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David Wyatt from Melbourne captured some nice images at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival 2009.

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I can be contacted … at dwyatt46 @ hotmail.com with any queries on the photographs I’ve taken.

Kathe Jones started a new blog for MotionWear, a dance and gymnastics clothing company.

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Putting the Gymnast First …

Being Willing to Take a Break …

Making the Gym Fun …

What I Think Makes a Great Gymnastics Coach

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TV Show Host Phil Keoghan learns gymnastics at the National Sports Complex in Bucharest.

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related – IG – Romanians Coach Contestants on Sunday’s ‘Amazing Race’

Wow.

Georgia gymnastics posted its best score at home since 1998 Saturday, proving their mettle as the nation’s No. 1 team with a very impressive 198.200-196.650 victory over rival Florida.

The Gym Dogs were firing on all cylinders all day, charting 16 scores of 9.9 or better, capped off by a perfect 10 on floor exercise from senior Courtney Kupets. They posted season-highs on every event, with a 9.850 the lowest score they counted all afternoon.

Not bad for a team that coach Suzanne Yoculan doubted as the nation’s No. 1 earlier in the week.

“I’m not going to sleep for two days,” she said.

Red and Black – Gym Dogs post nation-best 198.200, blow Gators out of water

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Georgia is indeed the team to beat at Championships 2009.

Coach John Carney left his club, Gym East in Washington State, to go to College.

How’s he doing in the NCAA?

John Carney knows when to have fun and when to get serious as a gymnastics coach.

Carney, 41, is in his first year as an assistant coach with Oregon State after a long career at the club level.

It didn’t take long for the OSU gymnasts to discover his fun-loving side.

Carney makes a point of keeping the training interesting. He comes up with a variety of games to go along with the bars workouts and lightens up what can be a grind.

“He creates props,” senior D’Anna Piro said. “Over Christmastime we had to draw our assignments out of stockings. Sometimes he has us roll dice to determine how many skills you have to complete.

“It’s never a boring day on bars.” …

Beaver Sports – Carney breaks up the routine with humor

That’s Olivia Vivian from Australia in the photo. I never miss a chance to read her often hilarious commentary on gymnastics and life.

(via Australian Gymnastics Blog)

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John’s team was edged out last night by the young, aggressive UCLA squad …

Bruin Gymnasts Beat Beavers, 196.575-196.350

Gerber hits clutch beam routine to seal victory.

What?!

The low rent San Jose Spartans 194.70 defeated their high flying neighbors, previously undefeated Stanford 193.925 last night.

Is this the NCAA upset of the season?

Miscues on the opening two rotations put the No. 3 Stanford women’s gymnastics team into a hole it could not climb out of in a loss to … unranked San Jose State in a tri-meet at UC Davis on Friday night.

Stanford struggled to season-low scores on the balance beam and floor exercise while San Jose State stuck its routines to build an insurmountable lead, finishing with 194.7 points, to 193.95 for Stanford and 192.7 for UC Davis. …

Rough Start Costs Stanford in Gymnastics Loss

Congratulations to San Jose, especially leader Thomasina Wallace and coach Wayne Wright.

They’ve earned Bay Area bragging rights for the coming year!

SJS Spartans

The 2007 USA Champion is 99% retired, now the personal coach of David Sender from Stanford.

An entertaining and informative interview by Steve McCain at American Cup on the USAG YouTube channel.

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Cute article on the Postolache triplets, sisters in Romania who train in Focsani.

… They have personalized routines

Although at their category the elements that they should present during competitions are set by the Federation, each of the little girls has her own exercise. “At floor the music is different, taking into account each one’s temperament; the order of the compulsory elements and the links are thought differently. It is like you’d see the same person competing three times, each time differently”, their coach explains. More than that, they are also starting to show their different personalities. …

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Fangymnastics – The dream triplets

Can you recall triplets that were all high level gymnasts?

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To the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.

Congratulations.

The traditional Induction Ceremony of the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame will take place on May 30 in Oklahoma City (USA). Four gymnasts will be honoured during this 13th edition: Dominique Dawes (USA), Elvira Saadi (UZB), Viktor Chukarin (UKR), Vitaly Scherbo (BLR) and the coach Octavian Bellu (ROU). The 2009 International Order of Merit will be awarded to Margaret Sikkens Ahlquist (SWE), the President of the FIG Gymnastics for All Committee. …

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