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Dave Adlard sends us the terrible news.

Olympian Tracee Talavera-Kent and her husband Gray lost their 4 year old son recently in a freak accident.

The gymnastics community mourns with them.

The grande dame defeated all the girls half her age in Cottbus.

1. Oksana Chusovitina (GER) – 14.312 (5.90/5.50)
2. Giulia Steingruber (SUI) – 14.250 (6.30/5.20)
3. Nadine Jarosch (GER) – 13.587 (5.30/4.60)

… Chusovitina, the 2003 World vault champion, showed her standard and difficult handspring front layout full and Tsukahara 1.5 twists to average 14.312. …

more on Examiner.com: World stars shine on day one of Cottbus Cup finals

Bea is at the World Cup in Germany:

Jinnan Yao – she looks very nice, very stretched, hits her handstands and her pirouettes… she had the specific problems with the transfer from low to high bar and a small step on landing. The title was decided between her and Seitz – they gave it to Yao in the end… She was my favorite too, she simply has a lightness of movement. …

results and more commentary on Gymnastics – No Ceiling – Cottbus World Cup – Uneven Bars

14,775 (6,4)

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Yao Jinnan and Tan Sixin made a splash in their first Sr. International, the Challenger Cup Cottbus (GER)

For commentary, click over to Couch Gymnast – Cottbus Qualification Results

Starting in 2011, the former FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cups of the category B will run under the label “FIG Challenge Cup” and represent an open series. This year, all FIG Challenge Cups stage Individual Apparatus Finals.

Prize money of 25,000 CHF …

FIG

Full MAG and WAG prelim results.

9.900 UB Open Team Cup Video by Gordon Estes

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That’s from Gymnastics Examiner – Must-see stuff from the Houston National Invitational with links to …

Joey Hagerty – H Bar: It was the final routine of the distinguished but often under-the-radar career

Charlie Tamayo – Floor

Level 10 gymnast scored a perfect 10 on floor at the 2011 Alamo Classic in San Antonio!

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/OTUzNDc2MTgz

Watch more video of 2011 Alamo Classic on gymnastike.org

What’s with the recent J.O. perfect 10s?

This was a good routine. But with a number of conspicuous small deductions.

New daughter of coaches Jeremy and Sheena. Congratulations.

original on Facebook

Julie Croket (BEL) wins AA ending floor with full-in pike, back 1.5-Rudi, back 2.5-fr full, dbl pike; Maddie Gardiner 2nd with super beam including dbl wolf turn, Onodi, side aerial change leg, dbl pike dismount; Asuka Teramoto (JPN) 3rd.

via Grace Chiu on Facebook

Peng Peng Lee went 14.30 on Bars with Jaeger, Bhardwaj (Pak full), dbl layout dismt.

10.00 UB Open Team Cup Video by Gordon Estes

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Nice. (From our angle we can see small form breaks on cast.)

Note that Briley doesn’t arch over the low bar, unusual for a WOGA gymnast. She started there at age-6, coached by Valeri and Anna Liukin from early on.

(via Bloop …)

Amy Chua has been a Professor at Yale Law School since 2001.

She came into public attention recently after publishing her third book, a parenting memoir, titled Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.

In it she describes her efforts to raise her children in a strict Chinese tradition.

According to a Wall Street Journal article her 2 daughters were not allowed to:

attend a sleepover
have a playdate
be in a school play
complain about not being in a school play
watch TV or play computer games
choose their own extracurricular activities
get any grade less than an A
not be the No. 1 student in every subject except gym and drama
play any instrument other than the piano or violin
not play the piano or violin

In 2011 western children lead lives too undisciplined, in my opinion. For many sport is the only area of their lives with rigour. Responsibility. Accountability. Consequences.

The Chinese Gymnastics Blog took up this topic, linking to an extreme GTM (Gymnastics Tiger Mother), Dr Leow Mei Ling. Her daughter is Malaysian gymnast Emma Ooi.

details on New Straits Times

OK … That family takes discipline too far.

This is a starting point for a long discussion. Leave a comment if you have an opinion.