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Are you suffering from the Olympic Syndrome? Feeling lost, sad, helpless after the Beijing Olympics is gone for good?

You are not alone as many Chinese sports fans have suffered the same …

Beijing Olympics Fan

I’m still depressed.

However, in China:

… In the immediate future, one beneficiary of the Olympics is the Paralympics–with the passion for spectator sports fairly undiminished, tickets for events have been going quickly. …

What’s Next For Post-Olympics China – Beijing Olympics Fan

They begin September 6th in Beijing.

The 63 athletes in the Gold medal delegation have had a grueling post-Olympic schedule.

China’s gold medal winners Cheng Fei (R) and Yang Yilin perform during a demonstration in Hong Kong, August 30, 2008.

The visiting Chinese gold medalists displayed their superb sports skills again in Hong Kong on Saturday morning, whose performance impressed over 5,000 Hong Kong spectators face to face as well as tens of thousands of viewers through TV live broadcasts.

China.org.cn

Surprisingly, Hong Kong competed under its own name in the Olympics.

Next stop was nearby Macau, also known as “Las Vegas East”.

Macau late last night surprised the visiting mainland team of Olympic gold medalists with a HK$10.6 million check. …

The Standard

(Over US$1.3 million.) … No word on who actually gets that cash.

original – Jac

Summer is ending where I live.

THIS is what we’ve been waiting for. NEW TEAMS being added to the NCAA.

San Diego State will explore adding more women’s sports in order to meet a California State University target for gender equity in scholarship rates.

SDSU has been more than 6 percent under its female grants-in-aid target rate the past two years, according to a report presented to the CSU board of trustees this week.

“We are looking at our options, which include adding two women’s sports,” SDSU spokesman Jack Beresford said. “There won’t be any changes with our men’s sports.” …

Sign On San Diego

Keeping my fingers crossed.

Insiders knew that a teenager from England had an outside shot at a Pommel medal in Beijing. Louis Smith had finished 3rd at World’s in 2007.

When he took the Bronze, despite form breaks, he became “the first British gymnast to win an individual Olympic medal in 100 years.”

Click PLAY or watch the routine on YouTube.

His coach, Paul Hall, had this to say:

… “He is not the classic proportions for gymnastics, not the normal model for sport but what a competitor, put the pressure on Louis and he delivers”. …

British Gymnastics

Smith is a throwback to old school pommels. He reminds me of Magyar and Philip Delasalle. Very tall. Very slow circles.

I expect Louis will be much more stretched next time we see him. And have an even higher start score.

Of course he will be a media magnet in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics in London.

This commercial is making the rounds on the internet.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Shawn Johnson gave the traditional Pledge of Allegiance at the Democratic National Convention in front of over 80,000 spectators. (video)

The (Un)Orthodox Gymnastics blog reminds us that gymnasts gave the Pledge 4yrs-ago too. At the Republican National Convention.

Kerry Strug and Mary Lou Retton

Shawn Johnson, Unregistered Democrat

Zach Aguiar from Lowell, MA, injured his Achilles tendon. So, this summer, ended up training a LOT of horizontal bar. He posted a video of some new bar skills on Gymnast.com.

Check the excellent pads they have on their bar:

Much tastier than that Michael Phelps Wheaties. …

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(via Live.Breath.Love Gymnastics)

From email. Thanks Stu.

Gymnastics Canada and Gymnastics Ontario have finalized plans to launch a donation campaign beginning next week to help support injured gymnast Taylor Lindsay-Noel.

Taylor, who suffered a spinal cord injury while training in the gymnasium at Seneca College in Toronto on July 15th, is undergoing rehabilitation at Bloorview Kids Rehab in Toronto.

The Gymnastics Canada-Gymnastics Ontario fund will help provide additional financial support for Taylor during her recovery.

“We wish Taylor and her family our best wishes at this difficult time,” says Jean-Paul Caron, President & CEO of Gymnastics Canada.

“The Canadian Gymnastics community, including her coaches and fellow gymnasts at Sport Seneca, is confident Taylor will show the same spirit and determination to meet the challenges ahead that she did as a gymnast.”

Information about the donation campaign will be posted on the Gymnastics Canada and Gymnatics Ontario web sites.

I assume Sport Seneca will be a partner, as well in this campaign.

I’ll post when the campaign goes live.

Thanks to all the people who have contacted me about this terrible accident.