hoefer FL Frank Hohman, Jr. PA Milos Hroch CA Steven L. Infante CT Dana Koppendrayer FL Ronnie Lewis AR William McCabe GA Robert Mollock OR John S. Moore WV Gregory Muller ID William Munsinger MN Jeena Nilson UT Paul O’Neill CA Patrick Okopinski WI Marian Penev NY William M. Permenter FL Timothy Picquelle CA David Pyles AZ Jeffrey Richards FL Rudy Rodriguez CA John H. Row DE Gabriel Salazar TX Mark Schiefelbein TN Robert Shawler CA Steve Shirley MO Steven Todd Siegel CO Blake Steven Starr UT Paul Summers OK Mark Swift FL Freddie Eugene Tafoya, Jr. CA Jon Oliver Kenneth Thomas VA Jay Thomas LA Brent Trottier WA Jon Valdez IL Anthony Van Kirk CA Joel Velasquez OR David Paul Waage OR Brooklyn Walters IN Chris Wagoner TX Steve Waples TX Donald Watts KY Mike West WA Jonathan White CA Lyf Christian Wildenberg MN Bill Witthar MO Joel Woodruff TX British Columbia Gymnastics Association Suspensions
USA Gymnastics has been notified that the British Columbia Gymnastics Association has permanently suspended membership in the BCGA for the following individuals:John Henderson, Kamloops, BC Canada
Donald Ray Mathey, Langley, BC Canada
Wayne Andrews, Courtenay, BC Canada
I’m certainly willing to post a statement from anyone on this list who feels they were wronged. Or a statement from any coach who has the same name as someone here. USAG should have included the full legal name to help avoid confusion.
(via Chalk Bucket forum)
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