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Dogs are for real.

No. 8 Georgia used a season-high score to hand No. 5 Alabama its first loss of the season 197.500-196.950 on Saturday at Stegeman Coliseum.

Senior Noel Couch competed in her first meet of the season after missing the first five due to injury. Couch put up 9.875s on both beam and floor to help the Gym Dogs secure the victory against the Crimson Tide.

“It was absolutely a great performance by our team,” head coach Danna Durante said …

NCAA

PHOTO GALLERY: Georgia Gymnastics Versus Alabama

… “I was kind of blown away,” freshman Brittany Rogers said. “We didn’t do anything special. That’s what we’re capable of, and it’s really satisfying knowing we did what we do everyday and still produced that score.” …

Red & Black

Gerard Atzeni updated his montage.

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1. Mark Sohn (USA) – 1/1 Kehr mount
2. Koji Yamamuro (JPN) – Honma + 1/4 to long hang
3. Steven Legendre (USA) – Double Front + Front Double Twist
4. Kelly Lang (USA) – the ‘Lang’ I & II
5. Miguel Rubio (ESP) – Full Ono to one-armed giant + Immediate Jaeger
6. Shou Yokoyama (JPN) – Kip to V-Sit
7. Ahmed Al Dayani (QAT) – Tippelt Half to Upperarm
8. Ross Bradley (USA) – Stalder with 2/1 pirouette
9. Hiroyuki Tomita (JPN) – O’Neill
10. Ryan McCarthy (USA) – Front Uprise Layout 1/1 to upperarms
11. Shirai Kenzo (JPN) – Back 7/2 + Front 1/1
12. Daisuke Nakano (JPN) – Triple Back [tucked] – Rings
13. Chen Chen (CHN) – G Flop [Stokli + Stokli + 1080 wende]
14. Ryan Lieberman (USA) – Felge Makuts
15. Jesus Carballo Jr. (ESP) – Carballo I
16. Sean Doolan (USA) – Front Triple Twist + Front Salto
17. Shirai Kenzo (JPN) – Back 5/2 + Front 2/1
18. Kohei Uchimura (JPN) – Double Twisting Kovacs Attempt – 2008/2009
19. Makoto Okiguchi (JPN) – Lou Yun + Front 1 3/4
20. Vladimir Novikov (USSR) – Front Uprise to V-Sit
21. Giovanni Quintero (COL) – Belle with 1/1 to upperarm hang
22. Evgeni Sapronenko (LAT) – Dorsal Giants + Immediate Gienger
23. Alberto Busnari (ITA) – DSA Handstand with 720 Travel to Flairs
24. Danny Rodrigues (FRA) – Azarian to Maltese + Front Uprise V-Cross
25. Max Whitlock (GBR) – Forward Salto with 5/2 Twists – Rings
26. Sam Oldham (GBR) – Back Double Twist off Parallel Bars
27. Flavius Koczi (ROU) – Back 5/2 + Front 5/2 [attempt]
28. Jeff Crockett (USA) – Double Twisting Balabanov
29. Ri Se Gwang (PRK) – Full Twisting Double Tsukahara
30. Ryosuke Baba (JPN) – Stoop 1/2 + Kolman
31. Cyril Tommasone (FRA) – Li Ning + Back Scissor to Handstand
32. Huang Yuguo (CHN) – Front 2/1 + Van Roon
33. Ji Lianshen (CHN) – Stalder 1/1 to el-grip + Balabanov
34. Kohei Uchimura (JPN) – Stoop 1/2 + Liukin
35. Prashanth Sellathurai (AUS) – Spindle Magyar between Pommels
36. Hikaru Tanaka (JPN) – Kasamatsu Stretched to Roll Out – Floor
37. Paul Ruggeri (USA) – Uprise 1 1/4 Straddle Front to upperarms
38. Matthieu Jordan (FRA) – Triple Back Salto Piked – Floor
39. Matteo Morandi (ITA) – Marinich to Feet
40. Jeff Bender (USA) – Back Uprise with Counter Salto
41. Tim McNeil (USA) – Bezugo on a Single Pommel + [flop series]
42. Tomi Tuuha (FIN) – Double Back with 5/2 Twists – Rings
43. Lee Joo Huang (KOR) – Healy to Mix Grip [single rail] + Jaeger transfer
44. ??? (JPN) – Full Twisting Triple Back Somersault – High Bar
45. Kelly Lang (USA) – Suarez – High Bar
46. DJ Bucher (USA) – Layout Belle – Parallel Bars
47. Matthias Fahrig (GER) – Arabian Double Pike with 3/2 Twists
48. Glen Ishino (USA) – Triple Layout – High Bar
49. Epke Zonderland (NED) – Diamidov 1/4 + Healy
50. Shirai Kenzo (JPN) – Quadruple Twist
51. Doug Stibel (USA) – Guzcoghy with 1/2 Twist
52. Steven Legendre (USA) – High Rybalko
53. Guillermo Alvarez (USA) – Front Layout with 3/2 Twists – High Bar
54. Matthew McGrath (USA) – Back 3/2 + Marinich
55. Epke Zonderland (NED) – Cassina + Kolman
56. Ian Makowske (USA) – Stoop Hop with 1/1 Pirouette to mixed-grip
57. Regulo Carmona (VEN) – Momentary Back Lever to Inverted Cross
58. Daniel Keatings (GBR) – Chiarlo + E Healy + Healy
59. Yang Hak Seon (KOR) – Handspring Front Layout 3/1 Twist
60. Vladimir Gogoladze (USSR) – Straddled Healy – Parallel Bars
61. Li Xiaopeng (CHN) – Forward Uprise with Double Pike to upperarm
62. Timo Niemela (FIN) – Double Kovacs [attempt]

