Posted in Articles, Gymnasts, Olympics, tagged alicia sacramone, nastia liukin on October 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
In which Nastia lays the smackdown on people saying she’s “too old”, while everyone seems to forget that Chellsie and Alicia are older than her.
HERE you go…
Sac drinks coffee, Nast drinks tea
Little brown jug how I love thee…
…sorry, couldn’t help it. HAHAHA
Posted in Gymnasts, tagged nastia liukin on October 30, 2007 | No Comments »
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR NASTIA
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
In honor of this occasion we shall have my favorite Nastia montages and virtual sushi. Enjoy!
Here’s to another year of Nastia being awesome. May she have many, many more!
Posted in Gymnasts, tagged geralen stack-eaton, nastia liukin, zhou zhuoru on October 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Well, actually, I have kind of depressing news to report: Geralen Stack-Eaton didn’t fare very well in the DTB Cup balance beam finals, despite her truly heroic efforts in preliminaries; she fell to last (8th) place. Zhou Zhuoru, I believe, won that round.
Tomorrow is Nastia Liukin’s birthday, so you better get those party hats [...]
Posted in Articles, Gymnasts, World Championships, tagged 2007 stuttgart, alicia sacramone, bridget sloan, ivana hong, nastia liukin, samantha peszek, shawn johnson, shayla worley, World Championships on October 26, 2007 | No Comments »
…because you can’t call them the Magnificent 7.
Today the Worlds team, including Bridget (who was wearing a gold medal too!) were interviewed on the Today Show. Duh.
Not much to report here…Shawn did say “It was such an honor.” (Note she didn’t use the contraction “it’s”. The girl is trying.)
Boots and jeans are the order of [...]
Posted in Other Meets, tagged dtb cup, geralen stack-eaton on October 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Or not, because Jana wasn’t there. I’m sad.
The DTB Cup, currently taking place in Stuttgart, hasn’t exactly been smooth sailing for USA’s Geralen Stack-Eaton; she majorly BOMBED the uneven bars (her score was so frigging low I’m not even going to post it!) but I heard that she rallied to get a respectable 15.075 in [...]
Posted in Drama and Gossip, Gymnasts, World Championships, tagged 2007 stuttgart, jiang yuyuan, sandra izbasa, shawn johnson, steliana nistor, World Championships on October 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I was pleasantly surprised to receive a copy of International Gymnast magazine today, thanks to my roommate, who knows that I am “obsessed with gymnastics”. The issue I received was the Stuttgart Worlds edition. Although all the text in the magazine was old news to me, I was quite taken with some of the photographs.
There’s [...]
Posted in Drama and Gossip, tagged chellsie memmel, gossip, jana bieger, rumors, shawn johnson on October 24, 2007 | Comments Off
Recent Rumors:
Shawn recently sustained a (slight?) injury. Could be anything. Not much worry here, though–Carly also had competed in 2003 with an injury, and was “fine” by 2004.
Chellsie’s getting back on the bars. Rumor has it is that she’s performing full sets. Not very believable if she really had “major” surgery. Yay for her, anyway.
However, [...]
Posted in Articles, Gymnasts, NCAA Gymnastics, tagged courtney kupets, georgia, gym dogs, ncaa on October 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Here’s a nice collection of old but interesting articles and stuff about our favorite Gym Dawg that I have dredged up from the Web…most of them date from 2004, and are from the Baltimore Sun, which isn’t surprising, given that Courtney was from Maryland:
Courtney Kupets as defined by the Urban Dictionary. I don’t know if [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged shawn johnson on October 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I was trying to decipher Shawn’s Chinese name from her 2006 Nationals leotard. This is what I got so far:
Notice that one of the characters is missing. Why? Because I was using this dinky picture–I can’t make out the second-to-last character:
I have several candidates for the Missing Character, but none of them look the same, [...]
Posted in Gymnasts, Olympics, World Championships, tagged 2004 athens, 2008 beijing, alicia sacramone, annia hatch, ashley priess, bridget sloan, carly patterson, chellsie memmel, courtney kupets, ivana hong, jana bieger, mohini bhardwaj, nastia liukin, natasha kelley, samantha peszek, shawn johnson, shayla worley, terin humphrey on October 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Part 2a.
So, what about Beijing?
Well, before I go around naming people right and left, let’s look at the history books. (I did some research for this, so I had better be rewarded for my pains someday. Ha.)
2001-2004 Period
2001 World Team: Bhardwaj, Heenan, Miles, Schwikert, Tidd, Yim
2002 World “Team”: Humphrey, Kupets, Postell, Sheehan
2003 World Team: Humphrey, [...]
