The International Gymnastics Hall of Fame will grow to include 91 individuals from 22 nations on May 21 in Oklahoma City. The class of 2016 comprises Aurelia Dobre (Romania), Jordan Jovtchev (Bulgaria), Igor Korobchinsky (Ukraine) and Tatiana Lysenko (Ukraine).
Bill Sorenson, who founded American Athletic, Inc., will receive the Frank Bare Award, and the 1996 women’s Olympic team, which won the first gold medal for the U.S., will be honored as special guests at the 20th annual induction dinner. …
Category: history
Aimee Boorman USA coach of the year
Aimee’s new Gym hosted their Grand Opening.
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Marta Karolyi’s last Camp
The five-day camp began Sunday, May 15, under the direction of national team coordinator Martha Karolyi. …
“It was a very successful camp, and everyone looks to be on the right track heading into the Olympic selection process,” said Karolyi. “I am very pleased with the high level of physical fitness and routine preparation demonstrated by our athletes.”
Magnificent Amy Chow
Mitch Gaylord & Kurt Thomas
Gymnastics legends. And … actors. 🙂
Looks like the Thomas roll skills on Men’s Floor will finally be eliminated next Code. A good move on the part of FIG MTC. We’ll have significantly fewer concussions in future.
Kim Zmeskal interview
The Skating Lesson is the best Ice Skating videocast. In the lead-up to the Olympics, however, they’ve posted a Gymnastics catch-up with Kim. 🙂
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (2hrs)
the next Urzica
Marius Urzică … an Olympic champion, a three-time world champion and a three-time European champion on pommel horse. He competed at three Olympic games, medaling each time …
Today he’s a coach in Qatar.
Click PLAY or watch his son having fun on YouTube.
2015 Worlds Glasgow – legacy
The best World Championships in history, I’d say.
The 2015 World Gymnastics Championships have caused a dramatic increase in the sport’s participation levels in host city Glasgow, it has been claimed.
… attendances for its gymnastics pathway programmes have risen from 75,251 in 2014-15 to 86,206 in 2015-16 – a 15 per cent increase.
Over the same period, attendances at the city’s seven gymnastics clubs are said to have increased from 14,321 to 18,303 – up 28 per cent. …
The 2015 World Gymnastics Championships, which was named Sporting Event of the Year at The Sunday Mail and sportscotland Scottish Sports Awards, was one of the largest single-sport events ever to be hosted in the United Kingdom with a record 594 gymnasts from 87 nations taking part.
Attendances of close to 80,000 watched the action at Glasgow’s SSE Hydro Arena across 10 days of competition …
Gym Mom of the year
Mary Lou Retton 🙂
If you want to see Mary Lou Retton in person on an average weekend in 2016, you can find her in the same place you might have found her in 1984: at a gymnastics meet. Still under 5 feet tall, same megawatt smile, slightly updated haircut.
But, of course, the 1984 Olympic all-around gymnastics champion is not doing flips on the balance beam anymore. And after retiring from competition, she didn’t take the same routes as other gymnastics superstars–she didn’t take up coaching like 1992 Olympian Kim Zmeskal-Burdette, try her hand at judging like 2008 Olympian Chellsie Memmel or have a career as a commentator like 2008 Olympic champion Nastia Liukin.
Retton is just cheering, enjoying life in the stands as the mother of four daughters, all of whom are involved in gymnastics. …
https://twitter.com/marylouretton/status/685955803530956800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
related – Watch How Olympic Gymnasts Gabby Douglas and Simone Biles Celebrate Mother’s Day
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