The price of gold. Uncomfortable honesty.

A new exposΓ© from Romania. In Romanian.

Olaru is opening up about her life, her struggle at home, the suicide of the father, her mother’s struggle with alcohol and the hard training sessions which at times involved beatings. …

Maria Olaru is launching her new book this weekend

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#GymCdnChamps coverage

I’ll be LIVE on twitter @GymCoaching.

Follow @CDNGymnastics | #GymCdnChamps

On Facebook: 2016 Canadian Gymnastics Championships | Fans of Canadian Gymnastics | GymspiredmediaΒ |Β Gymnastics Canada Gymnastique

Schedule | LIVE stream | 2016GymnasticsChampionships.caΒ | at a glance

RESULTS (updated links)
http://www.sportzsoft.com/meet/meetWeb.dll/MeetResults?MeetId=63099402

Β  Β  Β  Β  Mobile LiveMeet:
http://www.sportzsoft.com/LiveMeet/LiveMeet.dll/Start?Id=411

$1 of every ticket sold will be donated to Red Cross supporting Fort McMurray.

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Nikita’s gold medal Floor 15.566 Floor

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. Nice style. Unusual hurdle for roundoff.

(via papaliukin)

day in the life of Olympian Courtney McGregor

Christchurch gymnast Courtney McGregor will join the New Zealand Olympic team for Rio, alongside fellow gymnast Misha Koudinov and trampolinist Dylan Schmidt.

They are New Zealand’s first Olympic gymnasts since Sydney 2000 and the largest contingent since three gymnasts went to the Tokyo Games in 1964. …

Stuff

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She’ll be competing for Boise after Rio.

Douglas Family Gold – review

GymCastic will be reviewing the new reality TV series. The overwhelming response is that viewers will be pleasantly impressed.

Douglas Family GoldΒ (season one, episode one)Β Jessica,Spencer and SpannyΒ recap the episode.

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Fans of Canadian Gymnastics

Just in time for the 2016 Canadian Championships, we’re announcing a new public Facebook page called Fans of Canadian Gymnastics.

Since it’s a public group many young gymnasts will be checking it out. Therefore we ask you keep the comments and posts family friendly. πŸ™‚

“Don’t say anything in this group that you wouldn’t say to the gymnast, their families or coaches”

Here are the guidelines.

New Quad, New Rules

Justine Kelly on FloGymnastics put together a series of posts on changes in the 2017-2020 Code of Points:

β€’ 2017-2020 Code of Points – Part 1

β€’ 2017-2020 Code of Points – Vault & Bars

β€’  2017-2020 Code – Beam & Floor

Beam should have more variety next cycle as many skills have been raised in difficulty.

Don’t count on all those changes surviving, however. A new President is coming in. I’ll be surprised if this is the final draft.

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Kristian Thomas on Zika

Olympic bronze medallist gymnast Kristian Thomas told BBC Sport: “We were over there in February for a training camp and we followed all the advice from the doctors, the BOA (British Olympic Association) and British Gymnastics and we were all fine.

“I think we’ve just got to make sure we’re on top of this and following the guidelines, make sure we’re protecting ourselves and each other …”

Rio Olympics 2016: Djokovic says cancellation unthinkable

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I was in Rio for 17 days in April and saw only 3 mosquitos. There will be fewer during the Olympics.

The risk of Zika infection is far lower than the risk of getting into a motor vehicle accident on the way to the Olympic venue.