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Whenever Elisabeth Seitz competes Bars, I’m keen to watch. She hit her HUGE DIFFICULT routine at home to win the apparatus Final.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. 6,5 8,325 14,825

Yes, it’s muscled. There are form breaks. But that’s one hard routine. 🙂

He Kexin had a 15.225 in qualifying. But fell in the Final on layout Jaeger. 😦

Check Full Twist – Videos & Results: Cottbus Cup Event Finals Day 1

Videos linked include Philipp Boy winning Floor. And Brittany Rogers winning Vault.

With the elimination of both the Paris and Tokyo World Cups this season, the annual Cottbus tournament has taken on added importance as athletes get ready for this summer’s Olympic Games.

Not only was the start list packed with European favorites and on-the-bubble Olympic team hopefuls, of the 10 disciplines in men’s and women’s gymnastics, the top qualifiers hail from 10 different countries.

Examiner – Notes from Cottbus

I read Balance Beam Situation – Live Blog – Conference Championships:

SEC Final Scores:
1. Florida – 197.150
2. Alabama – 196.775
3. Georgia – 196.475
4. LSU – 196.425
5. Kentucky – 194.350
6. Arkansas – 194.175
7. Auburn – 194.100

Individual winners: VT: Hunter, UB: Johnson, BB: Pisani, FX: Hall, AA: Hunter

With that, Florida clinched the #1 team rank for the season. Congratulations.

Disaster for Auburn. Georgia lucky to hold off LSU for 3rd. Shayla missed Bars, again.

via @UFCoachRhonda

Coach of the Year a tie between Auburn’s Jeff Graba and Florida’s Rhonda Faehn.

SEC Freshman Gymnast of the Year: Kytra Hunter

SEC Gymnast of the Year: Jamie Pisani

Finals at Russian Championships.

Beam – 1 Afanasyeva; 2 Grishina; 3 Goryunova
Floor – 1 Grishina; 2 Afanasyeva; 3 Belokobylskaya

Mustafina did not compete Floor. And had a fall on Beam.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Read Blythe’s opinion of the new routine.

I like it. But her round-off looks weak. … And, do we really need to see top international gymnasts competing both double tuck and double pike? It’s repetitive.

Thanks Alan.

2012 NCGA Div. III Women’s Gymnastics Championships; March 23; Brockport, N.Y.

tie 1) Brockport – 188.05
tie 1) Wisconsin-Whitewater – 188.05
3) Wisconsin-La Crosse – 187.20
4) Cortland – 185.55
5) Wisconsin-Eau Claire – 183.70
6) Ithaca – 182.65

results

Elizabeth Levy from host Brockport took the AA (37.650)
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Apparatus Finals coming up next. 🙂

Kazukuni Ohno on Facebook:

Today she did perfect floor routine.double layout.double double.front full doublefull.triple full.

Watch some training video of the Japanese supertalent via Couch Gymnast.

She’s been called the next women’s gymnastics superstar … since 2009. 🙂

Hopefully we’ll see her in London. She sounds to be completely recovered from elbow surgery.

Results via THE ALL AROUND:

… In today’s finals, Ksenia Afanasyeva continued showing the brilliant shape and confidence she has shown all week on beam, taking the title there, but a fall after the triple twist put her in the second place on floor.

Anastasiya Grishina once again hit her new floor routine to take the gold there, although she had (again) problems on beam. …

Afanasyeva, Grishina win at Russian Championships EF Day 1

Click PLAY or watch the Beam Gold on YouTube.

Rewriting Russian Gymnastics has Grishina’s Floor and links to other videos.

Rodionenko : Mustafina is in optimal form, but not at her maximum

It’s here. All scheduled for today.

Big 12 Norman, Okla.
Big Ten Iowa City, Iowa
Eastern Conference Athletic Conference Philadelphia
Mid-American Dekalb, Ill.
Pac-12 Salt Lake City
SEC Duluth, Ga.

Conference Championship Central

College Gym Fans has links for video, audio and RESULTS.

SEC is always the strongest Regional.

Balance Beam Situation:

… We have a great contest shaping up between Florida and Alabama, which I expect to be very close and will probably come down to a few tenths either way. …

Not to be totally overlooked, Georgia is also the “host” team, and it wouldn’t be inconceivable for them to challenge. …

SEC Championships Preview

Since Suzanne left Georgia, pretty much every year I predict Florida to win. And underestimate the Tide … who are coming into this one healthy and with momentum.

Click PLAY or watch an Alabama season recap on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/OTU4NjIyMjgy?related=1

Watch more video of 2012 Conference Championships Craze! on gymnastike.org

The Balance Beam Situation:

This year, the Pac-12 will be our guinea pig conference (along with the Big 10) for the eight-team, two-session championship format. I’m very much in favor of this format because it gets rid of those insufferable byes …

As for the AA, I’d like to see it go to either Zamarripa or Mak, both of whom are certainly capable of it, but the safer and more realistic choices are probably Peszek and Lothrop, who can 9.875 the meet all the way to a 49.500-49.550.

Pac-12 Championships Preview

In that preview BBS suggests UCLA should win IF they hit.

But if you’re putting money down, place a side bet for me on Utah. 14,000+ screaming fans at home, help.

Utes seek school’s first Pac-12 title

Manual on Handstands points out:

… Utah’s scores at home have been better than UCLA’s scores on the road. …

Leave a comment if you’ve got any strong predictions.

Pacific Rim.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

While many may have noticed Wong for the first time at this weekend’s Pacific Rim International, where she earned a silver on vault, Wong is now 24 years old and has already graduated in a degree in Fashion and Textiles. The graceful yet powerful gymnast has has already secured herself an Olympic berth for London and plans, with her career talents, to design her own leotard! …

What was your proudest moment and why?

Gaining the vault bronze at 2011 Universiades and qualifying for the Olympics!!! Really was a dream come true…a year ago, I never would’ve thought I’d make it! …

If you could change one rule in gymnastics, what would it be?

More bonus for original connections on beam/ floor..oh and bring back the touch warm up in event finals …

TCG Ten Questions: Angel Wong

Click PLAY or watch Vault 1 on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Vault 2 on YouTube.

In 2012 we still don’t have many female gymnasts training 2 Vaults for Finals. That surprises me.

THE ALL AROUND has the most detailed analysis on Cottbus:

In the battle for the Netherland’s Olympic nomination, Epke Zonderland made a statement by scoring 15.025/6.0 on parallel bars and 15.000/6.7 on high bar, thereby qualifying for both finals; his score also meant he had met the readiness mark set by the Dutch NOC. Meanwhile, challenger Jeffrey Wammes averaged 15.837 on vault to reach that final, but failed to do so on floor (14.025/6.1) or high bar (14.800/6.3).

… Greece’s Vasiliki Millousi continues to establish herself as a possible balance beam finalist in London, leading the field today with a 14.300/8.3. ..

Cottbus Challenge Cup: Qualifications Day 2