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A great skill named after a man, French gymnast Jacques Def, on Horizontal Bar is named after Snejana Hristakieva, on Assymetric Bars. She’s woman who competed it first, so far as I know.

Yet I’ve never heard a WAG coach who did not refer to this skill as “Def”. It’s so much shorter and easier to pronounce.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Full In Full Out)

related post: Def on Bars (video by Andrew Thornton)

A terrific edit. Some inspiring content.

Montage of the 60’s to early 90’s.

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I’ve heard informally of quite a few cases. Some are mentioned on this thread:

Flipper missed 2.5 weeks of gym and school with H1N1. She had seemed to recover by the end of the first week, but was very sick again on Monday – and is still not at 100%. …

Chalk Bucket Forum – Back in the gym

Recall last May that some Dallas Gymnastics Clubs shut down completely.

Will that be happening again soon?

Girls wearing masks to prevent the H1N1 influenza virus are seen at the venue of the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Ise, Mie prefecture, central Japan September 11, 2009.

Reuters – Treehugger

Obama declared a National Emergency in the States.

Leave a comment if your gym is doing anything new to prevent the spread of the flu virus.

From AshleyakaFlipper:

… montage made by my sister & I about elite gymnastics. The footage is all from the 2008 Olympic trials (this was made before they announced the Olympic team) but it applies to all gymnastics. This montage is a huge inspiration to me, and I hope it does the same for all of you 🙂 I wasn’t going to post this for a while, but Happy Halloween 🙂

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From twitter:

if you all haven’t heard JAN 19 is not only my big 18th but also the day i become an Olympic TORCHBEARER in Calgary =D

ShawneyJ

The torch run has begun for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Olympic triathalete gold medalist Simon Whitfield and speed skating gold medalist Catriona Le May Doan light the Olympic torches as the first people to carry the Olympic torch from the Legislature as part of the Olympic torch relay.

Gazette

Photograph by: Debra Brash, Times Colonist

I’ll be a couple of days hiking Haleakala National Park, Maui.

Before Grace Chiu, the great Canadian gymnastics photographer was Dory Dynna.

Dory spent tens of thousands of hours, and tens of thousands of dollars promoting the sport through photography and videography.

Thanks Dory!

Happily he’s recently posted some of his old pics of Canadian and International gymnasts from the 1990s on Shutterfly.

No doubt Kate Richardson will be happy to see this shot back online, taken at the 2000 Olympic Team Training Camp.

Check it out. A blast from the past.

Dory Photo Shutterfly

The easiest way I found to actually read this article was to click through (on the image below), then ZOOM my browser window. Good luck.

NCAA Champion magazine caught up with former Ute Kristina Baskett recently and profiles her in its latest edition.

Kristina is performing in Vegas in the Wynn show Le Rêve.

From Blythe on Gymnastics Examiner:

Former World floor champion Daiane dos Santos of Brazil has tested positive for a banned weight loss drug, according to the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG).

In an imaginatively titled article called “Furosemide strikes again!”, the FIG reports that dos Santos tested positive after being given an out of competition drug test in July. …

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… Dos Santos, who is recovering from knee surgery, did not compete at the 2009 World Championships earlier this month. The FIG admitted that dos Santos might have been given the drug by mistake because of the surgery, according to the Associated Press.

Furosemide is a diuretic, meaning it causes urination and thereby drains the body of water, which can cause weight loss. It can also be used as a masking agent for other banned substances.

At the 2008 Olympics, Do Thi Ngan Thuong of Vietnam also tested positive for furosemide and was expelled from the Games, then given a one-year suspension. …

read the rest of the article (video, links) on Gymnastics Examiner – Former world champion Daiane dos Santos tests positive for banned substance