ATHENS, Ga. — Sophomore Courtney Kupets of the 2007 NCAA Champion Gym Dogs was recognized for her academics as a first-team member of the 2007 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America women’s at-large team as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
The 2007 NCAA All-Around and Vault Champion posted a 4.0 in the spring, which improved her cumulative grade point average to a 3.86. She joined Oklahoma’s Brittany Koncak-Schumann and Northern Illinois’ Jody Yednock as the only gymnasts to make the first team. She was also one of only two sophomores to earn the distinction.
Kupets, who is pursuing a major in furnishings and interiors, has won back-to-back NCAA All-Around titles, becoming the first gymnast to do so since Georgia’s Kim Arnold also captured back-to-back crowns in 1997-98.
The Beijing Olympic Committee for the Olympic Games 2008 (BOCOG) has just announced the “Official Supplier” of the 2008 Olympic Games.
The Dutch company “Janssen–Fritsen” from Helmond/NED has once again been selected, for the 5th time, to supply the artistic gymnastics equipment which will be used at the Olympic Games 2008 in the Chinese capital.
The 2007 edition, to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has prompted the Organizing Committee to restore important venues such as the Estádio do Maracanã and build a new Olympic Village. It is expected that the games will improve infrastructure in the city and lay the foundations for a possible bid for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
I expect the most insightful and detailed gymnastics coverage to come from GYMmedia. Correspondent Giancarlo MORA has been in Beijing for months already.
“One World one Dream …”
…that is the city’s motto for the XXIXth Olympic Summer Games, which are due to take place in Beijing from August 8th to 24th 2008; for this reason, the city is preparing for millions of guests.
Many of the Olympic building have already taken shape and some are already in regular use, such as the Olympic Press Centre in the north of Beijing, close to the Huabei-Hotel, which has been open since 2005, and where the OC plans to hold daily press conferences. …
You’ll be seeing it a lot in conjunction with Olympic coverage in Beijing.
This unknown rebel will be symbolic for all time as a common man standing up to Totalitarianism. He’ll be a National Hero in China one day.
One of the main reasons I was happy when Beijing got the Olympics was anticipating the tremendous pressure of World Opinion on the Chinese government. They have a lot to answer for.
The regime is corrupt and rotten.
I expect it to fail under the light of Olympic scrutiny. Before the Olympics finish China will announce real democratic reform.
… “Here It Goes Again” featuring an elaborately choreographed dance on treadmills, also directed and choreographed by Trish Sie. This video was viewed by over one million people on the media site YouTube in the first six days.
As of the end of June 2007, the original video upload for “Here It Goes Again” has been viewed over 19 million times, putting it in 6th place for the most views of any video and 4th place for most favorited video of all time on YouTube.
USA Gymnastics president Bob Colarossi is asking the clothing retailer to stop selling a T-shirt that has the slogan ‘L is for Loser’ next to a picture of a gymnast on the still rings. The sport’s governing body also asked members to boycott the store until the T-shirt is pulled.
‘No individual, regardless of race, gender, age, intelligence or athletic ability, can or should be deemed a loser,’ Colarossi wrote in a letter to Michael Jeffries, chief executive officer of Abercrombie & Fitch.
‘Athletics as a whole, and gymnastics in particular, provides a great foundation in physical fitness and offers skills for a lifetime,’ Colarossi wrote. ‘… USA Gymnastics feels that A&F has promoted this latest product in hopes of generating public outcry, attention, and media exposure for their brand.’
Filmed at International Gymnastics Camp in Pennsylvania, the two-minute feature is the first in a “lifestyle” series on Abercrombie Kids’ Web site.
Abercrombie spent three days in April filming the spot, camp director Brent Klaus told IG. After being approached by Abercrombie, IGC put the call out to a few gymnasts who have been coming to the camp for years.
The gymnasts, along with Klaus, can be heard in the video describing the sport of gymnastics.
“Every gymnast who’s in it gave a little bit of input,” he said.
Though doing gymnastics under bright lights wasn’t easy, Klaus said it was a memorable experience for all the gymnasts who took part.
“Abercrombie is such a large company and for them to feature gymnastics was exciting,” he said. “The gymnasts in the film did it just in support of gymnastics, knowing this was an amazing opportunity to promote the sport.”
So … Ambercrombie gets a ton of publicity for the t-shirt stunt. And does not pay the gymnasts. They must be a PROFITABLE company. Sounds like they are winners to me.
There’s even talk that Brazil will bid for the 2016 Olympics, if successful, the first time they would be held in South America. 
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