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Gymnastike announced the new home page for World Championships Team member Tim McNeill from Cal Berkeley.

I’m a big fan of Tim’s elegant gymnastics.

Check it out.

tim-mcneill.com

Gymnastike will be adding more gymnasts.

I love this feature. … But could they not have published a better photo of Bridget Sloan?

International Gymnast – digital

You can read the first pages of the magazine for free as a “teaser” to encourage subscription to the print or digital versions.

COPENHAGEN — All those beautiful beaches and Tiger Woods, too!

After more than a century on the sidelines, golf will return to the Olympics at the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. Rugby, last played in 1924, is coming back as well.

Both were reinstated for the 2016 and 2020 games after a vote Friday by the International Olympic Committee. …

Each sport received majority support in separate votes after leading athletes and officials from both camps gave presentations, including a taped video message from Woods and other top pros. Woods has indicated he would play in the Olympics if golf were accepted for 2016. …

Golf will stage a 72-hole stroke-play tournament for men and women, with 60 players in each field. Rugby will organize a four-day seven-a-side tournament — instead of the more traditional 15-a-side game — for 12 men’s and women’s teams. …

AP – Golf, rugby make Olympic roster for 2016, 2020

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Thanks Kyle Shewfelt who linked to this article. Kyle feels that the golf vote was all about the $$$.

I agree. London will not be a “reasonable budget” event as I once thought:

… record $3.8 billion in television revenues from the 2010 to 2012 Olympic Games package, a $1.2 billion increase from the 2006 to 2008 cycle. …

With the money rolling in, perhaps organizers can finally decide on a Rhythmics venue.

Rugby 7s is a thrilling spectator sport. But is it played worldwide?

There are other sports I would have chosen over these two.

With the Olympics coming to London in 2012 …

With terrific male gymnasts Junior and Senior in the U.K. …

With a fantastic field in Men’s Artistic Gymnastics, especially this rivalary: Uchimura vs. Hambuchen vs. Horton …

With no Nastia Liukin. No Shawn Johnson. …

I’m predicting this World Championships the Men’s competition may finally start to approach the WAG in popularity with fans and the media. Even those who normally pay no attention to men’s gymnastics will start to get interested.

What do you think? Am I dreaming?

Leave a comment if you have an opinion.

Andy Thornton has relaunched his Smooth Skills video blog on American Gymnast. (He formerly posted on the currently defunct Gymnast.com.)

In Episode 2 he looked at the Mo Salto (Gaylord 1 for Men) on Bars, comparing 4 different Chinese gymnasts who competed it.

One of those was Zhang Yufei, a name I only barely recognize. She was an amazing gymnast but her only big international meet was the 2005 World Championships.

Check her bars. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

…love the Yaeger to Pak salto! It’s amazing how we NEVER see this combination anymore (except from He Kexin), and I don’t understand why. Everyone in the world is doing these Pak saltos from a cast handstand nowadays, and I’m sick of seeing it! So many Chinese gymnasts in particular are doing these huge Yaegers but for some strange reason don’t do the Pak salto immediately out of it – this reminds us how much better this looks when done connected.

Does anyone know what happened to this amazing gymnast?

Click through to American Gymnast to see her other apparatus. And the 4 Mo saltos, including the one competed by Zhang Yufei.

Smooth Skills Episode 2

Hey, I’ve heard a rumour that an American Level 10 female gymnast will be competing Kovacs this season. That would be a first worldwide.

The Couch Gymnast has been posting like crazy of late. And very good stuff !!

She linked to a must see video.

MunchTheSilivasFan… sure puts together some great clips. One of my favorites is the Random Gymnastics montage because it is a truly amazing collection of some of gymnastics wldest, whackiest, most beautiful and most original moves in both dance and acrobatics. AND because there were a few things I had never seen before. …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. Jaeger to Pak at 13sec.

Couch Gymnast – MORE MONTAGES TO MAKE YOU SMILE…

Love the dance. That post has all the World Beam Champions routines linked, too.

MunchTheSilivasFan has posted over 160 videos. Click through to her YouTube channel.

Cirque du Soleil photo shoot at Mystere in Las Vegas in the popular reality TV show.

Watch it on YouTube. (8min)

Head Coach Jay Clark gives a video tour of their amazing gym. Click through to the Georgia Dogs website to see it.

more photos

One of the best gymnasts in the World … deemed too young to compete at the upcoming World Championships.

Welcome to Viktoria Komova Online, the Official Website dedicated to the talented Russian Artistic Gymnast Viktoria!

Viktoria is a 3-time Gold Medallist for the All Arounds, Uneven Bars, Balance Beam at the 2009 Japan Junior International and at the 2009 European Youth Olympic Festival! …

home page – English

(via coderoyal, site editor, on IG Forum)

Recall that Andrew Thornton named 6 gymnasts the main contenders for AA medals at the upcoming World Championships.

Here are 2 more contenders – American Gymnast – Andy’s Angle – Two dark-horses for London

They both have great Bars.

Click PLAY or watch Rebecca Downie on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Youna Dufournet on YouTube.

Generally I have been critical of the 2008 code of points for Women. (It’s too soon to say regarding the 2012 revisions.) But it’s certain that we would NEVER have seen Bar routines anything like this without an open-ended scoring system.

I could even concede that Bars and Vault have been a success under the new rules.

Floor and Beam were more interesting and entertaining back in the days of a 10.0 maximum.