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On GymNiceTic I saw the news that our Worlds Silver medalist from 2010 has his own line of Adidas garb.

Click PLAY or watch his Adidas TV ad on YouTube.

The German male gymnasts seem to be doing alright, even if nobody seems to be able to market the American MAGs.

… Check the many comments on that link. Or the same discussion on Tony Retrosi’s Gymnastike post – The Marketing of Men’s Gymnastics

To help the MAG cause, I voted for Leyva over Wieber and Ohashi on the next Inside Gymnastics magazine cover.

(via GymNiceTic)

CALGARY — Big air, soft landing.

Freestyle skiers and snowboarders rocketing off a jump into an enormous air bag Monday at Canada Olympic Park compared it to jumping into a giant marshmallow. …

The behemoth landing cushion — 17 metres long and 11 metres wide — is the first one in Alberta and one of the few air bags in Canada. …

… The International Olympic Committee recently added freestyle and snowboard slopestyle, as well as women’s ski halfpipe to its Winter Games menu.

CFSA Chief Operating Officer Peter Judge estimates there’s between six and a dozen air bags operating in the country …

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This version is only for age group athletes. The big guns still train into water.

Brett MacAuley linked to this story from Facebook. Thanks.

Check out some amazing photos from the “Evolution” competition in Pennsylvania.

This was my first time shooting a gymnastics event, and I have to tell you—it was very challenging. …

Scott Kelby – Shooting My First Gymnastics Event, Thanks to Dave Black

Click through to Scott’s site for some of the best photos I’ve seen in a long time.

Grace Chiu is uploading today to the Gymnastics Canada YouTube channel.

OTTAWA – Gymnastics Canada has announced its seven-member women’s team for the 2011 world artistic gymnastics championships in October.

Members of the team are Dominique Pegg, Talia Chiarelli, Kristina Vaculik, Peng Peng Lee, Mikaela Gerber, Coralie Leblond-Chartrand, Madeline Gardiner …

Team selection criteria included recent results from both national and international competitions and performance at trial meets held in Oakville, Ont., on August 25th and 28th.

… a bid to qualify a full team for Canada at the 2012 Olympics next summer in London.

The top eight teams in Tokyo will clinch an Olympic berth and the final four of the 12-country quota for full teams will be determined early next year at a final qualification meet in London.

Here’s the highlights video previously only posted on Facebook.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via The All Around Gymnastics News)

GBR Worlds trials – day 2. New vault worked out quite well.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

UPDATE: Chris points out it’s actually a full twisting Maloney.

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We’d heard the rumour Elisabeth Seitz was working on it. Here’s the evidence.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

… Seitz began on uneven bars, where she debuted her new full-twisting Shaposhnikova for 14.750 (6.4 D), her highest mark of the day. …

IG – Seitz, Boy Best Field at German Championships

Elisabeth is only the second girl I’ve ever seen do any variation of this super skill. Chelsey Colman did it from free hip. (VIDEO)

Great news for Acrobatic Gymnastics in North America.

USA Gymnastics and the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) announced today that the 2012 World Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships, along with the World Age-Group Competition, will be held at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex’s HP Field House at Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Fla. More than 600 gymnasts total are expected to participate in the World Championships, scheduled for April 16-18, and the World Age-Group Competition, set for April 20-22.

“USA Gymnastics is honored to host this prestigious event for the first time in the United States,” said Steve Penny, president of USA Gymnastics …

FIG – USA Gymnastics to host 2012 ACRO worlds

photo via ACROBATIC GYMNASTICS IN ONTARIO

The latest from spannytampson is a bit of a serious mashup.

Talents such as Sacramone and Memmel… they’re rare.

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Many of the most exciting WAG competitors for Worlds are gymnasts who had retired … and make comebacks. Catalina Ponor, for example.

THIS weekend South African double amputee Oscar Pistorius will set his carbon-fibre prostheses into the starting blocks alongside able-bodied sprinters at the World Athletics Championships which begin on August 27th in Daegu, South Korea.

The 24-year-old Mr Pistorius holds the double-amputee world records for all the sprint distances (100, 200 and 400 metres) and has been competing against non-handicapped athletes in international races since 2008. Last month he ran the 400 metres in 45.07 seconds, quick enough to qualify for Daegu, as well as for the 2012 Olympics in London. …

… the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the sport’s governing body (in) March 2007 … intervened to prevent Mr Pistorius from racing against able-bodied athletes, introducing a rule banning devices incorporating springs. He appealed, submitting to tests comparing his gait and physiology to those of other athletes, to no avail; the IAAF upheld its decision. A year later, however, the Court of Arbitration for Sport, a tribunal deal with all manner of sporting controversies, overturned the ban, rebuking the IAAF for its handling of the matter. …

Economist – Running foul?

I don’t know whether or not it’s unfair that Oscar Pistorius runs against (disadvantaged) able bodied competitors. But the precedent of letting him compete opens the door for even more mechanically enhanced athletes in future.

Thanks Casual Sharpie for the link.

I took Jacky Boisset and Mimi Guillot of Team Thule to gymnastics in Idaho right after they had won dominated a grueling 6-day race.

How did ultra-fit endurance athletes do at activities requiring strength/power.

Check out Jacky’s form on the Ring machine.

Mimi was laughing too hard to get up to handstand.

The French couple are two of the best expedition Adventure Racers in the world, training full-time with the goal of winning World Championships in Tasmania this November.

They billeted in Coeur d’Alene for the week with Dave & Lisa Adlard and with a family who had an underground climbing wall!