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Matthew Sparks, Head Coach of Cirque du Soleil La Nouba, has former Russian gymnast Marina Goriounova in his troupe.

Marina found herself in the Soviet training video I linked to recently.

It reminded her of a Certificate she had received nearly 30yrs ago reading:

Awarded: Marina Goriounova

For the first Double Layout with 360 Twist Dismount performed from the Uneven Bars in Competition.

At the All Union Men’s and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Presented by the Physical Committee for Culture and Sport for the USSR. November 22, 1986.

Click PLAY or watch a interview with Larry King on YouTube. At the 1990 Goodwill Games in Seattle.

Since #6.506 “Swing fwd to double salto bwd stretched with 1/1 turn (360°) in first or second salto” has no name, let’s call it the Goriounova.

Training day before Regionals. Miss Val on … Bars.

[6] Michigan (bars)
[7] UCLA (bye before bars)
[18] Arizona (beam)
Central Michigan (bye before floor)
Kentucky (vault)
Ohio State (floor)

I talked to Kate Richardson today at Calgary Gymnastics Centre. She’s cheering her Bruins, of course.

… Michigan has been the most reliable and consistent team in the NCAA this year and has the distinct honor of being the only team to have scored a 49 on beam in every single meet. …

… Michigan’s low this season is a 196.600, and that score is almost always good enough to make it out of regionals. I expect a solid 197. …

… it’s going to be Michigan’s solidity against UCLA’s star power. UCLA has more potential 9.950s. If we take the season as a whole, UCLA has recorded 26 9.950s to Michigan’s 15, and the two teams that have competed in the same number of meets and recorded nearly the same RQS. …

BBS – Columbus Regional Preview

It’s easier now to have a new element named. It can happen at any competition judged by one of the FIG MTC.

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Obviously catching the same skill in cross grip should be in the same box in the Code. Hopefully MTC will fix this problem in the next revision.

(via Learn Gymnastics Code)

Louis Smith on the team. Again.

Claudia Fragapane
Amy Tinkler
Becky Downie
Ellie Downie

Max Whitlock
Daniel Purvis
Kristian Thomas
Courtney Tulloch
Louis Smith
Sam Oldham

(via Full Twist – Euros 2015: Great Britain announce delegation)

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… Courville won back-to-back vault national championships and five SEC individual titles. She helped LSU finish in third place at the Super Six Championships in 2014, the highest finish in program history.

Despite achieving the best finish in school history, Courville was bitter after failing to win the national championship and set out to make her senior season count.

During her senior season, Courville led LSU to a 13-1 regular season record and its first undefeated season in SEC competition while battling through various ailments. She was held out of the final two rotations during LSU’s victory against Alabama with flu-like symptoms, and a hip flexor injury restricted her to two events during LSU’s victory against Minnesota and kept her out of the final regular season meet againt Centenary and New Hampshire. …

LSU gymnast Courville takes Tigers to new heights throughout four-year career

Note that Carly Patterson was a next door neighbour. D-D explains that Carly was an Olympic Champion – but didn’t compete NCAA. 🙂

This is the year. LSU needs to win while Rheagan is still here. Happily, LSU DONT GET TIRED.

LSU (bars)
Nebraska (bye before bars)
Denver (beam)
Washington (bye before floor)
Michigan State (vault)
Iowa State (floor)

Men’s football and men’s basketball are the glamour American Collegiate sports.

What about the rest of the NCAA?

U.S. Olympic Committee CEO Scott Blackmun:

Next week, the NCAA men’s gymnastics championships will be held in Norman, Okla. Last week, the men’s swimming national championship was held in Iowa City. The week before that, the wrestling national championship was contested in St. Louis. All those sports have been impacted by changing times in college athletics – and the future is even more challenging. …

Since the early 1980s, … college men’s gymnastics programs have been cut by 75 percent. Wrestling has been cut by half. About 50 schools have dropped their men’s swimming programs. …

… men’s gymnastics isn’t the only one in trouble. Within the last few months, Chattanooga dropped its men’s track program and College of Charleston shut down its swimming programs – men’s and women’s. Bigger schools have gone before them – Washington, it’s worth noting, dropped men’s and women’s swimming when the school president was Mark Emmert, now the head of the NCAA. …

U.S. Olympic Committee ‘candidly concerned’ non-revenue college sports will be cut

(via Dave Durante)

At Jesolo the most important team is not Italy, but rather USA. It’s only a high profile competition because Marta likes to take as many National Team members as are ready to Italy early in the season. The Americans compete so rarely internationally, going to Jesolo is the best chance to compete against them outside Worlds.

How did the host nation do?

Valeria Violi:

The senior team placed in second with a score of 224.350 even without the help of their veteran leader Vanessa Ferrari, out due to the mononucleosis she suffered in the previous months, and Lara Mori, whose fibula fracture might keep her out of competition for quite a long time.

Gymternet – Italians in Jesolo

Nice el-grip work.

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Regionals are tomorrow, Saturday, at Cal Berkeley.

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