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This is it. Final “mock meets” for Marta and the selection committee are scheduled for today and Saturday.

The American Team should be announced Saturday night.

source – Gymbrooke Sports News

Camp gossip on Gymnicestics and Polish101- Gymnastics. (Sounds to me like Shayla may grab the last spot on the competition team, after all.)

Though there is less doubt about the final selection than ever in the past, the pressure on these young women is immense. Perhaps greater than that they will face in Beijing.

The USA will be far more psychologically prepared for the Olympic Team Final than China.

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The good folks at American Gymnast emailed:

With over 3,500 gymnastics videos currently on the site, GymnastTube.com is quickly becoming the largest video sharing community dedicated solely to gymnastics on the web! Check it out to find your favorite gymnastics videos, or Upload Your Own!

Also be sure to rate and leave comments on your favorite videos … it’s a great way to share training ideas, offer constructive criticism, or just tell someone how cool their video is.

… If you haven’t visited lately, you’ll also see that we have given GymnastTube a significant face-lift.

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It’s entirely free.

One of the best reasons for parents to sign up their kids for gymnastics is to help establish for them a psychological and physical BASE for lifetime fitness.

We must educate parents to understand that the schools are not doing the job of physical education.

Have you seen this news story on the decline in teen fitness?

… Nader and his colleagues found that young women dropped below the recommended 60 minutes of exercise a day threshold around age 13, while in boys the drop occurred later at 14.7 years old. By age 15, teens exercised for 49 minutes on weekdays and for 35 minutes on Saturday or Sunday. …

New Research Confirms That the Older Kids Get, the Less Active They Become

ABC News

1000 calories, 68 grams of fat, 1.8 grams of salt.

colros – flickr

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Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Her agent Evan Morgenstein is obviously doing the job for Nastia Liukin.

Check out the list of her sponsors:

Nastia Liukin – official website

image source – Fanhouse (90+ photos of Nastia)

If Shawn has well over a half million dollars in the bank, how much has Nastia put away?

She’s been sponsored longer.

My favourite gymnastics sport of all.

Acrobatic Gymnastics
World Championships
Kelvin Hall Arena, Glasgow
3rd – 12th October 2008

The website is up — acro2008.com — but there is no content, as yet.

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Thanks Tracey Morrison for the link.

Shergymrag has the details on the 40-city American tour beginning in September post-Olympics.

Shawn Johnson and Paul Hamm have already been signed. Also Chellsie Memmel, Blaine Wilson and the entire men’s Olympic team.

Even former world champion Shannon Miller has been training and will perform in some of the shows.

New, this time round, is that musicians will be featured, as well, in the arena shows. It will be televised as well, of course.

related post: Gymnastics SPECTACULARS give me a headache

From the Polish 101 blog:

It is widely rumored, though not confirmed, that the Chinese Women’s Olympic Gymnastics Team is as follows:

Cheng Fei
Yang Yilin
Jiang Yuyuan
He Kexin
Li Shanshan
Deng Linlin

Alternates:
Xiao Sha
He Ning
Sui Lu

Polish101- Gymnastics

Can this team HIT and beat the USA?

They have the start scores.

He Kexin – AFP/Getty Images – Daylife

So, the favourite to win Bars at the Olympics He Kexin has been selected. Journalists in China should seek out a “scoop” now. Confirming that her birthday (listed as 01-Jan-1992 on her F.I.G. bio) is accurate.

Rumours persist that He Kexin is actually too young to compete. If so, a HUGE scandal looms.

He Kexin is coached by Liu Guicheng and He Hua.

Live.Breath.Love Gymnastics reports that USAG is having Google take down YouTube clips for copyright infringement.

That’s lame, USAG.

Those montage video edits are put together by some of your biggest fans. The ones who watch every minute of your T.V. coverage. The ones who help videos go viral.

You should be paying video editors for putting together fantastic commercials for your sport. Or at least partnering with them.

Sad. Sad. Sad.

You can use sites like keepvid.com or TechCrunch to download your favourite YouTube clips to your computer. Before big, bad USAG takes them down.

related post: NBC sucks

Dariya Zgoba
Iryna Krasnyanska
Alina Kozich
Valentina Holenkova
Marina Proskurina
Anastasia Koval

Olga Scherbatykh is the alternate.

Irina Krasnyanska – photo – Paulian C.

The Ukrainian girls are often considered the artistic successors to the Soviets; it’s easy to appreciate their work because it’s just so…Soviet.

The last World medal for the Ukrainian ladies was Krasnyanska’s gold in 2006 Aarhus, in the balance beam event finals. But if they medal in Beijing, gymnastics snobs will be weeping with love and happiness in front of their televisions.

Ukrainian Team announced – difficulty plus execution