Rumours of the death of NCAA Division 1 men’s gymnastics program at Cal Berkeley have been exaggerated. There’s still hope. But not much time.
A committee from Cal Gymnastics Forever met with the Athletic Director, Sandy Barbour & Deputy Athletic Director Steve Holten on March 2nd 2011. It was spelled out very clearly that the Chancellor was open to the idea reinstatement if we come to the table with 4 million dollars in pledges spanning a 5 year period. …
… brought a disciplinary suit against a Chinese Men’s Artistic Gymnastics judge for having violated the ethical code and judging rules.
The incident took place at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou (CHN) in November of 2010, during the Men’s Artistic Floor Final.
A Chinese judge on the Difficulty panel, Mr Shao Bin, modified an Execution score prior to its release without informing either the head Execution judge or the Superior Jury; Mr Bin committed this act upon his own initiative and with complete disregard for the rules in force. His action led to Chinese gymnast Zhang Chenglong’s ascent from second to first place, tied with Kim Soo Myun of Korea …
Korea's Kim Soo Myun and China's Zhang Chenglong share the gold medal
photo via IG
I don’t see how there could be any appeal on behalf of Shao Bin.
Note how even the Difficulty judge in this case was aware of what Execution score was needed for a medal in the Floor final.
Be aware that all the WAG judges at American Cup knew exactly what execution score Jordyn Wieber needed on Floor to win the All-around.
Update: Some felt the last sentence (above) was some sort of slight against Jordyn. Or that specific judging panel.
Not so.
My point is as stated – good judges at the end of the meet know what score is needed to put an athlete on the podium.
In the case of American Cup, they knew, and decided that Jordyn should win the AA. And I agreed (eventually) that was the correct ranking. Kudos to the American Cup judges for getting that ranking right, despite the appearance of yet another SCAm.
AUSTRALIA: Georgia-Rose Brown, Britt Greeley, Tierra Exum, Emily Little, Katie Wurth
CANADA: (Names to be announced soon)
CHINA: JIANG Yuyuan, HUANG Huidan & SHANG Chunsong
Jenn Isbister of Gymn.ca will be driving back-and-forth between them.
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I checked with coach Kelly Manjak. Sabrina Gill (54.925) Facebook is not age eligible for Worlds in Tokyo … but she is age eligible for Worlds in London, a few months later.
(Yes, FIG managed to make a bad age requirement rule worse this cycle. There’s a chance now that the Olympic Champion will have been deemed too young for Worlds the year prior.)
I assume the same is true for Victoria Moors (55.925).
Correct me in the comments if I’m wrong on their ages.
Those scores from Gymnix last weekend could help Canada qualify as a team for the Olympics, … but only in London, not Tokyo. One possible strategy for the Canucks is to plan to peak for London, not Tokyo.
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Olympic silver medalist in Trampoline Jason Burnett is back in action after a year injured. (He did some goofball double side parkour move, breaking his leg in the process.)
Also back in action is Canadian T&T star Denis Vachon who is making a comeback. He had retired to coaching after Worlds Quebec City.
“High Bar” was originally a low German name for a horizontal bar for hanging up cloths, sausages or plates, and in chicken stalls for sitting places of the poultry – and was taken by Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778-1852) as name for the gymnastics apparatus introduced by him in 1812. …
Already jugglers of late Hellenistic and of early Chinese times, and even Eskimos have performed giant swings. …
Already at the Olympic Games 1908 in London a gymnast performed a double somersaulto …
The question — Which country is going to be the biggest surprise of 2011? — was posed to gymnastics bloggers from around the world. Here’s what they had to say about the women’s teams:
“High Bar” was originally a low German name for a horizontal bar for hanging up cloths, sausages or plates, and in chicken stalls for sitting places of the poultry – and was taken by Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778-1852) as name for the gymnastics apparatus introduced by him in 1812. …
