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With the injury to Chelsea Davis, here’s the plan for prelims.

Tentative USA WAG line-up:

Vault – Bross, Larson, Caquatto, Raisman and Sacramone

Uneven bars – Raisman, Larson, Sloan, Caquatto and Bross

Balance beam – Caquatto, Larson, Raisman, Sacramone and Bross

Floor exercise – Caquatto, Sloan, Bross, Raisman and Larson.

So Caquatto, Bross, Larson and Raisman will compete all-around, with Sacramone pitching in on vault and beam. And Sloan will not do beam or vault, which ends her chances to defend her World title…

Leslie King of USAG gave us this information via Gymnastics Examiner’s LIVE blog.

Four all-arounders.

Wow. It’s already up on USAG – women’s line-up for 2010 World Championships

Not a post title you expected to read here.

Blythe Lawrence:

U.S. women on bars. In a word, awesome. The standout routine to me was Chelsea Davis’s. She stuck her full twisting double back both times I saw it. She’s peaking, right here, right now. Her Tkatchev should be on the list of great Tkatchevs that get bantered about from time to time on message boards. She could make event finals on bars, given everything else we’ve seen here.

But the whole U.S. team looked great on bars. There were a few little tiny things, but mostly overbalanced handstands here and there. Forget podium training — on this event at least, they’re very settled. …

more jots from today’s training gyms and podium on Gymnastics Examiner

Click PLAY or watch some U.S. Bars training on Gymnastike.

http://videoplayer.flocasts.org/player.swf

Not surprisingly, the American girls are getting it together and HITTING routines.

Their selection process may be more rigourous than China and Russia in 2010. The U.S. system rewards girls who are tough and durable, if not necessarily beautiful.

That works under this code.

UPDATE: Brigid tells me that Chelsea had a bad fall on Floor. It looked serious. … But happily she’s back on her feet. Hopefully just a scare.

Note: Young Russian David Belyavskiy apparently showed double full-in, pike-out on Floor. We haven’t seen that nutty skill for a long, long time.

IF the defending World Champion Kohei Uchimura does not compete all-around due to shoulder injury, who will win?

Andrew Thornton speculates on an American Gymnast post: 2010 Mens World All-Around Title Wide Open:

JPN – Koji Yamamuro (91.1), Koji Uematsu (90.15), Kazuhito Tanaka (90.7)

China – Teng Haibin (90.95), Lu Bo, Chen Yibing, Feng Zhe, Zhang Chenglong

USA – Jonathan Horton (91.3), Danell Leyva, Chris Brooks

Russia – Maxim Devyatovsky (90.6), Sergei Khorokhordin, Daivd Belyavsky

Germany – Phillip Boy (91.05)

Korea – Kim Soo Myun (89.85)

Romania – Flavius Koczi (90.1)

Who is he forgetting?

Canada – Nathan Gafuik, …

The winner will be someone who competes the all-around in the qualifying round. Not all those listed above will do so. The TEAM score is higher priority than AA for most nations.

I’ve got a good feeling about Jon Horton. … But the winner will have to hit 6 for 6 in the AA Final.

It really is WIDE OPEN. … Don’t be surprised if Uchimura ends up competing, though. He’s so talented he might just win without training.

The best Women’s Artistic meet in Canada (my opinion) has had to change the dates of their competition. Update your calendar if you are planning to attend. Edmonton, Alberta.

WildRoseGymnastics.com

Strength guru Chris Sommer from Arizona is bringing it to Europe.

His excellent strength seminars are offered Nov. 19-21st in Mallorca, a Mediterranean island paradise.

Details and costs on GymnasticBodies. While you’re there check the blog for a video profile on Jon Horton.

#gymnastics2010

World Championships team, Rotterdam.

Jayd Lukenchuk
Casey Sandy
Ken Ikeda
Nathan Gafuik
Jackson Payne
Hugh Smith

Kevin Lytwyn missing in this photo.

The new look Canadians have a great balance of youth and experience. Podium training went quite well yesterday, the highlight for me being Hugh’s stuck vault.

Check the FIG team profile – Introducing Canada’s Men’s squad

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Blythe got an excellent interview with Jon Horton and Chris Brooks after podium training:

Some prime quotes from Horton:

“In terms of gymnastics, everyone’s training well,” he said. As to some of the rougher moments of tonight’s session, “it’s exactly why we do podium,” Horton noted. “I think we did everything we needed to do to be prepared.”

… Thanks to his nutritionist, Horton’s body fat has dropped from 8.3 to 4.8 percent. His diet consists of egg whites, protein, steak, chicken and rice. “I’ll eat nothing but stuff that is clean food for my body,” he said. “I feel like a feather.”

But before every meet, he eats a steak. …

See the full interview and much more on Gymnastics Examiner.

read the official USAG press release with interviews

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If you just can’t wait for the competition itself to begin, there are plenty of videos of podium training already online.

Click PLAY or watch Huang Qiushuang on Beam on YouTube.

More video clips are linked from Aunt Joyce, about.com gymnastics, gymnworlds2010‘s YouTube channel and, as always, Gymnastike.

Those are mostly WAG. But there are far more MAG highlights from gymnasts all over the world. Guys you’ve never heard of do Tsuk double pikes as if they are Tsuks.

Click PLAY or watch one on Gymnastike.

http://videoplayer.flocasts.org/player.swf

Men’s vault is insane. They need better landing mats.

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In Rotterdam, for the World Championships, the international TV feed is going to come from a flying camera. Love it.

From the Facebook album: Wall Photos by International Gymnast Magazine

Looks cool – AliciasScramone.com

There’s a blog, as well.

(via Full Twist)