… You get to see a lot of athletes and a lot of the joyous occasions – stuck landings, gymnasts pleased with scores, and teams celebrating.

Arabian Punch Front – Montage Monday: Inspiration

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David Holcomb linked to this bizarre image — “Gymnast Nixon”, drawn by Robert B Davis, published in Modern Gymnast magazine January 1971 to accompany an article titled, “The Dreamer”.

Here’s Tricky Dicky with the Soviet Women’s Gymnastics Team in 1973. That’s Olga Korbut next to the President.

Beam Queen linked to this magazine cover. The 1996 Olympic Champion‘s family.

… December 2004, Podkopayeva married to Ukrainian businessman. Timofei Nagorny. They are the parents of two children: Vadim, adopted in Ukraine in July 2006; and Karolina, born in November of the same year. However, as of 2009, Lilia has divorced Timofei and the two share custody of their children. …

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Florida, Oklahoma, Michigan – NCAA top 25

Preseason NCAA Top 5: Where are they now?

NCAA MAG update

No argument here. 🙂

Vanessa Zamarripa of UCLA scores a perfect 10 on the vault, the 7th of her career.

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wandrewsjr:

Is Vanessa Zamarripa human!?

Just got home from the UCLA/Stanford dual meet. Everything Vanessa Zamarippa does – vault,tumbling,beam dismount – is 3 to 4 feet higher than every other gymnast. And we are talking about 2 teams filled with world class gymnasts. How does she do it?!

No such joy in Utah. Junior Corrie Lothrop tore her Achilles and will be out for the remainder of the season.

It’s too late to red-shirt, but next season Corrie should be good to go. This is her second Achilles tear. So both will have been repaired by this time 2014.

Chomp.

The No. 1 Florida gymnastics team (4-1, 3-1 SEC) used the nation’s second-highest total of 2013 to take the win at No. 22 Arkansas (1-3, 0-3 SEC) Friday in front a Barnhill Arena crowd of 5,278. Florida posted a 197.575 Friday while the Razorbacks turned in a season-high 196.175. …

Gator Zone

The top two teams in 2012 NCAA Championship competition meet next Friday in the O’Connell Center for one of the nation’s top dual meets of the 2013 season. Florida plays host to defending NCAA champion and No. 5 Alabama (3-0, 3-0 SEC) on Friday, Feb. 8 at 7 p.m.

Carballo Senior is age-69, close to retirement after 50+ years dedication to Gymnastics in Spain.

He’s a coaching legend.

But Jesus has been “disqualified from his duties as coach of Spanish female gymnastics” due to a complaint by a former gymnast.

I’ve not yet seen the name of the gymnast, but she’s at least 50ys-old.

Uncle Tim sent the link to this article (Spanish).

Google translate that for details.

Jesus is father of the Spanish Federation President Jesus Carballo Martinez.