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1998 World Tumbling Championships – Twisting Final – Chen Bo (CHN) & Alexei Kryzhanovski (RUS)

Which of these super passes do you like better?

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Linked by Brett MacAulay on Facebook.

Cottbus – Pommel Horse final results

1. Xiao Xiao (CHN) 15.925 (6.600)
2. Daniel Keatings (GBR) 15.775 (6.700)
3. Max Whitlock (GBR) 15.525 (6.600)

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GBR could win Pommels at the Olympics.

Brigid Couch Gymnast McCarthy on Facebook linked to a couple of interesting Beam training videos of the Canadian Gabriella Douglas:

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When Gabby Douglas went looking for a new gym in 2010, I’d heard money was a factor. The article linked below talks $20,000.

Gabby’s Mom says her daughter had been on a club “scholarship” with Excalibur. But that doesn’t seem to be documented anywhere.

Certainly the coaching at Excalibur is excellent. … It had to be something more than that.

… suggestions of subpar coaching sting Dena Walker, who opened Excalibur with her husband, Jim, in 1998, and Gustavo Moure, a pioneer in private gymnastics in his native Argentina.

“This is as professional as it gets,” Walker said of her gym.

Hawkins had moved her daughter to Excalibur at age 8 from another local gym.

As Douglas advanced, Walker and Moure shared the work, as they do with other top athletes – Walker focusing on floor exercise and balance beam, Moure on vault and uneven bars.

Under their watch, they say, Douglas developed skills she’s wowing judges with now, including the daunting, 2-1/2-twisting Amanar vault. Chow, in an interview, credited Walker in particular “for bringing (Douglas) up to this level. We just kept building the newer skills.”

Insiders know what’s what, said Sandy Stageberg, mother of an Excalibur gymnast, Randy Stageberg, who reached the ’08 Olympic Trials. …

read more on a Virgina news site – For gymnast with local ties, it’s Olympic dreams and hard feelings

Click PLAY or watch one of her American Cup Bar routines on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/OTc0NjE1MTAy?related=1

Watch more video of 2012 American Cup on gymnastike.org

She’s a super talent. Both Excalibur & Chows should get heaps of credit for developing one of the best gymnasts in the world.

USA Gymnastics should try to do more to acknowledge the “developing” coaches of their National Team members.

An Examiner post got me angry about Zou Kai. Again.

Watch this winning routine from Doha. Our over-rated Olympic Champion.

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Good. Not great. It shouldn’t be rated the most difficult routine in the world. It’s not. Our current rules do not work.

Here’s Fabian Hambuchen — truly one of the top Horizontal Bar guys in the world — training similar connections.

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Does the new Code devalue Rybalko? That would solve most of the problem.

(via gymnastikfabriken)

August 2012.

• three 1hr shows / day for tourists
• all expenses paid plus about $600 / month
• work visa
• insurance
• airfare

If you’ve been looking for an excuse to get to Taiwan. Here’s your chance.

I don’t know much more about the opportunity. Email Kuan Tsai for details: kuantsai@yahoo.com

Things are really looking up for Team Romania.

BEAM
Catalina Ponor 6.5 / 8.8 15.300
Ashleigh Brennan 6.1 / 8.225 14.325
Marta Pihan – Kulesza 6.0/ 7.9 13.900

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FLOOR
Catalina Ponor 6.2 / 9.075 15.275
Diana Bulimar 5.8 / 8.925 14.725
Jiang Yuyuan 5.4 / 8.6 14.000

VAULT
Wei Du 16.012
Artur Davytan 15.725
Marek Lyszczarz 15.550

P BAR
Guo Weiyang 15.275
Yann Cucherat 15.200
Claudio Capelli 14.900

H BAR
Zou Kai
Yann Cucherat
Guo Weiyang

Full Twist – Results & Videos: Doha World Cup Event Finals Day 2

2000/2004 Olympic vault champ Gervasio Deferr does an underwear commercial

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The Gymnastics Examiner via Janssen Fritsen on Facebook.

Funny.

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Thanks Eileen.

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