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.
Shannon … was in Seattle today to promote next month’s Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships …
… About that double-twisting Yurchenko…Miller, who most often competed a half-twisting Yurchenko or 1.5 twist on vault, remembers doing a DTY at “one competition…I’m not sure that it was very pretty.” (The meet was a U.S. Classic, she thinks, but she’s not entirely sure.) For gymnastics fans, Miller’s DTY is something of a unicorn — a few people have sworn they’ve seen one, but it’s very rare.
Vault utterly terrified her. Miller referred to her “My coach called me knob knees, and I had little toothpick legs, that didn’t generate much power on vault,” she said. As an event, vault was her “nemesis,” she said.
She’s “not a big fan” of the current code of points. “I hope that we get back to more artistry in the sport so that there’s a better balance between the beauty of gymnastics and the difficulty of the skills,” she said. …
She and Huang Qiushuang both fell (VIDEO) at Worlds the year prior. 😦
I don’t see any way China would bring He Kexin to the London Olympics — unless they decide to forfeit a chance for Team medal in exchange for more apparatus medals. … Possible, but unlikely.
Couch Gymnast has news on who China will send to upcoming events, including a list for Pacific Rim that was translated from a Chinese blog.
Most exciting is the return of China’s best ever Vault / Floor competitor, Cheng Fei:
… Zibo World Cup, the latest in the official FIG World Cup series is being contested in April in China. The FIG has published the list of entries … the most exciting to see is Cheng Fei, who has been out of action for far too long. She was expected to compete at the Universiade last year, but had to pull out due to a last-minute injury. Now early in this year, with her competing at Cottbus and Zibo we might get a chance to see if she is a viable Olympic team member. Fingers crossed …
The seventh-ranked UCLA gymnastics team (4-1, 3-1 in Pac-12) will face three other Top 20-ranked teams in No. 15 Boise State, No. 18 Missouri and No. 19 Illinois at the IGI/Chicago Style Classic at Navy Pier on Friday, Feb. 10 at 7:30 pm CT.
