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Most entertaining SPORTS NEWS story of the year, so far. 🙂

NBA overnight sensation Jeremy Lin.

• no athletic scholarship offers out of high school
• undrafted out of college
• Harvard University graduate who considered a religious vocation
• first player of American Chinese or American Taiwanese descent

Breaking barriers. Defeating Kobe & the Lakers (VIDEO).

… host to the archery events and the start and finish of the marathon during the 2016 Olympic Games …

The renovation work has been completed in time for the 2012 Rio Carnival and four years ahead of the Games. Four new grandstands have been built on one side of the Sambodromo, increasing the venue’s capacity from 60,000 to 72,500 people …

Olympic.org

Mississauga, ONT
Feb 16-19th

details

Not much information online promoting the Canadian National Team Selection meet. But I’m NOT saying GymCan is poor at communication … 🙂

Sarah Flett: age-22, will be there. Read the Examiner interview.

Funny.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The girls are at the RANCH for Valentine’s Day.

If you’ve never been to the world’s largest gymnastics meet, this video is a MUST SEE.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/NjgyNjA1NDA3?related=1

Watch more video of IGI Chicago Style 2012 on gymnastike.org

Todd Gardner is one of the good guys. Congratulations to his Illinois Gymnastics Institute (IGI) volunteers on another job well done.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

That’s Kelsey Kato at Avant Couer in Idaho.

Of course the “spotters” will drop the rope if any of the kids get tangled. A pool noodle works even better. 🙂

Happy
Valentines

High protein / fat. Vegetables and fruit. Some ice-cream.

Calisthenics and light dumbbells.

Her name is Marilyn. 🙂

(via 70’s big and Blair Lowe on Facebook)

Is it Valentine’s Day? … Or April Fools?

Over on the (normally excellent) Gymnastic Bodies strength forum there’s a bizarre thread:

Need urgent help…
by Zingam

See, most guys seem to like smaller women but I like them tall like 6 feet at least. There is one big problem though – they tend to weight quite a lot – 154 pounds wouldn’t be unexpected.

So what would you recommend to do to gain the strength to get one up and carry her around without breaking myself. … I actually can do it but I’m not convinced that I am strong enough and that I won’t get injured some day. So I need to train.

Click through to read the advice given. 🙂

(via Blair Lowe on Facebook)

One highlight from Stoi’s ‘Best of 2011’ post.

Best BEAM

Clara:

I didn’t see much beam I particularly liked last year. Dearly departed Porgras declined – still moved beautifully, but everything interesting was slowly sucked out of the routine. …

So I’m going leftfield – Danusia Francis at British Nationals. Lovely carriage and posture, and she got to show it off at Worlds this year. News flash GB coaches – you get about one athlete a decade who can actually do this event. Don’t waste her. …

Click PLAY or watch her on YouTube.

No confidence in that dismount. But Danusia looks like a future NCAA Beam Champion to me. 🙂

Read more profane hilarity on Stoi! – A Belated Best of 2011

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