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It’s lucky Beth is so stable, so down to Earth. She’s under huge media pressure leading up to the London Olympics.
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Aunt Joyce linked to a 10min Day in the Life video.
Full Twist linked to the source on Sky Sports.
We’re lucky to have such a fantastic role model superstar in our sport. Beth was the second eldest competitor at Worlds.
related – the BBC piece on Shawn’s comeback (VIDEO)
Nancy Armour has an update on the comeback of our Olympic Silver all-around medalist:
… Johnson is surprisingly nervous as she packs for her first trip there in more than two years. Other gymnasts have moved in during her absence, making the Olympic gold medalist feel like an outsider.
“It’s been so long and I’m completely out of the loop. I don’t remember what it’s like or if I’m up to par with everyone,” said Johnson, who leaves Thursday for her first national team training camp since Beijing. “It’ll probably be fine. I’m probably making way too big of deal about it. But it is (nerve-racking). It’s foreign territory for me right now.” …
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Shawn is serious. Otherwise she’d be on the road promoting her new Wii Video Game, available today, just in time for Christmas.
MostepanovaFan | November 12, 2010
This is a guide to the new elements the FIG has added to the code of points following the Youth Olympic Games and World Championships.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
(via Going for Gold)
… oh, and China.
At Asian Games event Finals hosted by China.
Men’s Artistic Gymnastics
Floor
1. ZHANG Chenglong (CHN) 15.400
1. KIM Soo Myun (KOR) 15.400
3. KUMAR Ashish (IND) 14.925
Pommel Horse
1. TENG Haibin (CHN) 15.375
2. YAN Mingvong (CHN) 14.725
3. HUANG Che Kuei (TPE) 14.700
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Still Rings
1. CHEN Yibing (CHN) 16.075
2. YAN Mingvong (CHN) 15.900
3. CHEN Chih Yu (TPE) 15.625
Women’s Artistic Gymnastics
Vault
1. HUANG Qiushuang (CHN) 14.787
2. TANAKA Rie (JPN) 14.237
3. OZAWA Momoko (14.112)
Uneven Bars
1. HE Kexin (CHN) 16.425
2. HUANG Qiushuang (CHN) 15.825
3. TSURUMI Koko (JPN) 14.300
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full results via FIG
Right now the Russian women’s gymnastics team are favourites to win Team Gold at the 2012 Olympics.
China, USA and now Romania are trying to find a strategy to challenge. With the return of Anamaria Tamarjan, Romania now has 17 gymnasts in their Olympic training squad.
The excellent new Russian gymnastics blog, out of the UK, summarizes (based on an extensive review of recent media reports) the many challenges remaining now that Russia is again the Russia of old:
If revolutions can only be acknowledged and recognized with hindsight, we are still too early to celebrate the Russian women’s team and all around victory at the Rotterdam World Championships 2010 as such. In many ways, Russian gymnastics is only beginning to turn a corner and to build the foundations for future more solid and consistent victories. …
The Russians’ current success has largely been forged at the hands of Soviet veteran coaches such as Andrei Rodienenko, Alexander Alexandrov and Oleg Ostapenko. Few ‘new faces’ exist in the Russian gymnastics coaching world, and this is clearly a worry. Both Rodienenko and Alexandrov emphasize the sorry state of Russian gymnastics at grass roots level and Rodienenko highlights the problems for mature gymnasts in pursuing their sporting/professional careers once their competitive lives are over.
The mass base of sports that existed during the Soviet era has been eroded, with few professionals available to select and coach young potential thanks to lack of pay. …
Sport in general has become globalized and gymnastics is in no way immune to the effects. Discussions of Dina Kamalova’s apparently sudden exodus to the USA make it clear that this was a significant threat to young Aliya Mustafina’s career in the sport. The intervention of CSKA chief Galina Stepanova and Russian team coach Alexander Alexandrov ensured that Russia did not lose this brilliant, unique gymnast. Kamalova migrated to Valeri Liukin’s empire in Texas to train none other than Mustafina’s main rival for the recent world championships title, Rebecca Bross. …
click through for more – Russian gymnastics – risk, originality, virtuosity – The New Russian Revolution – the way forward. A brief media directory
Click PLAY or watch Mustafina win Beam at the Freddy Cup, changing her routine from Rotterdam.
… She added a full turn to the right immediately after her double turn to the left; a switch-half, back tuck combination, and a new side aerial to one foot (bringing her held leg all the way up) after her front aerial, Onodi. …
Viktoria Komova won Bars. Read the Freddy IG report.
GymSmarts is the leading producer of coaching DVDs. Everyone knows their free Gymnastics Minute vids.
Finally “rental” videos have arrived. (Only available in the USA.)
The first is Hideo “Mizo” Mizoguchi on Diamodov.
This video covers progression development from the basic swing forward on Parallel Bars to the complete Diamodov. Starting with teaching the proper forward swing, continuing with several developmental progression drills, Mizo gives a complete road map to learning his important advanced skill. His explanations are thorough, has great demonstrations of each drill and detailed spotting directions.
Click PLAY or watch an introduction on YouTube.
That 22min instructional is available as a DVD ($20) or as a rental ($20) in the States.
Cool. I’m looking forward to that being rolled out world wide.
The era of DVDs is coming to an end. (My new MacBook Air doesn’t even have a DVD player.)
Directed by Chase Armitage, one of the best edited parkour video I’ve ever seen.
Free Running, Parkour, Martial Arts and Acrobatic stunt team.
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Note the Hecht Back Tuck vault, a skill I once thought impossible when first listed in the MAG Code of Points. I was wrong.
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Mattie Larson returned to her home club, AOGC, after a post-Worlds break. (… I shouldn’t believe everything I read on the internet.) Still awaiting her decision on whether or not to report to UCLA for January.
Confirmed: Peng Peng Lee signed a letter of intent with UCLA. Here are 12 new College gymnasts we’ll be cheering this season.
Russia’s Tatiana Nabieva dominated the second day of competition at the Elite Gym Massilia, winning the all-around, vault and uneven bars.
Nabieva caught her now trademark toe on layout Tkatchev …
Gymnastics Examiner
… And I thought we’d never see Navieva compete again for Russia, after this one last scheduled meet. Wrong am I.
THE ALL AROUND has added a Weekly Round-up feature. Check a sample from 8-14 November 2010. Essential, since that multi-blogger site posts so much content that I can’t keep up.
New Elements added to WAG Code of Points from Worlds includes the Nabieva, Mustafina as well as the Mitchell triple turn on Beam.
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Full Twist posted videos of many of the newly listed skills.
Switch split mount (VIDEO) is a C-part on Beam? … hmm
Still in development, Brigid has a welcoming new format for Couch Gymnast.
Love the BIG font. And the magazine type layout of the home page.
Or check out the new site for yourself – Couch Gymnast.
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I’ve been following the depressing court case in Northern Australia.
… A GYMNASTICS organisation has been fined $70,000 for breaching safety obligations which led to the death of a teenager.
Townsville Gymnastics was charged with breaching the Workplace Health and Safety Act after gymnast Michelle Maitland, 19, fell and hit her head on the floor while practising at the Aitkenvale gym in June last year.
Ms Maitland fell and hit her head on a piece of concrete not covered by a safety mat. She died in hospital the following day. …
Gymnastics Townsville “acknowledges the fine imposed by the industrial Magistrate in Townsville earlier today. We are devastated that the life of a young woman has been tragically cut short”.
It’s in the hands of lawyers, however. The club will appeal.
The only upside is the warning we all can take from Michelle’s death. Be sure there’s no way anyone can reach concrete from any trampoline device in your gym.
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