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Feb. 7, Las Vegas

Two-Day All-Around

1. Joseph Hagerty (USOTC) (88.150/89.750) 177.900
2. Danell Leyva (Universal) (87.300/89.050) 176.350
3. Sho Nakamori (Stanford) (87.400/88.700) 176.100
4. Guillermo Alvarez (Minnesota) (85.650/88.850) 174.500
5. Chris Brooks (Oklahoma) (86.400/87.100) 173.500
6. Kyle Bunthuwong (Berkeley) (85.150/86.950) 172.100
7. Steven Legendre (Oklahoma) (84.400/87.650) 172.050
8. Kyson Bunthuwong (Berkeley) (84.750/86.650) 171.400
9. Chris Cameron (Michigan) (84.850/86.250) 171.100
10. Alexy Bilozertchev (Unattached) (84.200/86.250) 170.450

full results and commentary – International Gymnast

Results from the first gymnastics competition of the season in Alberta are not yet available online at midnight, as I write.

Not even on the official website.

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The first meet of the year is always the most difficult. There were many errors. And even some dangerous routines.

I expect to see a BIG improvement by next competition.

Shout out to the hard working judges. They had two tough days (so far). New rules. New interpretations. Missed routines.

Happily the coaches made a point of not protesting. (Not much, in any case.) Everyone understands we need get through the first meet to set a baseline of expectation for the coming season.

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Held concurrently with the Exelta meet — in an adjacent venue — was the Alberta Second Trials to Nationals for trampoline and tumbling.

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Brett MacAulay, Head Coach of Calgary Gymnastics Centre, is posting photos and videos. Search for those on Facebook.

Can this be true?

… A 4 year-old boy accidentally hanged himself yesterday in what Springs police say is a freak trampoline accident. ‘Angel’ was playing on a trampoline at his home on Wooten Dr. in Colorado Springs when his neck got caught in a cord. …

KOAA News

Terrible. Terrible.

I don’t like backyard tramps. But this sounds to be an unbelievable fluke accident.

You must have seen the trailer by now. They’re spending a lot of money on TV commercials to hype the thing.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Looks lame. Most of the good laughs are in the promo reel, I suspect.

The only review I’ve seen concurs:

… it’s about a pair of high school football players (played by 31-year-old Eric Christian Olsen and 28-year-old Nicholas D’Agosto) who opt out on their team training in order to tag along with the all-female cheerleading squad to their cheer camp/competition.

… I’m pretty certain that we’re looking at a PG-13 here (yes, they can say ‘s–t’ all they want with that rating). Heck, if it were actually R, then this film’s audience would have to ask a parent or legal guardian to come with, and that’s just cruel to consider.

Either way, Fired Up drops down on March 20, 2009. To quote one of the sassy cheerleader foes: B. F. D.

‘Fired Up’ Trailer Leaves Us Anything But

Hamilton, Ontario May 31 – June 7th.

The official website is up. Though there’s no content on it yet.

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Historically the Championships hosted in Ontario I’ve found disappointing. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Hamilton can do as good a job as Calgary did in 2008.

In my town we have a big multi-sport training centre called Canada Olympic Park (COP). It’s managed by CODA.

The Calgary Olympic Development Association (CODA), which carried on the legacy of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games, recently rebranding itself as the Canadian Winter Sport Institute — or Winsport Canada.

And it’s a Canadian success story.

“Almost three-quarters of the medal winners at the 2006 Winter Olympics were either Albertan or had trained at the COP.”

Bad economic news.

… WinSport Canada says … the organization took a $40 million hit on its endowment funds — worth about $140 million — since March 2007 due to plunging financial markets.

The loss has meant WinSport is unable to draw on any interest and take out the $7 million needed annually for operations at facilities such as Canada Olympic Park, the Canmore Nordic Centre and the Olympic Oval.

Herald – Cash-strapped WinSport to ‘readjust’ legacy fund

One project at risk:

An artist’s rendering of a new building to be part of the Canada Olympic Park’s $200-million expansion. (CBC) – CBC

Gymnastics British Colombia’s monthly magazine called Layout is now available online FREE.

(It was formerly called e-Xtra.)

Articles of interest include:

20 Successful Candidates Selected for 2008-2009 Internship Program:

… Among the interns are the following gymnastics coaches:

~ Katrina Burton, West Wind Gymnastics Club, Lethbridge, AB
~ Candice Feinrip, Oakville Gymnastics Club, Oakville, ON
~ Mallory Hartley, Kingston Gymnastics Club, Kingston, ON

Transition from NCCP Level 1 to Gymnastics Foundations

Interview with Brittany Rogers

2009 BC Strength, Fitness and Conditioning Conference: “Recovery, Regeneration and Rehabilitation”

Download Layout magazine (PDF).

UPDATE:

In front of a sold-out crowd of 10,224, the Gym Dogs posted a 197.250-195.925 victory over the Tigers. That is Georgia’s highest score of the season and it is the highest score in the nation going into weekend competition.

Senior Courtney Kupets posted a 39.625 to win the all-around for the sixth meet in a row as the Gym Dogs moved to 6-0 for the season.

“I didn’t feel like we attacked and competed with a lot of confidence out there today,” Georgia coach Suzanne Yoculan said. “Today we held ourselves back on a few routines just to get us back on track, which we did. It’s hard to be too disappointed in our score today though, which is the highest in the country this season …

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Gymnastics juggernaut Georgia is 62-0 all-time against Auburn.

But Auburn is on a roll. Tonight will be their best chance ever to defeat the 4 time defending NCAA Champions.

The highlight competition of College gymnastics this weekend has free online video streaming via the GymDogs website.

No. 11 LSU defeat No. 8 Florida Gymnasts 196.80-195.825

Will the Gators drop out of the top 10 teams this week?

Gymblog has a succinct summary of what happened in Vegas.

Here’s the top 10 who qualified to tomorrow’s final:

1. Joseph Hagerty (USOTC) 132
2. Sho Nakamori (Stanford) 115
3. Danell Leyva (Universal) 111
4. Guillermo Alvarez (Minnesota) 110
5. Jake Bateman (Ohio State) 98
6. Chris Cameron (Michigan) 94
7. John Orozco (World Cup) 88
8. Chris Brooks (Oklahoma) 82
9. Greg Ter-Zakhariants (Stanford) 81
10. Josh Dixon (Stanford) 80

This is different from the preliminary all-around, which goes like so:

Preliminary All-Around
1. Joseph Hagerty 88.150
2. Sho Nakamori 87.400
3. Danell Leyva 87.300
4. Chris Brooks 86.400
5. Guillermo Alvarez 85.650
6. John Orozco 85.550
7. Greg Ter-Zakhariants 85.300
8. Kyle Bunthuwong 85.150
9. Chris Cameron 84.850
10. Kyson Bunthuwong 84.750

See all scores on GymnasticsResults.com.

Details on the points system used to select the 42 finalists.

USAG has some videos posted.

Jonathan Horton did not compete all-around. But will petition on to the National Team, I’m sure.