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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 …

Georgia Dogs

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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.

The big story from Day 1 of the USA Men’s National Team selection meet is Junior Danell Leyva.

Gymnastike reports:

Dannel Leyva … trains at Universal Gymnastics in Miami where he is coached by his dad, Yin Alvarez.

… finished 3rd AA out of the 77 competitors. If he does this again Saturday he’ll be on the senior team for sure.

See a video interview with Danell after the meet.

Danell Leyva – official website

The “theatrical emotional reactions of his coach and father” are not appreciated by many, however. Myself included.

I feel it displays a lack of respect for the other competitors.

THE COUCH GYMNAST posted a collection of entertaining gymnastics photos including this one:

Dominique Dawes

see the rest – A Few Basic Safety Rules… OR….. WHAT NOT TO DO WITH THE APPARATUS

related post – motivated by Dominique Dawes

UPDATE:

MoonKid notes that GYMJAM has been distributed in Ontario for some time, circulation now expanded across the country.

Or … almost all the country.

Jim Rand points out that the new Canadian magazine somehow omitted all the gyms east of Quebec in the club listings. The Maritime Provinces deserve an apology in the second issue.

Ana-Lia notes … Manitoba and the Territories as well.

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GYMJAM magazine will be distributed 4 times a year to over 100,000 readers.

The official magazine of Gymnastics in Canada

Here’s edition #1 of the Canadian version.

TurnIt.net – read it for free online

It looks good. Gymnastics magazines in Canada have started up and quickly died over the years. I hope this one can attract enough advertising dollars to be self-sustaining.

This edition has a full list of gymnastics clubs in every Province, a listing missing (so far) on the new Gymnastics Canada website.

I doubt there will be any confusion between the Canadian magazine and Chris Waller’s GymJam Academy in California.

Some MAG stats from Jeff Thomson, Gymnastics Canada:

The highest Execution (B) Score by any athlete at the Beijing Olympics was Kyle Shewfelt on Vault with a 9.7 9.75.

Those were Kyle’s 3rd Olympics.

If the Olympic Games were judged only on Execution …

Average B scores were:

1) China 9.12
2) Japan 9.03
3) Germany 9.03
4) Canada 9.01

UPDATE: Those statistics from the preliminary Team competition.

One commenter points out that Marian Dragalescu got a B score of 9.8 on his first vault in event finals. But — just like in 2004 — he missed his second vault. So his combined final B-score was lower than 9.75.

Most interviews of female gymnast are DULL. Predictable.

But three good articles landed in my RSS Reader the same day.

Leslie Mak (Oregon) is happy with her decision to go to College gym rather than pursue the Olympics.

Jessica Lopez (Denver / Venezuela) is thrilled to return to the American Cup.

Anna Li (UCLA) dreams of being a stunt woman.

Anna’s UCLA team cancelled their competition this weekend due to a strange virus.