Author: Rick Mc

Kind of a big deal. A former winner, Shaquille O’Neal.

LSU gymnast Susan Jackson was honored at a banquet Friday as the 2009-2010 Roy F. Kramer SEC Female Athletes of the Year …

In her senior season Jackson became the first LSU gymnast to win the prestigious Honda Sports Award for gymnastics in 2010. She also received the AAI Award as the nation’s most outstanding senior gymnast, also a first in LSU history.

In 2010, she captured the first NCAA All-Around national title in LSU history and also won the NCAA Balance Beam title. …

LSU Sports

Jackson currently serves as coach of Louisiana Gymnastics Training Center that trains at LSU, and she will earn her bachelor’s degree later this month.

Blythe has a good write up with a link to results on the competition in South Africa.

Katelyn Ohashi and McKenzie Wofford … scooped up the top two places in the junior all-around in rather spectacular fashion …

Wofford and Ohashi also split the event titles on the second day of competition.

Gymnastics Examiner

Dragalescu competed all-around.

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Senior women’s all-around:
1. Chanel Parsons, RSA, 50.475
2. Ashleigh Heldsinger, RSA, 49.825
3. Jennifer Khwela, RSA, 49.2

Junior women’s all-around:
1. Katelyn Ohashi, USA, 56.425
2. McKenzie Wofford, USA, 54.925
3. Kiera Brennan, WAL, 50.175

Senior men’s all-around:
1. Vitaliy Nakonechnyy, UKR, 86.55
2. Marian Dragulescu, ROM, 84.9
3. Luke Folwell, GBR, 84.75

Junior men’s all-around:
1. Cameron Mackenzie, GBR, 82.6
2. Adam Babos, HUN, 82.4
3. Daniel Radeanu, ROM, 80.75

related – official South Africa Gymnastics meet page

The man behind so many of the new personal gymnast sites worldwide, Alan Owen, has been assisting Mona to create some for Romania.

These two are brand new:

AnaPorgras.ro

AmeliaRacea.ro

Coming soon: Grabriela Dragoi, Sandra Izbasa and Anamaria Tamarjan.

Back 1/1.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Her club hosts the Wild Rose meet in Edmonton.

(via Aunt Joyce)

The Canadian company Roots has provided Olympic uniforms for the USA and Britain.

But they don’t have to take the fall for this “cultural inspiration”.

… the Canadian ski team has new uniforms that closely mimic the uniforms of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. …

Universal Sports

Dislike.

Respect.

That’s one gutsy tumbling line.

Click PLAY or watch Kristen Maloney do it at the 2000 Olympic Trials on YouTube. (second pass)

Marie Fjordholm competed it in 2001, too. (VIDEO)

Those were both linked from a Between the Olympics post – Double Layout Punch Front.

… my list of everybody who has competed a double layout punch front. Oddly enough, I don’t think we’ve seen it since the new code of points came out. I tried to put the in chronological order. Feel free to add anybody if I left them out!

Samantha Sendel from Skydivers in Canada pulling off a gutsy from the ceiling trick.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

One more. From the Athens Olympics.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Thanks Gymplaza.

It hurts my Achilles every time I see one.

Amanda Turner posted a translation of an article from the Chinese Gymnastics Association:

China did not expect the Russian women to score so well at the recent world championships, Chinese women’s head coach Lu Shanzhen revealed in a recent interview. …

During the team finals at Rotterdam, the Russians missed two routines on bars, but hit 10 of 12 routines to take the title. …

“[Prior to Rotterdam], I saw the videos of two of the Russian gymnasts doing Amanars, but I thought they were sloppy and would definitely be devalued,” Lu told newsportal “Tencent.” “The same thing happened on their triple-full dismounts from beam.”

I don’t know where he could have got that impression.

Frame grab:

Tatiana Nabiyeva in 2009.

Courtesy My RC Videos

Even Tatiana didn’t know if she was going for triple or Amanar.

She’s the most out there space cadet we’ve seen in years. Da.

Easy.

Click PLAY or watch Mike Wilson on YouTube.

He was upping the difficulty from his Truckee Triple.

(via kinesthesist)