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Amanda Turner:

Russia Olympians Anna Pavlova and Konstantin Pluzhnikov will now represent Azerbaijan internationally, as will 2011 Russian world team member Yulia Inshina, the FIG announced Thursday. …

The 26-year-old Pluzhnikov, a 2008 Olympian and the 2011 European champion on still rings, reportedly decided to compete for Azerbaijan in 2012 when rival rings specialist Alexander Balandin was chosen over him to represent Russia at the Olympics in London.

Inshina, 18, was a member of Russia’s silver-medal squad from the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo, where she finished sixth in the balance beam final.

The former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, which has a population under 10 million, has produced several strong rhythmic gymnasts who train with the Russian team. The oil-rich nation has not yet had a strong presence in artistic gymnastics, however, but has been attempting to recruit gymnasts from abroad. …

Azerbaijan Recruits Three Russian Gymnasts

How many Russian gymnasts will Pavs better in AA competition? 🙂

Click PLAY or watch Pluzhnikov’s 2011 Rings on YouTube. (15.466 = Diff: 6.7 / Ex: 8.766)

Amanda Turner linked to that single study on a small sample of Collegiate gymnasts. The researchers have put up their own web page dedicated to the topic:

We are a group of researchers from Dartmouth College, Boston University and Duke University who study how people are exposed to flame retardant chemicals.

More broadly, we study how chemicals in the environment can affect the health of people. We chose to do a study of gymnasts because one of us is a former competitive gymnast and because we were concerned competitive gymnasts may have elevated exposures to flame retardants due to their use of foam containing equipment.

The study included 11 collegiate gymnasts that was published in the scientific journal Environmental Science & Technology: Carignan CC, Heiger-Bernays W, McClean MD, Roberts SC, Stapleton HM, Sjödin A, Webster TF. Flame retardant exposure among collegiate U.S. gymnasts. 2013. Environ. Sci. Technol.

(DETAILS & ABSTRACT)

This website was developed to advise gymnasts and coaches to wash their hands after practice and before eating, to provide facts about flame retardants and gymnastics and to facilitate collaboration between flame retardant scientists, fire safety experts, equipment manufacturers and the gymnastics community. …

GymnastCollaborative.org

GymCastic on Facebook:

Kyle Shewfelt, Dvora Meyers, Uncle Tim, Jessica O’Beirne, and Brigid McCarthy tell us what they’re thankful for in the world of gymnastics. …

What Made the Gymternet Grateful in 2013?

A great role model. 🙂

Lives with Meredith Vieira:

Aly Raisman used to be the underdog. After working her whole life to become an Olympic champion, the Team USA Women’s Gymnastics captain walked away with two gold medals and a bronze at London’s 2012 Games.

Now returning to compete for a spot on the 2016 Olympic team, Raisman joins Overshare to reflect on her training schedule, her family’s sacrifices, the pressure of her sport, her participation in ABC’s Dancing With The Stars, and what inspires her to push forward. …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Entertaining.

IPAULESBRONET:

Once upon a time, you were a highly competitive gymnast. It was your life. You might not have even been that good in gymnast terms, but in other people terms, you were amazing (because you said yes when they asked “can you do a flip?”). You worked out more days a week than you went to school.

Now you feel really lame when people talk about what they did in high school because your answer is always the same: “well, I spent time at the gym…” If you are a no-longer-competing, still-identifying-as-one-even-though-you-definitely-aren’t gymnast, you can probably relate to the following statements …

29 Ways You Know You’re An Ex-Gymnast

That’s one of my own photos taken at the Christchurch School of Gymnastics.

It’s Creative Commons licensed. Yet IPAULESBRONET did not attribute the source.

@dankeatings:

My new 6.9 pbars routine from last weekend! It’s a little scrappy but I got through 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (15.050)

James Glader:

How time flies! 2014 will mark the 10 year anniversary of my Rhythmic Gymnastics photography. To celebrate the occasion I am extending a $10 custom coupon code to you for the online photo store.

In addition, I have new gallery with 100 of my favorite images of the past decade …

Please take a look around the new store. There are 1,000s of photos available there. …

GYMFOTO – James Glader Photography

#dtbpokal

Click PLAY or watch the FIG trailer on YouTube.

WOGymnastike:

Featuring 2012 Olympic team gold medalist Mckayla Maroney and 1956 Olympic vault champion Larisa Laytinina, a GIF shows us the difference between the kind of vaults which were performed by the two best vaulters at 2012 and 1956 Olympics.

Winning Olympic Vaults 56 Years Apart

(via the Daily Dot)

Guys. Did you ever try this on a woman’s rail?

Tough trick.

That was posted by gifsartist.