… FIG-slideshow is a tribute to Gymnastics fans and to the impressive North Greenwich Arena …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Tom Daley, Tonia Couch to Gym
British divers train Bars. Already have their upstarts (kips).
Look out Beth Tweddle. 🙂
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(via Brigid Couch Gymnast McCarthy on Facebook)
Ubersense video analysis app
Ubersense (formerly Excelade) is a mobile app that helps athletes and coaches improve at their sport using video and collaboration.
Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.
How to use UberSense from UberSense on Vimeo.
iTunes – app for both iPhone and iPad (free)
I’ve tested it on iPhone. Works well, as advertised.
One glitch. When I clicked to download one of their default (tennis) videos when on a weak WiFi signal, the app hangs. I could not exit.
related – videos explaining the different features (somewhat dated)
Leave a comment if you’ve used it in the gym.
Alexander’s Tkachev 1977
Alexander Vasilyevich Tkachyov … born November 4, 1957 … was a Soviet/Russian gymnast …
… In 1977 Tkachev performed for the first time a gymnastics element on the Horizontal Bar, which was later named Tkachev …
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Uncle Tim feels that routine deserves more HITS on YouTube.
Story goes that Soviet biomechanists came up with the idea for that skill, not coaches. Leave a comment if you can confirm or disprove.
Summer Olympics medal count
… video graphic of Summer Olympic Medal counts by country from 1896 – 2012. The Y-axis is the percentage of gold medals and the X-axis is the total medals won.
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Acrobatic Gymnasts on the beach
CHINA Olympic Gymnastics promos
Blossom linked to videos from 2008 and 2012.
The 2008 video is over-the-top, but entertaining.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
The 2012 equivalent is OK … but includes a non-Chinese gymnast. … Can you spot her?
China cheating again? 🙂 … Perhaps we need start the rumour that Zou Kai is actually underage. He looks about age-14 NOW.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
top gymnasts 2009-2012 Quad
According to hrrrmttt .
Aliya Mustafina
Aly Raisman
Viktoria Komova & McKayla Maroney
Sui Lu & Jordyn Wieber & Ksenia Afansyeva & Deng Linlin
Gabby Douglas & Rebecca Bross
Click through to check the math.
Most Successful Individual Gymnasts from the 2009-2012 Quadrennium
bookie dupes Sam Oldham’s granny
Bookmakers refuse to pay out grandmother’s medal bet despite Sam Oldham’s gymnastics bronze at London 2012
The grandmother of Olympic gymnastics bronze medallist Sam Oldham has lost out on a 200/1 bet that her grandson would win a medal after bookmakers refused to pay out because it was a team – rather than an individual – medal. …
The Independent Betting Adjudication Service (IBAS) is discussing the matter with the cheap cheats — Betfred.
Here’s a photo of the wager itself.
Is all this bad press worth £1000, Betfred?
I don’t think so. Sam’s a National hero.
Aliya collects $311,488 + Audi
Sergei Sobyanin, Mayor of Moscow, today awarded money … to Muscovites that won medals at the Olympics!
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Aliya was awarded 4 million rubles for the Gold, 2.5 million for the Silver, and two 1.7 million ruble certificates for her bronze medals! That comes to a total of 9.9 million rubles.. worth $311,488 USD. Wow! And let’s not forget about the Audi! Congrats Aliya!
It’s not only the American Olympians making serious coin. 🙂
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