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Jean-Paul Caron, President/CEO Gymnastics Canada, via email:

… Jeff Thomson’s employment as the Program Director – MAG with Gymnastics Canada shall cease effective December 31, 2012. As most of you are aware, Gymnastics Canada will be restructuring its operations to streamline capacity over a period of approximately 2 years.

… Jeff will continue to be involved with the MAG program and provide support as we move forward.

For a transition period, the new MAG National Coach / Team Director and Junior Age Group Team Coach, Markos Baikas will report to the Chief Technical Officer, Cathy Haines. …

By mid January, we hope to have a National Coach / Team Director for MAG in place. …

I’m sorry to see Jeff Thomson and interim Head Coach Masaaki Naosaki go. I particularly liked their strategy for qualifying a full team to the London Olympics. Unfortunately, it didn’t work. Canada finished 13th, just missing.

Photo by Grace Chiu.

Bea Gheorghisor has a terrific post on what’s happening with the 2016 squad.

Though the group of Junior potential looks good, the training situation is a mess.

British Gymnastics are delighted with the announcement made today by UK Sport which sees a 34% increase in funding for the World Class Programme of the organisation going forward to Rio 2016 and beyond

The increased funding is testament to the sensational results of the last Olympic cycle culminating in the historic results of London 2012, with the landmark Men’s Team bronze medal, Louis Smith and Max Whitlock taking pommel horse silver and bronze, and Beth Tweddle’s asymmetric bars bronze. …

British Gymnastics

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University of Michigan Sophomore Stacey Ervin’s Floor routine from the 2012-2013 Maize and Blue Competition. Scored a 15.75. Stacey is competing his new first pass of front full to double front pike.

Stacey is a former Region 5 gymnast and competed for Mills Gymnastics in Michigan.

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Good idea. Using the layout Thomas as a “rest” pass before the dismount. Only one roll out skill is allowed under the new Code.

Check out our interview with him at this link.

Thanks Valentin.

From Oregon State University Coach John Carney.

… Gymnastics chalk as snow. Why didn’t I think of that?
🙂

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Our Olympic Horizontal Bar Champion awarded Netherland’s highest accolade for the third time.

I find this photo … appropriate. 🙂

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Directly following the Men’s Artistic Gymnastics Age Group Training Camp organised in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the FIG expert Rick McCharles (CAN) travelled to Doha, Qatar to repeat the experience for that country on December 11-15. This camp was also for Women’s Artistic Gymnastics and the expert for that discipline was Enrico Casella (ITA), the well known Italian National Coach and coach of former World Champion Vanessa Ferrari. …

As in Saudi Arabia, this Age Group Training Camp was held with the financial assistance of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). …

The Age Group programme includes a testing and monitoring programme for Men’s and Women’s Artistic gymnasts’ physical abilities and technical skills as well as a complete competition programme with modified optional rules for age-group gymnasts and compulsory exercises for all ages. It also includes a variety of additional information related to developing a systematic gymnastics programme that can lead to high performance. …

… Qatar has now hosted four FIG Academies including the very first Trampoline Academy; it hosted a precursor of the Age Group Programme that recommended competition rules and standards for the Persian Gulf Region; it hosted an FIG Introductory seminar/camp for the Age Group Programme and now an official FIG Age Group Programme Camp. We thank them for their willingness to help in the coach education of the entire region. …

details via FIG

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Campia Gymnastics, Newfoundland:

Marta will be watching to make sure all our gymnasts are listening to their coach, doing their conditioning and having lots of fun at gymnastics!!

No surprise. Another older powerful tumbler blows an Achilles.

It really is one of our biggest problems.

UCLA junior Samantha Peszek will sit out the 2013 gymnastics season after suffering a torn right Achilles tendon in practice on Monday.

Peszek, a silver medalist at the 2008 Olympic Games and the 2011 NCAA balance beam champion, plans to have surgery as quickly as possible and will redshirt the upcoming season. She will have two years of eligibility remaining. …

Bruins