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Alan Owen lets us know that her official website is now live.
… Anastasia won the 2010 European Championship with her teammates in the Team Final and won a bronze in the Floor Exercise final! She won with her team another Gold at the 2010 Jesolo Championship. Anastasia is also a 4-time Gold Medalist at the 2010 Eurasian Games …
If you are attending the World Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam, consider making a sidetrip to wonderful Amsterdam.
Cirque du Soleil’s TOTEM is playing every day of the week except Mondays.
Click PLAY or watch the trailer on YouTube.
I’m thinking to go Tuesday, Oct. 19th, staying over in Amsterdam that night. Leave a comment if you are interested in joining me.
From Chile. Training the hard stuff on mats in a gym.
Moe Alafrangy, Ignacio Rodriguez, Andre Rodriguez, William-Thomas Coneys, Travis Parker and Rene Macias
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Though on YouTube it’s edited to look like their sequences are spontaneous, the best guys train like athletes.
And condition.
Click PLAY or watch Parkour street strength training on Gymnastike.
http://videoplayer.flocasts.org/player.swf
(via Flip Catch)
Here’s a good news story out of Delhi:
IMOGEN Cairns wrote off her chances of a second gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in the same way some doctors once wrote off her gymnastics career. They were wrong and so was she. …
… with two golds and a silver, added to her two medals from Melbourne, moving her level with Annika Reeder as Britain’s most successful women’s Commonwealth Games gymnast of all-time. …
morethanthegames.co.uk – COMMONWEALTH GAMES: Cairns proves the power of perseverance
England’s Imogen Cairns (C) holds her gold medal along with silver medallist Jennifer Khwela (L) of South Africa and Canada’s Gabby May with bronze for the women’s gymnastics vault at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi …
http://view.picapp.com//JavaScripts/OTIjs.js
She was on crutches a year ago after a series of leg operations.
2010-2011 Men’s College Gymnastics Preseason Coaches’ Poll, as published by Troester Gym Info
1 Stanford
2 Michigan
3 Oklahoma
Berkeley in (possibly) their last season is ranked 5th.
Click through to College Gym Fans for the full list.
A good wrap-up of Artistic at Commonwealth Games before we plunge into the World Championships:
India’s troubles
Indian gymnast Ashish Kumar’s 2 medals
Australia, England, Canada
Small nations, big triumphs
British gymnast Imogen Cairns‘ comeback
Budding Brits – Whitlock, Beckford, Oldham
England’s Steve Jehu‘s ankle
Oh, Canada
Luke Folwell, Joshua Jefferis
Lauren Mitchell
Click through to Gymnastics Examiner – Nine intriguing storylines from the Commonwealth Games
The Aussie women’s gamble at sending their top teams to both Commonwealths and Worlds is the most important story, I feel.
http://view.picapp.com//JavaScripts/OTIjs.js
So far, the Aussies are looking brilliant.
» check Gymnastics Examiner, Couch Gymnast, USAG, Gymnastike, IG Facebook.
LIVE results 80sgymfan videos.
#gymnastics2010 or #2010wc … #USA2010wc (for USA)
Philippe Silacci, FIG Media Officer, as quoted in International Sports Press Association (AIPS) magazine, October 2010:
… In 2010, on-site Internet access in Moscow (RUS – Rhythmic), Rotterdam (NED – Artistic) and Metz (FRA – Trampoline) will be free for the press….
The full article was reprinted by the Romanian Gymnastics Federation.
Wifi will be available from the in-gym gallery, not only back in the press room. Expect dozens of live feeds of the action. And at World Championships Rotterdam it will be far more accurate than usual since Longines is providing a live feed of results to journalists.
Kudos to FIG for this.
Leave a comment if you have an opinion on the Skating & Gymnastics Spectacular starring Evan Lysacek and Nastia Liukin. It airs Jan. 9 at 4 p.m. ET on NBC.
Didn’t get much love from Gymtruthteller or comment from Aunt Joyce (VIDEOS).
Courtney Kupets, Courtney McCool, Hollie Vise, Ivan Ivankov, Jonathan Horton, Nastia Liukin, Raj Bhavsar.
I’ve stopped paying attention to SPECTACULARS years ago. But the guys sometimes do some interesting stuff.
That’s one of the blunt headlines in the Commonwealth Games host nation media right now.
Rather than celebrate the historic first CWG gymnastics medals of Ashish Kumar (Bronze on Floor, Silver on Vault) the GFI president JS Kandhari asked India’s chief coach Vladimir Chertkov sarcastically if ‘that was all he could deliver… ‘
Chertkov does not suffer fools gladly.
He was quoted as saying:
… GFI just does not have any knowledge of the sport. It is an useless organisation …
Worse,
… “India was suppose to go for the World Championship in Rotterdam but now the federation is not even sending the team.
The Federation is prepared to pay the penalty, which is more expensive than sending a team. …
The penalty a few years ago was $10,000. I’m not sure what it is today.
Chertkov’s contract is going to expire on November 30. Something tells me he’ll be returning to the USA.
Full Twist was the first blog to link to this story.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 