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The Hard Way – Julie Croket

London Olympics

The Belgian gymnast was fully prepared, but shortly before the Games she was faced with a major setback. Croket tore her ACL and saw her Olympic dream go up in smoke.

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‘The Hard Way To Success’ shows the road to success of different gymnasts. Every first Monday of every month a new gymnast tells his or her story. The series brings special stories of athletes and displays the athlete as a hero, despite possible setbacks in his or her career.

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Octavian Bellu interview – Part 2

translated by Bea Gheorghisor:

There was no pressure because no one imagined that after Bela (Karoly left) anything (good) could still happen. … After Los Angeles they began to have faith … It was not until ’87 when we took five gold medals at a World Championship that they began to believe. …

Do you self-evaluate…

Daily. And I know what my possibilities and limitations are. I never tried to go beyond those limits. …

On Bela:

Did you get inspiration from anywhere for your work?

I would say that the system has developed itself. Neither I nor Goreac, Stan, Mazilu, neither Pop nor Sandulescu have worked with Bela (Karoly), not even for a minute. I did not know how he was doing it.

He was said to be beating the gymnasts.

I do not know. Nadia says no. In gymnastics, rigor was confused with taming. …

You are said to be tough.

Well, I’m tough!

That you are strict.

Yes! Gymnastics is an artificial sport. … it’s an unnatural thing.

… during such moves all they need is a split second to lose orientation in space or make a gesture that can potentially break their neck. And then I say this: I’d rather be severe and considered a draconian but I make sure that when I go out of the gym I can go home and be tranquil, than suffer the consequences of a serious injury or unfortunate moment. …

… However, outside the gym I dance with the girls, every Christmas I recite them quatrains, I get dressed in Santa Claus, I write verses for them …

It is surprising to some that we succeed with such a small number of athletes. But we try to offset through the number of training sessions, their duration and the number of repetitions.

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Paul Ruggeri – FX training

A gymnast so talented and stylish that not even the current FIG Code of Points can ruin this set.

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His truly is the oddest round-off all time.

Nathalia Sánchez is an artist

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Nathalia is the 2008 Olympian from Colombia currently training and coaching in Panama.

American Football coach in London

Coach Lasso is a Football coach born and raised in Texas. He’s just arrived in England to coach in the Premier League and he’s realizing…..It’s Football Just Not as we know it.

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There must be a dozen parodies in the works. British Soccer coach taking over a Texas football team.

Peyton Ernst – Beam dance series?

A thread on the private GymFever Facebook group is discussing this routine.

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Where’s the 0.5 required dance series?

Was she supposed to include split jump + wolf after her layout?

Leave a comment if you know the names of the D-panel judges. I want to check if either are the same as those who judged Gabby on Vault at the last Pacific Rim. 🙂

Kelsea Kocan tears Achilles

I’m sick of this injury. 😦

We need the CURE.

They are missing her at Flip Fest Summer Camp. That’s for sure.

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UTRS 2013 WAG & MAG

USA P&G Championships

Worlds – 3 competitors / apparatus

Beautiful Gymnastics:

At worlds qualifications in Antwerp, only 3 gymnasts can compete each event. This means that there isn’t room for 3 gymnasts to battle it out for the all around final and have a fourth specialist compete for her chance in event finals …

It’s no bother to Romania who are only bringing three girls but it makes US Nationals more important as it will effectively decide their second all-arounder, as they also cannot have Simone Biles, Kyla Ross and Brenna Dowell/ Peyton Ernst/ Elizabeth Price battling it out in qualifications.

This makes the inclusion of a beam/bars specialist like Peyton Ernst/Abigail Milliet or a healthy Katelyn Ohashi more likely …

More bad news! But some good

This is the first time I’ve heard only 3 of the 4 competitors can compete each apparatus in Belgium. Markus recalls it being this way for some time.

Antwerp COULD have been a perfect meet for Katelyn Ohashi, if only she wasn’t injured.

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