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Blythe linked to 21yr-old Lim Heem Wei on her gymnastics week in review.

LIM Heem Wei is one of six shortlisted candidates for the ‘Today’s Athlete of the Year 2010′ award.

Singapore Gymnastics

Click PLAY or watch her Commonwealth Games Beam routine on YouTube.

D- 4.8 E- 8.025 = 12.825 2nd Place

(via The World Gymnast)

Luxembourg 1930 saw the first official apparatus rankings.

Yugoslav Josip Primozic went down in history as the first world champion on floor exercise.

Floor exercises continued to be done on grass even at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. Switzerland dominated the world scene in the thirties, not only on floor. 1934 world champion Georg Miez, who placed second in 1930, took the gold on floor in 1936 …

The English and Germans pioneered special floor exercise mats (‘sprung floors’) as early as the twenties as well as the Danes in the thirties

… read more

photo – Georg Miez (1932)

Each Wednesday we are linking to a different apparatus posted on GymMEDIA – Apparatus HISTORY. (English and German)

Opening ceremonies for the Canada Winter Games in Halifax are Friday.

Word out of Ontario is that their team is ready. I’m calling them the team to beat.

So far as I know, Shallon Olsen (2yrs underage) and Emma Sibson (American) are both still competing for B.C.

… I don’t know the Men’s teams nearly as well. Who are the favourites this year?

Dr. Jeni McNeal on the summit … pack, rope, crampons and all.

Stevens Peak Climb by David Adlard on Facebook

There may be some sort of announcement by Thursday.

NY Times:

When the University of California, Berkeley, announced it was eliminating five varsity teams last fall, the decision was sold as a necessary sacrifice by a university reeling from severe cuts in state aid.

Four months later, the university finds itself in a dilemma caused by a largely overlooked consequence of that decision. The cutting of two women’s teams — lacrosse and gymnastics — threw the Cal athletic department out of compliance with the federal gender-equity law known as Title IX. …

UC Berkeley May Restore Teams to Satisfy Title IX

What if the school backpedals, keeping the two women’s teams and dropping the men?

That would be awful for the men’s team that has worked hard to survive via the Cal Gymnastics Forever website.

Freshmen:
Matthew del Junco
Josh Van Bourg

Sophomores:
Donothan Bailey
Steven Lacombe
Jeffrey Langenstein
Dennis Mannhart
Christian Monteclaro
Jean Monteclaro

Juniors:
Nic Blair
Daniel Culpepper
Glen Ishino
Jacob Jizrawi
Jim Kerry
Raion Sabo

Senior:
Kyle Bunthuwong [C]
Bryan del Castillo
Michael del Junco
Daniel Geri [C]
Eric Haeussler

Tim McNeill – Head Coach
Colin Christ – Assistant Coach

Update: Jason set the permissions to see these photos to friends of friends. I’m friends with Dave Durante, so I can see them.

Lets all curse Facebook for their confusing, ever changing security settings.

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Photoshoot for USA Gymnastics in Las Vegas at the Winter Cup Challenge.

Retired Dave Durante looks the most ripped.

Photographer Jason Lavengood of ishphoto.

See more pics on Facebook.

From the Chinese Gymnastics blog:

Update on the upcoming March competitions from Coach Lu’s blog:

Huang Qiushuang will compete at 3/5 American Cup (how about JYY?)

Tan Sixin and Yao Jinnan (her long-awaited international debut!) for 3/11-3/13 Cottbus Cup

some (internationally) new gymnasts for 3/24-3/27 Wild Rose in Canada,

several veterans from 2010 Rotterdam will be at 3/19-3/20 French Internationals

Paris will be He Kexin, Deng Lin Lin, Wu Lifang, Siu Lu and Huang Qiushuang.

Sixin Tan of China competes in the Women’s floor final on day eight of the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympics at Bishan Sports Hall on August 22, 2010 in Singapore.

source – ESPN

New Juniors joined Chinese national WAG team after the National Gymnastic Training Camp in January:

Luo Pieru, Chen Li, Liang Lixia –GuangDong
Zhou Gabei –Team HuNan
Bai Delan –Team BeiJing
Pan Ni- Team AnHui
Li Shanshan(different from 08OG:) – Team HeBei
Zeng Panpan- Team Guizhou

read more Chinese Gymnastics – Recent News on Chinese WAG

Does your country have a national magazine for your sport?

Mine doesn’t. And hasn’t since the 1980s.

That might be changing …

Gymnastics Canada is asking Canadians to take an online survey by February 21st. That input will “help shape” a possible Gymnastics in Canada online magazine.

One sample question:

results of the survey so far.

To participate, Canadians need be invited by email. Check with your Provincial Federation to see how to get one of those emails.

European Championships will be hosted by Berlin April 4-10th.

First Hambuchen was injured out with a snapped Achilles.

Now another one of their stars, Matthias Fahrig, will miss the meet in his home country.

… The 25–year-old is joining the German army and will start the compulsory six week basic training on 1 March in order to be able to prepare intensively for the World Championships in October.

Until recently, Fahrig was one of the few members of the German men’s team not to have joined the army, choosing instead to pursue a career in the health and fitness industry. Fahrig’s employer, a clinic for sports rehabilitation, was unable to prolong his contract and he decided to join the army to secure his professional future and sporting career. As a member of a special sports group of the German army, athletes receive a monthly salary and are able to train full time.

… The cost is picked up by the German taxpayer. Fahrig also needs to undergo treatment on his jaw, he already had a number of operations in the run-up to the 2010 World Championships. …

German head coach Andreas Hirsch has stated that the team’s main focus is on the Tokyo World Championships in October where they want to qualify to the Olympics. …

read more on THE ALL AROUND

Fabian Hambüchen, Philipp Boy, Marcel Nguyen, Matthias Fahrig and Evgeny Spiridonov were the team that won Europeans last time round.

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