Happy Holidays.
Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.
‘rich’ people funding gymnasts
A post in the Christmas spirit …
Barrie Wells in the U.K. has provided funding to “… around 16 elite athletes – in sports he enjoyed, primarily athletics, triathlon, modern pentathlon and swimming …”
Here he is with World Youth heptathlon champion Katarina Thompson:
Details on Ollie William’s Blog – Catching up with the not-so-secret millionaire
Gymnasts have gotten personal sponsorships in the past. Recall Mohini Bhardwaj getting support from Pamela Anderson in 2004.
Perhaps someone should hit up Mark Zuckerberg. He’s promised to give most of his billions to charity.
Leave a comment if you know of other gymnasts personally funded.
China again at Wild Rose
China confirms its attendance at the 2011 Triple Flip Wild Rose, March 24-27, 2011.
“We are once again thrilled to host one of the very best gymnastics nations on earth at this year’s Triple Flip Wild Rose. China sent a very strong delegation last year (Deng LinLin, Jiang Yuyuan and Sui Lu). We are confident that they will assign their very best again. …
That’s in Edmonton, Alberta.
Three hours away, same weekend, the Chinese Men will be competing at the Kyle Shewfelt Gymnastics Festival.
European Gymnastics Champs trailer
4.-10. April 2010 · Berlin, Max-Schmeling-Halle
This features just German gymnasts.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
(via @fangymnastics)
the great gymnast Cheng Fei
Cheng Fei is …
… a three-time World Champion on the vault (2005–2007) and 2006 World Champion on floor exercise. She was a member of the gold medal-winning Chinese teams for the 2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Aarhus, Denmark and 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. She was also a member of the silver medal-winning Chinese team for the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. …
Photos linked to her Facebook.
From the Facebook album: Women’s Qualification by Grace Chiu GraceClick
From the Facebook album: Apparatus Finals Day 3 by Grace Chiu GraceClick
She’s still planning to try for London, last I heard.
Physio Ball Front Flip
gymnast #1 Arab athlete 2010
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. …
van Gelder – false cocaine confession
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. …
That makes no sense. If he was not ready to compete, psychologically, it would have been easier to “fake” an injury.
Prince George Gymnastics
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.
gymnastics news – Russia
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.
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