2000/2004 Olympic vault champ Gervasio Deferr does an underwear commercial
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
The Gymnastics Examiner via Janssen Fritsen on Facebook.
how to be a gymnast
Rhythmic Code 2013-2016 draft
Link. (PDF)
WOGA Irina Alexeeva – 9.925 Beam
Level 9 Texas State balance beam Champion.
Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.
http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/OTQyNjIzMTUz?related=1
Watch more video of 2012 Texas Level 9/10 State Meet on gymnastike.org
Aerials Invite, Prince Albert SK
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan?
Is that a real place?
It sure is. I’ve spent a lot of time in P.A., over the years, and am making a return this weekend. Our girls from Gymnastics Adventure are competing the Lights Camera Action Aerials Invitational (PDF)
Head Coach Mike Amouri has an amazing facility up in a remote town you’ve likely never heard of. 🙂
It’s a 4hr drive straight North. Flat.
For the most advanced girls it’s trials for Western Canadian Gymnastics Championship, Vancouver BC. (PDF)
Westerns, this year, also offers an “Invitational” for girls P3 and up who did not qualify for the competition itself. That goes on the Sunday following.
land like a “cat”
Coaches are often asking athletes to land softly. Absorbing the impact force like a cat.
The science is fascinating.
Cats can famously fall from skyscrapers and only suffer the most minor of bruises, including the recent story of a cat surviving a 19-story fall in Boston with only a bruised chest. What’s the secret of this feline survival? …
io9 – Why cats can survive falls that would kill any other animal
That post was inspired by an article on BBC – How do cats survive falls from great heights?
Doug Boger accusers on CNN
If you’ve somehow missed the Doug Boger story, this is the most complete TV overview, so far.
Women claim gymnastics coach Doug Boger physically, sexually abused them
They decided to speak now, decades later, hoping that he won’t coach again
He did not respond to CNN, but has claimed that his accusers are lying
Click PLAY or watch it on CNN.
Reports say Boger still resides in Colorado Springs. But is not coaching.
related – the USAG Permanently Ineligible Members list
Doha day 1 Event Finals
Amanda Turner:
Tweddle, who scored 15.900 in qualificiation, did not connect her planned back-to-back transitions of toe-full to toe-on Tkatchev-half to Yezhova into a Maloney-half. But the three-time world champion still pulled out a victory, scoring 15.125 over China’s Jiang Yuyuan (14.875). Hoping for an Olympic victory in London this summer, Tweddle could follow in the tradition of He Kexin, who won the bars title in Doha in 2008, a few months before taking gold in Beijing. …
Women’s Vault Final
1. Giulia Steingruber
2. Nadine Jarosch
3. Teja Belak
Uneven Bars Final
1. Beth Tweddle
2. Jiang Yuyuan
3. Lisa Katharina Hill
Click PLAY or watch Jiang Yuyang’s Bars on YouTube.
Men’s Floor Exercise Final
1. Zou Kai
2. Tomislav Markovic
3. Vlad Cotuna
Pommel Horse Final
1. Saso Bertoncelj
2. Liao Qiuhua
3. Cyril Tommasone
Still Rings Final
1. Liao Qiuhua
2. Vahagn Davtyan
3. Danny Rodrigues
Full results and commentary on International Gymnast.
Olympian Tube stations, London
Cool.
To celebrate the Games, the names of 361 tube station stops have been changed to the names of Olympic athletes. …
Map via that link.
American swimming star Michael Phelps gets the main London 2012 Olympic stop of Stratford.
Gymnasts include:
Vitaly Scherbo, Alexei Nemov, Nikolai Adrianov, Sawao Kato, Wei Yang, Nadia Comaneci, Mary-Lou Retton, Larisa Latynina, Aleksandr Moskalenko, Viktor Chukarin, Olga Korbut and Ludmilla Tourischeva.
(via GymPOWER)
Doha Bars Tweddle / Iordache
Bar Finals:
1. Beth Tweddle 15.175
2. Jiang Yuyuan 14.875
3. Lisa Katharina Hill 14.575
4. Larisa Iordache 14.525
Click PLAY or watch Beth on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch Larisa on YouTube.
14.525 for a Romanian Bars routine. Congratulations.
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