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Click PLAY or watch her Bars on YouTube.

Sabrina has the best video profile online of any Canadian gymnast. CONGRATS.

The USA Gymnastics Trampoline and Tumbling program offers numerous scholarships each year to trampoline and tumbling athletes. This year, a total of $30K was awarded to deserving athletes.

Steven Gluckstein Jeff T. Hennessey $5,000
Savannah Vinsant George Nissen $5,000
Justin Hackett Jordan Bonne $5,000
Drew Collins Tyson Smith $2,500
Tanner Page Tyson Smith $2,500
Alaina Williams USA Gymnastics T&T $2,500
Alicia Powder USA Gymnastics T&T $2,500
Neil Gulati USA Gymnastics T&T $2,500
Justin Celeski USA Gymnastics T&T $1,500
Kristle Lowell USA Gymnastics T&T $1,500
Kristin Day USA Gymnastics T&T $1,500

details on USAG

CONGRATS

I was disappointed to see that Cirque du Soleil cash awards were not presented to Sr. Gold medalists & coaches this year at the Canadian Championships. Budget cuts, I understand.

NAILED it.

He said he trained 3 months for the stunt. Into a foam pit and onto an airbag set-up.

Jed Mildon became the first BMX rider to successfully complete a triple back flip. The 24-year-old New Zealander completed the stunt in front of an estimated 2,000 onlookers in his home town of Taupo, New Zealand, making it into the Guinness Book of World Records.

Click PLAY or watch it on CBS.

http://cnettv.cnet.com/av/video/cbsnews/atlantis2/cbsnews_player_embed.swf

Available NOW here … mostly Men and Women’s Artistic.

The latest issue just posted by editor Ivan Cuk.

read it here

Those articles are now being indexed in indexed in OPEN-J GATE, GET CITED, ELECTRONIC JOURNAL INDEX, SCIRUS, NEW JOUR, INDEX COPERNICUS and GOOGLE SCHOLAR so you may see them elsewhere, online.

There’s a new forum in which you can discuss any article, but it’s not caught on as yet. Istvan welcomes you to give him some feedback on Science of Gymnastics Journal.

David Durante, Chellsie Memmel, Steve McCain, Olga Karmansky will perform at the U.S. Pavilion in Venice, Italy, June 4-Nov. 27, 2011.

USAG posted some preview photos of the gymnasts from a performance called Gloria.

More photos. Details on USAG.

Jessica Savona finished 2nd all-around at the Canadian Championships 2011.

She won Floor and Beam, as well. And had the highest Vault score in prelims with double twisting Yurchenko.

For Worlds 2011 in October, Tokyo, I see Savona as anchor for the Canadian Team. I’d love to see her compete the all-around. (She hit 3/3 at Worlds 2010, Rotterdam)

Why?

The goal for Tokyo is top 8 in the 3-up, 3-count Team competition.

AJ corrected me. The team qualification to the Olympics is from prelims: 6 girls – 5 compete each apparatus – 4 scores count.

Still … if Canada is to get into the top 8 they’ll need high start scores. HIT 16/20 at least, missing no more than 1 routine / apparatus.

That’s not impossible.

Savona has high start scores.

Savona is psychologically strong, too. A warrior. Enthusiastic. Tough. Energetic. She won’t get fatigued by end of a long meet in a strange land.

Click PLAY or watch an (older) montage on YouTube.

Kristina Vaculik is taking a year off the Stanford team, returning to her home gym (Gemini) to work with her old coaches, Elena Davydova and Valery Yahchybekov. That’s huge. A big sacrifice on the part of Kristina, much appreciated.

Canada was 13th in 2010 with what you’d generously call an “average” meet.

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For Second Olympic Qualification – Test Event January 2012, London, it’s a different story. If Canada must go, only the top 4 teams (#9-#12) get to the Olympics. Most teams will have new age eligible gymnasts. The rules change between Tokyo and London.

A different mix of gymnasts may be needed. Consistency may be more important than start scores.

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Savona’s Commit Status on College Gym Fans: Available

She’s focused on the immediate goal, for now.

LOT o’ flippin’ and twistin’

Click PLAY or watch him on YouTube.

Thanks Brett.

Payne won the all-round title on the opening night of the senior men’s competition at the Canadian championships, … in Charlottetown, P.E.I.

Payne, 19, finished with the top three scores on the high bar, the floor and the pommel horse on Thursday, …

The reigning champ, Nathan Gafuik, pulled out of the competition after a sub-par start on the pommel.

“I am happy with the results, but I also know that in some events I can score higher. There’s room for improvement there,” Payne said …

read more on the Edmonton Journal – Payne’s plan right on track
Edmonton gymnast prepares for a run at 2012 Olympics

I saw that linked by Blythe on Gymnastics Examiner – The gymnastics week in review: Nationals, Nationals, Nationals…

Essential reading for me as I’d missed much of what happened last week, consumed by the PEI competition.

Ono sends us this link to the NY Times:

… two groups are asking the National Collegiate Athletic Association to recognize a new version of cheerleading as an “emerging sport” for women, a precursor to full status as a championship sport. If successful, dozens of athletic programs could begin to fully finance cheerleading teams, recruit scholarship athletes and send them to a national championship.

The implications go beyond giving cheerleading a stamp of legitimacy. If this more athletic form of cheerleading — technically known as competitive cheer — evolves into a sport with rigorous competitions and standards, college athletics programs will be able to count the new teams for the purposes of complying with Title IX, the federal law banning gender discrimination in education.

The development could provide relief to institutions that have struggled to show they are offering enough opportunities for women, who make up 53 percent of students at Division I institutions, but just 46 percent of all athletes. …

Yet even as the idea has been met with enthusiasm, a fight has broken out between two groups competing to have their vision approved by the N.C.A.A. Each of the proposals calls for athletic displays that incorporate elements of traditional cheerleading, like flips and pyramids, but the groups differ over how to administer and run the new sport.

One group, USA Cheer, is backed by Varsity Brands, a for-profit company that sells pompoms and uniforms and has been running competitions for high school and college cheerleaders for decades. The other group is the National Collegiate Athletics and Tumbling Association, which comprises six universities that have been competing against one another for the last couple of years and have the support of USA Gymnastics. …

read more – Born on Sideline, Cheering Clamors to Be Sport