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Follow the action on the 2011 Canadian Gymnastics Championships blog.

That’s Wolfe Gazer-Ambrosino using an old school Deltchev Spagat. He won Rings in the National Youth Men division.

At National Championships in PEI 2011, Sam was #1 in the Argo division (boys age-9 to age-12).

He’s bilingual (like every Canadian:)). Kudos.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MjQ2NDkyMzU4?related=1

Couch Gymnast posted an international run down of some of the BIG NAMES for the next Olympic cycle:

… many junior gymnasts working up the ranks to make themselves known for the next cycle and beyond. Let’s take a look at some stand outs of the future. ….

Here’s one, Rebecca from Brazil.

Click PLAY or watch her Floor on YouTube.

… if you want to keep abreast of what is going on in the World of international juniors, Little Miss Gymnast, a blog devoted to junior gymnasts is a great place to start.

see many, many more videos on Couch Gymnast – 2016 and Beyond Junior Watch!

CONGRATS Jackson who won with 86.600, the top scores on FX, PH and HB.

Full results are linked on Gym Score Depot

Top 8 advance to Event finals on Saturday.

Apparatus medal contenders who did not do the AA include: Brandon O’Neill, Kevin Lytwyn, Ken Ikeda, Scott Morgan.

Kevin impressed by including Tak half immediate Def at the end of his routine. Unfortunately he missed the regrasp.

Our top gymnast, Nathan Gafuik, competed only Pommels. He told me that he’s physically and psychologically fatigued after competing at Chinese Championships and in Russia.

(via Canadian Gymnastics Championships blog)

All Around Finals were far better for the Senior Women than preliminaries. A number of different gymnasts could have taken the title. It was up for grabs.

Congratulations to Madeline for coming back so strong on Day 2. The preliminary day scores did not count. This was a “new life” or “sudden victory” competition.

Details and a RESULTS summary on International Gymnast

Gymnastics Examiner Quick Hits – LIVE blog

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Jessica had the highest all-around score in the Open prelims, as well as finishing #1 Bars.

Click PLAY or watch her Bars on YouTube. (15.750)

RESULTS are up on Gym Score Depot for Women’s …

• Open (All Ages) – Teams
• Open (All Ages) – Day 1
• Open (Age 13-15) – Day 1 (Prelim.)
• Open (Age 16 & up) – Day 1 (Prelim.)

Open is the level just below Elite, something like Level 10 in the USA.

(via Canadian Gymnastics Championships blog)

International Gymnast:

Following its 12th-place finish at last year’s world championships, the Puerto Rican men’s team has the potential to place among the top eight at this fall’s worlds in Tokyo, national team coach Jose Colon told IG this week.

“We are working to be in the top eight, because the team has enough experience and abilities to be there,” Colon said. “But if we don’t get that result, at least we expect to be in the top 12.”

The top eight teams at 2011 Worlds (Oct. 7-16 in Tokyo) will qualify for the 2012 Olympics in London; four additional teams will qualify for London based on their performances at a second qualification meet in early 2012.

Colon said likely contenders for the Puerto Rican team that will compete in Tokyo are Olympians Luis Rivera and Luis Vargas, Angel Ramos, Alexander Rodriguez, Rafael Morales, Reynaldo Oquendo, Tommy Ramos, Emanuel Gomez and Alexis Torres.

Puerto Rican Men Push for Top 8 at Tokyo Worlds

Click PLAY or watch Jack Helme on YouTube.

And here’s a bonus …

Emma Smith‘s currently tied with Irina Karavaeva for having the highest degree of difficulty on trampoline!!! She is also the first woman to have 3 triples in a routine!!

Click PLAY or watch Emma on YouTube.

Skills:
Triffus [p] 2.0
Half-in-Half-out Triffus [t] 1.8
Triffus [t] 1.7
Half-in-Half-out [p] 1.4
Full-in-Half-out [p] 1.5
Half-in-Rudy-out [p] 1.6
Rudy-out [p] 1.5
Half-in-Half-out [t] 1.2
Half-out [p] 1.3
Full-in-Full-out [s] 1.6

(via Trampolining on Facebook)

I saw the 60 Minutes interview with Tyler Hamilton. I’m convinced that he’s telling the truth. Lance is a doper.

Guardian – UCI strongly denies helping Lance Armstrong cover up positive test

The problem for us in “sport” is that some in the general public will assume that all high performance athletes are secret dopers.

That’s not true in Artistic gymnastics.

The 10yr-old phenom, tiny Shallon Olsen, is improving.

We were blown away by this vault.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Here’s her Floor routine with pike 1/1 in mount, triple twist dismount.

Click PLAY or watch her on YouTube.

Shallon (born 2000) trains at Omega Gymnastics in Vancouver.

Like many others, I’ve predicted that doing this much difficulty in competition would cause serious problems for her. Honestly, I can’t see any trouble yet.

She looks great.

As she grows, they’ll need to spend more time on basics, which certainly could be better.

Those videos via the 2011 Canadian Gymnastics Championships blog.

She leads the High Performance Novice division. Full results via Gym Score Depot