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The real winner of the 2000 Olympics maxed out at 5000 fans on her personal page.

So she started a Fan page, too. Like.

When Andreea ‘won’ the Olympics, she was tiny.

Perhaps 4’10” (148 cm) Weight: 82 lbs (37 kg).

Perhaps 149.0cm / 4.9ft Weight 41.0kg / 90.4lb

Tiny.

Close to the optimal size and weight for females doing advanced acrobatic skills.

Canada Winter Games
Artistic Gymnastics
Team Event

Insanely close between the top 3 teams.

Click through to the official results page to see how close.

Host Nova Scotia finished a best ever 4th as a team. Unofficially, Evan Cruz from NS was the top AA gymnast in prelims. Congratulations to coach Dave Kikuchi on the great result.

Artistic Gymnastics 28th July – 7th August 2012
Rhythmic Gymnastics August 9th – 12th 2012
Trampolining August 3rd – 4th 2012

I’m putting those dates on my calendar right now.

Katie on Full Twist is the first source I turn to for updates on what’s happening Olympics wise. She’s on Facebook and Twitter, as well, if you prefer.

Huang Huidan – UB EF 2010 XianTao Championship

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Huang Huidan and Zhang Jing are slated to competed at Wild Rose March 24-27th, 2011 according to the Chinese Gymnastics blog.

That link has other updates on March International assignments for China, too.

Started by discussion in blogs and chat rooms, It’s hit the mainstream media, and the IOC.

… “Definitely, if there is a discrepancy it must be solved,” Rogge said Monday in Prague.

… The discovery comes less than a year after the IOC stripped China of its 2000 Olympic bronze medal in women’s team gymnastics for using an underage girl. That violation was uncovered during an investigation into age fraud by China’s team that won the gold medal at the Beijing Games. The 2008 team later was cleared after Chinese officials provided original passports, ID cards and family registers showing all the gymnasts were old enough to compete. …

NANCY ARMOUR – Ages of Chinese skaters in question

… Among the skaters whose eligibility is in question are Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao, the 2006 Olympic pairs silver medalists …

USA Today

My guess is that this one will blow over. No repercussions whether China was guilty or not.

note: this post was originally incorrect. It’s been updated with the correct list. Thanks SEC fan

The Feb. 14th rankings are out from GymInfo.

I said that this past weekend would confirm whether or not Stanford was the #2 team in the nation.

And Stanford won both meets against tough opponents.

And Stanford set a school record for its best start ever.

But I’m still not convinced.

Right now it’s Florida flying high. And a log jam for #2.

The highest scores this year are Florida, Oklahoma, Alabama. I’m not sure Stanford can score high, unless Kristina Vaculik suddenly starts putting up 9.9+ on every apparatus.

I could even see UCLA getting it together for a 197.5 team score by Championships. They very nearly beat Stanford this weekend.

related – NCAA – Gators post fifth-highest total in program history

Amy Van Deusen is the long time editor of the About.com Guide to Gymnastics.

It’s a very popular site explaining our sport to the general public.

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Voting via this page will close March 8, 2011.

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Thanks About.com.

Called out by the Georgia Head Coach on the shellacking they took at the hands of #1 Florida:

… “There are some positives, but at some point I can not continue to gravitate towards the positives and try to find moral victories in what is, based on what we see every day at the gym, a lackluster, uninspired, chicken performance,” Clark said. …

Red and Black

Are they under performing?

Or out talented by Florida?

Jay Clark’s supposed to be the best recruiter in gymnastics today. He’s supposed to have the talent.

via It’s About Artistic Gymnastics

Scheduled for an April 2011 release:

Mr. Celzani finds himself consumingly in love with an Amazonian gymnast with whom he shares an apartment block. The machinations of their fellow inhabitants notwithstanding, he finds his romantic efforts repeatedly thwarted by his beloved’s single-minded focus on her rigorous physical discipline. …

Amazon

Actually that’s a reprint of a novella by Italian Edmondo de Amicis (1846–1908).

It could be interesting. An exploration of female fitness, sexual stereotypes and gender roles in nineteenth-century Italy