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Emily Blackner at the 2009 Elite Canada Championships. Posted by Grace Chiu on Facebook.

All of Grace’s photos are posted on GraceClick.com.

Andrew Thornton posted routines from yet another up-and-coming Russian superstar …

Anastasia Grishina, and from what I’ve read, I believe she is 13 years old …

Beam is so “easy” for her.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Wow, throw her on a team with Komova, Mustafina, and Nabiyeva, not to mention Semenova and Afansyeva if they stick around, and Russia will have a phenomenal team. I haven’t seen this much talent from the Russians in a really long time. Could they be the ones to beat by the time London rolls around?

Seems near certain that Russia will be on the Podium at the 2012 Olympics.

See more of Grishina’s routines on this post: Russia’s got another one.

Fourteen-year-old Riley Cholod of Bowmanville, Ont., used a new move for the first time in competition to help propel her to the women’s junior all around title on Saturday at the Elite Canada women’s gymnastics meet.

Cholod landed a variation of a back handspring layout on beam and also performed solid routines on floor and uneven bars to place first in a field of 27 competitors with a score of 54.800 points.

Bianca Jordaan of Oakville, Ont., placed second with 53.00 points and Briannah Tsang of Coquitlam, B.C., was third at 52.850.

“I was a little nervous putting the new move in there, but it went really well,” said Cholod, who is coached by 1980 Soviet Olympic gymnastics champion Elena Davydova and Valery Yahchybekov at Gemini Gymnastics in Oshawa, Ont. …

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Jordyn Pedersen, also from host Oakville, won National Novice, the youngest age division. Full results (PDF)

danafan1 has more Senior routines posted on YouTube.

Gymkata is a 1985 film filmed in Yugoslavia and starring Kurt Thomas as Jonathan Cabot, an Olympic gymnast who combines his gymnastic ability with ninjutsu to enter a deadly competition in a fictional country, Parmistan. It is based on the novel The Terrible Game (1957) by Dan Tyler Moore.

The film has developed a minor cult following as an unintentional comedy for its dubious premise, poor production quality and low budget. Maxim lists the film as the 17th “Worst Movie of All Time”.

Gymkata – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The scene always bemoaned loudest by every coach is the pommel horse battle:

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Gymkata – Amazon

These days Kurt is a successful coach and club owner in Texas.

Thanks Helen.

The young, new champion Senior gymnast in Canada, Dominique Pegg, shows good potential on Floor.

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Grace Chiu’s photos from the event are available on GraceClick.com.

Results (and more) will be posted on Gym Score Depot.

UPDATE: Barcelona1992 is posting routines from this competition on Gymnastike.

ALABI BORTEY emailed some photos of their Acrobatic team from Ghana.

Impressive.

Scores are low. Full Results (PDF).

More results, photos and news links will be posted on Gym Score Depot.

Just saw the news on Twitter. Congratulations.

She’s from Bluewater Gymnastics coached by Dave and Elizabeth Brubaker.

Waiting on results to be posted online.

Brittany Rogers of Coquitlam, B.C. leads a strong field in the women’s senior competition at this year’s Elite Canada gymnastics meet December 11-13 in Oakville, Ont.

Rogers, 16, who clearly established herself as the country’s top female gymnast with a stellar showing at the world championships in October, won’t be able to rest on her laurels, however, with both old and new challengers for medals in both the all around and individual event competitions.

“It’s going to be very exciting with the calibre of competition this year, and not just in the senior competition,” says Canadian women’s program director Lise Simard of Gatineau, Que.

“We also have a very strong junior field that we expect will include several competitors who will go on to compete at the 2012 Olympics in London.”

The senior competition will be highlighted by the return to competition of 2008 Olympic veteran Nansy Damianova of Montreal, and Kristina Vaculik of Oshawa, who was selected as the reserve gymnast for the Beijing Games, but was forced to withdraw with an injury. …

Competition begins Friday with novice and senior all around and concludes Sunday with junior and senior event finals.

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Hey, Brittany’s got that foot crossed “cheat” locked in. I like it. Pressing one foot against the other helps stop them crossing more conspicuously.

In related news Canuck:

Mariah Madigan and Keagan Soehn, Trampoline, Jayd Lukenchuk, Men’s Artistic, Laurie-Ève Pepin-Gagné, Women’s Artistic, Mariam Chamilova, Rhythmic, and their respective coaches, Dave Ross, Ken Soehn, Markos Baikas, Michel Charron and Svetlana Joukova were selected to receive a grant from the Petro-Canada FACE program. …

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