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As the season winds down, here’s a list of those most likely to end up in the Super 6 team final at NCAA Championships in Ohio.

Florida held the #1 spot all season. And is still the ‘team to beat’.

It’s nice to see the Beavers ranked top 3. They’ve had a great year.

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Dave Adlard loves the film Cool Runnings:

… loosely based on the true story of the Jamaica national bobsled team’s debut in the bobsleigh competition of the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta. …

For the first half of the final day’s race it looks as though they will break the world bobsled speed record, until tragedy strikes: their sled, due to one of the blades falling off, flips on its side coming out of a turn towards the end of their run, leaving them meters short of the finish line. However, the team lifts their sled up and walks across the finish line …

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“A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you’re not enough without it, you’ll never be enough with it.”

– John Candy as coach Irv Blitzer

…. The Beavers scored a season-high 197.200 and Leslie Mak won the balance beam title with a career-high 9.950 and all-around championship with a career-high 39.525.
OSU won its first Pac-10 title for coach Tanya Chaplin in her 14 years at the helm. The last conference title for the team was in 1996, the last season before she took over.

UCLA took second with a 196.750 followed by Washington (196.025), Stanford (195.975), Arizona (195.475), California (191.575) and Arizona State (190.450). …

Chaplin won the Pac-10 Coach of the Year for the fifth time, and second year in a row. Mak took the gymnast of the year award. Both awards were voted on by the conference coaches. …

Beavers win Pac-10 title in gymnastics …

A wake-up call for Stanford?

A strong candidate for the Russian Olympic team is back.

She won Jr. Bars at Jesolo with a 15.10.

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There are tons of videos online already. I’ll post highlights over the next few days.

The most raved about routine of the weekend, so far.

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Will kids start emulating the weird start to her sprint?

Grace Chiu GraceClick on Facebook:

Elite Canada Champions …

Argo: Sam Zakutney (National Capital), Tyro: Aiden Marsden (Capital City), Junior: Kal Nemier (Flicka), Senior: Jackson Payne (Capital City).

Thank you and congratulations to Gymnastics Mississauga for hosting a wonderful meet!

Sam Zakutney

And thanks to Grace for providing some information and posting a few of her wonderful photos on Facebook, almost the only publicity for the meet that I could find online.

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Blythe is in France at the World Cup meet:

I was put in the mood for gymnastics today (oh, who am I kidding? I am always in the mood for gymnastics!) on the metro to the Bercy by a group of 10-12 year old girls who got on a few stops away from the arena. They were decked out for “la gym” with signs, tricolor pompoms and the French flag painted on their cheeks.

One girl had streaked red, white and blue eye shadow on her eyelids so that when she blinks you see the French flag. They sang a little song that basically went “If you love gymnastics, clap your hands” followed of course by hand claps. There is so much support and genuine excitement surrounding this event! …

Only 4 gymnasts qualified to Finals, cash prizes for the top 3.

Men’s floor: 1. Gonzalez 2. Koczi 3. Bouhail

Men’s pommel: 1. Smith 2. Bertoncelj 3. Tommasone

Women’s vault: 1. Mustafina 2. Nabieva 3. Chelaru

Men’s rings: 1. Chen 2. Balandin 3T. Pluzhnikov and Morandi

read more – Gymnastics Examiner LIVE coverage

The 20th annual Jason Whitfield Invitational was held in Ann Arbor, Mich., March 12-13.

Cathy and Jim Whitfield announced the 2011 Whitfield Foundation scholarship winners of $3,000 each are: Danell Leyva, Jesse Silverstein, John Orozco and Stacey Ervin.

Three of the four scholarship winners attended the meet this year. The Whitfield Foundation was established after the death of Jason who died in a motorcycle accident in 1991 while pursuing his own gymnastic dreams. Thus far, the Whitfield Foundation has awarded a total of $180,500 to 67 male gymnasts from across the country.

Cathy and Jim Whitfield with scholarship recipients Jesse Silverstein, John Orozco and Stacey Ervin. Danell Leyva not pictured.

USAG

1. Jackson Payne 167.350
2. Casey Sandy 166.000
3. Jayd Lukenchuk 164.250

Click PLAY or watch his Pommels on YouTube.

Results for all levels of competition are posted on the Gymnastics Canada official webpage.

Here’s an international competition where 80% of the medals will not be taken home by one nation.

Blythe LIVE blogged the World Cup meet in France:

… qualifiers on all events for tomorrow’s event finals:

Women’s vault qualifiers:

* 1. Tatiana Nabieva
* 2. Aliya Mustafina
* 3. Diana Chelaru
* 4. Jennifer Khwela

Women’s bars qualifiers:

* 1. Aliya Mustafina
* 2. Huang Qiushuang
* 3. Elisabeth Seitz
* 4. Tatiana Nabieva

Women’s beam qualifiers:

* 1. Aliya Mustafina
* 2. Ana Porgras
* 3. Anna Dementyeva
* 4. Lauren Mitchell

Women’s floor qualifiers:

* 1. Sandra Izbasa
* 2. Diana Chelaru
* 3. Vanessa Ferrari
* 4. Anna Dementyeva

Men’s floor finals qualifiers:

* 1. Tomas Gonzalez
* 2. Gael da Silva
* 3. Thomas Bouhail
* 4. Flavius Koczi

Men’s pommel horse qualifiers:

* 1. Prashanth Sellathurai
* 2. Louis Smith
* 3. Saso Bertonclej
* 4. Cyril Tommasone

Men’s rings qualifiers:

* 1. Chen Yibing
* 2. Koji Yamamuro
* 3. Konstantin Pluzhnikov
* 4. Alexander Balandin

Men’s vault qualifiers:

* 1. Dmitri Kaspiarovich
* 2. Tomas Gonzalez
* 3. Theo Seager
* 4. Luis Rivera

Men’s parallel bars qualifiers:

* 1. Feng Zhe
* 2. Mitja Petkovsek
* 3. Epke Zonderland
* 4. Roman Kulesza

Men’s high bar qualifiers:

* 1. Danell Leyva
* 2. Epke Zonderland
* 3. Marijo Moznik
* 4. Jeffrey Wammes.

Some highlights:

Sandra Izbasa, FX: Double turn with leg up. Castanets before Tango music starts. Full in tucked with a step back. Triple full to single stag jump, very nice. Tourjete full, very good. Long pause in the corner before her 1.5 to Rudi to little beat jump in the air as she rebounds out. Switch ring, switch half. Again, a fairly long pause, but terrific easy looking 2.5 to front tuck full to end the routine! Wonderful job!

Aliya Mustafina, UB: Staldfer full to toe Khorkina II, inbar blind to pike Jaeger, inbar full to Tkatchevb to Park to stalder half to toe shoot to high, toe full to 1.5 twisting tuck with great landing, tiny hop. Basically a carbon copy of what she did at the American Cup. Lovely work. Lovely. 15.833.

Click PLAY or watch Aliya on YouTube.

See more of the Bar routines on Couch Gymnast.

Huang Quishuang, UB: Hecht mount, blind to front stalder to Ono, to Rykbalko, pirouette to pike Jaeger. Pak…toe hecht to high. Rybalko to half turn to giants to stuck double layout. Excellent routine for Huang! 15.466.

Theo Seager, VT: WOW! Dragulescu with the best landing yet, just a small hop! …

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