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This Texas Dreamer got a perfect score on Beam today. I want to see that routine.

Her Bars were not quite as good. Only 9.875. 🙂

via @KimZmeskal

Or is he only ‘planning’ to start coaching Trampoline again?

More bad press for the sport:

Gymnasts Accuse Colorado Coach Of Sex Abuse, Torture

CBS Denver – February 9, 2012

In that article, some of his former athletes get much more specific in their allegations:

Anne Malver (now age-51)
Denise Gallion (now age-50)
Charmaine Carnes

A fourth did not reveal her name, but claims Boger got her pregnant at age-15, leading to an abortion.

Taime Evans-Vincelli, is (painfully) specific in what happened to her in comments #34 and #35 on this post – in defence of Doug Boger

Reacting to former Boger athletes who defend him, Taime points out:

Just because a serial killer didn’t kill you, doesn’t mean he hasn’t killed.

In fact, Taime Evans-Vincelli was the sister of one of Boger’s athletes. (Her athlete sister was never approached.)

As I’ve previously reported on this site, many of Doug’s former athletes & parents have come to his defense. Many believe he’s innocent even in the face of damning statements from ladies who have not much to gain by coming forward.

As you know, Doug Boger was put on the USA Gymnastics “permanently ineligible list” list June 2010. He’s not allowed to coach at any USAG member gym.

But that doesn’t stop him from coaching at non-affiliated gyms.

Is Doug Boger coaching now?

related – OC Register – USA Gymnastics tightens rules on banned coaches (Updated: Nov. 9, 2011)

Leave a comment if you know more. … We’ve not heard the end of Doug Boger.

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His last club domain name is defunct: ArtSportsWorld.com

Has there been a name change?

UPDATE – The old URL now redirects to a new name – Trampoline World

Triple twisting double back in training. Look out Kohei!

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Mai has recovered from elbow surgery and will be trying for the Japanese Olympic team.

More training videos.

She’s coached by Yukio Iketani.

(via Byers coach / Japanese translator Akiko Kawai on Facebook)

Chow’s gymnast Norah Flatley debuted her amazing new beam routine for her first year in level 10 for the Gymnastike camera at the 2012 IGI Chicago Style. Norah won the event title with a 9.70.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/NDQ2NjAzMjM2?related=1

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

Chicago Style – all RESULTS

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.