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Ohashi – Beam 15.900 – no Olympics

This is a repost. It’s worth watching this routine again, in any case.

Katelyn’s routine was awarded 6.9 difficulty, higher than any at Worlds 2010. Yet Katelyn Ohashi is not age eligible for the London Olympics.

She misses by a few months … as did Nastia Liukin in 2004.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/NTIxNDY1MDE3

Watch more video of 2011 WOGA Classic on gymnastike.org

I suspect her coach will be chatting with the FIG Women’s Technical committee. Valeri is strongly against the age restriction.

Valeri Liukin with WTC Chair Nellie Kim

related – littlemissgymnast – Is the 16 age rule conducive for the sport

Florida, Stanford, Oklahoma

Utah is missing from this ranking. I assume they don’t have an RQS, as yet.

… You’ll notice that the rankings look a bit different this week.

… switched over to the Regional Qualifying Score (RQS). Beforehand it was only based on season average.

The RQS is based on the six best regular season meet scores, three of which must be away meets, then the high score is dropped. You then average the five remaining scores. …

Gymnastike

That link takes you to videos of many of the top routines.

Check the high scores. Who has potential to put up the highest number, if they hit?

see all rankings on GymInfo

Valentine girl Kylee Botterman is atop the RQS AA rankings.

new skill – Morandi (D part)

MAG Floor – Handspring forward salto to stand.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

super talent gymnast Shallon Olsen

Canada has another Nailya Mustafina.

Here’s Shallon Olsen, age-10, winning Canada Winter Games 2011 on Floor ahead of Junior and Senior National Team members. (results PDF)

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She’s 4′ 3″, 54lbs.

Almost every coach I talk to thinks Shallen’s doing too much difficulty at a young age.

But there’s a school of coaching that feels kids should learn difficult acrobatic tricks as young as possible, then stabilize and refine as they grow. You lay off hard ‘pounding’ during peak growth velocity.

Here’s her prelims FX routine at last week.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

She looks safe to me. Leave a comment if you have an opinion.

Note: Shallen was not the youngest athlete at Canada Games. That was Edward Guo, a table tennis player.

Other teams had underage gymnasts compete, but (so far as I know) only if they could not fill the team with age eligible athletes.

related – littlemissgymnast contrasts Shallon with Catherine Lyons from the U.K.

Nailya Mustafina at age-10

littlemissgymnast is a new blog dedicated to ‘young’ gymnasts.

A recent post discusses super talent prodigies that are for various reasons unable to fulfill the incredibly high expectations as they grow.

… To me, a tragic example is Nailya Mustafina, the most impressive 10 year old I have ever seen on all 4 pieces. She is Natalia’s little sister and many suggested she was the more talented of the two. She broke her femur and has had an uphill struggle to stay at an elite level …

Protecting Young Elite Gymnasts

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

When FIG raised the minimum age to compete at Olympics the intention was to have coaches plan to ‘peak’ kids later in the career.

That’s not happened in every case. Obviously.

Nansy Damianova – coming out party

World Gymnastics attended the Utah vs University of Michigan meet this past weekend.

… a coming out party for Utah’s Montréal-born Nansy Damianova.

… On her three apparatus last night against the University of Michigan, Damianova matched season and career high scores on the Vault (9.850) and Uneven Bars (9.825) and set her season and career high on the Floor Exercise with a 9.875. …

read more – Flying Low, Feeling High

I’m happy for Nansy. She and Hopfner-Hibbs, recall, competed for Canada in Beijing after a bungled, controversial Canadian selection process.

Florida Gymnastics 196.875

… This meet was not about posting a huge score, UF coach Rhonda Faehn said.

Right.

… “We knew that tonight was going to be an opportunity to rest quite a few of our heavy hitters and also give opportunities for some of our young athletes to get out there and gain some valuable learning time on the competition floor,” Faehn said …

… “The depth on this team is amazing,” senior Maranda Smith said. “I think having so many great athletes and a huge amount of depth in each event is what’s pushing everyone. From week to week, you could get bumped from the lineup in an event. …

Gator Sports – Gymnastics shows off depth in Senior Night win

Florida can do no wrong, right now.