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Paolo Principi’s Walstrom (full-twisting Yamawaki)

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The skill is named after former Canadian gymnast Owen Walstrom, today a movie and TV stunt coordinator.

(via GymCastic’s Uncle Tim)

Brinn Bevan (GBR) 85.200
Nile Wilson (GBR) 83.700
Ivan Stretovich (RUS) 82.000

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Uncle Tim ponders whether Max Whitlock could do this on Pommels.

That’s part of a review on his surprisingly good result (2nd AA) at Europeans.

In fact, Max still has many weaknesses as an all-arounder.

related – Uncle Tim on David Belyavskiy at Europeans

Kim Janas (GER) 54.950
Maria Kharenkova (RUS) 54.950

Tyesha Mattis (GBR) 54.850
Ellie Downie (GBR) 54.700
Maria Bondareva (RUS) 54.200
Louise Vanhille (FRA) 53.800

Click PLAY or watch Maria’s Floor on YouTube. Big O.B. to finish.

Full Twist – Results & Videos: EYOF 2013 WAG AA

Team GB’s Brinn Bevan continued his dominant form at the 2013 European Youth Olympic Festival by winning the all-around title in Utrecht. Brinn, who led the standing in qualifications, scored a hugely impressive 85.200 to take the top spot in front of teammate Nile Wilson with 83.700.

Brinn said after “It feels really good. Before this event started I never expected to win a medal in the individual all-around and it feels amazing to be on the podium together with Nile. I went clean and at first I was hoping for a top-three position, or maybe fourth, but to win here is great.”

British Gymnastics

Brinn Bevan (GBR) 85.200
Nile Wilson (GBR) 83.700
Ivan Stretovich (RUS) 82.000

full results

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Video productions by : Sports2Visuals (Carolien Visser & Lisa Deen)

Music produced by : Point15

Bea Gheorghisor:

It was an interesting team final at EYOF. With only two scores counting per event (three gymnasts competing) no team had the opportunity to gain a substantial advantage or to capitalize on only one event. …

* the maximum value of an element is E so all elements harder than an E get 0.5 points, same as an E …

Great Britain had a fantastic day with only very few mistakes. This team is all about big skills and power, not that their execution is bad either. But, as I said above, in junior competitions difficulty is not really encouraged; furthermore, the areas where they were lacking today, they got heavily penalized. On floor, for instance, Ellie Downie received only a 12.75 for her very difficult routine which opened with a double layout and continued with a full in on the second pass, both of them very clean and performed with fantastic height. Tyesha Mattis received a score in the high 12s too for a routine which opened with a… double double. …

read more on Couch Gymnast – EYOF Team Finals Report and Results

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Notes were scrawled across palms. Marked-up answer sheets were filled with suspicious adjustments. Exams were mysteriously missing pages.

The International Gymnastics Federation found suspicious marks on tests by experts hoping to judge rhythmic gymnastics.

It might sound like a middle-school math test gone wrong, but it’s a fresh scandal in the Olympics world, implicating as many as 60 experts …

The International Gymnastics Federation, known as F.I.G., spent months investigating the episode. Much of their findings, spanning hundreds of pages, were obtained by The New York Times.

The documents showed that in Bucharest, Romania, test takers clearly copied answers from one anothers’ papers, including the mistakes. In Moscow, 114 answers were changed on dozens of tests; in Alicante, Spain, 257 answers were changed.

The exam sheets themselves served as evidence of the suspected cheating — crude markups, blatant copying, unexplained bonus points — that proved as clumsy as a botched rhythmic routine.

One test clearly had been touched by more than one person — it was filled with at least two different handwriting styles, the report said. …

The fallout has been swift, with one top Olympic official already expelled and six others suspended. They include Caroline Hunt of the United States, along with officials from Egypt, Japan and Russia. Dozens of judges who took the tests have been implicated and questioned by F.I.G. investigators.

Ms. Hunt plans to appeal the punishment. …

Investigators found that Maria Szyszkowska of Poland, the former president of the governing body’s rhythmic gymnastics technical committee, interfered with the computer program that calculated the scores. As a result, Mrs. Szyszkowska was stripped of her membership and prohibited from “any form of participation in all F.I.G. events and activities.”

Her lawyer, Sébastien Besson, issued a statement to F.I.G. officials denying any wrongdoing. He argued that bonus points were not awarded arbitrarily and followed common practice. He called the missing answer sheets “obviously regretful, but nobody knows what happened.”

read more on the NY Times – Judges of a Graceful Sport, Caught in a Clumsy Cheating Scandal

Bad press for Olympic Rhythmic Gymnastics. 😦

Where there’s this much smoke, there’s most likely fire.

I hope this scandal clears some deadwood, and cleans up the Rhythmic judges pool.

The girls deserve better.

Opening this FALL in Calgary, Canada. Recreation only, to start.

Kyle’s just announced the landing page for his new Club website.

And he’s hiring coaches.

Jayd Lukenchuk and friends on the beach in Nova Scotia.

photo by Christine Peng Peng Lee 🙂

see more SuperCamp photos on Savona’s Facebook

Thanks Stu.