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Couch Gymnast, inspired by the latest gymnastics documentary out of the U.K. called The Gymnast, reflects historical:

… The British have always been good at bringing the World a gymnastics documentary. For a country who was only recently climbed the ranks they have had quite a fascination with their gymnasts and the worlds they inhabit. This should not be that surprising. Consider the nineties, when the USA finally became a real power in gymnastics, there was a spate of documentaries coming from that proud nation.

The British have kept them coming for years however, and they are generally of good quality with interesting insights on the lives of those involved in the sport. …

Gymnastics Documentaries: A British Thing?

One of those she links to is another BBC documentary featuring Venus and Angel Romaeo.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

related – Gymnasts from Winnipeg were extras in a new movie based on the “tween-friendly American Girl line of dolls, books, fashion and activities”. (via IG)

Since I’m not there this year, there won’t be much internet coverage.

I’m not sure the bloggers there can handle it. 🙂

Tandoori re-unites with Anne Phillips

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McKayla Maroney vault podium training 2011 Visa Championships.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Her vault sets a very high standard for comparison with the rest.

… she warmed up a superb wonderful 3.5 on floor, as well.

Men’s Floor

1) Flavius Koczi (ROU)
2) Ryuzo Sejima (JPN)
3) Shoichi Yamamoto (JPN)

Men’s Pommel Horse

1) Prashanth Sellathurai (AUS)
2) Donna Donny Truyens (BEL)
3) Flavius Koczi (ROU)

Men’s Rings

1) Arthur Zanetti (BRA)
2) Samir Ait Said (FRA)
2) Chihyu Chen (TPE)

Men’s Vault

1) Flavius Koczi (ROU)
2) Nathan Gafuik (CAN)
2) Ran Cheng (CHN)

Men’s Parallel Bars

1) Guanyin Wang (CHN)
2) Marius Berbecar (ROU)
3) Rongbing Liu (CHN)

Men’s Horizontal Bar

1) Xuezhang Chen (CHN)
2) Mykola Kuksenkov (UKR)
3) Hiroki Ishikawa (JPN)

Women’s Vault

1) Hyunjoo Jo (KOR)
2) Anna Myzdrikova (RUS)
3) Alena Polyan (RUS) & Hiuyingangel Wong (HKG)

Women’s Uneven Bars

1) Yu Minobe (JPN)
2) Mai Yamagishi (JPN)
3) Angelina Kysla (UKR)

Women’s Balance Beam

1) Yu Minobe (JPN)
2) Wenli Guan (CHN)
3) Mai Yamagishi (JPN)

Women’s Floor

1) Alena Polyan (RUS)
2) Keiko Mukumoto (JPN)
3) Kanjun Xiao (CHN)

full results via Double Front

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Chinese Gymnastics Blog has all-around results with videos linked to scores. (Always the best way to link to videos. Thanks.)

Click PLAY or watch AA Champ Xiao Kangjun’s Bars on YouTube. (15.00)

It seems so special to see a tall and womanly gymnast from China. Congratulations on your title.

She had retired in 2005 due to injury. Yet persisted to come back for this, the highlight of her career.

Click through to Chinese Gymnastics Blog for more of the top routines.

Gymnastics – No Ceiling has commentary on the meet.

The 1984 Olympic silver medalist, Katy Szabo, is bitter. All WAG coaches should read this, if only to see how much elite gymnastics has improved since the ‘prison camp gym’ era in Romania.

When she was 6 years old, the young athlete arrived at the Onesti center, where Bela and Martha were coaching.

“I started school in Onesti. This was the first school in the world specialized in gymnastics. Every 2 weeks I went back home, 70km away, but my parents also came to visit. It was a difficult time in my life. I went away from my family, my friends, from childhood. Everything was calculated. We could eat very little. Those who could not keep up were eliminated immediately. They used to weigh us many times a day. There were really strict measures and this was the key for success. The famous gymnasts ignored us, they were indifferent. No one expected us to compete with them. Stress and hard work consumed us up to exhaustion. Not to forget that the coaches used to beat us. I lost count of the beatings …

Harsh.

fangymnastics –
Katy Szabo: “I happily come to Romania, the country that humiliated me so many times!” @ Jurnalul National

… Pit Gym during a Week 10 morning instructional period. It is campers first day at camp, and they have the chance to adapt to new coaches, great equipment, fill out their goal sheets and more. …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

related post – Camp Woodward SOLD

Amanda Turner posted one of her succinct summary posts on International Gymnast. Thanks once again!

China’s Xiao Kangjun and Ukraine’s Nikolai Kuksenkov won the all-around titles at the University Games, held Monday in Shenzhen, China. …

MAG
1. Nikolai Kuksenkov (Ukraine) 89.05
2. Shoichi Yamamoto (Japan) 88.90
3. Nathan Gafuik (Canada) 88.35

WAG
1. Xiao Kangjun (China) 56.70
2. Mai Yamagishi (Japan) 56.10
3. Alyona Polyan (Russia) 55.35

read more (AA results and LIVE video link)

This week, Stoi! is mostly studying pre-flights on vault. …

See many, many more good BAD EXAMPLES – Ode to Fug Pre-Flights.