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Success was worked out by: total number of World and Olympic individual medals won (no team medals counted), if there were ties it was split by number of golds, then number of silvers, then number of bronzes. If there was still a tie, Olympic medals were given precedence.

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Nadia is only #6. That’s surprising.

There’s a discussion on the most “beautiful” Romanian Gymnasts on IG forum right now. I voted for Aurelia Dobre. She has 4 sons, I just learned.

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(via Brett MacAuley on Facebook)

Here’s my vote: X-C Snowboarding

Get PHLAT, dude. Funny.

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(via The Outside Blog)

For the first 5 weeks of the NCAA season Susan’s been ranked #1 in the all-around. Yet there’s not all that much information about her on the interwebs.

One thing for sure, she’s got legs.

Click PLAY or watch her Floor on Gymnastike.

Aside from the cute back headspring, a somewhat conventional routine by College standards. Strong tumbling, however. Love the amplitude.

Inside Gymnastics is live blogging.

Finals Results 1.Brooks 2.Horton 3.Cameron 4.Leyva 5.Gentry 6. Legendre

full results (PDF)

UPDATE: Highlights and commentary on Gymnastics Examiner.

Gymnastics Examiner posted a summary of everything that happened Friday, Feb. 5th.

High scores and surprises highlight Friday’s NCAA gymnastics meets

Bottom line: Many teams are “finding their groove”. This was the best night of gymnastics so far this season. The sport is very attractive to fans. And I’m expecting escalating excitement leading up to the Championships in Florida.

Kudos to the NCAA.

UPDATE: BYU women’s gymnastics team ecstatic

UCLA posted a season-high 196.725 to easily defeat Arizona (193.8) in a dual meet in Tucson on Friday night. Bruin sophomore Vanessa Zamarripa won the all-around with a career-high 39.675 and captured first place on bars (career-high 9.95) and beam (9.95). She also picked up a season-high on floor with a 9.9. …

UCLA Bruins

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I’m still projecting the Bruins to be the team favourites come SHOW TIME in Gainesville, Florida, April 22-24, 2010. They’ve got depth and star power.

But who will be the top all-arounder for UCLA?

Who can challenge LSU’s Susan Jackson?

I should be picking 2008 Olympian Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs. But I find myself cheering for the charismatic Miss Zamarripa. She reminds me of Kristina Baskett, my favourite from last season.

Leave a comment (aren’t comments great?) if you’ve got your own prediction on team or all-around.

It’s one of the major plot lines in the TV show Make It or Break It.

But how many gyms, in reality, have such an unenforceable restriction?

A gymnast from Tennesse recently had that rule imposed. And started a thread on the Chalk Bucket forum.

In fact, at her gym the rule is in effect for competitive and non-competitive kids.

Like that’s going to work.

Great theme for an event.

The No. 14 Missouri gymnastics team will face New Hampshire starting at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday. The No. 17 Tigers wrestling team will start its meet with No. 9 Oklahoma a half hour later. Both teams will be competing simultaneously on the Hearnes Center floor. …

Missouri gymnastics and wrestling teams host Beauty and the Beast meet

Wrestlers and gymnasts will not be holding hands entering the arena this time.

by site editor Rick McCharles

95% of people don’t read the comments on this site. They are “buried“. You must make a special effort to find them. Or to comment.

I like it this way. But the topic is controversial:

If you’ve been following the blogging and social media scene over the last five or more years, you know that there’s one heated debate that keeps on showing up: the debate about comments on blogs. Should blogs have comments? Should these comments be moderated? When has a comment gone too far? Judging from a couple of recent events, it’s once again time to rethink these issues.

Popular gadget site Engadget has recently shut down comments. It’s a temporary measure, it says, but the blog took it because the “tone in comments has really gotten out of hand.” …

A New Debate on Blog Comments is Brewing

The main purpose of comments on Gymnastics Coaching is to share information. Or, more often, to correct a mistake that’s been posted.

If you want to debate Nastia vs Shawn ad nauseum, head over to one of the gymnastics forums. If you want to get nasty about it, there are invitation only private forums. If you can find them.