TV commercial.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
He wants to be Olympic Champion, like these guys. Fortunately for Epke, FIG no longer seems to require toe point. 🙂
(via GymPOWER on Facebook)
European Championships preview
International Gymnast:
… medals will be up for grabs in Brussels: senior team and individual apparatus, and junior team, all-around and apparatus.
Russia and Romania are expected to battle for the senior team supremacy, with Great Britain, Italy, France and Germany among the teams aiming for a podium finish.
Defending champion Russia is bringing its formidable trio of Aliya Mustafina, Viktoria Komova and Anastasia Grishina, plus newcomer Anastasia Sidorova. …
Competition begins May 9 with junior qualification, followed by senior qualification on May 10. Junior all-around final takes place May 11, followed by the senior team final on May 12 and apparatus finals on May 13.
Bernardo on Couch Gymnast looked at potential D-score for the Junior teams. Russia looks unbeatable:
1- Russia 89.5
2- Italy 86.2
3- Great Britain 84.3
4- Ukraine 84.0
5- Romania 83.5
6- Spain 82.9
Junior European D Score Predictions
related – THE ALL AROUND is weekly updating the top WAG scores worldwide.
Iordache, Larissa (ROU) 60,150 is the top EU Sr. all-arounder, by that ranking.
Click PLAY or watch her most recent Vault on YouTube.
Utah average attendance 13,515
Utah may have finished 5th at Championships. But in drawing a crowd to gymnastics, they’re still #1.
… here are the final rankings for average home meet attendance. As expected, Utah maintained their top ranking here with Alabama close behind.
Rank Team Average Attendance 1 Utah 13515.29 2 Alabama 12826.80 3 Georgia 8768.33 4 Florida 6200.40 5 Auburn 4519.60 6 Oregon State 4097.20 7 L.S.U. 3697.60 8 Arkansas 3080.83 9 Southern Utah 3069.75 10 Penn State 2249.75 Gymnastike – Final 2012 NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Rankings
Acro – Men’s Groups Finals
The 2012 World Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships ended in a tie.
1. CHN – Jian Tang, Lei Wang, Yi Zhou and Yeqiuyin Wu
1. GBR – Dorian Walker, Jesse Heskett, Matthew Evison and Richard Hurst
3. RUS – Valentin Chetverkin, Maksim Chulkov, Anton Danchenko and Dmitry Bryzgalov
Click PLAY or watch Russia on YouTube.
Here’s Great Britain. (VIDEO)
Sabrina Vega
Sabrina Vega … trains at Dynamic Gymnastics in Mohegan Lake, where she is coached by former Romanian Olympic medalist Teodora Ungureanu. She is a United States Senior National Team member and a 2011 World Champion. She is of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent. …
Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.
(via Aunt Joyce)
Illinois loves Pommels
Pommel horse turnaround propels Illini to national championship by Emily Bayci :
… The Illini had been struggling on the pommel horse all season. They were ranked sixth in the country on pommel horse — lower than any other event. …
… “Pommel horse is not an event you want to count on to have a perfect meet, let alone to make up ground.” …
… To anchor the squad was freshman C.J. Maestas, a strong pommel horse contender who had fallen on high bar and was worried he let his team down.
“I knew I had to hit,” Maestas said. “For my brothers. Here they were having my back, shout-out to the pommel horse squad. They were throwing 15’s. I needed to do it too.”
Hit he did, tallying his own career-high of a 15.100 to propel Illinois to a 60.750, its highest pommel horse score in school history. …
… “The turnaround on pommel horse was the best moment of my entire college career,” said veteran senior Paul Ruggeri …
Click PLAY or watch some pommel training on YouTube.
U.S. Olympian named May 14th
Make It or Break It is history.
… While the series drew poor ratings after its second season, ABC Family hoped to capitalize on the growing excitement of the upcoming London Summer Olympic Games.
It didn’t happen.
… The upcoming finale, airing May 14, will reveal which of the three contenders will make it to the fictional U.S. gymnastics team. …
Kansas City Coed Classic
At the recent Al Fong clinic I finally got to meet Steve Glickley. He runs the Kansas City Coed Classic: January 25-27th, 2013.
1200 athletes competing for USAG and AAU.
Phone: 913.438.4444 Email: meetinfo (a) emeraldcitygym.com
Steve also sells and rents gymnastics equipment via The Athletic Equipment Source.
ICU World Championships begin
iC is off to the International Cheer Union (ICU) 2012 World Cheerleading and Dance Championships! Competition takes place this Thursday and Friday, April 26 – 27 in Orlando, Florida. Get ready to see who takes home the gold this year! Will Team USA repeat? Catch all of the updates here at insidecheerleading.com!
Click PLAY or watch a 2011 promo on YouTube. Cheer and dance clips start at about 4min.
Good luck to all competitors.
Larisa Iordache – double double
Fantastic routine from the France v Romania friendly.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
15.000 (6.1)
Upgrade that dismount, and it’s one of the very best in the world.
Examiner thinks she could win Europeans with this set.
