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Cody Trobaugh of Gym Crew.

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Congratulations Ali Al Asi.

Jordanian gymnast Ali Al Asi has been just crowned Best Arab Athlete 2010 by HE Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Governor of Dubai and Deputy of the United Arab Emirates, at its recent meeting in Dubai.

With this award, Ali goes down as a legend in Arab sports. He owes this honour to his outstanding Rings results for the 2010 season and, more particularly, to the title he claimed over Japan’s Kazuki Machida, China’s Hong Kong native Kiu Chung Ng and the Netherlands’ Jeffrey Wammes at the 2010 FIG World Cup in Qatar.

The Best Athlete 2010 jury selected the Jordanian gymnast from among 132 Arab athletes from a variety of disciplines in contention for this prestigious award. …

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bottle of what … ??

Does anyone (aside from the Dutch Federation) believe this story?

… Van Gelder was poised to make a storybook comeback at the October World Championships after winning gold on rings at the Ghent World Cup in September. But he withdrew from the competition days before it began, and the Dutch announced he had again been using cocaine.

Van Gelder has since come forth and said that his “confession” of cocaine before Worlds was false, and that he had had problems dealing with the pressure of performing in a Worlds at home so soon after making his comeback. …

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That makes no sense. If he was not ready to compete, psychologically, it would have been easier to “fake” an injury.

Shout out to my hosts at Prince George Gymnastics, B.C.

This remote town will host the 2015 Canada Winter Games.

I’m here for a 5 day coaching course. We took tonight off as it’s the club Christmas party. The coaches have their own stockings at the gym.

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Rewriting Russian Gymnastics linked to the Russian Federation’s magazine ‘Gymnastika‘, #3.

It’s available online free … in Russian. No translation available.

See the magazine here.

Update: A better link for this issue and the others is Anna Pavlova’s official website. Thanks Alan.

The Federation has updated their website. (That can be Google translated to English.)

Banker Andrey Kostin was elected President of the Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia (FSGR) for a second term on December 15. The 54-year-old ran unopposed and was elected unanimously. …

Rodionenko credits Kostin and his bank for the resurgence of Russian gymnastics. Funding National Team and buying apparatus for Round Lake and gyms around the country.

… but nobody does anything about it.

Bruno Grandi has done everything possible to “fight injustice in judging“, including getting rid of the perfect 10. (And adding Reference Judges.)

Yet in Women’s Artistic F.I.G. judging, they still cannot fairly rank girls on Execution scores.* Any beginner 10yr-old gymnast could have ranked the Floor finalists at World Championships 2010 more accurately.

Even with Nellie Kim phoning the Head Judges every second routine, the Bruno Grandi system still is not working.

We need more transparency.

Can we post all judges, all execution scores, for every routine at World Championships Tokyo online?

Linking routine videos to those scores, when possible?

(Realize there’s a downside, should it be possible. If any of the judges care, this will make them even more defensive, “boxing” the execution score even more than it is now. Every HIT routine will get 8.80, regardless of quality.)

* I’ll concede that the Difficulty score does rank gymnasts fairly, at least in terms of the very crude table of difficulty values.

Leave a comment if you have an opinion.

Wow.

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That’s via American Gymnast – More Toyota Cup Videos…plus a treat from Ruggeri!

Definitely the most evolved apparatus. I miss some of the old school tricks.

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The editor, comaneci1 is a fan of the old school, … yet plans to update this video.

Seems the Keanu Reeves gymnastics film Flying (1986) (Dream to Believe and / or Teenage Dream) may have even been worse than the worst gymnastics movie of all time, Gymkata.

… feel good story about a teenage gymnast aiming for the championship despite an abusive stepfather, an ailing mother, and injury. …

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Thanks Gymnastics Meets.

Beam – Russian Championship, 2009.

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(via The All Around)