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2012 Nadia Comaneci International Invitational
Feb. 11, Oklahoma City

Senior All-Around
Mackenzie Brannan
Abby Milliet
Ruby Harrold

Junior All-Around
Nicole Lehrman
Paula Tudorache
Maria Rauta

more results on IG

UPDATE: Video was removed at request of the “owner”.

If it’s restored I’ll link again.
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Click PLAY or check out Europa on British Gymnastics TV.

http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1

Have you ever seen BIGGER inflatables inside a gymnastics facility?

That’s posted on the Europa Gymnastics Centre Facebook.

See more photos of Great Britain’s latest, greatest facility from my visit there in January.

Diana can still do kip on Bars. She’s age eligible for all sorts of discounts … if you know what I mean. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

If you know of an ‘elderer‘ gymnast who can do kip, leave a comment. (We’ll need video proof as well as a copy of birth certificate.)

(via Rec Gymnastics)

Only extremely fit women make the cover of Oxygen.

… a student at Eastern Illinois University, she was known for her lightning speed on the racetrack, setting records in the 400- and 600-meter sprints.

After graduating from college in 2005, a friend introduced her to the world of Figure, and the girl hasn’t looked back. With a sixth-place finish in last year’s Olympia and first-place win at IFBB’s Ft. Lauderdale Cup, the former track star is still turning heads.

Meet Alicia Harris (VIDEO)

(via Hardy Body)

Ten days after the United States went to war in the Persian Gulf, Whitney Houston performed the greatest rendition of the Star Spangled Banner in sports history.

On Jan. 27, 1991, Houston took the field at Tampa Stadium prior to Super Bowl XXV to sing the national anthem. The US was at war in Iraq and the game between the New York Giants and Buffalo Bills was serving as a welcome respite from the televised reports of scud bombs and cease fires.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The pop star had recorded the vocal weeks before in a Los Angeles studio and lip-synched the song at the Super Bowl, but few in the crowd of 73,000 or the 110 million watching at home seemed to notice. …

Yahoo Sports

Fame, talent and riches aren’t everything. Rest in Peace.

Samuel Terrence McGuffie (born October 16, 1989) … a college football running back. …

TCO linked to this video. Sam’s an acrobat.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Not surprisingly …

McGuffie suffered three concussions during his freshman season.

The latest upload by iLITTER. A very cool edit. Nastia really should hire Chris as her videographer.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Enjoy that. It sounds like Nastia won’t be competing any apparatus at WOGA next weekend, after all. … Correct me if I’m mistaken.

That video was inspired by this edit for The Rock.

There’s plenty of women’s Collegiate commentary online this year. But my favourite has been the new Balance Beam Situation blog:

LIVE Friday, Feb. 10th:

… Over in Florida, Marissa King got a 9.725 on vault, so there’s no point to continue living. Alaina Johnson goes 9.950, so they’ll manage to get along somehow…They end up dropping King’s score and counting a 9.800 from Spicer. …

… Okay, we have to talk about Ashanee Dickerson going into the 9.9s on bars for the second time in a row at home…

… AH! Hunter goes 9.975 (and breaks 9.9 on all three of her events)- so Florida scores 49.625 on floor and ends with a new season record of 197.850.

LSU 196.85 at Florida 197.85 …

Some say scores were too high.

In the news, Brianna Brown of CGA has verballed to Georgia. This is not a surprise given the discussion a while back about Jay getting himself on board the CGA train in a big old way. Since Whitcomb, Jetter, and Williams were already spoken for, it was assumed he would be courting Brown and Hundley. Priessman is in a different boat since elite success in the next quad may alter her NCAA trajectory. …

Georgia records a strong 49.275 on vault, led by Ding’s 9.900. This is the pace they need to go over 197 this week (which should be the goal), but they will hope to go higher on bars, where they have a little more 9.9 potential. …

Ack – Shayla has another issue on bars for Georgia (it’s always something), meaning they will count Tanella’s 9.750 – opening the door for Arkansas who scored 49.300 on vault. Kat Ding saves the day, so Georgia scores a respectable 49.175 and maintain the lead over Arkansas by .250. …

Arkansas 195.875 at Georgia 196.825

Check out Balance Beam Situation. I do wish it had more photos and videos.

For scores & links, not funny commentary, go to College Gymnastics Fans.

I was worried for Oregon State this season. But they rocked a 197.4 this weekend.

Carol-Angela Orchard coached dozens of international gymnasts including Worlds Beam Bronze medalist Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs and Peng Peng Lee.

CA left Canada for the U.K. after the 2008 Olympics and married Eddie Van Hoof, British Men’s Technical Director. Currently she’s GBR Women’s National Coach – Beam & Artistic Preparation.

She’s available for clinics. Click PLAY or watch a short clip on BG TV.

http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1

I’m always keen to see how Beam coaches vary the height of the apparatus.