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by Rick McCharles, editor GymnasticsCoaching.com

I’m an unabashed promoter of Cirque du Soleil. The shows are fantastic. But I love best the career opportunity Cirque provides for hundreds of acrobats and dozens of coaches worldwide.

If you know me, you know I have been a fan for 20 years. Even more so after our good friend Boris Verkhovsky went to Montreal to become Head Coach.

I have dozens more friends associated with the company. And for the past year or two I’ve consulted for the casting department on occasion.

That said, I’d like to welcome Cirque du Soleil as the first advertiser on Gymnastics Coaching. It’s not for selling tickets — the link is for coaches who have athletes that might want to audition.

The ad will help keep this site alive. Everyone who contributes is a volunteer. No one is paid.

Cirque du Soleil is always looking for ways to give back to the world community of acrobats. The better we get, the better their shows will be in future.

And working in the performing arts is one of the very best job opportunities for the acrobats we coach.

Who will win Women’s Artistic Gymnastics in Beijing?

Blythe on the Gymblog speculates it may well be the top all-arounder who lands Yurchenko 2.5 twist.

A high start score may weight that apparatus more important than the other three.

It’s over. « The Gymblog

South Africa’s Francki Van Rooyen prepares to land as she goes through her routine on the floor in the Women’s All-Round Final during the Artistic Gymnastics at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games.

News24

(William West, AFP)

Good article by International Gymnast editor Dwight Normile:

… After nursing a slight injury to her right leg, 2007 world champion Shawn Johnson should be “100 percent back” this weekend, according to coach Chow Liang.

“Right now we’re in the foundation-building stage and getting her body and mind recovered, and getting ready for the Olympics,” Chow told IG on Friday.

The injury was a stress reaction to her shin, which could have resulted in a stress fracture if left untreated. Johnson has been wearing a walking boot to allow the leg to heal. …

International GYMNAST Magazine Online

From Calorie Counter:

Fast food is bad food. That’s pretty much common knowledge these days. The majority of the foods served at fast food restaurants contain an insane amount of calories, tons of fat (including the very evil trans fat), and are high in pretty much everything else that you’d want your food to be low in. Long story short, it’s the kind of food you want to avoid eating.

… I’ve compared the nutrition facts of the most popular foods from over 20 popular fast food restaurants to see how each restaurant’s version of the same food stacks up against the others. If this isn’t enough to convince you to eat less (or none) of this stuff, it will at least give you the information you need to make the better choice and avoid making the worst one.

Enjoy…

Fast Food Restaurants & Nutrition Facts Compared

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Related posts:

Fast Food Nation – the book

Super Size Me – teaching kids about fast food

Have you seen this yet?

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

This coach will be there, blogging the action.

Canada qualified the full Men’s Artistic team to Beijing. But the Women only qualified individuals. I’m looking forward to seeing how the athletes look with the big meet only months away.

Schedule / Horaire – Elite Canada 2007

In conjunction with that competition is a 6-day-long Level 4 coaching course led by Keith Russell for Gymnastics Canada.

I’ll be presenting on the “Internet for Elite Coaches”. And working individually with coaches on their own use of computers vis-a-vis gymnastics.

Others presenting include Edouard Iarov, Anne Muscat, Dave Hill, Kamena Petkova, Svetlana Lashina, Lynn Smith and Jeff Thomson.

Level 4 is by invitation only, a 2-year, 4-week-total program for coaches seeking to develop athletes for international competition.

Looks like a fantastic trip. I will be posting the good stuff here.

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Realis was the stage name of World Acrobatic Gymnastics champions Arthur Davis and Shenea Booth who reached the finals NBC’s America’s Got Talent, Season 1 in 2006.

Click PLAY or watch the Realis finale performance on YouTube.

An 11 year old singer, Bianca Ryan, eventually took home the $1 million dollar first place prize.

The Magnificent 7 are on the Today show Saturday morning, Nov. 17th, including cute little Dominique Moceanu.

Except now she is 26-years-old and expecting.

An excellent interview:

Olympic gold medalist Dominique Moceanu was only 14 years-old when she captured the world’s heart (and the gold medal!) at the 1996 Atlanta Games in the field of gymnastics. Today, Dominique, 26, is all grown up, married and expecting her first baby, a girl, on January 3rd.

We flew to Cleveland, Ohio to catch up with Dominique at the Gymnastics World Gym. She chatted with us about the pressures of being a young athlete, how she’s having a healthy pregnancy, and of course, winning Olympic Gold.

Click … for all the photos and interview highlights.

Photography: Gabbeli Photography

Celebrity Baby Blog: CBB Exclusive: Going for (baby) gold with Olympic gold medalist Dominique Moceanu