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The ECh MAG & WAG 2017 are attributed to the city of Bucharest, in Roumania !
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Bucharest hosted the 1st WAG Europeans in 1957:

1. Larisa Latynina (URS)
2. Elena Leusteanu (ROU)
3. Sonia Iovan (ROU)

The 1st MAG Europeans was held in Frankfort 1955.

via Nico

The European Union of Gymnastics (UEG) supports their own President since 2010, Georges Guelzec from France.

The election will be held October 2016 in Tokyo. No doubt a number of other candidates will come forward before then.

via Nico on GymFever2012

The Korea Times has a good piece on Tabitha’s transition to coaching at her alma mater.

The most decorated gymnast in Stanford history finds peace in coaching

Tabitha Yim was 7th AA at the 2001 World Championships.

NCAA Floor rewards entertainment value. Watch the Kentucky girls break up in the one corner.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Sadly, YouTube doesn’t give much indication of how crowd pleasing it is. I’ll have to see it LIVE.

Very clean.

via GymFever2012

You’d expect the gigantic Unilever corporation to be an evil empire, profiting from making women feel unhappy about their looks.

But some of their Dove brand promotions do just the opposite. 🙂

Dove launched “Love Your Curls” after conducting a survey of 859 women in the U.S., U.K. and Brazil in September 2014. Only 10 percent of women respondents in the U.S. said they “feel proud” of their curly hair, and only four in 10 American girls with curly hair reported thinking that their hair was beautiful.

This campaign is the latest Dove video that aims to help women and girls feel more confident about their appearances, while simultaneously promoting Dove as a brand. …

Dove’s ‘Love Your Curls’ Campaign Celebrates Girls’ Curly Hair

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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Click PLAY or watch frizzy Danusia Francis on YouTube.

NAIGC National Association of Intercollegiate Gymnastics Clubs linked to this fun edit featuring Purdue gymnasts. 🙂

I particularly like the reverse motion at the end.

Click the image to PLAY on Big10s.

Some of the highlights.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (26min)