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So says Russian National Coach Alexander Alexandrov.

That’s good enough for me. I’ll predict Aliya, too, to win scoring over 61 points all-around.

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Russia will win the Team competition.

Congratulations.

The Arizona State women’s gymnastics head Coach John Spini announces the addition of former Stanford assistant coach Michael Lorenzen to the Sun Devil staff. Lorenzen was named associate head coach.

Lorenzen arrives at Arizona State after spending five years as an assistant coach at Stanford University. During his time at Stanford, the team had a successful post-season run attending four NCAA Championships, making the Super Six three years and culminating with a third-place NCAA team finish and an individual National Champion on bars in 2010. …

read more on The Sun Devils

Commonwealth Games Men’s Artistic Team competition:

Gold – Australia 259.050
Silver – England 256.750
Bronze – Canada 248.500

Dave Phillip‘s New Zealand team was 4th. Koudinov managed to compete the AA despite the recent knee injury. Congrats.

All-Around qualifiers:

1. Joshua Jefferis (AUS) 85.350
2. Reiss Beckford (ENG) 84.550
3. Luke Folwell (ENG) 84.350
4. Samuel Offord (AUS) 84.300
5. Max Whitlock (ENG) 84.300
6. Thomas Pichler (AUS) 82.500
7. Tariq Dowers (CAN) 81.750
8. Ashish Kumar (IND) 81.550
9. Patrick Peng (NZL) 81.000
10. Misha Koudinov (NZL) 80.550

see the full list on The Australian Gymnastics Blog

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Australia’s Thomas Pichler

Bloggers, including this one, love to rant about how Bruno Grandi’s personal mission to push through an “open ended” scoring system will ultimately destroy the sport of Artistic Gymnastics.

How giving up the “perfect 10” was a marketing blunder.

If so, why are over 500 gymnasts entered at the 2010 World Gymnastics Championships?

If tie-breaking scores of 16.725 confuses mainstream sports media, why are 333 representatives of the written press, photographers and TV right holders coming to Worlds?

Why is that meet in Rotterdam selling out of tickets?

Though this is an unimportant World Championships for the top teams, I don’t recall more excitement about a Worlds, ever.

Gymnastike, Gymnastics Examiner and Gymnastics Coaching will all be there. Should be the best online coverage ever, too.

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Related – Ivan Cuk and Warwick Forbes – HOW APPARATUS DIFFICULTY SCORES AFFECT ALL AROUND RESULTS IN MENS ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS

• the open scoring system we use today was first proposed by Fink and Fetzer (1993)
• before before World War II, in some meets, the maximum score was between 11 and 16 points
• open scoring has caused one problem: the “relative weight” of the apparatus is not equal. In a 2009 study taken at European Championships, Vault was the most over-valued, Pommel the most under-valued. (i.e. it is very hard to get a high D score on the pommel horse, easier to obtain a high D score on vault)
• D scores predicted 84% of all-around final scores

Download that report for yourself (PDF) – Science of Gymnastics Journal vol.2, num.3, 2010

Larger version available via GymnasticsTrainingTips.com.

Beat Vanda.

Inspired by Vanda

The former Romanian Olympic gymnast is 4 times defending Champion.

Congratulations to Cyprus Gymnast Irodotos Georgallas who was the flag bearer for the nation at the Delhi Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony last night.

Mielieta Gonzalez calls him the favourite to win Rings.

Andy Thornton’s top 12 contenders:

1. Rebecca Bross
2. Aliya Mustafina
3. Ksenia Afanasyeva
4. Jiang Yuyuan
5. Ana Porgras
6. Mattie Larson
7. Tatiana Nabieva
8. Huang Qiushuang
9. Deng Linlin
10. Koko Tsurumi
11. Lauren Mitchell

12. Bridget Sloan

Tough call.

For once I don’t have a prediction. Leave a comment if you do.

Rebecca Bross has some kind of foot injury.

Likely you’ve already seen the Shawn Johnson training video #2. (updated)

How about this one?

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Southern Gymnastic Academy in Dunedin is seeking an enthusiastic and well-organized person for the role of Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Head Coach. We are seeking a strong communicator, who is enthusiastic about coaching and works well both independently and in a team environment. Qualifications to coach at a senior level are desirable and we are willing to support ongoing training.

This role will involve coaching our level 4 to 6 gymnasts as well as taking a strategic overview of the WAG and recreational coaches, gymnasts, and programs. The position is currently sized at approximately 20 hours per week. There is flexibility in the hours and job description and we are open to tailoring the position to suit the right person. The club is open to all expressions of interest and the position will commence in January 2011.

See our website www.southerngymnastics.co.nz. For more details and/or expressions of interest please contact dunedin~AT~southerngymnastics.co.nz.

Thanks Caleb.