The All Around Gymnastics News:
French gymnast Coline Devillard (2000) training handspring-double front on vault.
Post by Hong MA Wang.
Kohei & Kenzo McKayla reaction
exercise to get on subway
NCAA Fantasy Gymnastics
Many of my friends have picked a team. Will be watching results closely each weekend.
I think you still have time to jump on board at CollegeFantasyGymnastics.com.
Nope. Emma tells me that sign-ups have ended. You’ll have to wait for next year on this site.
Click PLAY or see how it works on YouTube.
A former MIT gymnast put that one together. Check out her new blog supporting the software.
new FIG website
The International Gymnastics Federation is testing a new website at this page – fedintgym.com/site
Looks to me like a big improvement.
If you use Feedly, Flipboard or any other RSS reader, follow updates on that new page here — fedintgym.com/site/rss.xml
Worst Of Gymnastics 2013
WorldOfGymnastike put together a list including:
• Viktoria Komova’s health
• Elena Zamolodichkova’s heart attack
• ACL tears in competition
• Racial Remarks
• Marta Karolyi accusing Chinese gymnasts of being underage
See details and the rest of the list – The Worst Of Gymnastics In 2013
I’m always amazed when Bela or Marta weigh in on FIG “age cheating”, the both of them being coaches of perhaps the worst offending nation.
Even more audacious was the incident of the Agache-Szabo Impersonation in 1981. Yet another sorry story from the checkered past of Romanian Gymnastics.
Lavinia Agache competed as Ecaterina Szabo at an international meet in the USA in 1981. Interviews with people involved with the meet.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
related – Stoi’s profane 2013 worlds: The Bad
sport empowers young girls
A good message for 2014. 🙂
As part of Dove’s Unstoppable campaign, Canadian gold medallist Rosie MacLennan is encouraging young girls to pursue their passions.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Check out Dove’s social mission campaign – Unstoppable
Share on Facebook another interview with Rosie.
related – Rosie’s official website – Girls Unstoppable
best of Greg Roe Trampoline
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best of the web 2013
This tightly edited montage includes some of the best acrobatic clips of the year.
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Here’s the list of 187 videos used for this compilation.
wither Russia?
Rewriting Russian Gymnastics is easily the best English language blog covering Mother Russia. Over 2.3 million page views, so far.
This historic interview 4 months ago has been the single most read and linked post:
Alexander Alexandrov in his own words:
For year end, Queen Elisabeth updates the State of Russia in 2013. An interesting read — What did Alexander Alexandrov actually say?
