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ouch – Florida loses, again

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

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

day 1 gymnastics Winter Cup

Gymblog has a succinct summary of what happened in Vegas.

Hereâ€™s the top 10 who qualified to tomorrowâ€™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.

Danell Leyva 3rd at Winter Cup

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.

entertaining gymnastics photos

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

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.

cleanest gymnasts in Beijing?

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 â€”Â just like in 2004 â€” he missed his second vault. So his combined final B-score was lower than 9.75.

Leslie Mak, Jessica Lopez, Anna Li

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.

USA Visa Championships 2009 Dallas

Tickets go on sale today.

WHEN: Aug. 12-15

WHERE: American Airlines Center and Dallas Convention Center

TICKETS: On sale Friday at ticketmaster.com or by calling 1-800-745-3000; all-session tickets cost from $95 to $350

NOTABLE

-For the first time, the event will feature national championships for all five of USA Gymnastics’ disciplines – men’s and women’s artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, trampoline and tumbling and acrobatic gymnastics. The junior and senior national teams will be determined.

-The USA Gymnastics National Congress and Trade Show will run concurrently at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel.

Dallas News