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Love the BIG font. And the magazine type layout of the home page.

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I’ve been following the depressing court case in Northern Australia.

… A GYMNASTICS organisation has been fined $70,000 for breaching safety obligations which led to the death of a teenager.

Townsville Gymnastics was charged with breaching the Workplace Health and Safety Act after gymnast Michelle Maitland, 19, fell and hit her head on the floor while practising at the Aitkenvale gym in June last year.

Ms Maitland fell and hit her head on a piece of concrete not covered by a safety mat. She died in hospital the following day. …

Gymnastics Townsville “acknowledges the fine imposed by the industrial Magistrate in Townsville earlier today. We are devastated that the life of a young woman has been tragically cut short”.

It’s in the hands of lawyers, however. The club will appeal.

The only upside is the warning we all can take from Michelle’s death. Be sure there’s no way anyone can reach concrete from any trampoline device in your gym.

This is the Champions Trophy, an international all-around invitational for men held Sunday 15th.

The new British co-champion, only age-20, bested the #2 and #3 all-arounders from Worlds, … and some other guys.

1. Daniel Purvis (GBR) 88,300
2. Mykola Kuksenkov (UKR) 87,525
3. Maxim Deviatovski (RUS) 87,450
4. Eugen Spiridornov (GER) 86,800
5. Philipp Boy (GER) 86,550
6. Jonathan Horton (USA) 85,625

There are a couple dozen men in the world who could score 90+ … if they hit.

Albert on THE ALL AROUND:

This is the third year for the Champions Trophy, and has been heralded as one of the few legitimate All Around competitions outside of World Championships, Olympics, and continental championships.

Next year it becomes part of the FIG’s newly re-organised World Cup series, featuring All Around competitions in Jacksonville, Glasgow, and Tokyo. It remains to be seen if the seemingly strict participation rules of these events will produce more high-level competitions, or further reduce the importance of the All Around.

This meet was hosted in conjunction with the DTB World Cup for men and women. FIG has highlights and links to results – Terrific atmosphere takes Stuttgart

The World Cup season comes to an end in Glasgow, November 19–20.

Men’s Individual All-around Final
1. TENG Haibin (CHN) 91.100
2. LU Bo (CHN) 89.850
3. MIZUTORI Hisashi (JPN) 89.700

Teng Haibin was 11th in Rotterdam.

In Albert’s commentary on THE ALL AROUND, he notes that Anton Fokin, Ashish Kumar and Malasyan Wan Foong Lum all scored zero on vault.

Women’s Individual All-around Final
1. SUI Lu (CHN) 58.400
2. HUANG Qiushuang (CHN) 58.050
3. TANAKA Rie (JPN) 54.850

Full results linked via FIG

How many Gold and Silver medals will China win in apparatus finals? … I’m guessing, all of them.

Laugh out loud BRILLIANT. From nade00, Down Under.

That grotesque phase of Romanian gymnastics features prominently. … What was that about, anyway?

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

A number of friends were sharing it on Facebook. Share. Share. Share.

Fly or Die, the special jury winner from the Banff Mountain Film Festival, is one of 8 films touring with the Best of Banff World Tour.

Dean Potter is innovating climbing for the future: the Base Free Solo by combining free solo climbing and BASE jumping.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The new Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour trailer video has just been linked on Best Hike. One of my favourite outdoors videos of the year.

Is Facebook getting less appealing? … Do you have too many friends, for example?

Unfriend people you don’t really know on November 17th.

… Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel believes Facebook is cheapening the meaning of friendship.

“NUD is the international day when all Facebook users shall protect the sacred nature of friendship by cutting out any ‘friend fat’ on their pages occupied by people who are not truly their friends,” …

Mashable

Alternatively, HIDE people you don’t really want cluttering up your Facebook.

Or make LISTS of just those you want to follow.

related – How to Unfriend Someone on Facebook

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Billed as Canada’s largest meet, the Spring Cup page is now live.

May 13-15th, 2011 close to Toronto.

Two girls can compete as a ”pair” if they prefer, each doing 2 apparatus. Great idea!

Thanks Jenna Gleza.

The 2010 World Championships was a great meet, from all reports.

METZ (FRA), FIG Office, November 13, 2010: Not a single seat was empty in the Les Arenes sports complex when the last finals of the 2010 World Championships were held. In fact, the organizers even decided to lower the draping dividing the main hall from the warm-up arena, thereby extending the seating capacity and accommodating a few of the hundreds of hopeful spectators without reservations waiting outside. …

Men’s Double-Mini
GOLD : Andre Lico (POR) – 73.400
SILVER : Austin White (USA) – 73.000
BRONZE : Evgeny Chernoivanov (RUS) – 72.700

Women’s Double-Mini
GOLD : Corissa Boychuk (CAN) – 70.500
SILVER : Bianca Budler (RSA) – 70.300
BRONZE : Svetlana Balandina (RUS) – 70.200

Men’s Tumbling
GOLD : Viktor Kyforenko (UKR) – 76.300
SILVER : Song Yang (CHN) – 75.400
BRONZE : Andrey Krylov (RUS) – 74.600

Women’s Tumbling
GOLD : Anna Korobeynikova (RUS) – 68.200
SILVER : Elena Krasnokutskaya (RUS) – 65.500
BRONZE : Marine Debauve (FRA) – 63.400

Men’s Synchronised Trampoline
GOLD : Xiao Tu / Dong Dong (CHN) – 53.800
SILVER : Gregoire Pennes / Sebastien Martiny (FRA) – 51.700
BRONZE : Nikolai Kazak / Viatchaslau Modzel (BLR) – 50.300

Women’s Synchronized Trampoline
GOLD : Irina Karavaeva / Victoria Voronina (RUS) – 47.500
SILVER : Carina Baumgärtner / Anna Dogonadze (GER) – 46.800
BRONZE : Tatiana Piatrenia / Katsiaryna Mironava (BLR) – 46.800

Women’s Individual Trampoline
GOLD : Dan Li (CHN) – 40.300
SILVER : Shanshan Huang (CHN) – 39.800
BRONZE : Rosannagh MacLennan (CAN) – 39.100

Click through to FIG for details and links to results – Finals concluded with Gold medals to Canada, Ukraine and China

Once again, FIG did an excellent job on their official Worlds mini-site.

China is near unbeatable in individual trampoline, taking all 4 of the top spots in Finals. In fact, the 2 Chinese men tied:

… Dong Dong and Shuai Ye actually ended up on the same total score of 43.100, and the medals had to be awarded according to the tie-breaking rules. As Dong Dong performed for the higher execution score, he was awarded the Gold medal …

FIG

Note: This was the 9th WC for 2004 Athens Trampoline Champion Anna Dogonadze (GER) who’s nearly 40yrs-old!