… The Gym Dogs, who have lacked depth this season due to a plethora of injuries, had juniors Gina Nuccio and Kat Ding back into multiple events in Friday’s win over No. 21 LSU. …
Gina Nuccio
Nuccio, who is not only Ding’s teammate but also her roommate and best friend, competed in the first three meets of the season, but injured her ankle against West Virginia.
From then until the Florida meet two weeks ago, Nuccio had been limited to the uneven bars along with her injured roommate Ding. …
Head coach Jay Clark said he may be the happiest person watching Ding and Nuccio return together. He said their presence has sparked competition among his thin roster for spots in the lineup, something the Gym Dogs have been missing all season. …
A non-profit community organization, serving the expatriate and local community in Singapore, is seeking a GYMNASTICS HEAD COACH/PROGRAM DIRECTOR. … both recreational and competitive gymnastics.
The competitive teams represent the organization at local Singapore competitions as well as international competitions within Southeast Asia. …
A competitive salary, benefits and relocation package is offered.
Interested candidates are asked to submit a Resume/CV to sacac AT sas.edu.sg
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What are the most watched gymnastics routines on the web?
TCG writer Justin Caouette did some research to find out just what exactly are the most popular individual gymnastics performances viewed on Youtube. Starting with uneven bars, he will take us through the top ten on each event and explore the potential reasons for their popularity.
Update: Check the comments for reaction to this post. … Seems it’s far too simplistic to say “Title IX killed Cal MAG”
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Though the administration won’t admit it, the main reason Men’s Gymnastics is gone and Women’s Gymnastics survived is the the 1972 gender equity law known as Title IX.
International Gymnast – Dwight Normile:
… Cal’s 2010 numbers were way out of whack. Of its 24,796 full-time undergraduates, 53 percent were women. But it had 577 male athletes and 388 female.
Donors saved the rugby program, but only under the condition that some of the money would be used to help fund women’s gymnastics and women’s lacrosse. …
… For many decades there was no separate vaulting horse, the pommel horse was simply turned around and gymnasts vaulted over it lengthwise. The pommels were unscrewed and wooden poles inserted into the holes to avoid any injuries to the fingers when gymnasts pushed off the horse.
Berlin native Carl Schuhmann, the most successful German Olympian in Athens 1896, vaulted over that kind of apparatus…
Katrina sent me a link to a funny take on the most recent Chinese age falsification scandal.
John Powers:
… The Chinese, who are notorious for falsifying ages of their women’s gymnasts, evidently have been doing the same with their figure skaters for years. According to birthdates on their federation’s website discovered by the Associated Press, nine athletes, most notably Olympic pairs medalists Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao, either were too young or too old to be competing in senior and junior world championships. …
What’s baffling is why the Chinese, whose Internet censoring borders on the paranoid, would post any athletes’ ages there at all. Either they’re brazen, careless, or just plain clueless. In any case, they’ve got some explaining to do …
That is baffling. It’s as if an affluent totalitarian regime is inefficient. Their bureaucratic toadies can’t keep track of what birth year is required in each sport.
Actually, Dan and Hao have already been cleared, it seems.
Chinese sports officials acknowledged Friday there were inconsistencies in some of the recorded ages of their athletes and said they were taking measures to fix the problem.
Winter Sports Administration director Zhao Yinggang said the body was verifying birthdates listed for more than half a dozen figure skaters after questions were raised about different dates given to different governing bodies….
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