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Gym Dynasty, the College recruiting site, linked to some of the top routines this season.

Includes defending Champ, Kat Ding of Georgia.

And Nicole Pechanec of Stanford:

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See the rest – Top 5 College Bar routines

Could YOU be an FIG judge?

Here’s the test. How many twists in this Vault?

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If you guessed 2 1/2, you matched the FIG judges in Seattle.

Gabrielle Douglas VAULT:
Diff: 6.500
Exec: 7.750
ND: -0.300
Final: 13.950

full results AA (PDF)

Is anyone actually supervising judges in 2012?

Please forward this link to Nellie Kim, President of the Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Technical Committee.

She knows all about suspending judges who make ‘mistakes‘. She was once suspended herself.

… Alicia Sacramone, Jonathon Horton, Rebecca Bross, Jordyn Wieber, Nastia Liukin, Shawn Johnson.

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Google+ (pronounced and sometimes written as Google Plus, sometimes abbreviated as G+) is a social networking and identity service …

It’s something of a Facebook alternative. From just about anywhere in the Googleverse you can click G+ 1 to link, including posts on this site.

The past few Google efforts at social networking have failed. But I think this one will survive.

FIG communications depart is hip. They are now on the new service.

I’ve added FIG on Google+ to my Gymnastics Circle.

… a montage with the best parts of the routines on the still rings …

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via Ajit Jarande

Looks that way right now.

Good AA. Reasonable Pommel and Rings, the weakest apparatus for team USA.

Click PLAY or watch his POMMELS on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch his RINGS on YouTube.

Ron Noe:

… I would say the past few weeks have been pretty good for Mr. Brooks. His performances at American Cup and PacRim have demonstrated that he is healthy and getting a lot closer to his Olympic dream. Brooks’ improving skills on PH and SR are making people take notice. …

Stick It Media

Ono and Clinton are not completely convinced that those routines are strong enough for top 3. Certainly the scores are too high, relative to what they would have scored at Worlds.

On the other hand, consistency over a long series of pressure situations may end up deciding the Team. I like his chances.

If you had Leyva, Orozco and Brooks … who else do you need to have 3 strong routines on each apparatus?

Many people have asked me, “What Ever Happened To Charlotte Mackie?!”

Triple Twist Gym Blog:

… 5th All Around at the 2007 Pan American Games and 4th All Around at the 2008 Pacific Rim. She also represented Canada at both the 2009 and 2010 World Championships.

Despite placing 3rd All Around at the 2010 Elite Canada meet, Charlotte injured herself on her last event and has been out ever since. We caught up with Charlotte to talk about her recovery process and her plans for the future. …

What Ever Happened To Charlotte Mackie?!

Charlotte’s not confirming that she’ll get back to gymnastics nor is she currently looking at NCAA. Her sister Gael was a big star at Utah, recall.

Vault
1. Wakiko Ryu, Japan, 14.062
2. Hiu Ying Angel Wong, Hong Kong, China, 13.875
3. Risa Konishi, Japan, 13.587

Uneven Bars
1. Gabrielle Douglas, Virginia Beach, Va., 15.150
2. Kyla Ross, Aliso Viejo, Calif., 15.050
3. Peiru Luo, China, 14.700

Balance Beam
1. Kyla Ross, Aliso Viejo, Calif., 15.375
2. Christine Lee, Canada, 15.300
3. Sixin Tan, China, 15.050

Floor Exercise
1. Jordyn Wieber, DeWitt, Mich., 15.125
2. Christine Lee, Canada, 14.575
3. Kyla Ross, Aliso Viejo, Calif., 14.375

Tan Sixin

2012 Kellogg’s Pacific Rim Championships – Senior Event Finals

Floor Exercise
1. Jake Dalton, Reno, Nev., 15.375
2. Tatsuki Nakashima, Japan, 15.075
3. Ran Cheng, China, 14.575

Pommel Horse
1. Rongbing Liu, China, 14.825
2. Chris Brooks, Houston, Texas, 14.700
3. Sam Mikulak, Ann Arbor, Mich., 14.375

Still Rings
1. Chris Brooks, Houston, Texas, 15.075
2. Takuya Nakase, Japan, 14.950
3. Joshua Jefferis, Australia, 14.825

Vault
1. Wai Hung Shek, Hong Kong, China, 15.687
2. Sam Mikulak, Ann Arbor, Mich., 15.562
3. Scott Morgan, Canada, 15.512

Parallel Bars
1. Jorge Giraldo, Colombia, 15.150
2. Ran Cheng, China, 14.850
3. Sam Mikulak, Ann Arbor, Mich., 14.625

Horizontal Bar
1. Chris Brooks, Houston, Texas, 15.450
2. Sam Mikulak, Ann Arbor, Mich., 15.175
3. Rongbing Liu, China, 14.850

19 March 2012 – by Regional Qualifying Average

1. Florida
2. Oklahoma
3. Alabama
4. UCLA
5. Georgia
6. Nebraska
7. Utah
8. L.S.U.
– Oregon State
10. Arkansas
11. Stanford
12. Penn State

see the full list on GymInfo

Florida had their fourth-highest score in school history on Friday night. Riding high into the post-season.