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International Gymnast has a good write-up:

Sui Lu and Feng Zhe won the all-around titles at China’s spring national championships, which concluded Sunday in Xiantao, Hubei province. …

read more on IG – Sui, Feng Win Chinese Championships

Women’s All-Around Final
1. Sui Lu 56.300
2. Wu Liufang 55.550
3. Huang Huidan 55.350

Women’s Vault Final
1. Jiang Tong 13.987
2. Li Ting 13.912
3. Zhang Linzi 13.412

Uneven Bars Final
1. He Kexin 16.225
2. Huang Huidan 14.750
3. Wu Liufang 14.700

Balance Beam Final
1. Deng Linlin 15.050
2. Sui Lu 14.900
3. Zeng Siqi 14.525

Women’s Floor Exercise Final
1. Sui Lu 14.250
2. Jiang Tong 13.450
3. Huang Huidan 13.400

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Check these MAG scores in advance of World Championships in October:

Men’s All-Around Final
1. Feng Zhe 89.300
2. Liao Qiuhua 89.050
3. Zhang Chenglong 88.900

Mens’ Floor Exercise Final
1. Huang Yuguo 15.525
2. Zhang Chenglong 15.425
3. Tong Yingjie 15.175

Pommel Horse Final
1. Zhang Hongtao 16.150
2. Yu Fu 15.350
3. Hong Chen 15.225

Still Rings Final
1. Yan Mingyong 15.900
2. Yong Taozhu 15.425
3. Lu Bo 15.400

Men’s Vault Final
1. Huang Yuguo 16.050
2. Du Wei 15.887
3. Zhang Chenglong 15.837

Parallel Bars Final
1. Feng Zhe 15.950
2. Peng Liuzhan 14.925
2. Liang Mingsheng 14.925

High Bar Final
1. Chen Zhang 15.700
2. Zhang Chenglong 15.400
3. Feng Zhe 15.250

Crisis What Crisis?

UPDATE: Coach Sommer explains why those high MAG scores don’t necessarily translate to a winning “team”.

I’d say the Chinese Women are far more at risk of being beaten at World’s than are the Men.

Women’s head coach Lu Shanzhen:

… wrote on his blog that he was thrilled with the performances on bars but dismayed by the competitive level on vault, where the winning score was a low 13.987. …

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Capital City Gymnastics in Edmonton, Alberta is currently looking for a Women’s Artistic Program High Performance Coach. The successful applicant should possess a minimum Level 3 certification, as well as excellent communication and organizational skills, be a strong motivator as well as a team player. The successful applicant should also be very strong technically on the uneven bars, vault, and floor exercise.

This position will be a full-time salaried position based on 35 – 40 hours per week, benenfit package included. Salary to commensurate with knowledge, experience and education. …

Capital City Gymnastics currently has 3 female high performance gymnasts as well as 12 other female national athletes among our program of 65 National, Provincial and L.E.A.P. athletes. We are also home to National Team Members Brandon O’Neill and Jackson Payne. Capital City is also home to 1000 recreational members.

The successful applicant must also have or be willing to obtain their Risk Management certification and will be subject to a Police check.

Please send all resumes and inquiries in confidence to Kristi Marks …

Email: kristi_l_b {AT} hotmail.com

Huang Yubin, head coach of China’s gymnastics team:

… “we are now facing a huge crisis.” …

This from an article on the just completed Chinese National Championships:

… Some analysts said China’s men gymnastics team is now experiencing a famine with old genius gone and new talents still nowhere to find. …

King of Rings: Savior of China’s gymnastics crisis?

Is it really that bad?

I’d still rank China #2 behind Japan in Men’s Artistic Gymnastics.

The Olympic Rings Champion Chen Yibing dropped out of the competition after hurting his shoulder.

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Chen was a specialist at the Olympics, but is currently training floor, pommel, horizontal bar and parallel bars because he may have to at World Championships.

