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January 16 & 17, 2010

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The Associated Press:

… A ruling on whether China competed with two underage gymnasts at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney has been pushed back until at least next year.

A disciplinary commission of the International Gymnastics Federation told that group’s executive committee, which met Sept. 23-25, that it has yet to finish its investigation.

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If the gymnasts were underage, the commission could recommend sanctions to the FIG’s executive committee. It won’t meet again until the end of February, so no decision can come before then …

The gymnasts, Dong Fangxiao and Yang Yun, are suspected of being as young as 14 in Sydney. Gymnasts must turn 16 during an Olympic year to be eligible to compete. …

read the entire story – Chinese gymnast age probe continues

AP Photo by AMY SANCETTA

Senor Nico on IG Forum points out some errors in the AP story. There’s some interesting discussion on that thread too.

Who are the “investigators”?

GHARBI Mohamed Rached – Tunisia

ALTABBAA Mouhammed Youssef – Syrian Arab Rep.

ENGELMANN Paul – Switzerland

SCHOENMAEKERS Marc – Belgium

HAGVERDIYEV Nihad – Azerbaijan

DIAS FERREIRA Margarida Eugenia – Portugal

FIG – Disciplinary Commission

If you know any of these men, ask them what’s taking so long?

Tony Retrosi shows a good technique and drills on how to use your arms to accelerate rotation.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The Gymnastics Minute is a series of free introductory video tips produced by GymSmarts.

I’ve just subscribed to a blog flying under the radar posted by a gymnast named Kayleigh. It’s quite good. I’ve linked to it under BLOGS in the right hand navigation.

Kayleigh is also a video editor, kimberlyann56 on YouTube.

Check one of her recent posts … a first draft of montage from the 2009 VISA Championships: Fame Montage Teaser

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Check out GymChat – the blog … not to be confused with GymChat the online forum.

… I could not stop crying before, during and after the moment Rio was announced as the host city for the 2016 Olympics. I am a native of Rio and I am extremely happy with the fact that we will be able to witness the world’s biggest sports competition here in South America! It will be seven years of hard work, but in the end I am sure that Rio will stage the most exciting Olympics ever! Congratulations to the city and THANK YOU president Lula! You are AMAZING! Truly an inspiration for us brazilians! …

Brazilian Gymnastics

related: Gymnastics Examiner – Analysis: Rio Olympics likely to boost Brazilian gymnastics

Mohini Bhardwaj, 2004 Olympic gymnast, …

… gave birth on Friday, October 2nd at 5:32 PM.

Name is Tristen Jai Barry, and he weighed in at 7 lbs, 19 1/2 inches long!

via mandusky on IG Forum

Congratulations.
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It’s the first World Championships of a new 4yr cycle. There will be some surprises.

But Andy Thornton calls it this way:

… can Sloan and Bross contend for an all-around medal? I think they absolutely can. In fact, I see six gymnasts in serious contention for the all-around medals, given they remain on their respective teams’ rosters:

Ksenia Semenova (RUS)
Ksenia Afanasyeva (RUS)
Yang Yilin (CHN)
Deng Linlin (CHN)
Bridget Sloan (USA)
Rebecca Bross (USA)

I honestly don’t see anyone else challenging for a medal, although some other contenders to keep an eye on would be Rebecca Downie of Great Britain, Anamaria Tamirjan of Romania, Koko Tsurumi of Japan, Elsa Garcia of Mexico, and Youna Dufournet of France. But these are certainly outside shots. …

read his detailed assessment – American Gymnast – Andy’s Angle – Thoughts on the U.S. women’s world team that was announced today…

Gymnastics Examiner has a (tentative) list of competitors for World’s in London.

Leave a comment if you see anyone else in the hunt for an All-around medal.

First coach Don Eckert. Now I find out famed gymnast Charlie Tamayo is married.

It’s catching !!

CONGRATULATIONS.

Charlie and his wife Nicole are coaching at San Diego All Star Gymnastics.

more posts tagged “Charlie Tamayo”

You might assume the Chinese men will be “weak” at World Championships considering the retirements after the Beijing Olympics.

Andy Thornton has posted analysis on the American Gymnast blog.

… Who’s going to make it? Well, you’d have to think that Zou Kai is probably a lock, given he has established himself as China’s best on two out of the six events. I think they may end up ditching any medal opportunities on vault and focusing on the other five events, but we’ll have to see. The question may be whether they even put any all-arounders on the team or simply go for individual event medals. …

Here are a couple of no names that might not make the team.

Click PLAY or watch Yan Mingyong Rings 2009 Chinese National Games Prelims on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Huang Yuguo Vault 2009 Chinese National Games AA on YouTube.

Incredible.

What a fight it must be in China to be considered the “best” on one apparatus. (Aside from HBar. They don’t have anyone competitive with the best in the world on that apparatus.)

See more routines – American Gymnast – Some more Chinese male specialists we may see in London…

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Another Andy’s Angle blog post compares the new kid vs Olympic Pommel Champion Xiao Qin.

Click PLAY or watch Zhang Hongtao PH 2009 Chinese National Games Prelims on YouTube.

16.250 (D-score:6.6)

If you take the Olympic Champion to World Championships, do you leave the second best pommel routine in the world in Beijing?

… A nice problem for the Chinese coaching staff.

yet more videos – A look at some of the specialists in contention for the Chinese men’s world team…

Joshua Allen and Katee Shean were the Season 4 winners of So You Think You Can Dance.

Week 9 they did a piece to “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room” by John Mayer. The choreographer was Aussie Wade Robson.

… Wade Robson … created the original version on his beautiful dancers from his Cirque Du Soleil/Criss Angel BELIEVE show. He then decided to shoot a short film of two of his dancers that really connected with the piece, Ben Susak & Pam Chu. …

Smoking. Sensual.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Thanks to choreographer Anastasia Umeh who linked to this video on Facebook.