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The 2016 CANADA CUP starts today in Kamloops, B.C.
Nadia’s handstand
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2016 Trampoline Canada Cup
Kamloops BC will once again play host to the country’s best athletes as Canada’s Olympic selection for trampoline begins. The Tournament Capital Centre has hosted this event for the past two years alongside a Trampoline Provincial Cup and WAG invitational. International guests Brazil, China and USA have sent athletes as well. …
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Vote Simone Biles for the AAU Sullivan
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UCLA Seniors – They stole the show.
The Bruins may not win the team Championships 2016. But I’d say they had the best social media / public relations over this season.
Click PLAY or watch their Senior video on Facebook. A fantastic edit. 🙂
(via College Gymnastics Board)
new dates for Test Event
… the Aquece Rio Test Event represents the last chance for gymnasts to realise their Olympic dreams come August. In each of the three Olympic disciplines of Gymnastics, the last tickets for the Games are up for grabs. This second qualification round is not open to all, but only to a select number of nations and gymnasts based on their rankings from the 2015 World Championships.
At the request of the organisers, the competition dates were changed last month in order to reduce the length of the event. Artistic Gymnastics will therefore be held April 16-18, Trampoline on April 19 and Rhythmic Gymnastics April 21-22.
Canadian Teams to Pacific Rim
Everett, Washington State. April 8-10, 2016.
Megan Roberts, Toronto, ON – East York Gymnastics
Rose-Kaying Woo, Lasalle, QC – Gym-Richelieu
Shallon Olsen, Vancouver, BC – Omega Gymnastics
Meixi Semple, Oshawa, ON – Gemini Gymnastics
Kirsten Peterman, Cambridge, ON – Revolution Gymnastics
Brittany Rogers, New Westminster, BC – Calgary Gymnastics Centre
Aaron Mah, Vancouver, BC – Phoenix Gymnastics
Sam Zakutney, Ottawa, ON – Ottawa Gymnastics Centre
Damien Cachia, Calgary, AB – University of Calgary
Justin Karstadt, Toronto, ON – Futures Gymnastics
Samuel Paquin, Montréal, QC – Centre Père Sablon
Scott Nabata, Kamloops, BC – Kamloops Gymnastics Trampoline Centre
USAG – TICKETS AND EVENT INFORMATION
via Gymternet Clan
Alyssa DiFrancesco – Why I quit Penn State
My morals, values and mental health were a million times more important to me than seeing my name on the wall in the locker room
… I was practically raised by my Russian coaches and knew nothing but tough love and endless yelling. “Eat, sleep, breathe gymnastics” was what we used to say to make fun of ourselves but it was accurate. I couldn’t count the amount of unattended school activities because of practice, the long weekends spent in hotels for competitions and the quarter-sized rips on my hands. However, with all those hardships came the rewards and the gratitude of winning a competition or perfecting a new skill. It was the highs and adrenaline that kept me going – I loved it.
It’s very clear that sports are physically exhausting and injuries happen all the time – I’ve been aware of this since I was maybe seven. When I walked-on for the Penn State Women’s Gymnastics team, injuries became a whole different story. …
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Team USA arrived Calgary
Paul Ruggeri, Eddie Penev, Cameron Bock, Marvin Kimble and C.J. Maestas.
I’ll be there with video camera.
They’ll be competing against teams from China and Canada this weekend (along with a live stream). Canada will be using this competition to finalize the men’s team for the test event.
THE ARTIST – Ivana Hong
Ivana Hong can be defined by her grace, and her family for its courage
“How do you capture Ivana in words?” wondered Chris Swircek, Stanford’s women’s gymnastics associate head coach. “Her movement is so fluid and graceful, all the way down to her hands and her fingertips and the way she holds her head.
“It’s art, right?” …
Hong doesn’t compete to win, she said. She never has. She competes for perfection, or at least the pursuit of it.
Click PLAY or watch her Beam in Finals at Championships 2015 on YouTube.
Ivana’s Mom was one of the Vietnamese Boat People who fled the war as refugees.
Click through to read a fantastic profile on Go Stanford – The Artist
Thanks Cordelia.