An interview with Adrian Stoica, the President of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation:

… stated to Agerpres that Mariana Bitang and Octavian Belu, who on Tuesday accepted a request to return to the coordinating team of the senior women’s team, have come to an understanding with the Federation of the ‘gentleman’s agreement’ type. They will stay on until the 2012 Olympics. Their financial remuneration has not yet been discussed. …

The Couch Gymnast – STOICA SPEAKS…..

The WAG Head Coach quits because of the return of B&B. … But are Bitang and Belu even returning?

This doesn’t look good on Stoica who is trying to position himself as a possible successor to Bruno Grandi.

If Stoica can’t even run Romania, what’s he going to do with the F.I.G.?

In the long term, Romania should set a modest goal of qualifying at World’s 2010 in the top 24 teams (easy) and build towards 2011 with new coaches.

Feng Zhe won Parallel Bars with a 15.950.

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(via Aunt Joyce)

Great update on the Brazilian star posted on the 2010 World Championships blog:

… Diego Hypolito may be best known for his floor exercise and vault, the only events he is currently competing in the World Cup, but he is adamant he will compete on all six events in Rotterdam. ‘I’m not looking for anything at the World Cup meets this year, because the only thing that really matters is the world championships and the Olympics,’ Hypolito recently told Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo. …

… It seems the gymnast and his coach, Renato Araújo, are not too happy about the Brazilian Gymnastics Federation’s decision to send Hypolito to as many World Cup competitions as possible. They claim the World Cup’s focus on individual events sets Hypolito back on the other events. ‘I lose two weeks, since I have to focus on the events on which I’ll be competing and deal with the jet lag,’ …

There’s more. Click through to Straight from the Horse’s Mouth, Part 4

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G.A.G.E. coach Vardan Sargsyan has been ordered to leave the country for his native Armenia.

It’s easy to be “tough on illegal immigrants”, … until it’s your gymnastics coach.

… Sargsyan, a gymnastic coach at Great American Gymnastic Express (GAGE) in Blue Springs, has been denied citizenship three times by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services officials in California.

Sargsyan has been in the United States since 2003 and came to the area in 2005 to work with GAGE owner Al Fong and Fong’s Armenian-born wife, Armine Barutyan-Fong, a former gymnastics trainer partner of Sargsyan in their home country. …

GAGE coach’s appeal denied again

Vardan must wait one year before he can apply to return.

Ivan Cuk (Slovenia) has posted a new edition of (ScGYM®).

Click through if any of these articles look of interest to you.

A HISTORY OF USA ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS (PDF)

QUALITY OF THE TEACHING PROCESS AS AN EXPLANATORY VARIABLE IN LEARNING GYMNASTICS SKILLS IN SCHOOL PHYSICAL EDUCATION (PDF)

COORDINATION OF HANDWALKING IN GYMNASTS: A COMPARISON TO BIPEDAL WALKING (PDF)

JUDGES EVALUATION OF ROUTINES IN MEN ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS (PDF)

BASIC LANDING CHARACTERISTICS AND THEIR APPLICATION IN ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS (PDF)

Home page – Science of Gymnastics Journal vol.2, num.2, 2010

Ivan is looking for articles for future publication.

Related:

… The gymnastics community (FIG) knows that more knowledge leads to a lift in the level of gymnastics. At the end of June, the second symposium on artistic and rhythmic gymnastics, organized by the Faculty of Physical Education, Campinas University, will be held in Sao Paolo, Brazil. details.

We strongly support gymnastics conferences and would like to share information about all such scientifically orientated events. If you are planning to organize a scientific conference on gymnastics please let us know and we will publish the information on our pages. …

Here’s a partial list.

CampWoodward.com

Normally the Romanian Women’s Gymnastics dramas I dismiss with the phrase “Crisis, What Crisis?”

But this time it’s serious.

Head Coach Nicolae Forminte quit.

We don’t know who will be the next “Head Coach”.

Octavian Belu and Mariana Bitang will return to work with the team … apparently relocating from Deva to Izvorani.

Former gymnast Anca Grigoras (born 1957) has been named the new “technical director” of the women’s team.

Will Romania be ready for World Championships in October?

I doubt it.

details on The Couch Gymnast

Update – The most detailed coverage I’ve seen is on Gymnastics Examiner.