@jaredgoad:
E-E beam combo by Canadian Olympic Hopeful Ellie Black
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Is it summer in Nova Scotia already? 🙂
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Anderson Loran wins Shewfelt
1 Anderson Loran 85.800 Team Canada
2 Joshua Jefferis 84.550 Gymnastics Australia
3 Thomas Pichler 83.350 Gymnastics Australia
OK. Team China wasn’t there due to a flight delay. But a win’s a win, right Anderson? 🙂
China will make it in time for BIG SHOW Finals Saturday night.
Cottbus Cup – day 2
Prelims.
BEAM
1. Millousi (GRE) – 14,300
2. Galuilina (UZB) – 13,950
3. Izurieta (ESP) – 13,925
FLOOR
1. Chelaru (ROU) – 14,025
2. Pegg (CAN) – 13,875
3. Menendez (ESP) – 13,525
VAULT
1. Botella (ESP) – 15,975
2. Gonzales (CHI) – 15,962
3. Kaspiarovich (BLR) – 15,925
P BARS
1. Sabot (FRA) – 15,600
2. Stepko (UKR) – 15,425
3. Nguyen (GER) – 15,400
H BAR
1. Ruggeri III (USA) – 15,725
2. Maras (GRE) – 15,200
3. Orozco (USA) – 15,175
4. Zonderland (NED) – 15,000
Epke Zonderland and Jeffrey Wammes are competing, both trying to prove they are the most deserving of the sole Olympic spot for Netherlands.
results (German)
better Russian Championships video
@theallaround:
Some high quality summary video from Russian Championships Team final yesterday …
Starts with Mustafina’s Bars.
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… bars routine starting from a value of 7, only the third woman of this Olympiad to achieve that (Beth Tweddle and He Kexin are the other two). …
… Aliya says that this was her first serious competition since coming back from injury. She managed to do everything she had planned, and all went well. She was not at all nervous. …
Rewriting Russian Gymnastics – Results, pictures and video links
Liz Chetkovich resigns WAIS
Executive Director of the Western Australian Institute of Sport
Steve Lawrence:
I write to advise that Liz Chetkovich has tendered her resignation from the position of WAIS Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Performance Manager. …
details on Australian Gymnastics Blog
After 24yrs, end of an era.
Survivalist’s Guide to Compulsories
A funny post by Diana Gallagher:
March is a tough month in my state. Here, the meets are stacked up and then peter out come April. But the championships are in May, June, and you have to stay strong. …
In the beginning of the season, it’s cute to watch the kids work their way through the compulsories. There’s drama: Will she make her kip? Will she forget the floor routine? Will she accidentally start doing the Level 4 instead of the Level 5 beam routine? Will she make it over the table, although she failed in every warm-up attempt? …
read more on Couch Gymnast
Chunsong Shang – Bars
Having attended Chinese Championships in 2011, I can confirm there are dozens of excellent Bar routines there. All using the same difficulty parts: elgrip giants, elgrip Endo, Jaeger … that’s about it.
Yet here’s a fantastically exciting and varied routine.
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Tweddlesque.
Unfortunately it includes the traditional Chinese poor amplitude low to high transfer.
(via American Gymnast)
Shewfelt: CHN v AUSSIE v CAN
The highlight session goes tonight at the University of Calgary. A friendly Sr. Team Invite.
CHINA
Bo Wang
Xiaodong Zhu
Xuezhang Chen
Yang Zhang
AUSTRALIA
Broday Jai Hennessey
Joshua Jefferis
Sam Offord
Thomas Pichler
CANADA
Anderson Loran
Jackson Payne
Kevin Lytwyn
Nathan Gafuik
Brandon O’Neill competing as an independent.
The women’s competition is well underway. Girls love this meet.
One of the many nice touches are tweet outs to individual athletes:
@ShewfeltGymFest Open Bars Champion from P3 Novice Emma Shewfelt of Mountain Shadows wins a new pair of grips! #ksgf2012
Jorge Giraldo – P Bars
Hunger Games
The film opens today where I live. Our older gymnasts are planning to go after workout. IF they can get tickets.
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