Author: Rick Mc

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I’d almost given up on getting any more videos from FIG.

Click PLAY or watch another great edit of day 1 Apparatus Finals in Rotterdam on YouTube.

Love the kick out on Chen Yibing’s dismount. What a deserving World Champion!

The Presidential Classic is a boys and girls meet for levels 2 to Elite hosted at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World, Orlando.

It’s held President’s Day weekend February 18-20, 2011, a long weekend for many kids. This is the second year that the event has been named an official qualifier for the Nastia Liukin Cup. The event features a high level of competition with teams competing from all over the world. Even Canada.

More info PresidentialClassic.com

Gymnastics camp is a great environment for kids to do new skills for the first time. In fact, it’s good yearly planning to schedule your kids to do their biggest new skills first at camp.

Yet even if you are a great spotter, as a camp coach you find yourself working with kids you don’t know.

Check out the GymRep camp in Quebec.

Click PLAY or watch Double Back on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Double Pike on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Double Layout off Bar on YouTube.

Nice. I’d let Robert and David spot ME on Double Layout.

Sign up NOW if you want to attend this francophone camp. It filled fast last summer. GymRep.com (bilingual).

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… 43% of teenagers now say texting is the #1 reason they get a cell phone.

… Teens are sending 8% more texts than they were this time last year …

… Voice usage has decreased by 14%  …

Details via Mashable

Vanessa finished 6th on Floor Exercise at the World Gymnastics Championships. If she had won, … I’d not have complained.

Cick PLAY or watch her on YouTube.

… If we take out Afanasyeva, every other E-score of the final was between 8.883 and 9.1 – not nearly enough to reflect the true differences …

Andrew Thornton

What do the Execution judges want on Floor in 2010?

We keep hearing the new emphasis is on controlled landings. Ferrari had the best landings, yet they awarded her 3rd last for the best HIT routine of finalists.

Floor judging makes no sense to me. This panel should be embarassed at not giving more credit to the former world AA Champion.

And what happened to Raisman? Her E score is 9.016. … How do you get that kind of number? Was it averaged out with the Reference score? … There’s nothing wrong if it was, but I’d like to know if the score went up or down. It might have made a difference in the medal rankings.

Finals scores. (link to PDFs)

(via The All Around)

Just posted by Gymnastike.

Here’s one. The controversial Gold medal routine of the guy I call long Zhang.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

2010 High Bar Champion: Zhang Chenglong, China, 16.166 (7.5/8.666)

The Chinese didn’t even bring defending World & Olympic High Bar Champion, Zou Kai, to Rotterdam, yet they still managed to win this title. It’s hard to believe he beat Epke Zonderland’s thrilling routine, but he made it happen with a D score 2 tenths higher than Epke.

See the rest of the gold medal routines, MAG and WAG.

Nastia:

Thank you Inside Gymnastics Magazine for the wonderful posters!! We love them & they will be part of WOGA forever!

The British press is going zonkers over Beth.

Tweddle, 25, secured uneven bars gold on a historic day for Great Britain on Saturday as Olympic bronze medallist Louis Smith also picked up pommel horse silver and 19-year-old Dan Purvis collected floor exercise bronze.

It was Great Britain’s most successful day in gymnastics history and it saw Tweddle recapture the title she won in 2006, which made her GB’s first ever world champion, and came a year after she won an unexpected world floor gold in London. …

More Than The Games

Beth is now full commited to training through to the London Olympics. She’d be age-27. The headline on that post:

Tweddle: I would swap world title for Olympic medal at London 2012

related – Telegraph – Beth Tweddle ready to push the boundaries back for young aspiring sportswomen

This is great for the sport in the UK where national team funding is based on rankings at the biggest meets.

On the other hand, the Department for Education is ending the £162m investment in school sport from next year, which includes funding for a network of 450 School Sport Partnerships in England.

The

Gymnastics Examiner:

The logic of the two upcoming Swiss meets seems to be this: As long as everyone’s in Europe and everyone’s in shape, let’s have a fun boy-girl partner competition!

It’s good logic. The premier Swiss gymnastics events — the Arthur Gander Memorial and the Swiss Cup — are both happening this week. At Arthur Gander, to be held in Chiasso near the Italian border, men to choose four events to perform on, while the women compete on three. …

Many of the same competitors will then travel north to Zurich to compete in the Oct. 31 Swiss Cup, the most prestigious mixed pairs competition in gymnastics. …

It will be interesting to see the Chinese duo — 2008 triple Olympic gold medalist Zou Kai was held off China’s World team, and Zhang Yelinzi is one of the country’s young up and comers.

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For the lineup at Arthur Gander, click through to Gymnastics Examiner.

related – Keishlieta Gymnastique – 2010 Swiss Cup

UPDATE:

Results from Gander Memorial:

Women: 1 Ariella Kaeslin (Switzerland) 42,50. 2. Sandra Izbasa (Romania) 42.10. 3. Vanessa Ferrari (Italy) 41,95. 4. Yelinzi Zhang (China) 40.65. 5. Marine Brevet (France) 39.30. 6. Anastasiia Koval (Ukraine) 39.10. 7. Lisa Katharina (Germany) 38.55. 8. Marlies Rijken (Hollland) 38,50.

Men: 1 Flavius Koczi (Romania) 59.55. 2. Jeffrey Wammes (Holland) 59.40. 3. Deviatowskj Maxim (Russia) 58.80. 4. Matteo Morandi (Italy) 58,50. 5. Jordan Jovtchev (Bulgaria) 58.30. 6. Yuguo Huang (China) 57.75. 7. Phil Boy (Germany) 57.55. 8. Nikolay Kuksenkov (Ukraine) 56.85. 9. Yann Cucherat (France) 56.80. 10. Mark Ramseier (Switzerland) 52.60.

No Zou Kai? … It was Yuguo Huang, instead.

(stv-fsg.ch via THE ALL AROUND on Facebook)