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Stanford’s Nicole Pechanec is dating Andrew Luck.

(via College Gymnastics Board)

FIG posted a terrific photo of Christine Lee on Bars. Click through to find out how to get a high resolution version.

Canada’s women were most successful in Osijek with three Golds in all. The country’s top performer at the 2011 World Championships, Christine Lee, outscored the field on Uneven Bars (14.475), while sixteen year old Elsabeth Black won Saturday’s Vault Final (14.575) and edged out Switzerland’s Giulia Steingruber for the Floor title (13.725) on Sunday …

FIG Artistic Gymnastics Challenge Cup
Grand Prix Osijek 2012

If you failed to get tickets for the Olympics, why not take part? The London 2012 video game from Sega is due for release on 26 June, for XBox, Playstation 3 and PC. You’ll be able to play over 30 different events, including highlights from track and field, gymnastics and stuff in the pool.

Londonist

via @gymnewstics

CDN Championships May 21-26th | ARTISTIC RESULTS | TRAMP & TUMBLING RESULTS | RHYTHMIC RESULTS

Secret US Classic May 26 RESULTS | Examiner | Jr videos

The greatest danger to children in 2012 is childhood obesity. It’s hopeless, so far as I can see. Kids are going to get fatter before they get fitter. 😦

… Some are trying to make fitness cool.

Let’s Move! Flash Workout initiative by Beyoncé Knowles is a part of a larger Let’s Move! campaign to end childhood obesity in the United States.

The campaign was started by First Lady Michelle Obama. The Let’s Move! Initiative has the goal of “solving the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation so that children born today will reach adulthood at a healthy weight”. …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

… Watch thousands of students from across the country and around the world dance to Beyoncé’s “Move Your Body” in the 2011 Let’s Move! Flash Workout. …

Click PLAY or watch a mashup on YouTube.

letsmove.gov

related – A big fat (cigar smoking) idiot had the nerve to criticize Let’s Move founder Michelle Obama for her diet and fitness. Talk about picking the wrong battle.

Examiner:

… super impressive beam routine of Eythora Thorsdottir. Lovely, inventive combinations, like side aerial to front aerial to Korbut, and Onodi to bhs, layout, and a brilliant three turn combo late in the routine. Sure, there’s a fall mixed in among all this, but she already has many of the qualities of many of the world’s top beamworkers, including a wonderful way of moving. Look out for her in the future. …

Dutch European Championships teams announced, and three interesting routines…

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Stick It Media:

Now that all the great collegiate competition is over, it’s time focus our attention on the upcoming JO Nationals. This season’s meet will be taking place May 10-13 in beautiful downtown Cincinnati.

… this year’s Level 10 (16-18) competition is going to be especially fierce. More than a half dozen gymnasts have a legitimate shot at winning the national all-around title. As good as the past few years’ competition has been, this season’s is shaping up to be arguably the toughest. …

There really is no clear-cut favorite to win this division, but here is a list of gymnasts who we believe are in the running (in no particular order / *asterisk denotes final season as a club gymnast):

*Jesse Glenn
*Timmy Wang
*Ryan Patterson
*Josh Yee
*Donnell Whittenburg
*Joey Peters
*Kanji Oyama
*Sean Melton
Dmitri Belanovski
*Trevor Howard
*Jonathan Deaton
*Danny DiBenedetto
*Max Mayr
Akash Modi

Preview of Upcoming Level 10 (16-18) Battle at 2012 JO Nationals

competition home page

TimAlan sends a link to Ruby’s wildly exciting Bar routine from the recent meet in Ulm, Germany.

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Great way to get into Bhardwaj.

Ruby trains at The Academy in Portishead, UK.

Gymnasts from five nations won gold medals Sunday as competition concluded at the FIG Challenger Cup in Osijek, Croatia. …

Vault champion Ellie Black (Canada) took her second gold medal of the competition with the women’s floor exercise title. Black outscored Steingruber and Ontario’s Silvia Colussi-Pelaez, who represents her parents’ native Spain. …

IG – Canada’s Black Grabs Second Title in Osijek

BEAM:
1. Giulia Steingruber
2. Vasiliki Millousi
3. Jessica Diacci

WOMEN’S FLOOR:
1. Ellie Black
2. Giulia Steingruber
3. Silvia Colussi-Pelaez

MEN’S VAULT:
1. Enrique Tomas Gonzalez Sepulveda
2. Marek Lyszczarz
3. Ruslan Panteleymonov & Kristian Thomas

P BARS:
1. Daniel Corral
2. Mitja Petkovsek
3. Marius Berbecar

H BAR:
1. Vlasios Maras
2. Yann Cucherat
3. Andreas Bretschneider

Click PLAY or watch Ellie’s FX on YouTube.

Only 3 tumbling passes. Unique choreography. NOT boring.

A year ago most fans worldwide would not recognize the name Ellie Black. They know her now. 🙂

related – Gymnastics I Love – Ellie Black Attack

Read Blythe’s commentary – Ellie Black, Giulia Steingruber on top as Osijek World Cup ends

More ready than Russia, perhaps.

At their last competition in Ulm, Germany:

… Romania arrived with all of their top guns, including Larisa Iordache, who has consistently been staking her claim as a serious all-around medal threat for London these past weeks, and Olympic champions Catalina Ponor and Sandra Izbasa. Izbasa warmed up with the team but then withdrew citing an injury to her left foot. …

Iordache zipped through four strong routines for an all-around total of 59.750. She left out the double-double on floor but posted a massive 6.8 D score on beam for a routine that included a ff-full, a double turn and a triple twist dismount. The number of skills she manages to confidently cram into ninety seconds is astonishing even if it leaves no room for choreography. …

TAA – Romania Dominates, Jarosch in Doubt for Europeans (results, videos)

Click PLAY or watch Larisa’s Beam on YouTube.

Chris was at the meet for Couch Gymnast – ROU-GER-GBR Meet Report

related – American Gymnast – Diana Bulimar…The Overlooked Romanian

In that post, Andy Thornton likes Raluca Haidu as Romania’s potential Bar specialist, if that’s not an oxymoron.