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 …
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.
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”. …
… 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. …
… 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. …
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
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. …
… 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. …
… Days after a judge ruled she should still be in contention for the Olympics, Céline van Gerner was back in competition on two events. Van Gerner notched the top mark on uneven bars, 14.900, and scored 12.900 on beam. …
On Monday, a Dutch judge ruled in favor of van Gerner, who filed a lawsuit stating the Dutch federation’s selection of Wyomi Masela for the team’s sole Olympic berth was premature. The judge ruled that the federation should wait to decide until after the European championships in May and Ghent Challenger Cup in June. The ruling was the same in the case brought earlier by Jeffrey Wammes, who successfully sued the federation after it named Epke Zonderland as its representative for London. …
… Masela, meanwhile, averaged 14.275 on vault (14.550 for double-twisting Yurchenko and 14.000 for Podkopayeva) and scored 13.650 on floor exercise in Waalwijk. Masela, third on vault at the Olympic test event, said she was happy with her performance Saturday. …
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