Gervasio Deferr was Olympic champion on Vault at both 2000 and 2004 Olympics. Silver on Floor at the 2008 Games with this routine.
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new interview with Oksana Chusovitina
The best I’ve ever read.
Q: Your friend, Tatiana Gutsu, won gold at the all-around even though she did not qualify for the final. At the last moment, she replaced Roza Galieva, who, according to the official sources, got sick.
A: Perhaps, Roza really felt unwell then. But Gutsu was the strongest gymnast on the team at that moment. It would be very surprising if Galieva competed in the all-around. Back then the team management made all the decisions. The one who was told to compete – competed. …
A: I’ll confess, in 1998 I thought I would retire. I tore my Achilles and gave birth to my son. I had a break of almost two years. I wasn’t even thinking about gymnastics. But after Alisher’s birth, I came to the gym just to condition a bit, to get back into shape, because a week after giving birth my weight was 1 kg lower than during the competitive career. At that time they bought new equipment for the gym in Tashkent. I swear, I just wanted to hang from the bars …
Q: Your only motivation to continue is your love for gymnastics?
A: No, not just love. I have a dream – to win an Olympic medal of any kind for Uzbekistan. I am moving towards that goal step by step. …
#1MINUTEOF Shawn Johnson
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1958 NCAA Championships
Hosted at Michigan State.
Ernestine “Ernie” Russell, Stan Tarshis, … Abie Grossfeld won the AA.
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excellent interview with Vitaly Scherbo
… Look at Kohei Uchimura! I consider him the best gymnast of all times. … in my mind he is the greatest and he will be forever. He is a real Champion! I don’t consider myself even close to this guy.
By the medal counts, yes, of course but I was in the right time, the right place and while I was well prepared I was also lucky. …
… I had just got to the senior national team. I was selected by head coach Leonid Arkaev who is one of the best organisers and coaches in the world, making the gymnasts reach high level. He invited me to the senior national team when I was 17. …
After the first camp I was suspended because I was caught smoking and this obviously was not allowed and it was a bad thing. He wanted to show all others that even talented gymnasts, the stars, we can live without them. Discipline is the most important thing so I was kicked out of the team for ever! …
Interview by Tina Gerets – Catching up with … Vitaly Scherbo (BLR)!
Women in Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes
Schwaiger wins record 6th National tumbling title
Jon Schwaiger of Calgary, AB – now training in Cambridge, ON, won a record sixth consecutive national title in senior men’s tumbling Sunday on the final day of the 2017 Canadian Championships in Trampoline gymnastics. …
The World Games team of Schwaiger, Sugrim, and Tamara O’Brien of Vancouver, BC will leave for Poland this upcoming Thursday and compete July 25th and 26th in Poznan, Poland. The World Games feature sports that are not contested at the Olympic Games. …
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top 3 male gymnasts all-time?
Sam Oldham poses the question. Post your answer on Sam’s YouTube channel.
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I’d go …
1. Uchimura
2. Scherbo
3. ??
Rosie MacLennan wins 6th Canadian title
Rosie MacLennan of Toronto, ON successfully defended her senior women’s trampoline title at the 2017 Canadian Championships in Trampoline Gymnastics at Durham College in Oshawa, ON on Saturday, while World Games-bound athletes Tamara O’Brien of Vancouver, BC and Jon Schwaiger of Ancaster, ON both set personal bests in double mini-trampoline (DMT) finals. …
Jake Cranham of Ontario took the title of Canadian champion in the men’s senior trampoline finals with a score of 159.780. Kyle Soehn of Red Deer, AB took silver with 156.220, and Andrew Martin of BC took bronze with 152.070. All three athletes shared the podium with visiting Australian athletes who laid down the top scores.
“This is probably the first successful competition I’ve had in a good six years so it’s pretty exciting,” said Cranham who trains out of Skyriders Trampoline Place in Richmond Hill. …
Karen Cockburn retires
2000 Sydney Bronze
2004 Athens Silver
2008 Beijing Silver
OSHAWA, ON (July 16, 2017) – Karen Cockburn, Canada’s most decorated gymnast, announced her retirement today at the 2017 Canadian Championships in Trampoline Gymnastics in front of her family, friends, and fellow competitors. …
Cockburn started competing at the age of 13 and represented Canada for over 25 years. She won the first of her eight World Championship medals in 2003, when she stood on top of the podium in individual trampoline. …
“Karen was the first World Champion from Canada but will be known more for competing at four Olympics for trampoline, making finals every time and coming in the top-4 at every one,” said Dave Ross her personal coach for 26 years at Skyriders …
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