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Couch Gymnast is running a series on up-and-coming Junior talents, age eligible for the 2016 Olympics.

… the 2012 Canadian Junior National Champ, Shallon Olsen. Born in 2000, she is barely age eligible for the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Even though she has a great mesh of flexibility, dance, power and quite honestly, an awesome talent, she still needs to work on some of her leaps and jumps and her form on bars. But hey, she still has four more years to go and I’m sure she isn’t at her peak yet! …

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Other Junior Watch Gymnast Profiles are linked from that page:

Kim Janas (GER)
Maria Kharenkova (RUS)
Angel Romaeo (GBR/WALES)
Lara Mori (ITA)
Polina Schennikova (USA)

Shallon’s been an astonishingly good vaulter from a very young age. Despite Gymnastics Canada insisting that girls weighing 50 pounds or less be required to use only designated Spring Boards at the meet, her DTY is effortless.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube (June 2012)

Shallon competes a lot of difficulty. And rarely misses a routine in competition.

What’s going on at the Olympic Training Center, Colorado Springs?

How do Olympic and Paralympic athletes blow off steam when they are not in the gym?

By practicing their dance moves — Gangnam Style. Figure Skating, Gymnastics, Judo, Modern Pentathlon, Shooting, Triathlon, Weightlifting, Wrestling….which sport does it best?

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube (gymnasts start at 30sec)

via @JoshNDixon

Looking good.

Sooner gymnasts show off their tumbling to the song Fight for your Right.

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The NCAA announced today that the Alabama Sports Foundation and the University of Alabama will co-host the 2014 NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championship in Birmingham, Ala. The national championship will be held April 18 – 20, 2014, at the Birmingham – Jefferson Convention Complex .

The University of Alabama women’s gymnastics team is a powerhouse in Division I gymnastics, having won back-to-back national championships in 2011 and 2012 …

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Championships 2013 will be hosted by UCLA.

On October 29th, 2012 Pantene Pro-V and the spokesperson Evgenia Kanaeva donated 5 million rubles to Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation as part of the promo action “Pantene Helps Young Talents of Rhythmic Gymnastics”. …

Zhenya Kanaeva Gymnasium

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As a clinician in Canada for the National Coaching Certification Program I was required to complete an online ethics course.

Online Evaluation for Make Ethical Decisions – Competition – Introduction:

• Scenario One
• Scenario Two

… You will fail the evaluation if you cannot:

• establish the facts of the situation

• distinguish between legal and ethical situations

• determine appropriate solutions to the scenario

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The two scenarios were somewhat interesting. Somewhat useful.

But the design of the online course was sterile. Slow to complete. Buttons did not align clearly to text.

Too academic. Too wordy.

Correct “answers” were debatable.

Overall call me DISAPPOINTED. 😦

I did send my feedback to Coaching Association of Canada.

Two of us had trouble logging into The Vault, as well. But my distress email was quickly answered.

We’re going to be seeing a lot of gymnastics over the next few years in Glasgow’s new Arena.

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competitors list

(via FIG on Google+)

WOGymnastike has an entertaining interview with Italian Olympian Erika Fasana:

Who deserved to win the all around gold in London? Douglas or Komova?

Erika: Hands down Douglas deserved to win the all around gold..Poor Komova always the second.

Italia’s Erika Fasana “Rio Is My Dream & Sandra Izbasa Has The Most Beautiful Body”

related – Couch Gymnast – Vanessa Ferrari for Rio?: “It’s Far….”

Spooky Halloween from Arabian Punch Front.

Ron Noe:

I can’t recall in the past seeing many gymnasts, if any at all, announcing their college commitments before the early signing period. So far, as of October 30, five gymnasts have publicly announced via Twitter and/or Facebook.

Thanks to social media, many of our top high school seniors are talking about their college recruiting trips. The naysayers may think otherwise, but this has a positive effect on the younger guys, and creates a much-needed buzz for the sport. …

Illinois: Chandler Eggleston

Ohio State: Sean Melton, Jacob Dastrup

Oklahoma: Colin Van Wicklen, Alex Powarzynski

Early Recruiting Announcements Made in College Men’s Gymnastics

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