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Trampoline GOLD for Rosannagh MacLennan! Excellent performances today. Dramatic finals finish as world champion & top qualifier He Wenna falls off.

1 Maclennan CAN
2 Lenders NED
3 Rente, POR

Rosie on whether she now expects to win Gold at the Olympics:

It will be tough. Unfortunate circumstances helped it happen today. … Everyone will be fighting for the top spot …

I congratulated coach Ken Soehn and Gymnastics Canada’s Traci House. They were happy with all the Canadian performances at the Test Event and feel on schedule for another successful Olympics.

Ken’s son, Keegan, who finished 13th here on Friday the 13th here says he needs a new tramp, identical to this one. 🙂

Chinese coach says HE Wenna is OK. She was caught mid-air by the skillful, alert spotters — but strained her elbow somehow. And some slight lower leg strain. We’ve got to get video of that catch. China owes those lads a pint each.

♪ 9yr old gymnasts from New Jersey want to be the next John Orozco (VIDEO) ♪

CUTE.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/ODYxNTY2NTcw?related=1

Here are the 8 finalists for Men:

1. CHN D Dong 50.804 59.675 110.479
2. CHN C Lu 50.590 58.680 109.270
3. JPN M Ito 49.375 59.415 108.790
4. CAN J Burnett 48.869 57.5 106.369
5. POR D Ganchino 48.420 56.750 105.170
6. AUS B Gaudry 48.710 55.760 104.470
7. GER H Stehlik 48.560 55.180 103.740
8. POR D Merino 47.750 55980 103.730

We could be heroes is playing in the arena.

Jason Burnett with that result qualified CAN for one athlete to the London Olympics. He’s the Silver medalist from Beijing.

From the new Balance Beam Situation blog:

For the purposes of these statistics, I included only scores from teams in the Top 25 preseason coaches’ poll and included all six scores per rotation, not just the five counting scores.

Average Score by Apparatus – Week 1
1) Vault – 9.764
2) Beam – 9.620
3) Bars – 9.619
4) Floor – 9.596

Average Score by Team – Week 1
1) Georgia – 9.785
2) Florida – 9.783
3) UCLA – 9.775
4) Oklahoma – 9.752
T5) Ohio State – 9.738
T5) Arizona – 9.738

details – Week 1: The Numbers

Click PLAY or watch STICK of the WEEK on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/NTg2NTY3NzY3?related=1

Watch more video of Stick of the Week on gymnastike.org

FIG Official – New version – Artistic Gymnastics. See you in London ? . Editor : Julien Rennes/FIG TV

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#FIGTest12 … you assumed this post was about the great mustachioed Tomás González. Nope.

CONGRATULATIONS to Simona Castro.

… University of Denver junior gymnast Simona Castro (Santiago, Chile) made history on her 23rd birthday, becoming the first Chilean woman to qualify for a gymnastics spot in the Olympic Games …

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Click PLAY or watch her Beam from qualifying on YouTube.

GREAT SAVE Simona. 🙂 And thanks to Coach Carl Leland for introducing me. This is going to be an awesome Olympics for Chile.

The Olympic Team is training in California right now. At Byers.

(via Debbie Broderick Rodriguez on Facebook)

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Progressive Figure Skating and Gymnastics Spectacular

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Great demo? … Or the greatest demo of all time? 🙂

I prefer this hyperbole – This Is How Winners Are Made (VIDEO)

(via Examiner)

Sebastian is experimenting with an idea I’d never considered.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. Listen for the beep.

What do you think?

Would audio feedback help kids figure out timing of the “tap” and “beat” on Bar? … I’d love to try it. It certainly couldn’t hurt to have more feedback.

(Lord knows we need something. Some of the girls in finals in London still muscle forward giant on Bars.)

This post details the experimental device …

Keyboardmods – Gymnastics tap swing trainer

That site is dedicated to “input device reviews and custom keyboards”. Cool.