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I saw the story linked from Inside Gymnastics on Twitter.

… The 29-year-old spearheaded China to the men’s team title and collected all-around individual to cap his prolific career. Yang was also a member in China’s win of men’s team in the Sydney Olympics. Before culminating in Beijing, Yang also won seven world titles and two Olympic silvers in an international career spanning13 years. …

Yang refused to reveal his plans for the immediate future. …

Yang married his long-term girlfriend Yang Yun, a bronze medallist in the uneven bars at the Sydney Games, last November in a lavish ceremony that drew some criticism from his compatriots.

China View – Triple Olympic champion gymnast Yang retires

Thanks for the many good years. His win in Beijing was masterful, I thought. Carefully planned. Perfectly executed.

more wedding photos

His wife is one of the Chinese gymnasts who admitted to being an “age cheat” at the 2000 Olympics.

Is there a judging bias towards the SEC teams in College gymnastics?

Many think so.

JuanGone34 posted a video comparison with deductions overlaid.

… comparison of the University of Utah and Georgia at the recent 2009 NCAA gymnastics championships. There was much speculation that the scoring was not equal for all teams, especially on this event, so I put together this video to compare routines side by side. I chose Utah and Georgia because they had the most video available to show the most routines. I wasn’t able to find very many videos of the other teams, but based on this alone I would say Georgia was overscored by at least 5 tenths. …

Click PLAY or watch the video on YouTube.

Utah vs. Georgia Beam Comparison (video 2 of 3)

Utah vs. Georgia Beam Comparison (video 3 of 3)

There’s some commentary on the College Gymnastics Board disagreeing with the “judging bubbles”. (Judging in the NCAA is weird, as you know. Very few errors are deducted. The deductions tiny compared with F.I.G.)

I watched the meet closely.

It seemed to me that — in Prelims — Florida got the most generous scores, Stanford the least generous.

Florida is in the SEC. Stanford is not.

But I really cannot confirm any bias. The SEC teams are really, really good.

We are all convinced that they are.

Grad student Lisa Laundry is researching the topic.

Wanted: Gymnastics research papers on the topic “Participation in gymnastics (athletics) and academic achievement“.

I am looking for information to assist in my research for a Masters Degree in Education. Please forward any information to Lisa Laundry

lisalaundry @ sd28.bc.ca

Tracey Morrison linked this clip on Facebook.

Helen and Carol Galashan did a talent transfer from gymnastics to diving in 2006. Three years on and they are already European bronze medalists.

Click PLAY or watch the twins on YouTube.

Helen and Carol competed in the 2006 Commonwealth Games. As gymnasts on the team from Scotland.

Now they aspire to compete in the London Olympics.

New Zealand gymnast Misha Koudinov plans to compete this skill at the Moscow World Cup at the end of May.

He will submit a request to get it valued in the Code.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

Inside Gymnastics has the best interview with the Olympic Champion I can recall.

INSIDE: Have you considered transitioning to being a specialist on, say, bars and beam? The events that seem to come more easily for you.

LIUKIN: Possibly this year, just because I haven’t had the proper time, because of the traveling and everything. I’m not gonna say that’s what I’d want to do, though.

Before the Olympics, a lot of people, with my ankle and stuff, thought maybe I should just do two events. I wanted to prove to people that I was still an all-around gymnast and (laughs) I think I did that at the Olympics. I think, this year, I’m not trying to put any expectations on it, because I’m still traveling a lot. I will say that, down the road, I don’t want to back off and just do two events. I feel like the all-around is one of those things in gymnastics that is, to me, very important.

I think bars are one of the hardest events to get back into routine-shape. So, I feel like if I did bars then vault and floor would come pretty easy. We’ll see. I’m not trying to set any expectations quite yet. …

Her new routines. (A new skill on Bars and Beam.)

Her pet dogs.

Her favourite celebrity. (Maria Sharapova)

Where she’ll be in 10 years.

And when she’ll “move out” of her family home.

… I know I’ve already achieved the biggest goal—the biggest dream—I ever had. Now, it’s just about really enjoying it. To go for as long as I can. As long as I’m having fun. …

read more – THE INSIDE INTERVIEW: NASTIA LIUKIN

Brazilian gymnastics star, triple Olympian, Daniele Hypólito, now age-24, is reported to be getting surgery for weight reduction.

(photo: Julie Jacobson/AP Photo) – Triple Full

Sad she feels the need to resort to liposuction.

I would think hard training would be enough to maintain competition weight, even at her age.

Brazil has long been known as a destination for cosmetic surgery. I imagine procedures like this are common practice in her nation.

related post – ex-gymnast on thigh liposuction

Oops. The original flickr photo was Naomi Ruiz

Apologies for the hours this blog was down May 6th.

You may have seen this …

Bluehost suspends all sites they host for any infraction.

I think it’s time to move to a more secure web host, likely WordPress.com.

I’d heard and ignored the rumour.

But Adrian Stoica confirms it’s true as reported on Inspired by Nadia.

larger version

I’ll alert his long time rival on Floor and Vault, Kyle Shewfelt, who just turned age-27.

Related posts:

Marian Drăgulescu retired, again

coach Marian Drăgulescu interview

German Olympian 2008 Daria Bijak is one of the most watched NCAA gymnasts. She competes Handspring front layout on Vault. And double front punch front on Floor.

Click PLAY or watch the interview on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/assets/portal/add_ons/mediaplayer-4.2/player.swf