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The Men’s gymnastics teams of Great Britain, Japan and Canada finished their ten-day Friendly Training Camp at the Lilleshall National Sports Centre, Shropshire, on Sunday, 17 January 2010 on a very high note.

This year the 2004 Olympic Team Champions and 2008 Olympic Team Silver medallists, Japan, came with a larger delegation than last year, including not only senior gymnasts, but also, some of their most talented juniors. …

Canada plans to train in the U.K. as much as possible leading up to the London Olympics.

“We keep returning here because we love England and because you have a great coaching team, lead by Technical Director Eddie Van Hoof, who should be congratulated for this initiative. It is a pleasure to work with the British and the Japanese teams. Japan is obviously a great team; Great Britain has also impressed the world with their rapid progress. All of us draw enormous benefits from this type of cooperation, and therefore we are planning that this training experience should continue.”

British Gymnastics

I got a bit of grief for saying that Oksana Omelianchik was “one of the weakest tumblers ever put on the Floor by the old Soviet Union“.

I believe that to be true. She did big tumbling tricks … barely. Yet I didn’t mean to come off as critical.

Like most everyone I loved Omalianchik as a gymnast. And was elated that she could compete successfully against power gymnasts like Shushanova.

In the heyday of Soviet gymnastics it was possible to win with artistry, personality and style.

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What a performer!

Linked by Marnie Salmon on Facebook.

… the torch is inspired by the “cool, crisp and modern lines that are left behind in the snow and ice from winter sports” and sticks pretty close to the wave forms used throughout the 2010 graphic identity. …

Vancouver 2010 – Olympic Torch

Along 17th Ave S.E., Monday, 18th January, 2010, about 6P.M.

To celebrate National Gymnastics Week in Canada, I’ll be headed out into the snowy streets of Calgary to cheer Athens 2004 Floor Champion Kyle Shewfelt carrying the Olympic Torch.

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Kyle and Nathan Gafuik will be signing autographs at Calgary’s Olympic Plaza about 7PM Monday night.

Shawn Johnson will be in my city, too, carrying the torch the next day, Tuesday, Jan. 19th, for Coca-cola.

She’ll be handed the torch by Kaitlyn Chana, 18, from Florida. Chana runs a nonprofit organization called Love Letters: Random Cards of Kindness.

Update from the run.

Volume one on DVD is the first 10 episodes of season one.

Bonus Features include: Deleted Scenes, Making It An Inside Look At How These Flexible Female Stars Balance Acting With Difficult Stunts For A Gold Medal Performance, Never-Before-Seen Extended Finale

$19.99 ($2/show) – Amazon

August, 2009, Nastia and USA Gymnastics announced a new competition be held on March 5, 2010 in conjunction with the 2010 American Cup. On podium!

The Nastia Liukin Cup.

At that time it was explained that the meet would be for Level 10 gymnasts. A high profile event for the best gymnasts below the Elite level.

Gymnasts would qualify from these meets, a series of invitationals known as the Nastia Liukin Cup Series:

CGA Parents Club Coaches Spectacular, Covington, Ky., Jan. 15-17
Flip Fest Invitational, Knoxville, Tenn., Jan. 15-18
Cereal City Classic, Kalamazoo, Mich., Jan. 22-24
Rock-n-Roll Classic, Broadview Heights, Ohio, Jan. 22-24
Parkettes Invitational, Allentown, Pa., Jan. 29-31
Wisconsin Dells Gymnastics Vacation Classic, Wisconsin Dells, Wis., Jan. 29-31
The Fiesta Bowl Classic, Chandler, Ariz., Feb. 5-7
IGI Chicago Style Meet, Chicago, Ill., Feb. 12-14
WOGA Classic, Frisco, Texas, Feb. 13-14
Buckeye Classic, Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 19-21
Circle of Stars, Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 19-21
Excalibur Cup, Virginia Beach, Va., Feb. 19-21
Pikes Peak Cup, Colorado Springs, Colo., Feb. 19-21
Presidential Classic, Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Feb 19-21
The Long Beach Open, Long Beach, Calif., Feb. 26-28

I love the concept. And thank Nastia for helping promote all those gymnastics meets.

So what’s the confusion?

Selected from the first weekend in Covington, Ky were:

Lexie Preissman (Elite)
Amelia Hundley (Elite)

Those girls aren’t Level 10.

Leave a comment if you can explain what’s changed.

UPDATE: The page listing official qualifiers. Thanks sher.

(via Bekah on IG forum)

Harlem Globetrotter star Moo Moo Evans exchanged workout tips and showed off his basketball wizardry with Olympic silver medalists Samantha Peszek and Bridget Sloan. …

photos and more videos – USAG

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Barb Durfee sends us an updated list of the 2010 WOGA CLASSIC ELITES competing Feb 13-14th.

WOGA has a great feature on that page. Linked videos and articles for each Elite. For example, when I clicked the name Anastasia Grishina (Russia), I got a list of video links. Here’s one …

Click PLAY or watch her Beam on YouTube.

All 4 four competitors from 2009 Worlds will be at the Elite Session. Bridget Sloan will sign autographs while the other three, Ivana Hong, Kayla Williams and Rebecca Bross, compete.

more information on the meet

About 65 Canadian gymnasts will be competing at all levels, including Elite.

Top-ranked UCLA improved to 2-0 with a 196.125-194.875 dual meet victory over 19th-ranked Washington in Seattle on Friday night. Bruin gymnasts took first place on every event, and senior Anna Li tied for first in the all-around, along with earning first-place honors on bars and beam. …

UCLA Bruins

They had to count a fall on Beam.

Posted by Greg Marsden.

Kyndal Robarts, Jamie Deetscreek and Swoop in a belly flop contest at TCU swim meet

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Swoop wins this one. Easy.