Author: Rick Mc

In the youngest division of the Elite Canada competition, Shallon finished a Canadian mile (km.) ahead of the rest of the strong field. Congratulations.

I’ll post routines when they become available.

1. Shallon Olsen 118.70
2. Rose-Kalam Woo 111.80
3. Brianna Clark 111.15

full results (PDF)

Note: Combined results from 2 days are used for AA & event award

All the GraceClick photos will be posted on GraceClick.ca soon. Grace Chiu is actually JUDGING this competition, so there may be some delay in those photos getting posted.

Beam
1.Lauren Mitchell 15.200
2.Aliya Mustafina 15.150
3.Sui Lu 14.975

More hardware for Lauren Mitchell. She’s competed non-stop since Worlds with no apparent problems.

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Go home and celebrate Christmas!

Floor
1.Aliya Mustafina 14.625
1.Sui Lu 14.625
3.Jiang Yuyuan 14.175

… the co-winners both hit beautifully, but Mustafina took an out-of-bounds deduction

Vault
1.Thomas Bouhail 16.375
2.Denis Ablyazin 16.175
3.Koji Yamamuro 16.150

Uchimura fell on double front, showing he is actually human.

P Bars
1.Kazhuito Tanaka 15.650
2.Feng Zhe 15.200
3.Emin Garibov 15.050

H Bar
1.Zhang Chenglong 15.975
2.Kohei Uchimura 15.875
3.Paul Ruggieri 15.750

Uchimura hit. But long Zhang, with at higher D score, wins anyway. He really is the man to beat on this apparatus right now.

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Full results on THE ALL AROUND. More commentary on Gymnastics Examiner.

Kudos to Paul Ruggeri. Two medals.

Victoria Moors topped the field at … junior Elite Canada. Vivi Babalis placed second, with Jordyn Petersen rounding out the podium.

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Steph Davis is an American rock climber, BASE jumper and wingsuit flyer. …

A new video is getting wide circulation. Another insane wingsuit edit, unique to this one is how calm Steph is when her parachute tangles. No wonder she was able to free climb El Capitan.

Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.

http://vimeo.com/16551940

How does this woman control her emotions so easily?

Can it be trained? … Or was she born this way?

She divorced Dean Potter, incidentally.

GymnasticsHVmeets posted a long series of clips mostly from the 1970s to 1990s.

Back when originality was valued in our sport.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (15min)

Her goal was top 10.

Competing for the first time in more than two years, 17-year-old Peng Peng Lee of Toronto stepped back into the limelight as one of Canada’s most promising young gymnasts with a remarkable victory in the women’s all around event at the Elite Canada meet on December 10, 2010 in Gatineau, Quebec

Click PLAY or watch Peng Peng on YouTube.

(via Oakville Gymnastics Club)

Vault
1.Aliya Mustafina 14.287
2.Rie Tanaka 14.050
3.Ekaterina Kurbatova 14.037

Bars
1.Jiang Yuyuan 15.475
2.Anna Dementyeva 14.375
3.Yu Minobe 14.250

Mustafina two falls.

Floor
1.Kohei Uchimura 15.650
2.Daniel Purvis 15.200
3.Paul Ruggieri 15.175

Pommel
1.Louis Smith 15.600
2.Chang Ju Ha 15.000
3.Kenya Kobayashi 14.975

Sellathurai fell

Rings
1.Yan Mingyong 15.825
2.Koji Yamamuro 15.550
3.Denis Ablyazin 15.250

read more on THE ALL AROUND – Toyota Cup closes gym year

The greatest all-around gymnast of all time.

Jerry Wright predicts Oklahoma will win comfortably in 2011.

Stanford and Michigan, both ranked higher in the coach’s preseason poll, beg to differ.

He’s naming Chris Cameron and Steven Legendre as early favourites to win the Nissen-Emery.

I’ve never had any success predicting Men’s College gymnastics, even when sitting in the stands at Championships. But Jerry successfully predicted Michigan, Stanford 1-2 last year. We should listen to him.

Read his detailed preview on CollegeGymnastics.org (PDF).

I’m expecting Iowa under new Head Coach J.D. Reive to surprise people.

This will be the last season for Cal Berkeley … unless somebody comes up with a lot of money fast, a donation of perhaps $100 million in the next few months might save all the canceled sports.

UC Berkeley Intercollegiate Athletics FAQ (PDF)

That’s not impossible. Phil Knight, Nike founder, is “believed to have contributed approximately $230 million to the University of Oregon, the majority of which was for athletics”.

Thanks Ono.

A gym Dad / software engineer was inspired to write an app to calculate scores in the bleachers quickly and easily. And send them out instantly to Facebook or anywhere else.

Great idea.

It’s only available for Android phones, for now. Search for TumbleTally in the Android market. $4.99

# Fast meet scoring and awards entry for women’s and men’s events.

# On the fly All Around calculations for each gymnast.

# Reports for meet results by gymnast, or for the whole team.

# Send meet results to your friends and family via email!

# Results can also be sent as a JPG image, so wherever your Android device can send an image, so can TumbleTally — places like Facebook, Flickr, Picassa, etc.

TumbleTally

I’ve put a link in the right hand navigation.

This will be the next best thing to visiting Vegas.

James Cameron and director Andrew Adamson (Chronicles of Narnia) are teaming up on a new project that will feature 3D footage of live performances by Cirque du Soleil. …

ScreenRant

With two Michael Jackson shows (opening 2011 and 2013) in the works. And now the Avatar director on board, the future looks bright as the sun.