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Victoria Moors topped the field at … junior Elite Canada. Vivi Babalis placed second, with Jordyn Petersen rounding out the podium.

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Steph Davis is an American rock climber, BASE jumper and wingsuit flyer. …

A new video is getting wide circulation. Another insane wingsuit edit, unique to this one is how calm Steph is when her parachute tangles. No wonder she was able to free climb El Capitan.

Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.

http://vimeo.com/16551940

How does this woman control her emotions so easily?

Can it be trained? … Or was she born this way?

She divorced Dean Potter, incidentally.

GymnasticsHVmeets posted a long series of clips mostly from the 1970s to 1990s.

Back when originality was valued in our sport.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (15min)

Her goal was top 10.

Competing for the first time in more than two years, 17-year-old Peng Peng Lee of Toronto stepped back into the limelight as one of Canada’s most promising young gymnasts with a remarkable victory in the women’s all around event at the Elite Canada meet on December 10, 2010 in Gatineau, Quebec

Click PLAY or watch Peng Peng on YouTube.

(via Oakville Gymnastics Club)

Vault
1.Aliya Mustafina 14.287
2.Rie Tanaka 14.050
3.Ekaterina Kurbatova 14.037

Bars
1.Jiang Yuyuan 15.475
2.Anna Dementyeva 14.375
3.Yu Minobe 14.250

Mustafina two falls.

Floor
1.Kohei Uchimura 15.650
2.Daniel Purvis 15.200
3.Paul Ruggieri 15.175

Pommel
1.Louis Smith 15.600
2.Chang Ju Ha 15.000
3.Kenya Kobayashi 14.975

Sellathurai fell

Rings
1.Yan Mingyong 15.825
2.Koji Yamamuro 15.550
3.Denis Ablyazin 15.250

read more on THE ALL AROUND – Toyota Cup closes gym year

The greatest all-around gymnast of all time.

Jerry Wright predicts Oklahoma will win comfortably in 2011.

Stanford and Michigan, both ranked higher in the coach’s preseason poll, beg to differ.

He’s naming Chris Cameron and Steven Legendre as early favourites to win the Nissen-Emery.

I’ve never had any success predicting Men’s College gymnastics, even when sitting in the stands at Championships. But Jerry successfully predicted Michigan, Stanford 1-2 last year. We should listen to him.

Read his detailed preview on CollegeGymnastics.org (PDF).

I’m expecting Iowa under new Head Coach J.D. Reive to surprise people.

This will be the last season for Cal Berkeley … unless somebody comes up with a lot of money fast, a donation of perhaps $100 million in the next few months might save all the canceled sports.

UC Berkeley Intercollegiate Athletics FAQ (PDF)

That’s not impossible. Phil Knight, Nike founder, is “believed to have contributed approximately $230 million to the University of Oregon, the majority of which was for athletics”.

Thanks Ono.

A gym Dad / software engineer was inspired to write an app to calculate scores in the bleachers quickly and easily. And send them out instantly to Facebook or anywhere else.

Great idea.

It’s only available for Android phones, for now. Search for TumbleTally in the Android market. $4.99

# Fast meet scoring and awards entry for women’s and men’s events.

# On the fly All Around calculations for each gymnast.

# Reports for meet results by gymnast, or for the whole team.

# Send meet results to your friends and family via email!

# Results can also be sent as a JPG image, so wherever your Android device can send an image, so can TumbleTally — places like Facebook, Flickr, Picassa, etc.

TumbleTally

I’ve put a link in the right hand navigation.

This will be the next best thing to visiting Vegas.

James Cameron and director Andrew Adamson (Chronicles of Narnia) are teaming up on a new project that will feature 3D footage of live performances by Cirque du Soleil. …

ScreenRant

With two Michael Jackson shows (opening 2011 and 2013) in the works. And now the Avatar director on board, the future looks bright as the sun.

Talia finished 4th all-around (51.950) at day 1 of Elite Canada competition. Results. (PDF)

Why is an American Brestyan gymnast competing up north?

Kwace:

Talia Chiarelli was born and raised in Ottawa (1995). Her mother is Alicia Brancato, daughter of legendary Ottawa Rough Riders football coach George Brancato. Alicia gymmed and later admin’d for Nepean-Corona Gym Club, that’s where Talia started. Both mother and daughter were coached by Agnes Laing and Penny Fyfe. Talia’s dad is Peter Chiarelli, former assistant GM for the Ottawa Sens, and when he got the GM job for the Bruins in 2006, they all moved to Boston.

… got into the JO program at Brestyan’s. She became a Level 8 state champion. In 2009, when she was Level 10, she made the cut at Covergirl Classic to advance to Visa Championships as a Junior Elite. …

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There’s no commitment yet to try to compete internationally for Canada, in future. But I wish she would.

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Another American gymnast, Emma Sibson, finished 8th AA.

I’m not sure how Emma is Canadian. Leave a comment if you know. Like Talia, she’s most welcome in the Great White North.

Update: Emma was born in Victoria, B.C., moving to the USA when she was age-5.

Results are being posted on Gym Score Depot.

In the youngest division, Shallon Olsen ( 59.10) was nearly 5 points ahead of the #2 Novice! … That’s day 1 of a two day combined competition.

And I grinned wide to see who is leading in the Senior competition … Christine (Peng Peng) Lee. She scored only 54.800, though. I hear there were many falls on Bars.

On IG forum, verodesja posted some commentary from the meet:

Shallon Olsen is way over the rest of the girls! Her floor is amazing and so difficult! She has a full in pike, whip-flic to double back, triple twist and I’m not sure about the last pass but it’s a C. …

… great return for Peng Peng, except a fall on beam on her barani. Great yurchenko full on vault and a good bars routine. …

Talia (Chiarelli) is SO much like Alicia and Aly Raisman, they seem like triplets in their gymnastics. …

… On floor, I only noticed Mikaila Gerber‘s routine. She has so much expression compare to the other girls! And she also had beautiful tumbling …

The Juniors have not competed yet.