Ludivine Furnon playing at the beach

Ludivine Furnon (born October 4, 1980 in Nîmes) is a retired Olympic athlete from France. She was the first French female gymnast to ever win a medal at the World Gymnastics Championships.

Although she attended dance classes from the age of eight, Furnon did not study gymnastics until April 1992, when she was eleven years old. …

LIKE her (amazing) photo on Facebook.

Final 4 proposed for NCAA Championships

Eight Regional Championships with 4 teams at each.

The winner moves on to National Championships.

Eight teams compete day 1. The top 4 compete day 2 for the National title.

I like it. 🙂

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According to stats released by the Pac-12 viewership was up 495 percent from the 2013-14 season and Monday viewership was up 280 percent from Monday meets in 2013-14. …

The SEC saw similar results in their broadcasts numbers …

Chris Waller, UCLA’s assistant who is acting as the league’s rep at the meetings May 18-20, is hopeful other schools will support the move, understanding how important it is to be on TV.

“We have this incredible window of opportunity because the TV ratings have exploded,” he said. “We have to make sure we continue that growth and where we aren’t seeing that growth is in the post-season, which should be our biggest meets of the season.” …

Utah gymnastics: Pac-12 coaches push for format change for NCAAs

USA Men’s Junior AA Champions

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Four Level 10 junior elite all-around champions were crowned at the 2015 JO Nationals.

Yul Moldauer won his second career JO Nationals all-around title, and also captured individual titles on four events (FX,SR,VT,PB). …

Grant Breckenridge, a Stanford signee, won a hard-fought battle to earn his first JO title. He also claimed top honors on VT. …

In the 16-year-old division, Matthew Wenske earned event titles on FX and PB, propelling him to his first JO Nationals all-around title. …

Also winning his second career JO Nationals all-around crown was Cameron Bock, who put together two great days to win the 15-year-old division. …
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Four more all-around titles were awarded in the evening JO Division competition. Minnesota signee Vitaly Kan earned his first JO Nationals title, winning the 17-year-old division. …

Taylor Fletcher won the 18-year-old division …

Frankie Valentin won in a close contest in the 16-year-old division over Kyte Crigger. …

Joe Dixon captured the championship in the 15-year-old division. …

Stick it Media – Moldauer, Breckenridge, Wenske & Bock Earn Level 10 JE Titles

Kohei Uchimura … just because

Kohei’s not perfect. But he is the greatest who ever lived.

Click PLAY or watch his 5th AA World Championships win on Facebook.

Misty Copeland on 60 Minutes

Click PLAY or watch it on CBS News.

http://www.cbsnews.com/common/video/cbsnews_video.swf

One of Time Magazine‘s 100 Most Influential People of 2015.

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Wayne Goldsmith on Coach Education

Though he sometimes overstates, to emphasize, I always enjoy Goldsmith’s take. If you are involved in Coach Education, click through.

• Teach coaches to listen to and understand the needs of each individual athlete

• Don’t assume all coaches want to be elite coaches

• Scrap the competency based philosophy. … Keep it simple. Assess coaches when they are coaching. …

• … don’t teach WHAT – TEACH HOW

Ten smart things we should be doing in the interest of better coach education

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10 Things Only GYM Moms Understand

Tawnya:

Music is No Longer Just Music…it’s Potential Floor Music

My Living Room is Now a Practice Gym

My 10-Year-Old is Ripped

My Car is My Gymnast’s Home Away from Home

Gymnastics is Expensive, Time Consuming, and Emotional, but we wouldn’t have it Any Other Way

10 Things Only Gymnast’s Moms Understand

Click through to see the rest. 🙂

proud gym mom