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New Life (Sudden Victory) was adopted by FIG in 1989.

Full Twist has a guest post by Anna Rose Johnson.

She ponders whether FIG should go BACK to combining prelims and AA to decide the podium winners in major competitions.

What would the podiums have looked like under the OLD rules?

2012 OLYMPIC GAMES:
1. GABBY DOUGLAS: 62.232
2. VIKTORIA KOMOVA: 61.973
3. ALIYA MUSTAFINA: 59.566
4. ALY RAISMAN: 56.566

COMBINING PRELIMS AND THE AA
1. VIKTORIA KOMOVA: 122.605
2. GABBY DOUGLAS: 122.497
3. ALY RAISMAN: 119.957
4. ALIYA MUSTAFINA: 116.532

2011 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS:
1. JORDYN WIEBER: 59.382
2. VIKTORIA KOMOVA: 59.349
3. YAO JINNAN: 58.598

COMBINING PRELIMS WITH THE AA
1. VIKTORIA KOMOVA: 119.506
2. JORDYN WIEBER: 119.414
3. YAO JINNAN: 117.629

2009 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
1. BRIDGET SLOAN: 57.825
2. REBECCA BROSS: 57.775
3. KOKO TSURUMI: 57.175

(COMBINING PRELIMS WITH THE AA)
1. REBECCA BROSS: 115.225
2. BRIDGET SLOAN: 113.900
3. ANA PORGRAS: 113.800

2008 OLYMPIC GAMES:
1. NASTIA LIUKIN: 63.325
2. SHAWN JOHNSON: 62.725
3. YANG YILIN: 62.650

(COMBINING PRELIMS WITH THE AA)
1. NASTIA LIUKIN: 125.700
2. SHAWN JOHNSON: 125.450
3. YANG YILIN: 125.000

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I’m with the majority who LIKE New Life (Sudden Victory). It makes the final day more exciting. And reduces the chance that the WINNERS will get on to the podium with a fall.

Sere Powell posted the winning Jr routine. Looks like Romania has yet another Beam star coming up.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Puzzle)

sporteverywhere has been evaluating D-score for outstanding routines from past Codes.

Interesting.

… Though it leads to a lot of argument and discussion on the YouTube pages.

For example, the great Vanessa Atler from 2000.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

See more on the sporteverywhere YouTube channel.

WOGymnastike has been linking to some of those.

Very expressive.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

via @PaigeKreps

More Trampoline fun in Toronto.

Ayano Kishi, 2012 Olympian from Japan.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

WOMEN’S ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS CARDED, LA RELEVE, NATIONAL TEAM AND ESPOIR ATHLETES FROM MARCH 1 T0 JUNE 30, 2013 AS OF FEBRUARY. 10, 2013

SENIOR 15 athletes:
Black, Elisabeth
Carvalho, Casey
Chant, Maegan
Chiarelli, Talia
Douglas, Gabriella
Gardiner, Madeline
Gerber, Mikaela
Gill, Sabrina
Hofland, Kaitlyn
Merkle, Stefanie
Moors, Victoria
Pegg, Dominique
Pedersen, Jordyn
Tsang, Briannah
Woo, Victoria-Kayen

JUNIOR 7 athletes:
Clark, Brianna
Latimer, Heaven
Lu, Ivy
Olsen, Shallon
Townsend, Sydney
Woo, Rose-Kaying
Yu, Aleeza

ESPOIR
Belley, Adrianne
Chrobok, Jade
deJong, Haley
Roberts, Megan
Ruttan, Meaghan

Grace Chiu GraceClick on Facebook

All of Grace’s photos from Gymnix are now available on her website.

High praise from Australia’s Brigid McCarthy:

I can’t stress this enough. Canada is doing something very right at the moment to be producing such a depth of competitive gymnasts after a a long period of relative scarcity.

To see this high a level of gymnastics in a competition where not a single returning Olympian was in attendance, and to be doing this at the very start of an Olympic quad is mighty impressive.

Canadian gymnasts are going to really have to fight for places on teams throughout the next quad, but this will only drive them harder to produce high level gymnastics. I cannot wait to watch this Olympic quad unfold for Canada.

related:

• 13-14 Own The Podium Funding
• CDN Men’s National Team

I believe Gymtastics in Calgary is the first Canadian club to replace their pit foam with Rounders.

Rounders™ are the only pit foam available with a flame retardant cover. A unique conical shape.

Club Founder Dar Fedyna is well pleased with the investment.

Cost is perhaps double regular pit cubes. But the lifespan of Rounders should be 2-3 times regular cubes.

For a higher initial cost you have a much cleaner gym. With lower risk of allergic reaction to dust.

Ideal for Recreation programs.

Downside?

The cubes are slippery. Kids get buried deeper than in regular foam. Adults have trouble climbing out. … I learned that by jumping in myself.

You might want to ready a throw rope for self-rescuing Adult Rec gymnasts. 🙂

I’m convinced.

Any future gym of mine will not have regular (filthy) foam cubes. It’s Rounders or resi-pit.

related – Darlene “The Bean” Fedyna is the Rec guru behind Gymtastics Gym Tools. She’ll be presenting for the first time at USA Congress 2013. I’ll be at those sessions, for sure.

Update from Inside Gymnastics:

Among the athletes slated to participate are Jacob Dalton, Jonathan Horton, Marcel Nguyen, Oksana Chusovitina and Anna Pavlova, just to name a few!

Here’s how you make Artistic Gymnastics exciting.

Professional Gymnastics Challenge on Facebook:

It’s official!

The Professional Gymnastics Challenge is coming to the Lehigh Valley’s Stabler Arena on May 10 & 11, and airs on ESPN2 on May 21, 22 and 23! Check it out at ProfessionalGymnastics.com

Click PLAY or watch Promo 2 on YouTube.

Those clips are from last year’s inaugural.

Tickets go on sale Friday, March 15th.

Allentown is the closest airport. Newark is about 90min away.

Ten Tree Apparel posted a great new video on the theme – what inspires great athletes?

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

details on InspireContest.com

(via WOGymnastike)

The future Gator competed for Spain at Gymnix.

Click PLAY or watch the very cool skill at 48sec on YouTube.

(via International Gymnast Magazine on Facebook)