Inside Gymnastics has a good interview, though it’s heavy on the details of her relationship with Denver Broncos’ backup quarterback Brady Quinn:
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INSIDE: A comeback, a romance, a new business venture … Anything else you can squeeze in?
SACRAMONE: Obviously I need to finish [college] and get my degree. I promised my dad I would. Right now, I’m on the fence about whether I go back while I’m trying to train, or do I finish up training—ride this out—and go back to school when I’m done? That’s what I’m conflicted with. Obviously I’m going to finish, I just want to figure out when.
INSIDE: And in the gym? Upgrades? A new floor routine perhaps?
SACRAMONE: I’m still just taking it one day at a time. I’m training as much as it takes. Conditioning is what is important. You don’t forget your gymnastics skills overnight. If you’re training and you’re healthy, it makes competing that much easier. That’s what we’re focusing on right now.
Obviously World Championships would be a great way to wrap up this year, but it’s a long competition. If I go, we’re gone for a month. That’s a lot of hard landings, a lot of routines.
I’m definitely really competent with what I’m doing. I don’t know what other people are doing, internationally, but I’m happy with where I am, and right now I’m gonna stick with this. If I need to, I’ll try and work on upgrading for next competitive season.
Floor [sigh] … The thing is, it’s a love-hate relationship with floor. I love competing it, but it’s so grueling for my body. I’ve played around with tumbling and I can do what I was tumbling at the Olympics. [Coach] Mihai (Brestyan) is pushing for it, but I’m taking my time with that one. I’d love to do it, but it’s not going to happen overnight. Maybe next year.
…I’m just trying to keep any injuries from coming. Prevention is key right now for me.
FIG President, Prof. Bruno Grandi (ITA) will officially open the South African National Gymnastics Academy, at the Matsport Centre based in Centurion, Tshwane, on October 1st, 2010.
SAGF National Academy of Gymnastics at SA CUP 2009
The venue has been graciously donated by the City of Tshwane, making the city the new home of Gymnastics development and training in Southern Africa. The facility, in conjunction with the donation of international standard equipment by the FIG, will assist South Africa in its drive to become a top competitor in the international gymnastics arena. …
Due to IOC sponsorship, the O2 arena, the world’s busiest entertainment dome, in London, will officially be called the North Greenwich Arena during the 2012 Games.
North Greenwich Arena 1 will host Artistic Gymnastics with 16,500 spectators. Read a review of the venue.
A second, temporary arena – North Greenwich Arena 2 – will be built next door for Rhythmic Gymnastics. It will have 6,000 seats.
More than 4,000 people came out to Tampa’s historic Centro Ybor district to check out a truly unique parkour experience at Red Bull Art of Motion. …
During the first round of the competition, each competitor had 90 seconds to freestyle across the course showing off on and utilizing several different obstacles and features.
… Yohann Leroux of Paris, France who claimed the title as the first ever U.S. Red Bull Art of Motion champion.
I scan the web for stories of interest to acrobatic coaches, and link to the best. Contributors send me story ideas every day, as well.
On posts linking to those stories, I’ll often add commentary. And related information.
One of the first aggreator sites, still considered one of the best, is Techmeme. Exerpts are short. There’s no confusion regarding where the reader interested in any particular post can find the details. The news outlets they link love this site.
Often cited one of the worst aggregators is Huffington Post.
… the mother of all news internet impostures. …
The recipe is simple and extremely efficient: you take a 2600 words Vanity Fair interview of the financial reporter Michael Lewis on the rotten Greek public finances, you squeeze it down to 360 words (that’s down to 14% of the original length), and you have a self-supporting article that perfectly sums up Lewis’ point. This fits the internet era’s snippet culture: unless you nurture a secret passion for Hellenic bonds, you have no need to click and link from the HuffPo back to the original Vanity Fair story. …
I really enjoy the Huffington Post. And I really enjoy Amanda Turner’s posts for International Gymnast. But she’s very guilty of not sending traffic back to her sources. Amanda’s articles may be legal. But I’d say many are unethical.
Is Gymnastics Coaching doing enough to be a good aggregator?
INSIDE: A comeback, a romance, a new business venture … Anything else you can squeeze in?
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