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The 45min final presentations go Friday. Followed by the vote.

I’m already starting to feel badly for Rio. Perhaps the Olympics will never be hosted in South America if they don’t win this time.

Tokyo will not win, despite a last minute desperate pitch from their new PM.

… Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama plans on Tokyo winning the 2016 bid. He says that it doesn’t matter if other cities are ahead because they will come from behind. Hatoyama’s confidence comes from the face that Tokyo is in the strongest financial position to host the games in the post-recession economy. If Tokyo was a county, it would have the 15th highest GDP in the world. …

Aunt Joyce’s Ice Cream Stand

Alberto Braglia (March 23, 1883 in Campogalliano (Modena) – February 5, 1954) was an Italian gymnast. He won gold overall at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, 3 olympic gold medals throughout his career.

Wikipedia

Jim Holt requested some video of Alberto. Watch it in Italian on YouTube.

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Every single video Tammy puts up teaches me something new.

Here is a quick drill for tour jetes and tour jete halfs from Tammy Biggs. This is a very difficult leap and one of the five important leaps for an elite gymnast to master and compete in this Olympic cycle.

Click PLAY or watch Tour jete Drills on YouTube.

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Are you one of those who ignores the international judging rules up until a major competition?

After all, FIG is bound to change them anyway. New interpretations will force the top gymnasts to change their routines.

The first World Championships of the new cycle is nearly upon us. October 13 to 18th in London.

Matt (mgl71594) has a number of videos like this, helping explain what judges are looking for.

Click PLAY or watch Jon Horton’s Floor routine assessment on YouTube.

A detailed projection of scores by Andy Thornton on the American Gymnast blog puts Jon 3rd in the world:

I put together a chart below that shows the highest scores I could find on each event from any competition this year for Uchimura, Hambuchen, and Horton – this included the Japan Cup where Uchimura and Hambuchen competed head-to-head (Uchimura won by 0.65), the American Cup, the national championships for all three gymnasts, and Hambuchen’s recent Champions Trophy competitions. Then I totaled them up to get a theoretical comparison of their all-around potentials:

Uchimura – 94.0
Hambuchen – 92.9
Horton – 91.95

… it’s clearly POMMEL HORSE that is keeping both Hambuchen and Horton away from Uchimura. You’ll notice that Hambuchen’s all-around is about 1 point behind Uchimura, and that’s exactly how far back his pommel horse is as well. Similarly, Horton’s total is 2 points behind Uchimura, and that’s exactly how far his pommel horse is away from Uchimura’s too! So if we look at the other five events combined, these three guys are incredibly evenly matched.

To make it even clearer, here are these three guys’ totals WITHOUT pommel horse:

Uchimura 78.85
Hambuchen 78.80
Horton 78.75

read more – Uchimura vs. Hambuchen vs. Horton…

(via Sho Nakamuri)

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via GymNiceTic)

related post: Viktoria Komova – all 4 apparatus

The competition is finished.

Day 2 of Apparatus Finals results have been posted.

… China was the only double winner Wednesday, with victories from Hu Yuhong on balance beam and Dong Zhendong on parallel bars.

2008 Olympic silver medalist Thomas Bouhail claimed the vault title, and France’s third gold of the meet. …

Polish Olympian Marta Pihan-Kulesza won her second World Cup title, placing first on women’s floor exercise. …

Slovenian veteran Aljaz Pegan, 35, won high bar, his first World Cup title of 2009.

click through to IG for full results – Doha World Cup Ends; Worlds Approach

Timing is critical when applying for any new job.

Cirque du Soleil is looking for male gymnasts for a new show directed by a world-renowned director. The show-performed under a big top-will begin in spring 2010 and will afterwards set off on tour.

Selected gymnasts for this role must show excellent skills on the high bar, floor and trampoline. They must also be open artistically (i.e. for acting and dancing)

Now is the time to add your name to their computer database.

Click through to the Work at Cirque link at the top of any page on this site.

On the GK Elite blog:

Olympic Gold Medalists Nastia Liukin, Nadia Commaneci and Bart Connor took a side trip in Denmark to Hermes Gymnastics Academy. Hermes is the home of the Danish Champion Team, who competed at the most recent European Championships. …

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via Nastia on twitter

How can any IOC member vote against Chicago after being asked by Nadia?

UPDATE: Streamed video at abola.pt/directos/

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Shani Isseroff reminds us that European Championships is in progress right now in Portugal.

24th European Championships for Seniors and 8th European Championships for Juniors and 4th European Age Group Games in Acrobatic Gymnastics take place from 25th September to 4th October in Vila do Conde (POR).

Russia and Great Britain dominated the Age Group competition (11-16).

GymNiceTic

Shani points out that it’s not getting much coverage on either old media or the internet. Perhaps Senior finals will be interesting enough to generate some press.

Fact is, Acrobatic Gymnastics is my favourite gymnastics discipline. And there are no athletes more sought after for Circus jobs.

GymNiceTic covers Acrobatic Gymnastics.

FIG does a good job of providing an overview, but not much commentary:

… Some 422 gymnasts from 18 national federations will compete at the Acrobatic Gymnastics European Championships end of September and beginning of October in Vila Do Conde (POR) in the categories Women’s Pairs, Men’s Pairs, Mixed Pairs, Women’s Trios and Men’s Groups. …

FIG – Europe’s ACRO elite meet in Portugal

Videos are being streamed from France. (Click on the pulldown menu to choose what to watch.)

The British Acrobatic Gymnastics blog is good.

More links have been compiled here.

But Shani is correct. There are not nearly enough Acrobatic Gymnastics websites on the net. Leave a comment if you have more to recommend.

related link – The quadruple back has now been banned in FIG competition, I understand.