North Korean 2008 Olympic Vault Champion Hong Un Jong
… Jong decided to show her more difficult second vault in the final. Her Cheng is usually better than her Amanar, in my opinion, but she did not seem to get the necessary block and landed knees first. There was a long wait for her score but the judges decided her score was a zero as her feet did not hit the mat first.
Fadwa Mohamed went on to win Gold at African Championships in Finals. (VIDEO)
Obviously a 1.0 deduction for a “fall” does not nearly enough penalize those kind of landings. If not a zero vault, a very dangerous landing should be deducted something like 4.0.
Two more of the FIG Follow-up and Monitoring camps for the Age Group Development and Competition Programme were completed recently in different sides of the world. One was held in Nassau, Bahamas on April 22-24 and the other one in Hong Kong on April 23-25, 2014.
Educational camps for the FIG Age Group Development and Competition Programme continue in the coming two weeks with four additional Follow-up Camps scheduled for Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia.
Two days after completing an FIG Follow-up and Monitoring Camp for the Age Group Development and Competition Programme in Barbados, the two assigned FIG experts started a similar camp for Trinidad and Tobago on April 13 – 15, 2014. ..
The FIG Age Group programme includes a testing and monitoring programme for Men’s (MAG) and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics (WAG) physical abilities and technical skills as well as a complete competition programme with modified optional rules for age-group gymnasts and compulsory exercises for all ages. It also includes a variety of additional information related to developing a systematic gymnastics programme that can lead to high performance. …
Both camps were excellent. Caribbean nations have potential to quickly develop in gymnastics sports. As Panama has done.
Shout out to Trinidad for a best ever international performance shortly after we left:
Trinidad and Tobago gymnasts Marisa Dick and William Albert both earned podium finishes at the 2014 Commonwealth Gymnastics Invitational, which took place at the weekend in Perth, Scotland.
Albert, a 23-year-old based at the University of Iowa, won gold in the rings (13.900) while Dick picked up three medals – gold on the uneven bars (13.200), silver on the balance beam (13.300), bronze in the vault (14.050) and bronze in the all around competition (72.950).
The Invitational also served as a test event for the 2014 Commonwealth Games …
CONGRATULATIONS to all competitors who qualified. And good luck. 🙂
The 2014 Women’s Junior Olympic Level 9 Western Championships, scheduled for May 2-4, will be held at CenturyLink Arena in Boise, Idaho, and 388 gymnasts are expected to compete. …
2014 Women’s Junior Olympic Level 9 Eastern Championships is scheduled for May 2-4 at the Bradenton (Fla.) Area Convention Center, and 388 gymnasts are expected …
