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Leigh Robson:

No one would deny that Canadian Olympic Trampoline hopeful Sam Sendel enjoys life. When you watch her action-packed YouTube videos, you know that she lives life to the fullest. Her talent, athletic success as a World Class Trampoline gymnast and joie de vivre makes her a role model to many. …

In conjunction with the Canadian Olympic Committee’s announcement of new initiatives to support LGTB athletes, Sam has come out publicly with her identity as a lesbian athlete. About Canada’s new LGTB initiatives, she told SBNation Outsports Magazine:

“As a gay athlete, I’m touched deeply,” Sendel said of the COC’s initiative. “I’m hoping it will help prevent the younger generations from feeling like they need to hide who they are. That was a big issue for me. I think it will really make a difference.”

The goal of the initiatives is to combat homophobia and anti-gay bias in sports. While this is a Canadian program, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recently adopted new guidelines protecting athletes traveling to foreign countries to compete in the Olympics to include LGTB athletes. …

read more on Trampoline Pundit

If you appreciate Sam’s courage, send her a tweet @SamSendel.

Actually, the Canadian T&T program is very Gay friendly.

(via Leigh Robson @TrampPundit)

Now that’s a tuck position. 🙂

The IOC is boasting unanimous approval of the 40 recommendations that make up Olympic Agenda 2020.

They could go into effect for Pyeongchang 2018 and Tokyo 2020.

Ollie Williams provides some analysis:

At Monday’s extraordinary IOC session in Monaco, members rubber-stamped a series of 40 much-hyped “Agenda 2020? recommendations for change to the way the Olympics is run – some of them substantial, including:

Abolition of the 28-sport cap limiting the summer Olympic programme, accompanied by a shift to measuring the programme in terms of events, rather than sports

Host cities can propose the inclusion of specific events for their Games

Changes to make the system of bidding for the Games more flexible and, hopefully, cheaper

One such change is the ability for cities, regions and countries to mount joint bids for the Olympics (in “exceptional cases” only, mind)

A new, worldwide Olympics TV channel, carrying archive alongside some live sport with a $600m budget over seven years

Amended wording of the Olympic charter to specifically note the Games should be free of discrimination based on sexual orientation

read more – Links special: a day of change for the Olympic Games

Sports where one athlete could potentially win 8 medals (swimming, gymnastics) are vulnerable, I feel.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Couch Gymnast)

I’m often surprised how easily a brave, strong male gymnast can do advanced Beam tumbling.

For example, Dom Palange, a coach at UCLA coach Chris Waller’s Gym Jam.

To see more of Dom’s skills, click over to mcsmaria – Because Real Men Do Beam

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via GymFever2012

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Rec Gymnastics)

Gymnastics score and meet tracking app for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Android.

Here is an overview of the Apple iOS version of the app:

Fast gymnastics meet scoring and awards entry for women’s and men’s events.

Real time All-Around score calculations for each gymnast.

Gymnast’s season best and season average scores.

Real time calculation of team score, and a report showing the gymnasts and scores that contributed to the team score.

View and share Reports of meet results by gymnast, or for the whole team.

Share your gymnastics meet results with friends and family via email, picture messaging, and AirDrop.

Results can also be shared other places like Facebook and Twitter.

Plot your gymnast and team season progress on line graphs.

Choose your own TumbleTally colors from seven color themes.

Requires iOS 7 or iOS 8.

Best starting poinr for more information is flintcreekapps.com

Men
1. Oleg Verniaiev, UKR, 91.598
2. Yusuke Tanaka, JPN, 89.865
3. John Orozco, USA, 86.865
4. Yuya Kamoto, JPN, 85.698
5. Frank Baines, GBR, 84.332
6. James Hall, GBR, 83.699

Sergio Sasaki went down with what might be a serious knee injury. 😦

Women
1. Larisa Iordache, ROU, 59.232
2. Elsabeth Black, CAN, 56.432
3. Jessica Lopez, VEN, 55.899
4. Georgina Hockenhull, GBR, 54.398
5. Mai Murakami, JPN, 54.299
6. Vanessa Ferrari, ITA, 54.032

“It was a good competition for me,” 21-year-old Verniaiev remarked afterward. “More or less I am happy with my performances on all apparatus today. Once I had done my Floor routine at the beginning, I was quite calm for the rest of the competition.”

FIG – Larisa Iordache, Oleg Vernaiev double down at Glasgow World Cup

Click PLAY or watch Larisa’s competition on YouTube.

related – Gymternet WAG commentary