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by site editor Rick McCharles

I’ll be at Nationals all this week, editor of the official blog.

Check there for LIVE coverage of the event.

We expect plenty of media coverage. I’ll post summaries here on Gymnastics Coaching each day.

Everything looks GREAT, so far. Day 1, podium training.

LeslieHannahTV sends us this funny, familiar conversation.

Level 5 Gymnastics Bar Routine Perfect 10 Score?

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Liu Xuan will forever be remembered as the first (and only?) girl to compete 1-arm giant.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

What a shame FIG killed the 1-arm giant. I love it.

Washington Post:

Meet the new Liu Xuan, Hong Kong actress-singer.

A decade after taking gold in Sydney, the 30-year-old former gymnast has launched a second career in this financial center, which is also a hub for the Chinese-language entertainment industry.

After retiring in 2001, Liu has dabbled as an actress, host, gymnastics judge and commentator. She graduated from the elite Peking University with a degree in journalism in 2005. But she has focused on an entertainment career since signing in 2009 with leading Hong Kong broadcaster TVB, the former training ground for the likes of Stephen Chow, Wong Kar-wai and Chow Yun-fat.

This has been Liu’s coming-out year — she released her debut pop album with a Hong Kong label in February and starred in a 30-episode TVB kung fu drama released in March.

Liu said she wants to show that elite athletes can successfully reinvent themselves after their days of competition end. She serves as an example for mainland Chinese athletes who trade their childhoods for rigorous sports programs that can leave them with little other career skills.

… read more – Olympic gold medalist gymnast plunges into Hong Kong entertainment career

(via Chinese Gymnastics Blog)

Following world championships have been assigned by the Council:

2015 Rhythmic Gymnastics – GER – City of Stuttgart;
2015 Trampoline Gymnastics – DEN – City of Odense;
2015 Artistic Gymnastics – GBR – City of Glasgow

FIG

Whilst Beth Tweddle has more than hinted she will retire after London 2012, hopefully it will persuade more of the current crop of seniors to stick around for another olympic cycle …

On a related note, the Liverpool girls (Tweddle, Whelan, Pinches, Caig, Tunney & Jameson) have won the 2011 British team title. …

1 – 167.200 – Liverpool
2 – 154.400 – Cardiff Central
3 – 153.850 – Heathrow

Going for Gold

USA GYMNASTICS NATIONAL CONGRESS and TRADE SHOW
Held in conjunction with 2011 VISA Championships
August 17-20, 2011
Saint Paul River Centre, Saint Paul, Minn.

Something for Everyone!

… Club Owners, Recreational Instructors/Teachers, Offices Managers, Program Managers, and more!

This year’s event will feature 3 days of education with more than 175 sessions.

Sessions are provided on coaching, judging, business, preschool, school age, fitness and cheerleading. Attendees will also have the ability to learn from leading experts from all 6 disciplines Women’s, Men’s, Rhythmic, Acrobatics, and Gymnastics for All.

In addition, USA Gymnastics is excited to announce 2 NEW offerings to the educational line up! Hands on Spotting sessions and Certification sessions will be offered and included in the price of registration. …

details on the 2011 National Congress and Trade Show

Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

Here’s the preliminary list Topics and Presenters (PDF)

One new session I’d love to see is

Games Warm Ups for Bars – John Carney/Laurie Reid

John is Bars coach at Oregon State.

Prices vary. Check the Registration page to find out the cost to you.
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If your main interest is how to MAKE MONEY at Gymnastics, sign up for the Wednesday National Business Conference. ($150 current Member Club, $250 Non Member Clubs)

Separate registration via the link above.

Congress already has a Business Stream, so the extra Wednesday is BONUS.

I enjoyed this mini-documentary feature in German on 35yr-old Oksana Chusovitina

She’s old. She’s had multiple surgeries. She’s not perfect. …

But she’ll still kick the butt of almost every gymnast in the world on Vault. I’ll be heartbroken if she doesn’t qualify for London, her 6th Olympics.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (9min)

At the recent Moscow World Cup:

… Germany’s Oksana Chusovitina won her upteenth career gold on vault, largely based on her difficulty (Chusovitina’s D-score point total was 11.4 compared to Kurbatova’s 10.5). …

Gymnastics Examiner

More than 80 gymnasts competed in the first USA Gymnastics Special Olympics Championships, held May 7, 2011, at the Cobb County Gymnastics Center in Marietta, Ga.

The one-day event featured competition in artistic gymnastics (men, women and unified), rhythmic gymnastics (individual, group and unified) and TeamGym. The competition wrapped up with a gala, which involved all of the athletes.

Gymnasts from 10 states participated …

read more on USAG

Aunt Joyce, still on a bit of a hiatus, posted all 4 routines from (I think) Grishina’s 59.925 Zakharova Cup AA win. Those scores may have the Russian bonus inflation 1.0, I’m not sure.

Click PLAY or watch Vault on YouTube.

See the other 3 apparatus.

Yesterday Antwerp was awarded what I always call the “unimportant Worlds” (2013), the first after the Olympics. The one won by Bridget Sloan, last time around.

The important World Championships are those qualifying for Olympics.

Here’s the Disney themed USA bid for 2015, the meet that will qualify for Olympics in Brazil.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

FIG will announce the 2015 host city Sunday.

(via The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook)

Two-time Russian Olympian Anna Pavlova won four of five gold medals at the 11th Dityatin Cup, held Wednesday and Thursday in St. Petersburg.

Pavlova, 23, led a Russian sweep of the top seven gymnasts in the senior all-around. Alyona Polyan topped Yulia Lozhechko, a former national team member, for the silver.

Pavlova picked up event golds on every event but uneven bars, which were won by Lithuania’s Laura Svilpaite. …

Russia swept the top four spots in the senior men’s all-around. Dmitry Stolyarov won the title over Denis Ablyazin, Eldar Yunusov and Emin Garibov. …

results and details on IG – Pavlova, Stolyarov Win Alexander Dityatin Cup

I’d love to see Pavlova at Worlds. But Double Front on Facebook is reporting (unofficially) that at Zakharova Cup Women’s AA Final Grishina went 59.925.