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Via Live.Breathe.Love Gymnastics. At the French Championships.

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By email from Doug Hunt:

Just to be accurate, Brantford, Ontario Canada still holds the Guinness Record for most People on Stilts!

Cirque established a new record on June 16 for Most People on Stilts in multiple sites!! . This is a new and different record -not their original record they set for their 20th anniversary five years ago!

I was the organizer of the Brantford Team and also hold a couple of Stilt Records with Guinness myself. Our event raised funds for people who can not walk – let alone walk on stilts! Please confirm with Guinness. Just to set the record right!

I believe him.

Great new montage from charloadams.

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Shawn Johnson on a Cheer magazine?

… Olympic Champion Shawn Johnson is all over the place these days. You can see her on the Cover of Inside Cheerleading magazine. The issue features an interview with Shawn …

This is from the new GK Elite blog specially devoted to Cheerleading Uniforms.

Inside Gymnastics July/August readers’ cover choice.

Mattie Larson won with by a landslide. She was picked about 2-1 over the other three candidates.

Guilty pleasures. What are you going to do … ??

For some reason I went back and watched episodes 4, 5 and 6 of Make It or Break It.

Dunno why. But there is something engaging about the show.

I thought it was a big gamble to play off of the much mocked fight in the (bad) movie Gymkata, but this scene works for me.

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Entertainment Weekly calls the new hit show cheese-tastic … but lists 6 reasons to watch it anyway.

(via PRESSMANIA)

I saw this on GYMmedia.

It seems former Romanian Women’s National Coach, Octavian Belu, resigned as Secretary of State at the at Ministry of Youth and Sport.

… “I asked to be dismissed … I see no perspective for the function in the Ministry. The Romanian sport is in collapse”, said Octavian Belu at RealitateaTV. …

Octavian Belu resigned from MYS. The Government does not discuss the case …

Alex Seifert … posted victories in tumbling and double mini trampoline on Wednesday at the Canada Cup competition.

The meet was the last of three qualification events for the trampoline and tumbling world championships this fall in St. Petersburg, Russia, with athletes in various age categories vying for spots on the Canadian team. …

“It was a great competition for me,” said Seifert, who competed last week at the World Games in Taiwan.

“In double mini, I executed a routine with a very high degree of difficulty and in tumbling I completed a pass that had never been done by a Canadian.”

In the women’s trampoline final, Olympic finalist Rosannagh MacLennan of Toronto won with 104.00 points …

“I tried a new routine and I got through it,” said MacLennan, seventh at the Beijing Games last year.

“There were a couple of rough tricks but overall it was pretty good. I was a little more nervous than usual because it was a new routine. There’s some uncertainty but it does help you focus a little more.”

In men’s trampoline, Japan’s Yasuhiro Ueyama held on to first place with 112.5 points. Olympic silver medallist Jason Burnett of Toronto was second at 110.00. …

Corissa Boychuk of Airdrie, Alta., won the women’s double mini trampoline …

Emily Smith of Burlington, Ont., took the women’s tumbling crown, with Ashley Speed of Etobicoke, Ont., second and Jordan Sugrim, also of Burlington, third.

In youth competition, Red Deer’s Keegan Soehn was a double winner placing first in men’s double mini trampoline and trampoline. …

more results – Canadian Press

2009 … Aug. 12-15th, Dallas, Texas
2010 … Aug. 11-14th, Hartford, Connecticut

… “Hartford, you got it,” shouted former Olympic coach Bela Karolyi, who played the role of fight promoter at Wednesday’s news conference, billing the event as a clash between the old guard of gymnasts, who won 10 medals at the Beijing Olympics, and the next crop of champions. “You got the best coming up.” …

Legendary women’s gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi greets Jordan Fulchino, 10, right, along with three other aspiring gymnasts from Dearys Gymnastics of Danielsen, Conn., as they waited in the hallway of the State Capitol for the start of a news conference in Hartford, Conn., on Wednesday, July 29, 2009. It’s being billed as the biggest sporting event to hit Connecticut since the NHL’s Hartford Whalers left town more than a decade ago. …

ESPN

… Hartford will play host to next year’s gymnastics national championships. State economic development officials expect at least 25,000 people to attend the event, which will be held Aug. 11-14, 2010.

The men’s and women’s championships will be held at the 15,000-seat XL Center while the rhythmic, acrobatic and trampoline and tumbling competition will take place at the Chase Arena at the University of Hartford, which seats about 3,500.

The Connecticut Convention Center, which opened in 2005, will host the organization’s national congress and trade show that week. …

Hartford to host 2010 USA Gymnastics championships

by site editor Rick McCharles

This Summer, traveling in Europe, I find I’m missing some very important stories.

Happily, Blythe Lawrence on Gymblog doesn’t take holidays. 🙂

I’ve added her most recent posts to the right hand navigation.