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UPDATE: Blast. This was a newspaper April Fool’s Day PRANK. I’ve been had.

Thanks XMaestro.

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Blythe on the Gymblog loves the fact that University of Wisconsin-Madison has added a Women’s Gymnastics Team.

… the UW Athletic Department is finally giving the students what they want by announcing the return of Division I baseball to Madison. To both provide sufficient funding to the baseball program and satisfy Title IX regulations, the Department of Athletics will drop Wisconsin’s FBS football program, effective immediately. …

The Daily Cardinal – Football replaced by baseball, gymnastics

This was posted April 1st.

I trust it’s not an April Fool’s joke.

Ten-0

2009 European Championships Apparatus Finals

Floor Exercise Final Men
1 HAMBUECHEN Fabian GER – 15.450
2 FAHRIG Matthias GER – 15.400
3 KOSMIDIS Eleftherios GRE – 15.350
3 SHATILOV Alexander ISR – 15.350

Pommel Horse Final Men
1 BERKI Krisztian HUN – 15.600
2 SMITH Louis GBR – 15.550
3 KEATINGS Daniel GBR – 15.500

Rings Final Men
1 VAN GELDER Yuri NED – 15.750
2 VOROBIOV Olexandr UKR – 15.600
3 IOVTCHEV Iordan BUL – 15.550

Vault Final Men
1 BOUHAIL Thomas FRA
2 KOCZI Flavius ROU
3 FAHRIG Matthias GER

Parallel Bars Final Men
1 CUCHERAT Yann FRA – 15.825
2 PETKOVSEK Mitja SLO – 15.800
3 HAMBUECHEN Fabian GER – 15.375

Horizontal Bar Final Men
1 MARAS Vlasios GRE – 15.375
2 CUCHERAT Yann FRA – 15.250
3 KUKSENKOV Nikolay UKR – 14.925

GymnasticsResults.com – full scores

Videos of all routines.

GymNiceTic called bad boy Matthias Fahrig the Man of the Day:

At the event finals of the European Championships today, Matthias Fahrig (GER) won a silver medal on floor (15.400) and a bronze on vault (16.235) – he´s definitly back in the game and will have good chances to represent Germany at the Worlds in London. Congratulations for this successful comeback after causing some troubles and not being allowed to go to the Olympics because of disciplin problems. …

Jamd

Floor and Bars. Beth is a big STAR in the UK.

This is a terrific result.

Beth Tweddle won two golds for Britain on the final day of the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships. …

After her bars routine, Tweddle, the 2006 uneven bars world champion, said: “It’s nice to be back.

“Since 2006 I have had my share of fourth positions, and all week I have been so focused on getting everything right. ” …

BBC – Tweddle secures double Euro gold

IG – Amanda Turner’s commentary – Tweddle Reclaims Uneven Bars Title

From the Couch Gymnast:

… The floor final was the best though, in my opinion. It was such a great finale to the women’s competition, though the crowd was confused about the scoring. …

Event Finals!! – Yay Beth!

GymnasticsResults.com – full scores

For once the results of one of our competitions this season are being posted online, quickly, thanks to Stu Cram.

Gym Score Depot – Wild Rose 2009

Edmonton, Canada April 2-5, 2009.

official website – WildRoseGymnastics.com

The best meet in Canada.

Two-time German Olympian Fabian Hambüchen won the men’s all-around title Saturday at the European Gymnastics Championships in Milan.

Despite a fall on parallel bars, Hambüchen defeated top qualifier Daniel Keatings (Great Britain). Russia’s Yuri Ryazanov finished third, defending his bronze medal from the 2007 European Championships in Amsterdam. …

Amanda Turner on International Gymnast once again has a succinct summary of the All-Around competition – Hambüchen Takes European Title

The big story of the meet is the Brits, however:

19-year-old Daniel Keatings nearly beat Hambüchen. And will in future unless Fabian improves his Pommel Horse.

source – Keatings

Gymblog has a post highlighting the up-and-coming star — coached by Paul Hall — including videos:

The Daniel Keatings 411 post

Liverpool’s Daniel Purvis, only 18-years-old, finished seventh.

England COULD medal as a team at the 2012 Olympics. Certainly the British media will be reading it this way.

Click through to IG for full results and commentary:

2008 Olympian Ksenia Semyonova (Russia) captured the all-around gold medal Saturday at the European Gymnastics Championships in Milan.

