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It’s a tad early to be picking Team China for the 2016 Olympics. But HuangQiushuangFan gives us a hyperbolic glimpse at some of the new contenders.

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Highlights of Brenna Dowell and her 1st place finish in the AA at the Mexican Open.

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At Al Fong’s Easter clinic I was super impressed with Brenna’s training. She’s a machine.

By far the most detailed summary I’ve seen on the Russian Team’s restructuring is posted on Because FAN is short for FANatic:

A (not so) brief history of the Russian gymnastics saga as it relates to the firing of Alexander Alexandrov

Part 4 – The fallout.

It’s funny. Insightful. Ideal for those who love a good conspiracy theory.

Personally I’m ready to move on. Let’s give Grebenkin a fair chance.

Russia does need to change and improve if they want to challenge the USA in 2016.

related – Rewriting Russian Gymnastics – Interview with new WAG Head Coach Evgeny Grebenkin

Feel good edit. Great music.

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(via Arabian Punch Front – Montage Monday: More Olympic Montages)

Shawn’s back in the public eye big time. Good exposure for Gymnastics.

Check this unusual and unusually understated edit.

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Full Twist reports that Chow has begun work on an autobiography with help from former Des Moines Register columnist Marc Hansen.

These are either elite gymnasts trying to learn some choreography. … Or a Gymnastraeda group on holiday in Mexico. 🙂

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1st annual was a success.

The 2012 Fall Congress, AGF Annual General Meeting, Assemblies and Awards Gala took place in Calgary. It was an amazing and most successful weekend!

.. 175 participants and 12 presenters …

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Janna Ball of Calgary Gymnastics Centre was honored with Coach of the Year Award.

The Athletes of the Years were presented to the following: Anysia Unick for WAG, Nathan Gafuik for MAG, Lexi Giesbrecht for the T&T female and Keegan Soehn for the T&T male. …

Here’s a full list of presenters. Non-cowboys and cowgirls got white-hatted. (PHOTO)

(via Alberta Gymnastics Federation on Facebook)

After flying to an altitude of 39,045 meters (128,100 feet) in a helium-filled balloon, Felix Baumgartner completed a record breaking jump for the ages from the edge of space, exactly 65 years after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier …

Felix reached a maximum of speed of 1,342.8 km/h (833mph) through the near vacuum of the stratosphere before being slowed by the atmosphere later during his 4:20 minute long freefall. The 43-year-old Austrian skydiving expert also broke two other world records (highest freefall, highest manned balloon flight), leaving the one for the longest freefall to project mentor Col. Joe Kittinger.

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He won’t be doing it again.

UCLA’s Allison Taylor on what it was like to be part of the greatest US elite program of all time at WOGA. Uncle Tim’s six year-old-friend reviews Shawn Johnson on Dancing with The Stars and we tackle cyber bullying in gymnastics. Dvora Myers follows up on our discussion of the popularity of men’s gymnastics. We play, who would win this reality tv show, if every contestant was a gymnast.

GymCastic

You can listen to this 90min audiocast via that link. Or click through from there on the iTunes link and subscribe to get every episode. It’s free.

Allison Taylor did not compete much or often for the Bruins, but she was a leader, now broadcasting and blogging for UCLA.

When I think of Allison it always reminds me of this conditioning drill.

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http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/NjU5Mjk0NzU5?related=1

Watch more video of 2010 UCLA Bruins on gymnastike.org

related – GBR’s Danusia Francis is now at UCLA

Sarie Morrison & Rheagan Courville …

LIKE the original photo on Facebook.

Have any of the other Colleges promoted their Team this way?