As we know, the Russian Diva Svetlana Khorkina has a new job in Russian politics.
Here’s some pictures of the Diva on the job – with rhythmic gymnast Alina Kabaeva.
Them bunny ears don’t suit you, Sveta…
My initial response: HAHAHAHA OMG OMG OMG
Archive for January, 2008
In Ur Duma
Posted in Drama and Gossip, Gymnasts, Pictures and Montages, tagged svetlana khorkina on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Perfection is possible…rly
Posted in Uncategorized on January 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Gymnastics Coaching pointed me to a Livejournal owned by Rawles, one of the readers of this little bloggie. Rawles is a Nastia fan and knows lots more about gymnastics than I do (who doesn’t?) because I am unworthy.
She has many interesting and fun things to say about gymnastics, so you all should just go read [...]
This sucks.
Posted in Articles, Gymnasts, NCAA Gymnastics, Olympics, tagged terin humphrey on January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Gymblog reported on a Montgomery Advertiser article: it says that 2004 Olympic silver medalist (and current University of Alabama gymnast) Terin Humphrey is going to be indefinitely sidelined until further notice because:
The former Olympic medal winner and two-time NCAA uneven bars champion has competed in just event this year, sidelined by a mysterious muscular [...]
Too much atmosphere!
Posted in Olympics, tagged 2008 beijing on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Blythe at the Gymblog reported on Beijing’s problems with air quality, noting that Olympian John Roethlisberger complained about it when he reported on the Test Event for Inside Gymnastics.
I was actually in Beijing last summer, in July – the Olympics will be held in August, which is a nominally cooler month. Nominally. (Meaning, it is [...]
OMG Allyse Ishino!
Posted in NCAA Gymnastics, tagged allyse ishino on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was ecstatic to find videos of 2004 Olympic alternate Allyse Ishino competing this month. I was not happy when Allyse was sidelined because of blood clots in her lungs, but now she’s raring to go, and hopefully she’ll give Stanford a big boost this year.
Allyse was one of my sentimental favorites leading up to [...]
Priess and Bonx
Posted in Gymnasts, tagged ashley priess, bianca flohr on January 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
2006 world team silver medalist Ashley Priess sat out the 2007 Nationals with a bad back, but I heard that she has been named to the USA national team.
Youtube member Beechurst10 was kind enough to get a video of Ashley swinging bars this year at the exhibition thingy at her gym, Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy (former [...]
It’s not about aptitude, it’s the way you’re viewed.
Posted in Drama and Gossip, Olympics, tagged 2008 beijing, courtney kupets, Olympics on January 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While playing with my search engines and sulking about Courtney Kupets not planning to go for Beijing, I stumbled across this very interesting weblog article about the USA’s Olympic hopefuls. By interesting I mean OMG TEH DRAMA!!11!!
Of course I have strong reactions to some of the ideas and issues put forth by the author, but I encourage [...]
It’s Featured Gymnastic Montage Time (v)
Posted in Pictures and Montages, tagged alicia sacramone, chellsie memmel, nastia liukin on January 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A montage about Chellsie, Alicia, and Nastia; and Kanye West takes a crack at Elfi, Tim and Al.
(by malimalimali123)
A Beautiful Rant
Posted in Gymnasts, Olympics, tagged allana slater, australian gymnastics, monette russo on January 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
About the state of gymnastics in Australia; Mez at the Australian Gymnastics Blog has it out:
“Is it fear of the Tall Poppy Syndrome that might come should they succeed?”
Bravo, I say.
P.S. My favorite Aussie gymnasts are Allana Slater and Monette Russo, with mad props to Lauren Mitchell for doing the Humphrey on beam and Dasha Joura for [...]
Tabby’s still got it!
Posted in NCAA Gymnastics, tagged courtney kupets, stanford, tabitha yim, uga on January 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
(In response to Utah’s win over Georgia: SHOCK HORROR. But they’ve got the rest of the season, and Georgia’s head coach Suzanne Yoculan likes to be an underdog anyway.)
The following videos were kindly filmed by Youtube user kradunzel.
Tabitha Yim, January 13, 2008, Stanford vs. Georgia (Georgia won of course.) And OMGWTF! at Stanford’s leotards:
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