CONGRATULATIONS.
Don just posted the good news on Facebook by iPhone. From his honeymoon, I assume.
🙂
Don was the long time head coach at Woodward West Gymnastics Camp. You’ve often seen his saltocafe videos posted on this site.
USA Gymnastics team to Worlds
The USA Worlds team was just announced and it has not changed from the nominative roster:
Bridget Sloan, Rebecca Bross, Ivana Hong and Kayla Williams.
Alternates are Kytra Hunter and Mackenzie Caquatto.
Update: Sloan – AA Bross – AA Hong – UB, BB Williams – VT, FX
Click PLAY or watch her Yurchenko double twist on YouTube.
Go You Big Red Fire Engine
A campaign organized by Mez of the Australian Gymnastics Blog.
Aussie fans send in photos with a cryptic phrase …
… to support Australia’s men’s and women’s gymnastics teams heading off the 2009 World Championships in London. …
Madrid 28, Rio 26, Tokyo 22, Chicago 18
The first round vote for the 2016 Olympic city was much closer than I expected. Why did so many nations vote for Madrid?
I was sure the “Spanish” vote would be split between Rio and Madrid, letting Chicago get to the final round.
… Shows how much I know about the world of the International Olympic Committee who’s members are now voted into 8yr terms.
Seems the old master, former IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch, had a lot of influence. Born in Barcelona, he brought the 1992 Games to his home city. Samaranch still has clout.
The “winner” was clearly Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva. The biggest loser not Chicago, not the Obamas, not Oprah, but the U.S. Olympic Committee.
Someone will write a great book on this vote, I predict.
COPENHAGEN — The map could not have spoken more elegantly. It said the Summer Olympic Games had never been held in South America.
The map was a stroke of genius.
It summarized everything, and without words: The Summer Games had never been held in South America. How could that be? Wasn’t it time to rectify such an obvious injustice? …
Alan Abrahamson – Rio the big winner, USOC the prime loser
By this logic the Games will be awarded to South Africa in the near future.
gymnastics blogs vs forums
Gymnastics blogs are normally one main voice, with one point of view.
Sure they have comments. And contributors. But on this blog, for example, you’ll find some very consistent themes if you assess the many hundreds of posts. If you like those themes, you might return to this site. If you don’t, you’ll be gone.
Forums are entirely different. That’s where people can go to brainstorm. To rant. To share. To flame. To have a conversation on different threads.
If you’ve never lurked or participated, check out one of these:
The Couch Gymnast blog recently shared some love with IG Online:
What I love most about the International Gymnast Online forum- aside from the fact that a lot of these people who frequent the forum seriously know their @#$%-is how frank and funny they are in giving their opinions. Here are some of my favorite funny-slash-brutally-honest moments in recent discussions. …
It’s true there are some amazing people on the IG Forum, Senor Nico, for example. I wish Senor Nico would start up a blog. Unfortunately I cannot subscribe only to Senor Nico comments. (Many of the other forum commenters are not nearly so smart and humorous.)
It’s easy to waste time on a forum. Waiting for the odd comment by Senor Nico.
One more complaint about the IG Forum: It’s got more comment spam than any other right now.
Why can’t they fix that problem?
Logan Dooley – U.S. trampoline record
… A local trampolinist over the weekend has set a new U.S. record for “degree of difficulty” in an official competition and will be one of the U.S. representatives in the Trampoline and Tumbling World Championships in Russia this November.
Over the weekend Logan Dooley, 22, completed a routine that included 10 skills that totaled a degree of difficulty of 17.1 in the Final Selection competition held at the Cashman Center in Las Vegas.
The competition determined which U.S. athletes would go on to the World Championships. …
read more – THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER – O.C. trampolinist makes World Championship team
On YouTube I found his first 17.1 routine in training from about 4 months ago.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
black and red on white
by site editor Rick McCharles
That’s it.
I’ll stick with this new theme. At lest until it is “hacked” next. Leave a comment if there are any features you want added.
handstands
Point your feet, guy.
gymnasts celebrate in Brazil
I checked in at Gymblog Brazil to see what’s the buzz in the 2016 Olympic nation.
In recent years the Brazilian gymnastics got firsts. Diego e Daniele Hypólito, Daiane dos Santos, Jade Barbosa, … Medals staged the World Cup, which before were only a distant dream, have become routine for athletes like Diego and Daniele Hypolito, Daiane dos Santos, Jade Barbosa, among other champions. With the confirmation that the 2016 Olympics will be in Brazil, the euphoria swept the gymnastics and professionals involved with the sport. …
Rio Gym Brazilian celebrates 2016 and expects even more support – translated to English
I’m very happy for everyone there. Having enjoyed the 1988 Winter Olympics in my home city, I know all the positives that will result from being the host.
Congratulations.
We can expect a new generation of gymnastics stars to train hard for the Games in their home country.
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