Gymnast Kohei Uchimura, winner of the men’s individual all-around title at two consecutive world championships, will join the Konami group this spring, Konami Sports & Life Co announced Wednesday.
Another Japan team member at last year’s championships, Koji Yamamuro, 21, will also join Konami after graduating from Nippon Sport Science University together with Uchimura, 22, in March, it said.
I was super impressed with the American discipline in Rotterdam. A class act. Especially compared with team Russia who often looked disorganized or downright goofy.
Even marching into and out of the hotel only Alica had the clout to crack wise with admiring bystanders.
Worlds is serious. The girls and coaches were very businesslike.
With the exception of chalking up, none of the girls on the team ever drop their heads down. They look straight ahead, or up. Looking at the floor or dropping the head, while a sign of respect in some instances, does not apply in gymnastics. In particular watch Marta Karolyi, the coach, in the first shot of the girls marching in. She is behaving how she expects her athletes to behave — with confidence! …
Organization. The girls know which order they go, and to maximize warm up time they coordinate to make sure no one stays on the equipment longer than necessary. Chatting at the chalk bucket in competition should be avoided …
Many pundits right now are a bit negative on the odds of the USA winning the 2012 Olympics. Some of the national team are injured. Or “on holiday” in Colorado. (Update: Alicia’s training today.) Many are making the savvy decision to take an NCAA scholarship rather than risk the long odds of making it to the Olympics.
In London the winning team is NOT going to count 3 falls. It may very well be that the team that makes the fewest mistakes will win between USA, RUS and CHN.
The culture of discipline inspired by Marta may well be the difference between Bronze and Gold. Of the 3 top teams I believe the strongest psychologically will be the Americans. That counts most under the greatest pressure.
Not Clark Griswald, of National Lampoon, Larry Griswald.
Laurens (Larry) V. Griswold (September 17, 1905 – August 24, 1996), known as “The Diving Fool”, was an American gymnast and entertainer who was involved in the early development of the trampoline. …
(in 1931) he became a gymnastics coach at the University of Iowa and met George Nissen who was also a skilled gymnast and tumbler. …
Griswold and Nissen worked together to develop the first prototype trampoline. Later they set up a company, the Griswold-Nissen Trampoline & Tumbling Company …
In the 1950s and 1960s, he took his physical clowning and acrobatic act all across the United States becoming one of the top draws in show business. …
In 1941, he wrote Trampoline Tumbling, the first textbook for the sport of trampolining. In 1971, with George Nissen, he founded the United States Tumbling and Trampoline Association (USTA). They honoured him by inducting him into their Hall of Fame and by the naming of the Griswold-Nissen Cup for outstanding trampolinists. …
Gymnastics BC is pleased to announce the women’s artistic gymnastics team that will represent BC at the 2011 Canada Winter Games in Halifax. The seven athletes are: Tamara Kuno (Flicka), Kerensa Mitchell (Flicka), Shallon Olsen (Omega), Emma Sibson (Omega), Briannah Tsang (Omega) and Shae Zamardi (Omega). Helen Cheung (Flicka) is the alternate. Update: add Taylor Ricci (Flicka).
Shallon is the very young super talent gymnast from Canada. She’s underage for this competition but got special permission to compete. Many coaches feel she’s doing too much, too soon.
Certainly the parents and coaches have heard the concerns, yet decided to push forward anyway. Perhaps there’s a plan that she’ll cut back during the peak growth velocity years. I hope so.
A year-in-review was posted by Bronwyn and Clara. Hilarious, profane … and very insightful.
It’s a list of Women’s Artistic Gymnastics highlights and lowlights. Mattie Larson on Floor at US Championships was picked one of the best individual routines. And as a runner up for “Biggest headcase” with her inexplicable misses twice in a row at Worlds.
Another gymnast with big highs and bigger lows was Russia’s Ksenia Afanasyeva. Click PLAY or watch her Floor at Worlds in the Gold medal team final.
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