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Chinese Bo Lu, left, and Ning He, right, celebrate their victory at the Swiss Cup gymnastics tournament in Zurich, Switzerland, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008.

(AP Photo/Keystone/Steffen Schmidt) original – ESPN

Scores will be posted on GymnasticsResults.com

Gymnast Kohei Uchimura, the men’s all-around silver medalist at the Beijing Olympics, showed a solid overall performance to win his first national championship crown on Saturday.

The 19-year-old Uchimura racked up the highest scores in the floor exercises and pommel horse, the first two disciplines, and went on to become the first teenager in 12 years to win the men’s national all-around title with 91.900 points.

Naoya Tsukahara, a member of Japan’s gold medal-winning team at the 2004 Athens Olympics, was also 19 when he claimed the first of his five national all-around crowns. He was 14th in Saturday’s final.

In the women’s all-around competition, 16-year-old Koko Tsurumi won for the third year in a row with 60.800 points, 1.900 ahead of Olympic teammate Yuko Shintake.

Japan Times – Uchimura earns first national title

Uchimura was second in Beijing despite two falls on the pommel horse. This guy is good. And young.

source – Reuters

Uchimura vs Hambüchen at World’s 2009?

more details – Uchimura Wins Japanese Title – IG

Five-time Olympians Jordan Jovtchev (Bulgaria) and Oksana Chusovitina (Germany) each finished second all-around at the most recent international competition. (Fabian Hambüchen and Romania’s Sandra Izbasa finished first.)

Oksana – Yahoo Sport

Younger competitors must be wondering when they will finally retire.

Five-time Olympian Jordan Jovtchev (Bulgaria) will compete for one more year before hanging up his grips.

Jovtchev, 35, hopes to end his career on a high note in 2009 by winning medals at the Europeans in Milan and the World Championships in London, said Nikola Prodanov, current president of the Bulgarian Gymnastics Federation.

Jovtchev has won four Olympic medals — one silver and three bronzes — and 12 world championships medals, including four golds. A botched routine left him in a disappointing eighth on still rings at the Olympics in Beijing.

“Dancho had intentions to retire after the end of the 2008 Olympic Games, but he didn’t want to leave the sport this way — without a medal,” Prodanov said.

Jovtchev finished second Wednesday at the Arthur Gander Memorial in Switzerland, his first competition since Beijing.

Jovtchev still plans to take over the Bulgarian Gymnastics Federation as its new president. It is expected he will be confirmed for the position this month. …

International Gymnast

UPDATE: LBLG reports that Oksana Chusovitina was injured: “She may have torn her achilles tendon on her second pass (double tuck) on floor.”

From the Facebook Somersaults Fan page.

Dr. Jeni McNeal (in mountain bike helmet) at the Big Blue Adventure Race Lake Tahoe.

larger original – flickr

Jeni went over the handle bars recently. No doubt all that gymnastics landing training helped her soften the landing.

Quite a few tricks I’ve never seen before.

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Tim, age-21, from Derby in England trains “Parkour/Free running, bboying, Calithenics, Puma Style”.

(via FlipCatch)

If you like this video, check out handbalancing freak (video).

Nicely edited staff documentary from 2007.

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Documentary Part 2 – YouTube

disclosure – I love Cirque du Soleil

My Halloween costume is now finished.

Today, I am “16” year old Chinese gymnast and Olympic gold medalist He Kexin and I have the id to prove it.

larger size – flickr – amendz

The Olympic Bars Champion can laugh now. She’s been officially declared of legal age by the International Gymnastics Federation.

This bit of illegal camera phone video is so … mangled that I found it interesting right to the end of the 3min.

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Terrible music, though.

🙂

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