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Old timers like me love Tracey Ullman, who’s actually the wealthiest British born comedian, according to Wikipedia.

Click PLAY or watch her spoof Marta on YouTube.

(via IG forum)

Just posted. Scroll down from the home page.

… This moment made me laugh because Kayla was sooo overwhelmed after vaulting so well, that even though she’d already hugged him and then stood there a while, she turned back and clung to him for dear life for a minute because, it seemed she just didn’t know what else to do! Seriously sweet. To me, Kayla won the US’s most well-earned medal for the women. She was consistently brilliant on vault. …

More Canadian gymnastics news.

Kristina Vaculik has verbally committed to Stanford University. This is a big gain for Stanford. Vaculik is currently back in the gym working basic skills. Peng Peng Lee has just returned to the gym and is starting conditioning again. …

Aunt Joyce’s Ice Cream Stand – This and That

little Peng Peng (Sport Seneca) from 2005 – Gymn.ca

I’m from Canada. Yet the first I hear of this good news is from Aunt Joyce.

That blog breaks more news than any other of late. Gymnastics and Figure Skating.

Profanity warning if you click through to Aunt Joyce’s Ice Cream Stand.

But there’s no profanity on the Dominique Moceanu on Dr. Phil post.

You can watch the Dr. Phil interview online – Pressure for PERFECTION

A new video from GymSmarts. Must see for every beam coach.

Fresh from training the 2008 Olympic Beam team, Tammy Biggs saw a need to develop an effective set of Balance Beam warm-up drills to improve the weaknesses she saw during the last Olympic Cycle. Tammy’s Beginning Tumbling Beam Complexes is the set of warm-up drills to correct these fundamental weaknesses she designed and is in current use by elite athletes throughout the United States. The DVD includes excellent demonstrations by athletes at Cincinnati Gymnastic Academy and is a must have for any program that needs to improve their Balance Beam performances.

Beginning Tumbling Complex for Balance Beam

more posts tagged Tammy Biggs

Longines has a prestigious award for “Elegance” given to a male and female gymnast at the World Gymnastics Championships. (The guys are less pleased to be elegant than the girls.)

Elsa Garcia Rodriguez Blanca (MEX) and Daniel Keatings (GBR) won at the last World Championships.

Blythe on Gymnastics Examiner, tongue in cheek, riffs on OTHER Longine Prizes she would have awarded in London:

The Longines Prize for Difficulty
The Longines Prize for Embarrassing Fall
The Longines Prize for Graceful Acceptance of Things That Cannot Be Changed.
The Longines Prize for Graceful Acceptance of Things That Cannot Be Changed
The Longines Prize for Longevity
The Longines Prize for Promise
The Longines Prize for Improvement
The Longines Prize for Eye-Catching Fashion Statement
The Longines Prize for Themed Sports Attire
The Longines Prize for Specialization
The Longines Prize for Eye-Catching Tumbling Run
The Longines Prize for Breakout Performance
The Longines Prize for Perseverance
The Longines Prize for Calmness
The Longines Prize for National Satisfaction

click through to see the award winners – Longines Prizes for other things

My Facebook feed is full of athletes and well-wishers talking about travel to the most beautiful city in Russia.

Let me add my best wishes to everyone participating.

World Championships in Trampoline, Tumbling and Double Mini-Trampoline will get underway in St Petersburg (RUS) at the Sports and Concert Complex.

A total of 274 gymnasts (162 men and 112 women) from 32 different federations and every continent will participate in these championships, which feature Individual and Team competitions in Individual Trampoline, Tumbling and Double Mini-Trampoline as well as Synchronised Trampoline events. Great Britain and Russia will be sending the largest delegations (23 gymnasts per country), followed by Canada (22 entries) and the USA (19 participants). Kylie Walker (NZL), and Claudia Prat (ESP), both Women’s Individual Trampoline, will be the only representatives from their countries.

Let’s have a closer look at what and whom to expect:

… read it on the FIG website

26th FIG World Championships – November 11 – 14
19th World Age Group Competitions – November 18 – 21

Click PLAY or watch “Insane Tumble” (2003) on YouTube. (This will get you in the mood for World’s.)

Thanks for the link, Mike.

We’re losing one of the good guys.

Adam Wong of the Calgary Gymnastics Centre, Senior National Team Member and two-time Olympian has announced his retirement from gymnastics and the Canadian National Men’s Team.

“After much deliberation, I have decided to realize and put focus towards my professional goals outside of the sport. …

read more – Gymnastics Canada

Thanks for all the good years, Adam. And congratulations to his primary coaches Mark Van Wyk and Bin Fan.

I’m sensing a bit of a backlash to the pink campaigns that hope to bring attention to the terrible disease of breast cancer, the second most common after lung cancer.

Will buying a pink t-shirt actually reduce the incidence of breast cancer?

Which organizations are actually contributing to the fight against breast cancer? And which organizations are turning a profit in these pink campaigns?

I’d like to follow the money.

http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/PicAppPIS/JavaScript/PisV4.js

… (the) “Think Before You Pink” campaign urges people to “do something besides shop.” After explaining that some “pink” sponsors are polluting industrial giants or spend more money on breast cancer-themed advertisements than they actually donate towards research or treatment, BCA asks consumers to reflect thoughtfully on questions like, “How much money was spent marketing the product?” or “What is the company doing to assure that its products are not contributing to the breast cancer epidemic?” This group has particularly excoriated major cosmetic companies such as Avon, Revlon, and Estée Lauder, which have claimed to promote women’s health while simultaneously using known and/or suspected cancer-causing chemicals, such as parabens and phthalates in their products. …

Wikipedia

What if we used photos of women who have had mastectomies instead of pretty pink ribbons?

… Perhaps I’m being too cynical.

Leave a comment if you have a strong opinion this topic.

Related links:

ThinkBeforeYouPink.org

book – Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy by Samantha King

Wow.

If only I could read Russian. This looks terrific.

Issue #1 is posted online. But it’s in one of those new magazine formats that cannot be translated. (Leave a comment if you know of some way to do it.)

Production values are high.

This issue has a lot of Liukins.

I truly hope we can find a way to make it available in other languages.

Thanks Jennifer Isbister for sending us the link.

The URL for the mag is SportGymRus.ru. Leave a comment if you know anything about how we can get our hands on it.

UPDATE: more information in the comments.

I assume some Cheerleading coaches are mortified at being skewered by Sue Sylvester, a character on the hit TV show Glee.

She’s the queen of mean. The new cover girl of Cheerleading coaches.

I love Sue. She’s the best character in the show.

Click PLAY or watch Sue on YouTube.

Become a fan of her Facebook page. Or follow her on twitter.

The Cheer team are the bad girls, of course. … But more embarassing is how they wear their uniform all the time at school.

Losers. ….

Leave a comment to let us know how the Cheer world is handling Sue Sylvester.