Afan fans have been sharing this montage.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
But Rewriting Russian Gymnastics is reporting:
Ksenia Afanasyeva is having an operation tomorrow … don’t know any more. Via her personal VK site
Get well soon, Ksenia.
Duo Resonance – America’s Got Talent
Make sure to tune in – and vote! – for Duo Resonance tonight on NBC’s America’s Got Talent at 9 pm ET.
Nina was a member of the U.S. Rhythmic group World team in 2002!
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Paul Ruggeri is ALIVE
After a bad fall from H Bar in podium training at Championships.
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Women’s Gymnastics medalists
August 27th, 2013 — ethics, Gymnastics, judging
Uncle Tim posted stats on medal winners since the open Code was introduced.
For example:
see more – 2006 and beyond: The Best WAG Gymnasts (link has been fixed)
Lauren Hernandez – twisting
A GymFever member notes that Lauren twists right on her double Arabian, left on everything else.
Quite unusual.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
I’m looking forward to Lauren competing Japan Junior. Lyons from GBR will be there. As well as many of the top Jr talents in the world.
related – Lauren Hopkins – 2013 P&G Championships: Junior Wrap-Up:
… Worth mentioning are the numerous injuries that knocked down a handful of junior athletes between training and competitions throughout the week. Alexandra Marks re-injured her ankle while dismounting bars during podium training, Ashley Foss dislocated her kneecap on the training day between prelims and finals, Emily Schild hit her head on the vault after balking on her Yurchenko during warm-ups on day two (though she decided to compete and hit an incredible floor routine later that day!), and Felicia Hano got a concussion after slipping off of the low bar at the start of her van Leeuwen during finals. …
Kosmidis – Floor training
Rod Floor. Triple double mount.
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https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=10200952149059460
possible 6.9 D-score
Lefteris Kosmidis is a guy not listed on Uncle Tim’s UTRS, who has a real chance to medal on Floor at Worlds 2013.
related – 10 Questions to…Lefteris Kosmidis (GRE)
via Couch Gymnast
Men’s Gymnastics medalists
Uncle Tim posted some stats on medal winners since the open Code was introduced.
For example:
see more – 2006 and beyond: Is the New Scoring System Selecting the Best Male Gymnasts?
Tony Retrosi – hip replacement
Click PLAY or watch a TV testimonial on YouTube.
If you’ve been to any of Tony’s recent camps or clinics, you know his surgeons are top notch.
NCAA Road To Nationals
Coaches Jason Fredericks and his wife (former national team member) Mary Beth Arnold have been quietly working on a massive new NCAA Gymnastics site.
Jason’s Mom is Wanda Fredericks, Jake Dalton’s first coach.
It compares somewhat with our beloved troester.com — but is done quite differently, with different features.
And a modern, welcoming look.
Sample graphic. Most Men’s Team Championships:
Check it out, a work in progress. Call it a BETA site …
It’s unofficial. Not a product of the NCAA.
During the 2014 season many results will be posted day of the meet. We won’t need to wait until the weekend finishes.
Looks great.
Jason’s got experience. He’s one of the creators of Poptropica, an online kids game with over 500 million accounts.
I’ll be following the new site closely. 🙂
ESPN quits NFL concussion documentary
ESPN’s CEO John Skipper decided to end his company’s partnership with a PBS’s Frontline investigation into NFL concussions after viewing a trailer for the upcoming documentary.
Skipper, talking to ESPN’s ombudsman, said he thought the trailer sensationalized the story. .…
You can watch that trailer — “League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis” preview — on PBS. (VIDEO)
… one week before Skipper went public and severed the partnership, the CEO met with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and Steve Bornstein, president of the NFL Network.
The Times described the meeting as “combative,” and their sources say that Goodell pressured Skipper to cut ties with Frontline on the project. From the trailer, it’s pretty easy to see how the NFL fares in the documentarians’ hands: “Frontline investigates what the NFL knew, and when they knew it,” the narrator says. Then, an interviewee adds, “you can’t go against the NFL. They’ll squash you.” …
read more on The Atlantic
Frontline’s League of Denial will air on PBS in two parts on October 8 and 15th.
In fact, I believe the NFL will not be able to dodge these charges.
The damage to players is far greater than we knew.
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