Give it a try here.
WAG Floor is streaming. The other 3 apparatus should be working … soon. 🙂
Reports are that some folks never did get Vault to stream. We’ll try to get it “fixed” overnight.
Canadian Championships begin
Sr FIG women are first up at 3:30pm. Followed by Jr FIG women at 6:30pm. The PLAN is to LIVE VIDEO STREAM every routine from our VIDEO page. You choose the discipline and apparatus you want to watch. Of course it only streams while the competition is in progress.
NCAA Coaches will be welcomed with a VIP credential. And be given start lists.
A fan wishing Peng a speedy recovery from her knee injury suffered yesterday posted this montage of her and Victoria Moors.
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Aussie Championships podium
Brigid McCarthy is covering the Australian National Championships in Sydney.
… the Australian senior WAG team and the visiting Japanese team took to the floor for podium training.
As ever in a podium training there were mixed performances. The core group that started on floor and is ostensibly the group Peggy will select her team from for the head-to-head with Japan consisted of Lauren Mitchell, Emily Little, Ashleigh Brennan, Larrissa Miller, Mary-Anne Monckton, Nikki Chung and Georgia Rose Brown. …
Lauren Mitchell looked super-fit and dynamic and much like a former World floor champion two months before the Olympics. …There were some very welcome returns on floor too. Angela Donald … NCAA returnee Olivia Vivian … Dasha Joura …
related – Australian Nationals: IDP Six Teams results
Cassina + Kovacs + Kolman
Epke Zonderland: Cassina + Kovacs + Kolman on high bar!
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That’s from podium training at European Championships. Epke is defending champion.
(via Examiner and @GymPOWER1)
Daniele Hypolito – Beam
Daniele Hypolito (BRA) training towards a a 6.7 D beam routine at the Olympics …
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handstand walking wanderer
As a coach, I don’t like kids walking forwards in handstand. It helps them perfect multiple bad habits. But this guy’s good.
Surrealism and athleticism combine in the upside-down world of a unique individual. Starring the amazing athlete Mark Daniel. Filmed in Madison, Wisconsin on 16 mm film in 1981 by Joel Fletcher.
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Did you make it to 4min 35sec?
(via Dian Nissen Ramirez and Milton Giancarlo Mora on Facebook)
Men’s Gymnastics montage
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Peng Peng injured
… this sport is simply too dangerous. 😦
Canadian gymnast Peng Peng Lee was injured in the first day of training at Canadian Championships. On Vault landing, Double Twisting Yurchenko. On the same skill she dislocated her kneecap last year. The same knee was injured.
Fans everywhere are wishing a speedy recovery.
Photo via Grace Chiu on Facebook.
Men’s Europeans venue
A few pics.
HBO – Weight of The Nation
The biggest threat to the health & happiness of children in 2012.
… The four-part HBO Documentary Films series, The Weight of The Nation explores the obesity epidemic in America. Watch all four parts of The Weight of the Nation …
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… Sodas, juice, sugary breakfast cereals, fast food and most processed snack foods are bad for us, their proliferation corresponding historically with the national weight gain.
Fresh food costs more than junk food, which puts the poor more at risk. Children are surrounded by the siren call of unhealthful food, fad diets don’t work and real change takes time. …
LA Times – Review: HBO’s ‘Weight of the Nation’ pounds away at obesity
… sugary soft drinks are the no. 1 source of calories in our diets,” said Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. “We get more calories from sodas and sugary drinks than any other individual food — cake, cookies, pizza, anything.” …
Soda giants scramble to fill void as sweets consumption declines
