Olympic host Great Britain continued its romp at the 2012 Men’s European Championships in Montpellier, France, capturing the senior team title Saturday.
The British men won their third straight gold medal of the championships and their first senior continental title with a tight victory over Russia, 266.296-265.535. Romania won the bronze with 261.319. …
The British owed their victory in large part to their supremacy on pommel horse …
Most coaches, I’m sure, agree with me that a double tuck with hands on the shins is superior (and prettier) than with hands on the back of the thighs.
Of course there are many superb gymnasts that use what I call the inferior technique. Both work. But I much prefer hands on shins, tight tuck. GS George would agree. In trampoline sports, grabbing the thighs is not only an inferior technique, it’s a deduction.
What do Artistic gymnasts use for triple back on Floor Exercise?
Alright. A feature with Todd Gardiner, one of my favourite coaches in the world. Humble, … yet his gym is one of the most successful in the States year-after-year.
Today’s gymnastics workout video features one of the top clubs in Illinois and Region 5, the Illinois Gymnastics Institute. Watch as their optional gymnasts prepare for their home meet, the 2012 IGI Chicago Style, and ultimately to peak at the Region 5 Championships and JO Nationals. The IGI team features 10 seniors going off to represent collegiate teams around the country.
An impressive group of young ladies. Congratulations.
1. Sydney Townsend ON 55.70
2. Cassandra Buchan ON 54.90
3. Meaghan Ruttan AB 54.35
4. Audrey Rousseau QC 54.175
5. Angel Zhong BC 52.80
6. Sam Haghighat-Joo 52.550
The Canadian National Champion all-around finals has wrapped. …
One sad absence, of course, was Peng Peng Lee, who, as most of you know, injured her knee in training at the start of the Championships and had to withdraw. She was expected to challenge strongly for the title and is hoping to still vie for the Olympic team. …
It wasn’t so long ago that Canada was only able to send two women to the Beijing Games due to a dearth of national elite gymnasts available to put together a fit, competitive team in the preceding quad. …
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All of a sudden they have the potential to make regular top eight teams like Japan, Italy, Australia and Great Britain peer nervously over their shoulders.
All through these ups-and-downs of the last few years has been one steady-and steadying presence in this year’s National Champion Kristina Vaculik. One of those consummate quiet achievers, Vaculik has been the one gymnast who has been present on all of these teams since 2008, when due to a complex and befuddling selection system she was not selected to compete in Beijing …
It’s looking that way so far, after Nate hit a BIG 7.1 Horizontal Bar routine last night
… Gafuik placed first in three of six events for a total score of 85.300 points to claim his second Canadian all around title in the last three years. …
… took a huge step towards clinching the highly-coveted Olympic men’s berth with one of the most difficult high bar routines in the world.
Gafuik’s high flying routine was awarded 15.300 points, a score that would have placed him fourth in the event at the 2011 world championships.
“When I saw the score it there was a huge sigh of relief,” said Gafuik, a 10-year national team veteran and two-time Olympian. …
Gafuik and others in the running have four meets, including the Canadian championships, to earn a score in an individual event that would have put them in a final at the most recent world championships last October in Tokyo. The gymnast with the highest ranking among those that meet the standard wins the Olympic berth. So far only Gafuik has met the standard with the two final selection meets coming up next month in Europe. …
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