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23 February 2009 – by Regional Qualifying Average

full rankings – GymInfo

Georgia is #1.

Despite resting some of the big guns, Stanford still scored a season high against California, gaining a spot on UCLA.

The high flying Bruins were forced to count a fall on beam in a loss to Nebraska.

Florida, with another year’s best team score over Alabama, continues to dig out of a deep hole.

Steve McCain interviews the “next great thing” in USA gymnastics. The 2009 American Cup Champion.

She’s quite eloquent.

Click PLAY or watch it on the USAG YouTube channel.

Click through for more interviews from Chicago.

Wow.

Huge upset.

We had Oregon coach John Carney scouting our meet, the Great West Gym Fest before flying out to this competition.

But his hot team was defeated by the Washington Huskies!

… Washington tallied a season-best 196.000 for the evening. Illinois came in second with 195.900 and Oregon State finished third with 195.800. Eastern Michigan totaled 191.475.

“We’re going to enjoy this one tonight,” said Bowers. “This felt really good. For our seniors, this is the highest score they’ve ever had. They’ve never beaten Oregon State in their four years and not in the three years I’ve been here, so this is huge for us, for our team and for our program. I’m just thrilled. I’m not surprised that we could do it. I’m just so glad that we finally did.”…

GymDawgs Down No. 9 Oregon State, No. 14 Illinois

Introducing free running basics to school girls.

Girls do Parkour: Girls Empowerment Day

ParkourGenerations put together a great session for girls to get to learn the basics of parkour in London. Needless to say, the girls loved it. …

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Quite impressive, wouldn’t you say.

With female gymnasts, my main two nutrional concerns:

are they getting enough Calcium?

are they getting enough Iron?

A good article on USolympicteam.com

Symptoms

The easiest symptom to notice associated with iron deficiency anemia is fatigue that worsens with exertion. Fatigue is common and can have many different causes (such as other nutritional imbalances, illness or stress). If an athlete experiences normal fatigue throughout the day and is not worsened with exercise, the cause is likely not iron deficiency by itself. The following are also possible symptoms of iron deficiency anemia:

Decreased performance

Sleepiness and fatigue (outside of normal)

Poor concentration

Moodiness or irritability

Always feeling cold

By Bob Seebohar, Fuel4mance – IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA AND PERFORMANCE

Thirteen-year-old American Jordyn Wieber bested her US teammate, 16-year-old Olympian Bridget Sloan for the American Cup title, 60.20-59.60. Wieber got an early edge from her Amanar vault, and in the end it was that vault that made the difference: Sloan and Wieber tied on bars, and were within a tenth of each other on both floor and beam.

In the men’s competition, German Olympian Fabian Hambuechen pulled out the victory over American David Sender on the last event. Hambuechen’s 15.75 on high bar — an event he won at the 2007 Worlds — enabled him to edge Sender 90.65-90.45. Olympian Joey Hagerty placed third with an 89.55. …

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(AP Photo/Jim Prisching) – larger version

(AP Photo/Jim Prisching) larger version

Steff sent us a link of Fabian Hambuechen doing some dives for a German TV Show (kind of show competition; athletes and VIPs alike try to dive, quite funny . Fabian says in the vid that he trained without a coach for this event.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Fabian competes in his old sport, gymnastics, tonight in the American Cup.

He’s the favourite to win. And wants to have some FUN.

UPDATE: anna points out …

It’s 19.3 DD in the old code, FYI. So compare that to the old DD record of 18.5.

Triples and quads have been given greater DD this Olympic cycle, hence the 20.6.

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Jason Burnett, the Silver medalist in Beijing, is the world record holder for Degree of Difficulty in competition with 17.5 on April 2, 2007, at the Lake Placid Trampoline World Cup.

But back in 2004 he put together an 18.5 routine — likely the highest DD ever on a regulation tramp — in training.

Now …

MissEducated pointed us to THIS.

!!!! Hardest TRamPoline Routine 20.6 Jason Burnett !!!!!!

Click PLAY or watch the hardest routines ever done on a regulation trampoline on YouTube.

WOW.

As one commenter said, “Jason Burnette is God”.

Have you seen this Xtreme sport?

Downhill combative ice skating at speeds of over 43km / hour.

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In Quebec City, Arttu Pihlainen from Finland won the Men’s division. Keri-Anne Wallace from Calgary, Canada, the Women’s.