2008 Olympic Silver-Medalist Memmel shows new license plate
© Jeanelle Memmel
Shannon Miller in Kuwait
MILITARY BASES, Kuwait – Olympic gold-medalist Shannon Miller, along with Olympic champions Angelo Taylor (track), Joey Cheek (speed skating) and Laura Wilkinson (diving), visited several military bases in Kuwait upon their arrival in the Mideast. They are on a goodwill tour and will stop by bases in Iraq later in the week.
Laura Wilkinson was an ex-gymnast.
==== Some sad Shannon Miller news.
CN8 (Comcast Network) has gone out of business. The TV channel no longer exists which means Shannon Miller’s gymnastics show is cancelled.
Georgia beats Utah
Georgia-197.15 vs Utah -196.725
Courtney Kupets, who is first in the nation in all-around and bars, won three event titles (vault, bars and floor). She shared the floor title with Utah’s Nina Kim. Kupets also won the all-around for the third straight meet — this time with a 39.600.
Courtney Kupets – Tricia Spaulding
With the meet on the line, Georgia’s Courtney Kupets gave her team some guidance.
“Don’t worry about winning. Just do what we know how to do.â€
The two-time NCAA all-around champion and former U.S. Olympian eased her teammates’ minds as they went into their last rotation — floor exercise — with the score tied against Utah.
With their highest floor exercise score of the season, the fourth-ranked Gym Dogs defeated the third-ranked Utes 197.150-196.725 on Monday at Stegeman Coliseum.
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Utah’s Baskett finished second to Kupets in the all-around with a 39.450 and Tolnay was third with a 39.425. …
Georgia vs Utah tonight
I wish I could be there.
On Monday, the day before the inauguration of Barack Obama, Georgia (2-0) will entertain Utah (1-0) in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day matchup at Stegeman Coliseum. …
Georgia and Utah are two of the all-time heavyweights in collegiate gymnastics. The Utes were the first program to win nine NCAA titles, and the Gym Dogs matched that standard last season. The Gym Dogs and the Utes have been 1-2 respectively at the last three NCAA Championships.
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Georgia leads the series 22-20-1 and has won nine of the last 10 meetings. The Gym Dogs fell to Utah in the season opener last year, but then topped Utah in both the preliminaries and finals of the NCAAs in Athens. Georgia is 8-2 against Utah all-time in Athens. The teams have met nine times in the regular season, with Utah holding a 5-4 edge.
Coaches Greg Marsden of Utah (901) and Yoculan of Georgia (806) are the NCAA’s all-time winningest coaches.
Australian Youth Olympic Festival
Artistic Gymnastics has ended.
Day 2 of Finals was “dominated by China and Great Britain (looking great for 2012!)”.
China, no surprise.
But to see the Men from Great Britain so successful at so many recent Junior competitions is a treat. And the GB Women did surprisingly well, too.
Past & Present Gymnastics – commentary on the meet.
Floor 
1. Jie Cui (CHN)
2. Danusia Francis (GBR)
3. Liufang Wu (CHN)
Balance Beam
1. Liufang Wu (CHN)
2. Sixin Tan (CHN)
3. Danusia Francis (GBR)
Vault (M)
1. Zhanteng Liu (CHN)
2. Reiss Beckford (GBR)
3. Luke Wadsworth (AUS)
Parallel Bars (M)
1. Ashley Watson (GBR)
2. Lixiang Fang (CHN
3. Max Whitlock (GBR)
High Bar (M)
1. Xiaodong Zhu (CHN)
2. Michael Mercieca (AUST)
3. Ashley Watson (GRB)
round-off Arabian mount on bars
Interesting mount, perhaps first performed by American Michelle Goodwin in 1982. (Front tuck somersaults over the low bar were big back then.)
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Years later it was done by former Soviet star Olesia Dudnik — without the butt bounce off the low bar. (video on Gymblog)
In the most recent code it’s an E-part. No gymnast’s name is attributed to the skill. Sorry Dude.
NCAA season-ending injuries
CalicoIzzy on College Gymnastics Board is keeping an updated list of serious injuries in Collge gymnastics.
We might learn something from the list. So far:
ACL
Mariel Box, UGA
Genny Salvatore, Arkansas
Justine Foster, Auburn
Jac Shealy, Bama (ACL)Achilles
Natasha Kelley, Oklahoma
Kareen Kaveh, AuburnOther
Ashlee Hinkle, ASU (leg/knee injury, both legs?, boat accident)
Madison Snowden, ASU (severed achilles, shower accident)
Kelsie Montgomery, Auburn (ankle surgery, pre-college injury)
Kristina Comforte, UCLA (shoulder, injury retirement)
Stephanie Neff, Utah (back, injury retirement)Probable/Possible outs
Carrie Finley, ASU (shoulder)
Nicole Ferrandino, ASU (ACL)
NCAA Gymnastics Rankings
UCLA is looking good, I feel. They are young — and only going to get better.
troester – full list
UCLA Freshman Vanessa Zamarripa won the AA last meet with 39.4.
funny gymnastics photos
hopes-and-dreams.net has many Photoshopped gymnastics pics. I like this one.
(Homer Simpson was a High School gymnast, by the way.)
See more on their 2009 University of Minnesota v. Arizona page.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 