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Omelianchik was a member of the first place Soviet team at the 1985 World Gymnastics Championships in Montreal, but struggled in the team competition and did not qualify for the all-around final.

However, Soviet team officials (Rodionenko) decided to pull Olga Mostepanova and Irina Baraksanova, who had both qualified for the finals, and substitute Omelianchik and her teammate Shushunova. The decision proved to be sound; the two Soviet gymnasts tied for the all-around gold and became Worlds Co-Champions. …

Click PLAY or watch her 1985 Europeans Finals routine on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch the Omelianchik Vault on YouTube.

She was traveling alternate to the 1988 Olympics. Retired 1989.

Omelianchik remains heavily involved in gymnastics as a choreographer, coach and judge. She heads the women’s technical committee for the Ukrainian Gymnastics Federation and choreographs routines for many of Ukraine’s top gymnasts …

Is that still the case after Ukraine’s last round of budget cuts?

Both are commonly used. Back in 2011 I decided to use flare.

Balance Beam Situation likes Flare, as well, though the women’s Code of Points is using Flair.

Click PLAY or watch some Flares on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=1257385068871

related:

• Pommel G-part – Busnari
• Pommel Flare history

Like her Calgary Gymnastics Club teammate Sydney Soloski, Meaghan is a National Beam Champion.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Head Coach Janna Ball at CGC is training some of the best Beamers in Canada.

related – Janna brought in Steve Arkell from Gymnastics Plus in Panama City, Florida, to assist her girls at Nationals. No doubt the slow competition & complicated rules were an eye-opener for Steve.

An interesting thread on College Gymnastics Board asks:

Who in NCAA does a skill the best?

Nansy Damianova’s double tuck on Floor …

Emily Wong’s triple full …

Courville’s arabian on beam …

… see more

It includes a link to this routine from the fearless one, Courtney Kupets. The greatest College gymnast all time.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Cute.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via BG TV)

Click PLAY or watch the new Catherine Lyons montage on YouTube.

Double Double:

2013 Returning Competitors

At the moment, it appears only 8 gymnasts will be returning. They are…

Kennedy Baker
Brenna Dowell
McKayla Maroney
Abigail Millet
Elizabeth Price
Kyla Ross
Mykayla Skinner
Sabrina Vega

In this group, we have 2 Olympians, 1 Olympic Alternate, and 6 national team members.

That’s speculation. But the total number may be close.

2012 Returning Competitors = 10

2011 Returning Competitors = 7

2010 Returning Competitors = 7

Click through here for names. Shout out to @CordeliaGymFan.

Elite Women’s Artistic Gymnastics is a difficult and dangerous sport. It’s not easy to compete Championships multiple years in series.

related – Gymnastike – McKayla Maroney: More Than a One Trick Pony

Execution judges are not doing their job.

For example …

Watch the new Chinese Champion Shang Chunsong.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

6.2 + 8.467 = 14.667 – 1st

Where are the 1.5+ in deductions?

Now watch Liu Tingting in the same Beam final. Same judges.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

5.2 + 7.5 = 12.7 – 8th

Difference between those routines is less than a point.

Yet it’s obvious to anyone. Any 8 year old gymnast — that Shang’s routine was HIT near perfect. That Liu’s routines had many major wobbles and balance checks. Both had a landing deduction.

There should be a far greater difference in E Score than 1.0.

The new Code doesn’t work because FIG allows judges to box the scores. The cleanest gymnasts in each competition suffer. It’s not fair.

Bruno Grandi so often talks about justice.

Why doesn’t he mandate the FIG Technical Committees to start applying the rules as written?

(via Brigid Couch Gymnast McCarthy on Facebook)

… Yana became the youngest gold medalist at the Europeans since Alina Kabaeva won also at 15 years of age. …

Click PLAY or watch her artistry on YouTube.

That’s being shared on Facebook by Artistic Gymnastics coaches.

How much superior are the leaps, jumps and turns in Rhythmic?

Makes our crappy switch split halfs look … crappy. 😦

Six-time Italian champion Enrico Pozzo has filed a legal inquiry into the judging panel at last weekend’s national championships in Ancona, Italian media reported Tuesday.

Pozzo filed his complaint with a federal prosecutor over the presence of one judge, “La Stampa” newspaper reported. One of the judges in Ancona was a regional director, although the Italian Gymnastics Federation’s rules forbid regional directors from judging at national championships …

Pozzo came just shy of capturing his seventh national all-around title in Ancona, finishing second all-around to Ludovico Edalli by .05. After Saturday’s competition, Pozzo did not mince words and said the scoring was politically motivated. He also withdrew from Sunday’s apparatus finals.

Pozzo’s six titles (2003-2005, 2007, 2011-2012) put him in tie with the legendary Jury Chechi (1989-1993, 1995) and Franco Menichelli (1960, 1962-1966) as Italy’s second-most decorated national champion in men’s gymnastics. Guido Figone holds the all-time record with eight titles, won from 1948-1955.

IG – Pozzo Files Inquiry After Italian Championships

I like this trend where gymnasts and coaches are appealing loudly. And speaking to the media when they feel they’ve been wronged.

Judges are far too unaccountable for their scores, in my opinion.

related – Hambuchen – German Championships Erupt Into Scandal

James Parent, host Tony Retrosi and myself will be leading a fast paced practical workshop Friday, June 21st in Huguenot, NY.

This is the second Tumbl Trak sponsored Choose Your Habits Clinics for coaches of kids who do not compete. Or who do not yet compete.

How to register.

Here’s the NY registration page.