Semyonova (58.175) and teammate Ksenia Afanasyeva (57.600) finished 1-2 in a strong comeback for the Russia women, who won no medals at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

Switzerland’s Ariella Käslin (57.275) won the bronze, a historic best for the Swiss women. …

Both Semyonova and Afanasyeva hail from Tula, and are coached by Marina Nazarova. …

International Gymnast – Semyonova Captures European Crown

Russia’s Ksenia Semenova performs her floor exercise routine on her way to win at the women’s individual All-Around Final during the European artistic gymnastics championships in Milan, Italy, Saturday, April 4, 2009.

(AP Photo/ Antonio Calanni) – ESPN

Here are the amazing teams that advance to NCAA Championships in Lincoln, Nebraska:

Georgia………….394.955
Utah……………..394.865
Alabama………..393.925
LSU………………393.635
Florida…………..393.490
Oregon St………393.320
UCLA……………393.205
Oklahoma………393.065
Stanford…………392.025
Arkansas………..392.740
Illinois…………….392.715
Penn St………….392.040

… Utah and Georgia both put up WOW! scores today, with a 197.675 and a 197.700, respectively …

College Gymnastics Board – NQS Seeding for NCAAs

Congratulations to Penn State!

My sympathies to host Nebraska, narrowly edged out for one of the spots.

Kylie Stone qualified as an individual for the NCAA Championships as the No. 13 Nebraska women’s gymnastics team finished third at the NCAA Southeast Regional at N.C. State Saturday night. The Huskers (16-7) posted a score of 195.45 to finish behind Georgia (197.70) and Penn State (195.80). …

Stone will perform as an all-arounder at the Championships in Lincoln on April 16-18.

“I’m happy for Kylie,” Head Coach Dan Kendig said. “After sitting out a year, it says a lot for her to come back and qualify, but nothing is going to replace the fact that we won’t be there as a team. I’m heartbroken for Tricia (Woo) and Brittney (Williams); they both came so close, down to the last competitor. The thing is, I love this team and I can’t tell you that enough. They’ve done everything we’ve asked them to do and I’m heartbroken for them. They’ve made sacrifices and worked hard all year long.”

Stone led Nebraska’s all-around rotation, with a score of 39.20 for a fourth-place finish. The Huskers narrowly missed out on qualifying individual on bars and beam, with Williams (9.90) and Woo (9.90) each taking second in their respective events. Georgia took the spotlight, tallying two 10.0 marks on the night on vault and beam. …

Stone Advances to NCAA Championships, Huskers Come in Third at Regionals

Coach Ed Vincent at Altadore built this interesting training device.

He uses the wide pommels under a pommel bucket.

I saw an article about two gymnasts from NISHIDA’S GYMNASTICS & FITNESS CENTER in Kingston, Jamaica competiing well at a meet in Florida, the 2009 Gasparilla in Tampa.

NISHIDA’S offers a full range of gymnastics programs. As well as Cheer.

Mr. Shin Nishida has built a strong program there. Congratulations.

Another Japanese led gymnastics facility – ISHIMOTO GYMNASTIC School – is only 3000 square feet. But is looking for more.

Leave a comment if you know more about what’s happening with gymnastics sports on the Island.

Like most gymnastics clubs, we have a number of girls out with injury right now, right in the middle of our competitive season.

One kicked the low bar by accident doing Pak. One tripped over her feet at the gym … we are claiming she was training triple back off beam.

Another suffers chronic pain. Cause not clear. All modes of treatment including extended rest does not alleviate it.

Frustrating.

Pain and Beth Tweddle have been constant companions since the 2006 world asymmetric bars champion broke her left foot warming up for the British championships eight years earlier.

In 1999 pins were removed from her ankle. A year later the joint required manipulation under a local anesthetic.

Flaking bone was removed in 2001 before surgery on both ankles in 2002. Two years later she underwent surgery on a torn bicep tendon.

“I’ve had enough injuries to last me a lifetime,” Britain’s first world gymnastics champion told Reuters in a telephone interview during a break from training for the Beijing Olympics.

“In a way it’s made me a stronger person, it’s made me more determined to go out and prove to people that an injury isn’t going to stop me.”

“I think every athlete competes through certain aspects of pain. I guess that’s just part of the sport. …

Pain is gymnast Tweddle’s constant companion – Yahoo News

credit – British Olympic Association

Beth does not plan on training through to the 2012 Olympics in London. Neither has she signed with any NCAA gymnastics team, so far as I have seen.

All older, high level competitive gymnasts are “injured”. They do things in training that would be avoided by non-gymnasts.

I recall Russian coaches using the term “functionally healthy” to mean “injured, but still able to do the training program”.

Pain management is essential. Smart coaching is essential.

Beth was “was the talk of the town” after the WAG preliminary competition in Milan.

Beth Tweddle – Wikipedia