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Tracy sent a link to the Team Sparkle YouTube channel.

Nice edit.

Training footage from the club in London. Includes Aasha Kimpton.

Click PLAY or watch Extraordinary Machine. Montage. on YouTube.

Jiang Yuyuan, Yang Yilin and He Kexin were interviewed after Asian Games.

A transcript in English is posted on Yang Yilin Online. Fun and lighthearted.

Jiang Yuyuan talks about her role as team captain, succeeding Cheng Fei and, before her, Zhang Nan. … What does she want to do after retirement:

… Go to school. Then open a dessert shop!

He Kexin admits she might like to become a singer.

Yang Yilin talks about being so tall on a team of shorties. That she might like to become a photographer, one day. Or a news anchor.

read more on Yang Yilin Online

Some of the girls (still in National Team tracksuits) bought hot dogs at Worlds in Rotterdam. I’m still kicking myself for not snapping a few paparazzi photos at the time.

From sbonham in a terrific pommel thread on Drills and Skills forum:

MostepanovaFan:

In honour of Christmas I have made a montage featuring clips from this year.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I’ve heard exactly nothing (so far) from the Canadian women’s gymnastics competition in Quebec.

Grace Chiu just now posted some photos on Facebook.

Seems that stupid chicken found his way there.
🙂

I saw the bad news on gymnicetic. An ex-gymnast fell while using spring-powered stilts.

A live TV game show in Dusseldorf, Germany was halted on Saturday mid-broadcast after a contestant was severely injured in a stunt.

Samuel Koch was hurt when he tried to jump over a moving car driven by his father on Wetten, Dass? (Wanna Bet?).

Canadian singer Justin Bieber was due to appear on the show after the stunt. …

Robbie Williams and Phil Collins had also been due to appear on the show, according to its website.

‘Critical stage’

Koch, 23, underwent surgery on Sunday after he suffered multiple back injuries and fractures the previous night.

Dr Wolfgang Raab of Dusseldorf Hospital told German news agency DPAD that Koch was “in an extremely critical stage”. …

Wetten, Dass? has been running for nearly 30 years and regularly draws audiences of about 10 million.

BBC

In the age of YouTube and Jackass movies, this won’t be the last spectacular public crash.

A post on CBS News asks if reality TV shows have gotten too dangerous.

New pages for both. Not accessible in China. (Similar pages will soon be put up on Renren, a site that is not blocked.)

Like!

Facebook: Deng Linlin Online

Facebook: Yang Yilin Online

If you’ve not kept up with the slacklining craze, here’s your chance to catch up.

An excellent interview for newbies with the two time “world champion” Andy Lewis.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

TumblTrak sells slacklines. They’re a very inexpensive addition to the gym.

(via FlipCatch)

Click PLAY or watch her Floor from 2002 2000 on YouTube.

(via The All Around)

Nick Blanton, coaching in the U.K., is obviously a brilliant and thoughtful coach. But his approach teaching one gymnast must be the most complicated and lengthy ever conceived.

I do like his premise, though. Critical are:

1) board strike angle
2) horse contact angle

Click PLAY or watch his commentary and drills on YouTube. (9min)

Find more of Nick’s commentaries on the amelieblanton YouTube channel.