Vanessa Ferrari back in the Gym

Three-time Italian Olympian Vanessa Ferrari underwent surgery … to repair her left Achilles’ tendon and “touch up” her right… and is already back in the gym! …

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Rebeca & Flávia playing on P Bars

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The Bronze – not recommended

This R-rated low budget film is absolutely not recommended for kids. The majority of adults will find it disappointing, as well.

I did like Katherine Grable as the stunt double. But that’s about it.

The Bronze is a 2015 American sports comedy-drama …

Former gymnastics Bronze Medalist Hope Ann Greggory (Melissa Rauch) has been living off her celebrity status in her hometown of Amherst, Ohio, though she is reduced to going through the mail her mailman father delivers for spending money.

When her former coach Pavleck (Christine Abrahamsen) suddenly commits suicide, a letter arrives addressed to Hope stating that if she can guide Pavleck’s best student, a young gymnastics star named Maggie Townsend (Haley Lu Richardson) to the Olympics in Toronto, she will receive a $500,000 inheritance. …

On … Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 32%, based on 84 reviews, with an average rating of 4.8/10. The site’s consensus reads, “Enthusiastically unpleasant and mostly unfunny, The Bronze fails to stick the landing – or much else along the way.”

Valeri Liukin competes in COSTUME

MCS Maria brought back this classicValeri Liukin’s Most Embarrassing Moment 🙂

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What I remember most from that event was Bilozerchev competing absolutely normally. No costume. No theatrics.

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how NOT to train Straddle Back

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Chalk It Up – the movie

I rented Chalk It Up on iTunes for $4.99.

Pretty silly, actually. And not nearly as much Gymnastics as I had hoped.

This film is fun for young female gymnasts. It’s family friendly. But adults may find it juvenile.

Some of the cinematography is well done. The movie was shot in 12 days yet production values are impressive. With very little funding this project was clearly a labour of love.

Congratulations to Maddy Curley and the rest of the team for putting it together. Big shout out for International Gymnastics Camp for providing the Gym.

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