Author: Rick Mc

GymNiceTic kicks off the discussion on what nations will qualify a full team to the Olympics at the first qualifying competition, World Championships Tokyo in October:

… Gerhard Pfisterer, predicted the first seven qualification spots will go almost certainly to China, the USA, Russia, Romania, Australia, Great Britain and Japan.

And Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Brazil, Canada, Switzerland and the Ukraine will fight for the eighth spot, with which they can qualify directly to the Olympics. …

The Eighth Place in Tokyo

Individual medallists in the Apparatus Finals in Tokyo will also qualify to the Olympics. (Ties for Bronze?)

What’s the strategy for the ‘bubble teams’?

Peak for Tokyo? … And worry about London if you must?

With 3-up, 3-count, anything could happen.

… The final 4 teams spots (9,10,11,12) will be decided at the London Olympic Test Meet in January 2012.

Some girls not age eligible for Tokyo are age eligible for London. Those athletes might well make the difference for the final 4 teams qualifying.

Weird.

related – FIG – Olympic qualifications

This week’s gymnastics workout video features the Big 10 team who will play host to this weekend’s conference Championships, the University of Minnesota. The Gophers have had a season of ups and downs but are coming into the conference meet following a couple solid team scores and with a few key gymnasts recovered from injuries.

This workout was filmed Monday, March 7th after the team’s tie at Iowa State. Minnesota is currently ranked 21st nationally with an RQS of 195.255 but a season high of 196.125. They’re looking to delight their home crowd this Saturday with an upset for the 2011 Big 10 Championships Title.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MjgyNDc3NDc2

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

Both Bronwyn and Clara are predicting:

1. ALIYA MUSTAFINA
2. ANA PORGRAS
3. ANNA DEMENTYEVA

Komova and Dufournet will not be there.

Who are they overlooking?

Read and comment on Stoi! – Euro’s Predictions – All-Around.
Part 1 of their 5-part predictions series.

I empower my Cheerios to be champions.

Do they go onto college? I don’t know, I don’t care.

Should they learn Spanish? Sure, if they wanna become dishwashers and gardeners. But if they want to be bankers and lawyers and captains of industry, the most important lesson they could possibly learn is how to do a round off.

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The Chinese Gymnastics Blog is following the story of Chinese judge Shao Bin sanctioned by FIG for blatantly cheating during the Floor Exercise final of the Asian Games.

From what we’ve heard, that judge is guilty.

Pan Chenfei, Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Gymnastics Association, in a March 17th press conference made the expected noises on the issue.

But some interesting new questions were raised:

Adrian Stoica, FIG Men’s Technical Committee President and President of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation, served as FIG technical representative during the 2010 Asian Games. He was responsible for signing off on the results of that meet.

Why the 4+ months delay?

Was this the only case of score changing at that meet?

… It sounds like there might have been more.

Check out that post for yourself on the Chinese Gymnastics Blog – Follow up on the score-fixing scandal

Aunt Joyce on the last Karolyi camp:

Douglas won the camp for the seniors (Raisman and Wieber didn’t have to verify based on their performances at the American Cup.)

Aerial walkover to back 1/1.

Click PLAY or watch her Beam at Jesolo training on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MTUzNDc3NjM5

Watch more video of Trofeo Citta de Jesolo International Competition on gymnastike.org

Brigid on Facebook has heard that this routine could be 6.7 if everything is credited.

The Couch Gymnast linked to the Youtube channel Ginnastica Artistica Gymnasium TV, which will become the new favorite of all hard-core U.S. fans for the next four days. Why? Because the U.S. women are in Jesolo, and said channel has training videos.

Continue reading on Examiner.com: Video notes: U.S. women’s training in Jesolo

Click PLAY or watch Kyla Ross BARS on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch McKayla Maroney VAULT on YouTube.

… That concept of ‘dance in, dance out’ on balance beam is one of the defining characteristics of the apparatus in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics (WAG). It is the ability to combine acrobatic elements and dance elements with choreography to display “sureness of execution” …

Compare “five very different beam routines, deciding which are the most pleasurable routines to watch, based on how well they integrate their choreography with their skills“.

Diving – Quad Synchro 10m

It is a feat of competition diving so difficult it was once thought impossible …

Teenage star Tom Daley and his Olympic partner Pete Waterfield completed four-and-a-half somersaults in under two seconds – the blink of an eye it takes to hit the water from the 10-metre board. And what’s more, they did it synchronised …

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Click over to the Daily Mail to see just how synchronized they were.

(via Bloop)

This site needs more diving posts. Leave a comment if you are an expert who might like to contribute.

And leave a comment if you’ve a link to a video of The Big Front.