Yao Jinnan – shoulder surgery?

GymFever2012 has been discussing rumours that our World Bar Champion Yao Jinnan (Yao Ziyi) is scheduled for shoulder surgery in the States.

Leave a comment if you’ve seen any official statement from China on this.

Oklahoma goes 197.850

The Sooners will be ranked #1 by next week.

Alabama 197.4 – Florida 196.8. Upset.

Auburn 197.025 – Arkansas 196.250. Congratulations. 🙂

LSU 197.350 – Missouri 192.725

Utah 196.725 – UCLA 194.725. Condolences to the Bruins. 😦

Balance Beam Situation is trying to LIVE blog all the Friday night meets.

Click PLAY or watch Oklahoma highlights on Sooner Sports.

http://www.soonersports.com/mediaPortal/embed.swf

I’m not sure Brenna’s Bars were a 10. Until she nailed that full twisting double layout.

McKayla Maroney baseball card

Do you collect Topps baseball cards?

A 15-card “First Pitch” subset of ceremonial first pitches is part of the card series this year.

Maroney, part of the 2012 U.S. Olympic champion women’s gymnastics team, threw an acrobatic first pitch at a Chicago White Sox game on Aug. 1, ahead of the Secret U.S. Classic …

Maroney baseball

Olympic Talk

Those cards will be available Feb 6th.

Danny Davis wins Snowboard Superpipe

Incredibly talented 16yr-old Olympic bronze medalist Taku Hiraoka 2nd.

Olympic champion Iouri Podladtchikov was 3rd.

Shaun White 4th.

Click PLAY or watch it on ESPN.

http://player.espn.com/player.js?playerBrandingId=4ef8000cbaf34c1687a7d9a26fe0e89e&adSetCode=91cDU6NuXTGKz3OdjOxFdAgJVtQcKJnI&pcode=1kNG061cgaoolOncv54OAO1ceO-I&width=576&height=324&externalId=espn:12214833&thruParam_espn-ui%5BautoPlay%5D=false&thruParam_espn-ui%5BplayRelatedExternally%5D=true

Birmingham World Games 2021 promo

The south-eastern United States city was this week selected to stage the Games – ahead of Lima, Peru and Ufa, Russia – by the International World Games Association (IWGA) Executive Board following presentations at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters in Lausanne. …

Interviewed face-to-face in a Lausanne hotel before the climactic final day of the contest, David Benck, one of the bid team’s co-chairs, said: “We are 100 per cent built today”.

… 4,500 athletes and 1,000 media representatives for the event which features a selection of around 25 sports …

Any surplus revenues from hosting are said to have been earmarked for local and Alabama state charities.

Birmingham “100 per cent built” for World Games, says bid leader

Click PLAY or watch a cool Games promo on Vimeo. 🙂

Gymnastics events include Synchronised Trampoline, Tumbling, Double-mini Trampoline, Acrobatic Gymnastics, Aerobic Gymnastics and Rhythmic Gymnastics individual event finals.

related – Emily Smith and Jon Schwaiger, two Canadian Trampoline sports competitors from the Cali Games, are in Mexico. Getting married. Congratulations. 🙂

Jon Emily

(via FIG)