Author: Rick Mc

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The wonderful days when the goal was to make simple things look fantastic.

Diving at the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games is underway.

YOUTH WOMEN’S 10M PLATFORM FINAL

1 LIU Jiao CHN
2 PAMG Pandelela MAS
3 SIN Ji Hyang PRK

full results

From the Facebook album: Singapore 2010: Diving by Youth Olympic Games

Clarifying some of the confusing difficulty scores from Singapore …

From A J at the superb THE ALL AROUND blog and Facebook page:

For women:

– F and G skills are credited as Es;
– C dismounts get full credit, B dismounts get .30; A dismounts are .0 (same in MAG)
– in vault Finals, 2 different vaults from the same family allowed
– No more than 2.5 in CR

Although Fs and Gs are capped at .50 difficulty value, there are no caps on the vault values.

IG’s coverage includes D scores if you want to do your own calculations – Komova Wins Two More Golds at Youth Olympics

UPDATE: detailed report from The All Around – Komova Remains Golden in Singapore

More Komova.

Women’s
Vault: 1. Komova (RUS) 2. Vargas (ESP); 3. Ferlito (ITA)
Bars: 1. Komova (RUS) 2. Tan (CHN) 3. Adlerteg (SWE)

Gymnicetic WAG LIVE blog and full results.

Note: there are some different rules in this meet. These scores cannot be directly compared with F.I.G.

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Men’s
FX: 1. Vila Sarria (CUB) 2. Stepko (UKR) 3. Zhu (CHN)
Pommel Horse: 1. Stepko 2. Oldham 3. Kazachkov
Rings: 1. Muntean (ROU) 2. Kamoto (JPN) 3. Abad (ESP)

Going for Gold has some coverage on both WAG and MAG finals:

… Men’s Floor: Dark Horse Ernesto Vila Sarria of Cuba took the Gold (score 14.575) ahead of a mistake ridden men’s field. …

(via The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook)

This is called Mallakhamb.

… a traditional Indian sport in which a gymnast performs poses and feats while hanging from a vertical wooden pole or rope. Mallakhamb also refers to the pole used in the sport. …

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more videos we posted back in January – crazy gymnastics on a pole

Thanks Warren.

THANKS IGC and Bruno Klaus.

… Horton, who trains at Cypress Academy, won a total of $17, 500 for his results in the all-around, still rings, floor exercise, and vault.

“I have to say thank you so much to IGC and Bruno Klaus,” said Horton. “This is one of the greatest things anyone has ever done for men’s gymnastics. To donate that kind of money and give it to the athletes who aren’t in school and live on their own like me (I’m married), Danell and Chris. We support ourselves right now so to have somebody donate that and support men’s gymnastics is one of the kindest things.”

Danell Leyva of Miami/Universal Gymnastics, and Chris Brooks of Houston/University of Oklahoma, were the next top earners, collecting $9,500 and $7,500, respectively. …

USAG – Horton earns top prize in International Gymnastics Camp ‘Champions Challenge’

International Gymnastics Camp – home page

Dwight Normile:

The September IG is coming out soon, and it includes an interview with FIG Men’s Technical Committee President Adrian Stoica. …

Click through for some teasers – Stretching Out: Stoica, Singapore & the IG Tour

I wonder if Dwight asked Stoica if he planned to succeed Grandi?

Founder and Creative Director of SportMusic.com, Alex Goldstein from Russia, created music for Yelena Davydova, Masha Filatova, Natalya Shaposhnikova and Nellie Kim, amongst others.

They have READY-TO-USE music for Floor routines. ($75) … But it’s free to listen to the full version.

Even better, I think, is their CUSTOM MUSIC service, starting at $95.

SportMUSIC.com home page

They offer Rhythmic music, too.

Full Twist:

Bela Karolyi will make a guest appearance in the ABC show Make It or Break It. Bela will feature in the shows season finale on August 31st playing the part of Sasha Belov’s father…. interesting!

source – GKelite.com

Men
1. Satin (UKR) 41.000;
2. He (CHN) 40.700;
3. Munetomo (JPN) 40.000;

Women
1. Dong (CHN) 39.900;
2. Makshtarova (BLR) 37.700;
3. Doihata (JPN) 36.700

Finals results – Men and Women

China’s Dong Yu won her country’s first Youth Olympic Games gymnastics gold medal today after putting up a dominant display in the girls’ trampoline event at the Bishan Sports Hall.

Her win will come as a huge relief to her national teammates after they failed to win the gold in the first two YOG gymnastics competitions.

Tan Sixin, China’s national balance beam champion, had finished second in Thursday’s Girls Individual All-Around competition while Zhu Xiaodong took the bronze in the Boys’ Individual All-Around on Wednesday. …

However, it was heartbreak for American Savannah Vinsant, 17,who had qualified for the final in second place. The 2009 world trampoline champion (15-16 years) finished her 10-skill routine outside of the trampoline and was duly penalised.

She eventually finished fifth in the eight-girl final. …

Straits Times