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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

Anthony Tawfik finished 1st on Pommel Horse in preliminaries of the Canadian National Championships with this routine. He’s competing in the Argo division (born 1998-2001).

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (14.55)

He’s coached by Zhaohui Huang. Last year’s Argo champion, Justin Karstadt, was from the same club, Futures.

Follow what’s happening in the Great White North via the Canadian Gymnastics Championships blog.

One of the great stories in gymnastics today.

Lopez, 25, is fresh off winning a gold medal in the uneven bars at the Moscow World Stars competition this month. …

“When you have someone who wants to work this hard, it’s not hard to coach them,” said Lopez’s coach, Nilson Savage, who also runs the Thornton gym.

… Lopez, though, “seems to get better with age,” said NBC commentator Elfi Schlegel, …. “(Lopez) was one of those late bloomers. I really believe her time at Denver enriched her gymnastics and helped her become a better competitor. She’s becoming more than she ever was in university. …

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Men’s Sr. Training Camp at Oklahoma. Nice edit. Watch video on the AT&T site as they are not providing an embed code.

Gymnastics Examiner has the full list – Who made event finals at the Canadian Championships?

Full results are linked from Gym Score Depot.

Elise Bolger – Photo by Grace Chiu on Facebook.

I felt the Junior competition was comparatively good. There were falls, especially on Bars, but the small group of competitors showed a lot of potential, much good gymnastics.

Some disagreed, calling it a splatfest.

The Senior competition was a splatfest. Especially on Bars. Read the LIVE blog on Gymnastics Examiner.

On the upside, gymnasts who were able to hit 4/4 ranked high in the all-around. Congratulations. Sarah Flett (age-21) made a strategic decision to try to go clean, leaving out her double layout on Floor (VIDEO), for example. It worked. Sarah finished a best ever 7th AA.

Having flown directly to this meet from the USA Level 10 Jr Olympics, it’s obvious that the American system (out of a perfect 10) is superior. Coaches and gymnasts are happier, healthier.

The Level 10 / NCAA requirements are reasonable. There’s some bonus for doing very difficult routines, but only a tenth or two. Chris Waller from UCLA noted that J.O. has written bonus, and unwritten bonus.

The Canadian Elite system streams some gymnasts (of about Level 10 ability) into FIG requirements. There’s too much incentive to compete high start values for those girls. Yet if Canada does not, how can they produce a National Team to compete at Worlds against Russia, USA and China?

It’s the dilemma faced by all the middle nations of the world.

Coaches will do what they must to win under any set of rules. The FIG rules we have now do not serve the best interests of our athletes and coaches.

When will they be improved?

It was a rocky meet. In the preliminary Senior competition those girls who opted for cleaner, safer routines were most successful. There were many falls.

1. Dominique Pegg 53.90
2. Kristin Klarenbach 52.675
3. Bianca Dancose-Giambatti 52.60
4. Jessica Savona 52.250
5. Talia Chiarelli 52.075
6. Shae Zamardi 50.80

Full results will be up soon on Gym Score Depot.

World class routine.
The highlight of the meet, so far, for me.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

That’s from the preliminary Junior Women’s competition.

(via Canadian Gymnastics Championships blog)

Victoria (53.00) leads the AA, as well, despite a fall on Beam. She over-rotated double tuck.