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This is Sweet2242. Nice image.

larger version on Flickr

Professional Athletics offers gym design consulting.

Interesting example facility with 4 floors in a 32,400ft building:

She shows Flairs (Homma) mount. (I’m still waiting for all the future variation to comes.)

The small video top right comes from the on-line glossary site posted by ShanFan, aka Uruviel, aka Heather.

13-year-old Peng Peng Lee of Toronto won floor, beam, bars and the All-around in her first National competition as a Junior.

Click PLAY or watch Peng Peng’s beam routine on YouTube.

Andreea from Romania, now living in Toronto, posted an excellent montage video of some interesting skills and moments in gymnastics.

I particularly like the clip with the bars collapsing behind Ludmilla Tourischeva after she lands her dismount.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via gymnastixrox on the Gymbrooke forum)

Gymbrooke posts a page listing Canadian gymnasts in the NCAA.

(Let them know if you have anyone to add.)

2007 NCAA Gymnasts from Canada

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Like so many other clubs, Altadore has added a blog to their website.

There they post recent photos, news and other timely happenings.

I subscribed to the RSS feed. This way I will be notified by my feed reader whenever they post something new on the blog.

Right now they have photos from the annual Christmas party.

One of my favourite gymnasts of all time wins another award.

Kate is one of the top 8 student athletes of the year in the NCAA.

Congratulations.

It rewards athletics success, academic achievement and community service.

Richardson, from Coquitlam, BC, ended her UCLA career in April of 2006 as a three-time NCAA individual and two-time NCAA team champion and a 13-time All-American.

… Richardson excelled in 2004 as well, helping the Bruins win the NCAA title and then being selected to the Canadian Olympic team (her second Olympiad) less than two months later. At the Olympic Games, Richardson became just the second female gymnast ever to compete at the Olympics as a collegiate athlete and the first Canadian woman to qualify for the event finals at a fully-attended Olympics. She placed seventh on the floor exercise.

Richardson was equally successful in the classroom as well. The psychobiology major was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America team three times (2004-06), the NACGC/W Scholastic All-America team four times and the Pac-10 All-Academic squad three times. She was awarded a NCAA post-graduate scholarship and the Pac-10 Conference Medal.

In addition to her athletic and academic accolades, Richardson, a Bruin team captain in 2005-06, has been involved with the Bruin Athletic Council and the Bruin Pen Pal and I’m Going to College programs. She has also volunteered her time with Habitat for Humanity, the LA Covenant House, and the Vancouver Spinal Cord Research Center.

UCLA’s Kate Richardson Named NCAA Today’s Top VIII Recipient :: Bruin gymnast one of the nation’s top eight student-athletes in 2007.</a

The best profile is on Gymn.ca – Kate Richardson

One of the great things about the Olympic gymnastics sports is the very low percentage of athletes who have been caught doping?

Rhythmics is most suspect.

But what has happened with Vysotskaya? An Artistic gymnast.

Was this an accident?

Leave a comment below if you have any more information.

Belarussian gymnast Nadezhda Vysotskaya tested positive for the banned substance furosemide at the Ghent World Cup in May, the FIG announced today. Furosemide is a potent diuretic that is included on the World Anti Doping Agency’s Prohibited List since it can be used as a masking agent for other banned substances. The incident is not the first in gymnastics to involve furosemide.

Russian rhythmic gymnasts Alina Kabayeva and Irina Chashchina were tested positibve for furosemide at the 2001 Goodwill Games and suspended for a year as well as stripped of their 2001 World Championships medals.

Vysotskaya was a member of the team that placed 14th at the 2006 European Championships in Volos, Greece. She placed eleventh on vault and floor and 14th on balance beam at the Ghent World Cup. The case has been transmitted to the FIG Disciplinary Commission.

Backflip Gymnastics News – Vysotskaya Testes Positive for Diuretic

photo – World Gym Art

Travelistic is a superb travel video site. (This is how YouTube should work.)

They posted a 5min profile on the life of French professional dancer Annick Moreau. Her experience in Las Vegas over the past 5 years.

See the video clip on Travelistic.