Posted in Other Meets, tagged beijing test event, bridget sloan, chellsie memmel, daria joura, jiang yuyuan on November 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
So I’m quite pleased with the way it’s all turned out so far. Jiang Yuyuan, the recipient of the 2007 Longines Award for Cuteness (bwahaha), won the women’s all-around at the Beijing Test Event. Sassy Dasha Joura (AUS) got silver, and I’m quite happy for her. And Bridget Sloan earned an international medal of her [...]
Posted in Gymnasts, Olympics, tagged 1996 atlanta, amanda borden, amy chow, dominique dawes, dominique moceanu, jaycie phelps, kerri strug, magnificent seven, Olympics, shannon miller on November 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Yay!
Yes, I realize this video is already kind of all over the place, but might as well put it here anyway.
Posted in Other Meets, tagged beijing test event, chellsie memmel on November 17, 2007 | No Comments »
The Test Event, I mean. She’ll be going with Bridget Sloan.
It’s confirmed.
I hope Chellsie makes a kick-arse comeback!
Posted in Gymnasts, Olympics, World Championships, tagged 2008 beijing, jade barbosa, nastia liukin, Olympics, shawn johnson, steliana nistor, vanessa ferrari on November 17, 2007 | 5 Comments »
…or she will be.
Blythe at the Gymblog seems pretty sure that Shawn Johnson is going to walk away with the 2008 Olympic all-around title, just as Carly Patterson did three years ago.
As someone who is rooting heavily for Nastia Liukin, I don’t want to be so sure. I want the competiton to still be up in the air. [...]
Posted in Gymnasts, NCAA Gymnastics, tagged amber trani, georgia, gym dogs, ncaa, pan american games on November 15, 2007 | 4 Comments »
The University of Georgia has got another USA National team member to join their already star-studded women’s gymnastic team. Bah.
Blythe at the Gymblog reported that Amber Trani, 2007 Pan American Games team member (she was the silver medalist on vault there), has stated her intent to join the Dawgs, way down in Egypt land–I mean, [...]
Posted in Olympics, tagged 1996 atlanta, 1999 tianjin, 2008 beijing, Olympics, World Championships on November 14, 2007 | No Comments »
While one can’t predict the behavior of a home crowd, there are those who believe that the 2008 Beijing crowd will resemble that of 1996 Atlanta, or 1999 Tianjin…especially because the Chinese are favored to win in the gymnastics events.
Hard to believe, but there are a few RUS and ROM fans who are still bitter [...]
Posted in Drama and Gossip, Gymnasts, NCAA Gymnastics, tagged courtney kupets, georgia, gym dogs, ncaa on November 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
New stuff on Courtney Kupets…according to the latest, Courtney is cranking up the difficulty on balance beam.
UGA coach Suzanne Yoculan talks about the two Courtneys…and other people
Why is Kupets training a Patterson (double arabian)? The very same dismount that Yulia Lozhecko (RUS) screwed up at Stuttgart and it got her in trouble? It is clear [...]
Posted in Gymnasts, Other Meets, tagged beth tweddle, darlene hill, fan ye, glasgow grand prix, lyudmila grebenkova, marissa king, natasha kelley, steliana nistor, zhou zhuoru on November 10, 2007 | No Comments »
It was a good competition overall for Great Britain.
Beth Tweddle, although she screwed up her uneven bars dismount, rallied to win the floor exercise with a 14.550. Her Brit teammate Marissa King won vault with a 14.237…either the judging was super harsh, or none these gals are in the same class as Cheng and Sacramone, because [...]
Posted in Articles, Gymnasts, NCAA Gymnastics, tagged natasha kelley on November 10, 2007 | No Comments »
According to International Gymnast Online, 2006 Aarhus team member Natasha Kelley has committed to the University of Oklahoma (scroll down a bit), which currently has 2003 world champion Hollie Vise on their NCAA gym roster.
Or at least, she’ll go there if she doesn’t pull a Sac and try to make 2012 London if she doesn’t [...]
Posted in Gymnasts, Other Meets, tagged beth tweddle, darlene hill, glasgow grand prix, natasha kelley on November 9, 2007 | No Comments »
Here’s some news from the Glasgow Grand Prix qualifications.
The USA sent Natasha Kelley and Darlene Hill.
Kelley took 13th in uneven bars (13.150) and 6th on balance beam (14.925)–she must’ve fallen off the bars or something equally disastrous.
Hill was 6th in uneven bars (14.650) and 9th on floor exercise (13.150). She must’ve fallen, too.
Darlene Hill at [...]
