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We posted the “Crockett” in training already.
But I did not realize Jeff had “competed” the skill in the USA Winter Cup Skill Challenge.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Outrageous.
I’m still waiting for a female gymnast to show Jaeger 1/1 twist. (Certainly Olympic Champion He Kexin could do it.)
(via Gymnast.com)
Here’s the best video translation of the interview which forced Bruno Grandi and the International Gymnastics Federation to investigate age falsification of Chinese gymnasts Yang Yun and Dong Fangxiao at the 2000 Olympics.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, questions arose regarding five of the six women on China’s gymnastics team. Evidence surfaced which indicated that the Chinese government many have falsified the athletes’ passports to pass the girls off as sixteen – the minimum age required for Olympic gymnastic competition. While the International Gymnastic Federation continues its investigation into the allegations, additional evidence has come to light which illustrates China’s habitual deceit and manipulation of the truth.
That evidence is presented here, translated for the first time into English, so the world can decide. The setting is the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, where Yang Yun, an inexperienced Chinese gymnast won medals & captured hearts by surprisingly competing head-to-head against gymnastics legend, Svetlana Khorkina.
Yang Yun’s passport said she was sixteen.
Yang Yun says she was fourteen.
In this interview produced by state-run Chinese television, the truth finally comes forward behind the curtain of manipulation, misinformation, and deception.
Produced by Stryde Hax & HeatherShow.com
Translations by Cindy
Subtitles by Heather Lawver
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Yang Yun is today a TV journalist, charismatic and intelligent.
I hope she admits the truth to investigators.
I hope she marries her Olympic Champion fiance Yang Wei and they live happily ever after.
However, there is almost certainly going to be extreme pressure from the National government on Yang Yun to claim some sort of error was made in that interview.
She hinted to A.P. that she might have “misspoken”.
read more – Yang Yun: China’s Habitual Deceit – Heather Show
related: Sydney Olympic medallists dragged into gymnastics probe
Did you see this?
Us Weekly shares the inspirational stories of Olympic gymnasts Nastia Liukin, Shawn Johnson, Alicia Sacramone and Chellsie Memmel as well as Michael Phelps’ transformation from a bullied schoolkid to record-breaking swimmer.
Of course celebrity mags like this are always looking for an extreme story line:
Liukin, 18, has won four medals at the games – including the silver following a controversial tie-break – but she’s had her moments of doubt.
Just a few months ago, Liukin considered quitting, her best friend and training partner Katie Matusik tells Us …
EXCLUSIVE: Pal: Olympian Nastia Liukin Wanted to “Give Up” Gymnastics – Us Magazine
UPDATE: Farewell party
All parents and gymnasts are welcome to stop by the gym tonight, Tuesday, September 30th at 8:45pm to wish him well.
DeVeau’s
Live.Breath.Love Gymnastics reports a rumour that Olympic gymnast Samantha Peszek’s coach Peter Zhao is moving back to China.
There’s more detail on a new blog, The C Score:
This leaves Peszek at a gym with no qualified elite coach at Deveau’s in Fishers, Indiana. Rumor has it that she could go to Sharp’s, or even Chow’s.
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Of the other two gyms, I think Sharp’s seems more likely. It’s in West Indianapolis, which is clearly closer than Iowa, and Peszek is one of those few elite gymnasts who actually goes to a real school, Cathedral High. (On that subject, anyone who does elite gymnastics while attending a regular school is leaps and bounds above everyone else.) Peszek would be training there with Bridget Sloan, fellow 2008 Olympic team member. …
Of course this is all speculation at this point. But that’s what blogs are for.
Coincidentally I was speaking with a Chinese coach by phone today. He told me salaries for coaches are very good in China right now. Fewer will be wanting to leave China for coaching abroad in future.
I’ve heard the same thing about Russia. Salaries have increased dramatically in recent years.
Gymnast.com interviews U.S. Women’s National Team members.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
(via I-Heart-Beam on Chalk Bucket)
Confirmed.
Seneca College in Toronto will no longer be offering their Artistic Gymnastics Coaching Program.
Too bad.
This decision was made before the catastrophic injury to one of the Seneca elite gymnasts, Taylor Lindsay-Noel.
Alex competed Junior Olympic Nationals last year.
Alex Loch of Maple Lake has won a lot of medals over the years in gymnastics — but what may be more impressive is his mettle to overcome impaired vision.
He competed as a Level 10 gymnast despite being born legally blind. …
He’s able to see just 2 to 3 feet away what most people see at 20-to-30 feet away. …
Watch a video of Alex on that news article.
Thanks shergymrag.
Three time Olympian gymnast Blaine Wilson just married Rythmic gymnast Aliane Baquerot.
On the recent Sacramento stop of the 2008 Tour of Gymnastics Superstars they took a detour to Reno, Nevada and tied the knot! The announcement was made to the audience during the show ….
Wedding Bells for Blaine Wilson! – GymnastTV
Blaine and Makare Desilets, who married in 2001, are divorced with a daughter Wakaya.
coach M — responding to the post Oksana Sivovol – highest 1/1 on beam — asks us to compare the layout 1/1 twist competed by Oana Ban from Romania.
It’s awesome.
Click PLAY or watch Oana on Youtube.
Oana was 5th AA at 2003 Worlds and qualified to the All-around at the 2004 Olympics … but an injury sustained during the meet at Athens forced her to withdraw from the competition.
Gymnastike posted an entertaining interview with the famous Romanian dance coach.
Geza Pozsar was Nadia Comaneci’s choreographer and got to experience one-on-one what she was like as a young gymnast. He tells what he thinks made Nadia so special.
Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.
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