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I’ll be traveling Wednesday to my favourite gymnastics competition in the world, the Great West Gym Fest in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Feb. 25-27th.

Olympians confirmed, so far:

Kyle Shewfelt, Mohini, Lu Li (’92 bars gold medal), Joyce Tanac-Schroeder, Missy Marlowe, Jason Gatson, Ilian Alexandrov, Zdravko Stoianov …

Updates to come.

Jr. ALL AROUND:

Katelyn Ohashi (WOGA) 56.850
Madison Kocian (WOGA) 56.600
Arianna Guerra (Stars-TX) 55.400
Mackenzie Brannan (Capital)
Victoria Moors (Cambridge Kips/CANADA)
Lizzy LeDuc (WOGA)
Anne Kuhm (FRANCE)

Kocian won vault and floor exercise, Ohashi bars and beam
full Jr results

SENIOR ALL AROUND:

Marine Brevet (FRA) 55.250
Brandie Jay (GK’s) 54.200
Briley Casanova (WOGA) 54.150
Sophia Lee (WOGA)
Anysia Unick (Calgary/CAN)
Madeline Gardiner (Cambridge Kips/CAN)
Mira Boumejmajen (FRA)
Brenda Areli Medina (Gym Areba/MEX)

Brandie Jay (GK’s) won Vault. Jordyn Wieber the Bars. France’s Marine Brevet Beam. Anysia Unick won Floor.
full Sr results

Jordyn competed only 2 events.

Ivana Hong and Grace McLaughlin withdrew before the meet, reportedly not quite ready.

I’m getting all this from Mielastic who’s summarizing International Gymnast Magazine LIVE blog on Facebook.

Highlights to come. Weiber’s Bars 14.900. Ohashi’s Beam 15.900.

read more on Gymnastics Examiner

The No. 2 Stanford women’s gymnastics team improved upon its best-ever start by beating Arizona, 195.300-194.675 at McKale Center on Friday night. …

However, Stanford’s victory was tempered by an ankle injury suffered by fifth-year senior and all-arounder Allyse Ishino during the floor exercise. Ishino rolled her ankle …

Go Stanford

Snowbird Stu Cram was there, posting some pics on Facebook.

Gymn.ca is still adding Finals routine videos to their YouTube channel.

more interesting photos on the canadagames2011 flickr account

GymFever posted a number of artistic interpretations created by Lisa.

See more like this.

I’m quite happy with how this site is set up for sharing.

The icons on each post are self explanatory, … but why are there 2 Facebook icons?

The top one is simply to like a post. The bottom, with arrow, is if you want to add it to your own Facebook.

World Championships 17 – 20 November 2011

World Age Group Championships 24 – 27 November 2011

This will be the biggest Worlds ever as it’s an Olympic qualifying meet.

(via Full Twist)

Canucks are happy to hear that Trampoline will be included in the 2015 Canada Winter Games in Prince George, B.C. … But not happy that Double-mini and Tumbling are not.

Wow.

The 18th-ranked Penn State women’s gymnastics team scored a season-high 196.600 to take first place in the quad meet at Maryland. …

Go PSU Sport

OU 196.425, Florida 196.85, UGA 196.5, LSU 196.35, Utah 196.425, U of Michigan 195.425, Boise 196.250

Alabama had the big score of the night.

Career night by Stack-Eaton lifts Tide gymnasts to a pink romp over Kentucky

Geralen Stack-Eaton’s 39.675 AA is the high score of the season, tied.

I was joking when suggesting that Anysia Unick should get the cover of the March International Gymnast magazine.

She did.

Along with Victoria Moors and Madeline Gardiner.

One-Year Digital Magazine – $24.95
One-Year Print plus Digital Magazine – $30 U.S. ($40 CAN w shipping)

Subscriptions

Blythe Lawrence:

… In honor of this weekend’s WOGA Classic and WOGA Elite qualifier, which begin today in Frisco, Texas, I transcribed some notes from a handful of mini-interviews done with Liukin at gymnastics meets during the past year. …

Continue reading – The man with the plan: Q & A with Valeri Liukin – National Gymnastics | Examiner.com

I’m always keen to hear what Valeri has to say. That’s a great post.

He’s still quite convinced that He Kexin was underage at the Beijing Olympics. With the Chinese skaters now under investigation, likely Gymnastics is feeling the heat, too.

The IOC in 2010 concluded that there’s no way (yet) to accurately, easily determine age:

… The development and use of appropriate methods for determining age is not only necessary to ensure a level playing field, but also to protect the health and safety of the adolescent athlete.

… The available methods to determine chronological age in youth elite athletes, including blood samples, x-ray, ultrasound and MRI, are not sufficient.

The large variation in the timing of puberty that is considered within the range of normal, not to mention the occurrence of significantly delayed or precocious puberty, makes it difficult to ‘level the field’ in sport in relation to physical maturity. …

The International Olympic Committee Consensus Statement on age determination in high-level young athletes (PDF)