Arkansas 196.325, Albama 196.175

Head Coach Mark Cook:

“Anytime you can beat Alabama it makes you happy. It’s only the third time we’ve beat them in our program’s history …

On The Comeback

“I told them to go out on the last event and have some fun with it. I told them to flush what just happened in the previous event and go out and show people how good you are. Take it one pass at a time and show it off. Alabama had an unusual final rotation with three falls. …

Razorbacks

Razorback of the Meet – Sophomore Amanda Wellick:

• Captured her second-straight all-around title with a 39.475
• Won her first career vault title with a 9.950
• Won her first career floor exercise title with a 9.950
• Posted a career-high score in the vault, floor exercise and all-around.

Click PLAY or watch Amanda’s vault on YouTube.

related – USAG – Collegiate Gymnastics Weekly Recap – Jan. 12-18

Oklahoma and Florida #1

T1 Oklahoma 197.063
T1 Florida 197.063

3 LSU 196.863

T4 Michigan 196.788
T4 Utah 196.788

6 Nebraska 196.213
7 Alabama 196.200
8 UCLA 196.000
9 Oregon State 195.713
10 Georgia 195.700
11 Illinois-Champaign 195.675
12 Arkansas 195.613

Road to Nationals

Utah’s Georgia Dabritz is ranked #1 in the AA, so far, ahead of Sam Peszek.

Utah gymnastics: Dabritz wins all-around with big beam effort.

Post by Utah Gymnastics.

People are worried about Georgia. DENVER GYMNASTICS UPSETS NO. 10 GEORGIA GYMDOGS.

related – Oklahoma, Penn State & Stanford Dominate 1st Full Weekend of Men’s College Gymnastics

Katie Bailey – Bar dismount

Katie competes for Alabama. She trained at High Point Gymnastics.

who’s watching Apprentice?

Not me.

Shawn Johnson was FIRED by the Donald.

Ludmilla Tourischeva documentary

MissLyra has translated another classic Soviet Gymnastics documentary.

This is a documentary about Soviet gymnast Ludmilla Tourischeva with English subtitles.

It was filmed in the summer of 1974 before and during the World Championships and shows the national team preparing for them. It also includes a lot of scenes with Tourischeva’s legendary coach Vladislav Rastorotsky and some clips and a very short interview with a young Natalia Shaposhnikova.

The translation of the poem at the end by Aleksandr Blok was taken from the internet. …

Rastorotsky was harsh, be warned. I saw him in Canada with Shaposhnikova once. He was even more severe in person.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (50min)

See her Olga Korbut and Elena Mukhina documentary translations.

Thanks Kevin.