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Strange acrobatic artworks.

TALENTED kids climbing the Žižkov Television Tower in Prague … art installation by David ÄŒerný:

Here’s another of Cerný’s bizarre sculptures.

related: Dark Roasted Blend – Nightmare Playgrounds

Stu Cram of Gym Score Depot has just released an updated version of GymScoreLite for Women’s Gymnastic Meets.

– One program for both old and new code
– Use Excel for both Windows & Mac
– Improved calculations
– Better sorting
– Easier to use
– etc

The men’s version was similarly updated earlier.

Any feedback, comments, or suggestions are appreciated. And… Both programs are still free. (Donations are welcome.)

Note – These programs work for most club level meets but do not tabulate team scores or 2-day total scores.

Contact Stu for those options if needed.

Download from Gym Score Depot.

Drăgulescu had a disappointing Olympics in Beijing.

larger version – ProSport

… I have chosen to become a coach. This month I’ll start working with the children’s group at Dinamo, alongside Marius Urzică. I’m not at all apprehensive. I’ve worked with children before, in America,” says one of Romania’s most decorated athletes. ..

…Drăgulescu will remain close to the national team, whose new head coach is NicuÅŸor Pascu, the godfather to his daughter Beatrice. “I’ll go and give Nicu a helping hand.” …

Triple Full – It’s Official: Marian Drăgulescu Has Retired

Triple Full posted another translation, this time a cute interview with Ukrainian Olympian Valery Goncharov.

It’s all good. But the most interesting bits document his courting of now wife Irina Yarotska. (also a gymnast)

Click through to read the comic details:
Valery Goncharov: “I’m Not Exactly Looking for Absolute Tranquility”

Gymnast.com is obviously a great domain name. The site had potential. I was a contributor and a booster.

It’s been down for weeks. And we’re not sure if or when Gymnast will be coming back.

Yet, even with the Olympics, perhaps the site did not bring in enough visitors.

The red line is Gymnast.com, the blue line GymnasticsCoaching.com.

This surprises me. Gymnast should have had much more traffic than this speciality blog.

Data comes from Site Analytics.

Coach Jami recommends we check out the Matrix, a club that opened March 2008.

This 40,000+ square foot facility was born out of the necessity for a state-of-the-art tumbling, trampoline and cheerleading facility in the North Alabama region.

Wow. That’s a huge space that uniquely does NOT offer Artistic Gymnastics.

official website – Matrix

They offer a “drop-in” Saturday class to encourage potential new members to come check it out.

Some word on why one of my favourite gymnastics websites is down.

Gymnast.com was launched by the Wasserman Media Group last year as one of their Sportnet Olympic and Action Sports sites.

I visited the Wasserman offices in Los Angeles last Spring and was very impressed.

USA-gymnastics.org was another one of the Sportnet sites.

I’m hearing that USAG and Wasserman could not reach an agreement on their partnership … so decided they will be parting ways.

Wasserman is no longer running Gymnast.com. That address now redirects to USAG.

I assume the status of Gymnast.com is now under review. Lets hope it is relaunched in the near future.

NicuÅŸor Pascu replacing the legend Dan Grecu who had the job for the past 24-years.

NicuÅŸor Pascu (photo: ProSport)

“Over the last two years, Romanian men’s gymnastics has regressed. I think that what the boys were lacking during that time was the motivation of doing gymnastics for results, for the country,” said Pascu, who competed for Romania himself twenty years ago.

Triple Full – Meanwhile, in Romanian Men’s Gymnastics…

Pascu once coached Marian Drăgulescu … who might just once again unretire in order to work with the new National Coach.

Pascu has been coaching the Swiss men but returned home when his Swiss contract was not renewed at the end of 2008.

Triple Full links to a terrific interview with the FABulous one.

… a nice peek into the life of the man many feel will take over from Yang Wei as the world’s top all-arounder. …

The 21-year-old speaks honestly about moving out with his girlfriend in the Spring, secondary education, his upbringing with a father/coach, his disastrous Olympics in Beijing, his superstar status in the German media, … and much more.

A very unusual and interesting read.

Fabian and his girlfriend Viktoria at the 2007 World Championships (photo: AFP/Getty Images)

Fabian with his father and coach, Wolfgang

Triple Full – Fabian Hambüchen: “I Don’t Need a Major Conflict”

The original German version is on Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Feb. 20-22, Oklahoma City.

The 2009 Nadia Comaneci International Invitational.

In the international division, the Romanians are attending.

official website

related – Romania plans to send Ana Tămîrjan to the American Cup.