Birmingham bested bids from Lima (PER) and Ufa (RUS) to win the right to host the 2021 World Games, a huge multisport event known somewhat colloquially as the “Olympic Games for non-Olympic disciplines.”
Gymnastics events contested at the World Games include Synchronised Trampoline, Tumbling, Double-mini Trampoline, Acrobatic Gymnastics, Aerobic Gymnastics and Rhythmic Gymnastics individual event finals. …
The 10th edition of the World Games will be held in Wroclaw (POL) in August, 2017.
He found that Spring Boards vary greatly. That the best place on the Board to jump for each gymnast, for each vault, is often NOT the place on the Board coaches expect.
That’s a very interesting finding. It’s well worth clicking through.
His article includes a screen grab from a video of Sang Lan’s vault from the 1998 Goodwill Games NYC. The one where she was paralyzed. 😦
I’d always heard that no video of that vault existed. It does.
Here’s one of the most insightful NCAA videos I’ve seen so far this year. A real look into what it’s like to travel and compete against the National co-Champions.
Auburn (1-1, 0-1) scored a season-high 195.650 at … Florida last week, led by all-around title winner Caitlin Atkinson’s total of 39.500 and won beam with a 9.925.
“It was a painful procedure,” Glover recalls. “They had to literally crack open my ribs to get to my heart. They went in and removed as much of the aneurysm as they could. They couldn’t remove all of it, so I still have it and do yearly checkups to monitor it.”
The surgery was successful and she spent the entire summer of 2013 recovering from the procedure. It was a difficult time for Glover, as she had to stay indoors and not partake in any gymnastics activity during the recovery process. …
She resumed competing on the bars in the final five meets of the 2014 season. The highlight of her return came on March 1, as she posted a career-best score of 9.85 on the bars at Georgia.
She has continued to further recover from her open-heart surgery, as she has had no setbacks since returning to action in 2014. …
That Daily Mail article is exhaustive. And exhausting. See how many errors you can spot. 🙂
Shannon:
“I’m thankful that the brave men and women of the Ottawa police department and other law enforcement agencies were able to apprehend him and (defuse) the situation without incident,” Miller said in a statement released by her manager, Nick Furris.
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