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Here’s a new Canadian Senior gymnast with tons of potential. And charisma.

Many remarked on how much they liked Jessica Dowling from Oakville. She’s slim, petite, with great artistry. And a unique style.

Click PLAY or watch Jessica on Gymnastike.

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Click through to watch Jessica competing Bars at Elite Ontario 2010.

Update: Jessie hit an unusual and original Beam set in Finals, but put her hands down on double tuck. … Wait ’til next year.

What a show.

The best MAG, WAG and Trampoline / Tumbling athletes all at the same time.

LIVE VIDEO coverage online – Barabus.TRU.ca/gymnastics

LIVE BLOG – Gymnastics Examiner – 2010 Canadian Nationals, apparatus finals

That was in prelims.

Click PLAY or watch her Beam on YouTube.

Videos on YouTube channels rkwy1212 and Komova2012.

(via Aunt Joyce)

1. Jaylan Birl (Mississauga)
2. Robert Watson (Richmond)
3. Tariq Dowers (Mississauga)
4. Ian Galvin (U of Calgary)

full results (PDF)

Jaylan scored 86.45 day 2 in “modified” F.I.G. rules.

Is he age eligible for Youth Olympic Games?

Gymnastics Canada – Jaylan Birl wins men’s junior all around title at Canadian gymnastics championships

Examiner – Rising stars Jaylan Birl, Robert Watson finish 1-2 at Canadian Junior men’s championships

Gymnastics Examiner comments on former British team gymnast Rebecca Owen blaming lingering back issues on her gymnastics coaches, Colin and Christine Still.

… An international gymnast is suing her coaches after an injury left her unable to have a baby naturally.

Rebecca Owen, 23, a Commonwealth Games silver medallist, claims she had to train despite a back fracture.

Today, seven years after she quit her sport, she is in constant agony, unable to sit or stand for more than a few minutes. …

Training injury cost me chance of having baby, claims gymnast

The lurid headline makes me suspicious that this is a British tabloid exaggeration.

If Rebecca is as incapicitated as the story claims, she may have a case. But how do you prove it was training while injured?

Did you catch any of the LIVE video stream from the Canadian Gymnastics Championships on Thursday?

From the Facebook album: Thurs. Evening – CC10 by Stu Cram

Jenn Isbister and Kyle Shewfelt will be on again today.

Saturday, May 28 Pacific Time Zone
2:30 – 6:00 pm: WAG, MAG and TG senior Finals

The link is barabus.tru.ca/gymnastics.

Note that it’s only LIVE during the broadcast. You can’t watch the meet after the event, so far as I know.

Who’s headed south?

Stanford-bound Kristina Vaculik won the Canadian Championship last night in Kamloops, BC. Vaculik defeated preliminary leader Madeline Gardiner. UIC signee Catherine Dion was 9th and Utah signee Nansy Damianova was tied for 11th. UCLA incoming frosh Sydney Sawa was 14th while San Jose State Spartan signee Cassandra Harrison was 16th.

College Gym Fans

photo by Grace Chiu, adjusted by Kristina

… Vaculik is the stuff gymnastics fluff pieces are made of. A prodigious talent sidelined for the Olympics comes back after struggling for the finances and resources (according to Davydova) to treat a long-term injury properly, returns to elite with even better form and a scholarship to an excellent college under her belt. If she was a US gymnasy, NBC would be sketching out its voiceover as we speak. …

The Couch Gymnast – Girl Most Likely …

Kristina plans to compete a year of College, then return to Canada to try for the Olympics. Easier said, than done.

Any other Canadian girls going to the NCAA this Fall?

Leave a comment …

Update: Laurie-Eve Gagne will be going to the University of Arizona.

Camille Santerre-Gervais to Iowa State. Nicole Pineau to Iowa.

One of my favourite routines at the 2010 Canadian Championships. The video doesn’t really do it justice.

Click PLAY or watch Madeline Gardiner on Floor on YouTube.

Sweet swing.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

There are many more on the Gymnastics Canada YouTube channel.

1. Helody Cyrenne – QC – Gym-Fly
2. Kennedy Sterenberg – AB – Champions
3. Tara Mauchel – ON – ASF

WAG National Novice full results (PDF)

This is only Helody’s first year at Nationals. She’s coached by Jacinthe Emard.

Merci Stephane for the photo.