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The Bars coaches were not pleased.

… In the second rotation of the team competition, Ontario had major problems. Five of their seven competitors fell on Bars.

… they went to the balance beam and nailed it. Sabrina Gill, 2010 junior national champion, led the team and received the highest individual apparatus score of the evening with a 15.2. All four of Ontario’s scores on beam were above 14.0, totaling an impressive 58.2.

read more on the Canada Games Blog – Strong balance beam earns team gold for Ontario

Oakville coach Lorne Bobkin calls for the Beam coach to ‘get a raise’.

… Actually, the Ontario start scores are so high on Bars that they won the apparatus anyway.

1) Ontario
2) B.C.
3) Quebec

Jenn has more information and links on Gymn.ca.

Watch a video interview with the Ontario team.

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The first ‘perfect 10’ of the NCAA season.

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If that’s not ‘Stick of the Week’, I’ll be shocked.

Aunt Joyce linked that and other highlights videos from this weekend.

Unofficial. But I’m getting it from a pretty reliable source – their coach.

Top 3 AA in the preliminaries. Prelim scores do not count towards the top 36 AA Final, though. That’s ‘sudden victory’.

1. Sabrina Gill
2. Silvia Colussi-Pelaez
3. Mikaela Gerber

Congratulations to Sabrina. Another terrific result.

Top 3 teams in the Women’s Artistic competition at Canada Winter Games.

full results (PDF)

7 gymnasts per team All 7 gymnasts compete on each event
Best 4 scores per event contribute to the team score

Top 3 per province qualify for the All Around Finals plus others by AA scores for a total of 36 gymnasts

Top 8 per event qualify for each Event Final with a maximum of 2 gymnasts per province.

Wow.

Posted on Facebook by Kazukuni Ohno from Iketani Gymnastics in Japan.

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I saw this on Gymnastics Examiner. Thanks Blythe!

Kazukuni also posted a terrific Floor routine by Mai Murakami (double layout, double double). She’s competed that tumbling before, but not this well.

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That’s via American Gymnast.

Japan is the most underrated WAG nation right now. It will great to see their female gymnasts get media attention this year with Worlds in Tokyo.

92.20 AA for Legendre! NCAA’s top AA score of the season.

Legendre: FX-16.20 PH-14.60 SR-14.80 VT-16.70 PB-14.90 HB-15.00

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Wow. I didn’t see this coming. CONGRATS Steven.

UPDATE:

Stanford nips Michigan at the end to win (196.800). U-M posts a 196.500 to take 2nd, Nebraska takes 3rd 195.400

@Michigan_WGym

Congrats to Kylee for the first 10.0 of the NCAA season.

Kylee Botterman is inspired by love.

Video to come.

This multi-sport competition for ‘younger’ competitors is kind of a big deal in Canada. It’s a blast to participate.

Competition starts today.

But if you know nothing about this meet you might be interested to know how absurd are the rules.

PEI (population 141,551), Yukon (population 34,246), and Newfoundland (population 509,200) must each field a team to compete against Ontario (population 13,000,000) and Quebec (population 8,000,000).

There are more people in the Toronto subway than in all of Yukon.

Does that sound fair to you?

I’ve worked with gymnast from those smaller Provinces at training camps. My advice: … try to beat Ontario on the execution score. … Don’t worry about difficulty.

Good luck to everyone in Halifax.

official website – Artistic Gymnastics

related post – Gymnastics set to begin at Canada Games

For a while there, it seemed to be all bad news out of Spain.

But since Jesus Carballo Jr. took over as President, things are looking up, up, up.

Couch Gymnast posted the best summary so far of what’s happening there:

… Carballo is hoping to make some major improvements to the state of Spanish gymnastics, a nation which hasn’t achieved what it was threatening in some impressive performances back in the 1998-2000 period.

“I practically live at the Federation (…) I go there at 8.30am and go away at about 9pm. On weekends I try to move around Spain visiting clubs and autonomous federations. I also meet marketing and publicity companies (…) We can’t live only off grants, which is now eighty percent of our budget. We need to make gymnastics financially profitable. I’d like to take gymnastics to more sectors, for it to have more visibility”.

In the same interview, Jesus Carballo Senior (National WAG coach) talked about his expectations for Tokyo 2010 and the Olympics. He disputes the fact that Spain’s economic situation is the primary reason for their lack of recent success in the sport.

“Crisis? The National Sport Council has good facilities and we won’t run out of resources to go to the Olympics. If we don’t classify it won’t be because we have less money”. …

read more on Couch Gymnast – Spanish Gymnastics: Changes Ahead

That post links to an article on farodevigo.es (Google translate)

… In another recent article, Carballo also claimed that Spain has 8,000 licensed gymnasts (most of them from WAG), in comparison to Germany, where there are five millon gymnasts. …

Click over to American Gymnast to see one of the skills named after Carballo, on H Bar.

If you like The Onion’s warped sense of humour, … and have no Valentine, you’ll like this.

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If that offends you and your Valentine, get some warm and fuzzy tips for the day from University of Michigan’s Kylee Botterman (VIDEO).

Kylee’s happily engaged. … I’m happily single. That’s my story. And I’m sticking with it.