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Queen City Gymnastics will be hosting the 2009 Men’s USA Gymnastics Junior Olympic National Championships in Downtown Cincinnati at the Duke Energy Center from May 6th to May 11th. This exciting, five-day event will include over 700 of the best gymnasts in the country and will help determine the USA Jr. National Team. …

Cincinnati Welcomes the Top Male Jr. Gymnasts

Stick It Media points out that Men’s Gymnastics is still getting no respect in the USA.

The Women’s Level 10 Jr Olympic Championships go the following weekend in Seattle. With much more fanfare, I expect.

From choreographer Anastasia Umeh-Lees on Facebook:

Myself and Dasha Joura (2008 Olympian & WAIS program athlete) travelled to Sydney to represent Australian Gymnastics on Season 5 of Australia’s Next Top Model. It was quite a departure from my usual work with the Aussie National Team, but enjoyable just the same!

Dasha proved herself to be the eloquent, elegant athlete that we all know her to be, and showed why gymnasts are not only the toughest athletes on the planet, but also some of the most graceful and artistic. While the models-to-be did a great job keeping up considering their complete lack of gymnastics background, they were a little intimidated by Dasha’s professionalism and class!

Once again it goes to show why our sport is one of the most watched and enjoyed in the world. Our athletes make the very simple look spectacular, and the very challenging…like a walk in the park!

Take a look at the episode for yourself!!! (WARNING: One of the models has a bit of a foul mouth, and used a few naughty words…I apologize for this!)

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Making pretty girls look like idiots.

This gets TV ratings?

The Five Rings of Mental Toughness Training – Women’s Gymnastics DVD

Training your mind is as essential as training your body…

These five sessions lead by USA Gymnastics Sport Psychology Consultant Alison Arnold Ph.D. will help you become the gymnast you were meant to be. The mind is the most important muscle you will ever use. Each section helps you train your mind with drills, visualizations, and motivational tips from some of the leading gymnasts and coaches across the USA. Get ready to take your gymnastics to the next level. Train your mind and change your life.

Click through to GymSmarts for more information.

This one looks expensive at $75.00. But it’s longer than most, I believe. Segments include Kim Zmeskal, Morgan White, Samantha Sheehan, Mary Lee Tracy and others

Rapper Lil Kim is gone from “Dancing With the Stars.”

Next week’s DWTS semi-finals:

Melissa Rycroft and partner Tony Dovolani
Ty Murray and partner Chelsie Hightower
Gilles Marini and partner Cheryl Burke

and …

Shawn Johnson and partner Mark Ballas

Likely Ty will be eliminated next week. Then they’ll be three.

IG – Johnson Ties for Second on Monday’s ‘Dancing’

This weekend. Good luck!

Gymnastics Newfoundland & Labrador in conjunction with Cygnus Gymnastics & Campia Gymnastics will be hosting the 2009 Eastern Championships in St. John’s, NL on May 8-9, 2009. We are very excited about this opportunity to showcase the best gymnasts in each of the six provinces attending the Eastern Canadian Championships.

The Eastern Canadian Championships are held for Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland Labrador. Each province can send up to 4 athletes from every category in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics as well as up to 4 athletes from every category in Men’s Artistic Gymnastics.

The organizing committee s looking forward to welcoming you to our beautiful province. We are optimistic that you may be able to view some icebergs while you are here as all reports indicate there are more surrounding the east coast than we have ever had. Keep in mind with these majestic beauties come a cool, no, cold breeze as the wind pushes them towards shore.

As for weather, you can expect all four seasons during your visit. We have been known to have snow in late May so please advise your team members. …

Gymnastics Newfoundland

flickr – provenio – larger original

Is Andrey Levit taking over the job of running the Canadian Men’s Gymnastics Team?

Levit was coach of Olympic Vault Champion Leszek Blanik from Poland.

Former National Coach Edouard Iarov being put in charge permanently of both the Men’s and Women’s National Teams?

I just heard the rumour.

There’s nothing posted on the Gymnastics Canada website.

Leave a comment if you know the facts.

Click PLAY or watch Mary Lee Tracy coaching tips in one of The Gymnastics Minute series on YouTube.

The Gymnastic Minute is part of the GymSmarts network.

By far the best Chinese Poles circus act I’ve ever seen.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Linked by Cirque du Soleil’s Stacy Clark on Facebook.

Jacob Small ran into one of the famous gymnasts of all time — Svetlana Boginskaya — at the Springfest Meet hosted by Shenandoah tumblers in Winchester, VA.

I had read that Svetlana had two businesses: “an on-line store of gymnastics attire … and organizing gymnastics summer camps”.

Rumour has it she’s now running, with her husband, a Gourmet Pizzeria in Houston, TX. Though she’s mostly a stay-at-home Mom.

If you want your kids to be coached by Bogi, register them for the Olympia Gymnastics Camp in Waldorf, Maryland.

In a photo from the 2008 camp, that’s Svetlana on the right, Olympian Kerri Strug on the left.

Camp 2009 tentatively set for June 27th – July 1st.

details on the Unique Sports Academy website

related – Kerri Strug at 2008 camp – Olympic gold medalist reflects on experiences

Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson and partner Mark Ballas overcame a technical deduction in their first dance to tie for the evening’s second-highest total on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” Monday.

Johnson and Ballas scored 27 out of 30 points and earned a standing ovation for their first of two dances, the quickstep, but all three judges noted their rules infraction. …

Click PLAY or watch the quickstep on YouTube.

… Later in the show, Johnson and Ballas earned 29 points (their highest total of the season) and another standing ovation for their second dance, the paso doble. …

Click PLAY or watch the paso doble on YouTube.

International Gymnast – Johnson Ties for Second on Monday’s ‘Dancing’

Loved the quickstep. And their costumes have all been great.