Newfoundland. Understand.

My friends at Campia Gymnastics are thrilled.

The provincial government, the City of Mount Pearl and Campia Gymnastics are contributing toward a $1.8 million fund for the construction of a new gymnastics facility in Mount Pearl. …

The new facility is being funded through $1 million cost-shared, with the provincial government providing 70 per cent and the City of Mount Pearl covering 30 per cent. Campia Gymnastics is providing the remaining funds.

Construction on the new facility is expected to get underway in the next year, and should be completed by 2015. …

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Campia

TV news report. (VIDEO)

Peng Peng out with ACL

ChristineWhat you go through in life just makes you that much stronger. Going for my 2nd ACL reconstructive surgery tomorrow. Sucks to be out for another season but I’m on the road to being 100%

Christine Lee on Facebook.

😦

It’s the same knee. Because it had not healed correctly enough, the same ACL and patella tendon are under repair.

Céline van Gerner (NED)

@THWTS:

Céline van Gerner talks about injuries, the lawsuit and her route to her 12th place in London …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

FIG YouTube channel

thanksDuring the 44th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Antwerp (BEL), the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has surpassed 20 million views on its YouTube channel, a figure that is rising rapidly on a daily basis. On 30 September alone, the channel attracted 233,844 viewers, their interest sparked largely by the extraordinary Floor routine performed by Japan’s Kenzo Shirai in Antwerp.

As spectacular as these figures are, they do need to be put into some context. While 20 million views is considerably higher than the numbers achieved by the federations of many other Olympic sports, it still represents less than half of the level generated by USA Gymnastics (55 million!). …

Gymnastics on YouTube

Both organizations are doing an excellent job of online video. As is GBR.

56.6% of NCAA athletes are male

Multi-sport.

• more than 463,000 student-athletes in NCAA 2012-13

• 9 women’s teams for every 8 men’s teams

• Lacrosse the fastest-growing sport in 2012-13

• There are more women’s basketball teams (1,090) than teams in any other women’s sport, but outdoor track and field boasts the largest number of female student-athletes with 27,127.

NCAA – Participation rates continue to rise

College 10
via NCAA Men’s Gymnastics on Facebook

worst Gymnastics books ever?

Dvora Meyers of Unorthodox Gymnastics is researching that topic.

She send me a link to (genius) David Foster Wallace’s take on ““breathtakingly insipid” sports-star-with-somebody autobiographies.

Hey

Turns out there’s a book titled …

worst gymnast

That one looks pretty good. 🙂