My parting thoughts: Jana was blatantly and unjustly OVER-scored on uneven bars. Now I love Jana, I do. You must know that by now, from the way I hoped and prayed that she would be at Pacific Alliance. But her score on uneven bars was just plain silly and idiotic, and gives the Jana-haters more [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Pacific Alliance Wrap-Up
Posted in Other Meets, tagged daria joura, jana bieger, lyudmila yezhova, nastia liukin, pacific alliance championships, peng-peng lee, rebecca bross, samantha shapiro on March 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
UGA Wins SEC and What-Could’ve-Been
Posted in NCAA Gymnastics, tagged courtney kupets, terin humphrey on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Right-ho…I’ll post my thoughts on the Pacific Alliance event finals later. Right now, here are the results of the SEC Championships, which took place some time ago: 1. Georgia 197.350 2. Alabama 197.325 2. Florida 197.325 4. LSU 196.500 5. Auburn 196.100 6. Arkansas 194.650 7. Kentucky 194.025 Yes, Alabama and Florida tied. The reason [...]
More Pacific Alliance Quick Hits
Posted in Other Meets on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As always, check International Gymnast for updated information on the Pacific Alliance competition. Junior event finals are done, seniors’ event finals will take place later this evening. Last night, Dasha Joura added color to the rather monochrome medal podium…
Nastia owns all at Pacific Alliance
Posted in Other Meets, Pictures and Montages, tagged daria joura, jana bieger, nastia liukin, pacific alliance championships, samantha shapiro on March 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Congratulations Nastia! Running by team totals, the USA wins the team competition, with Canada and China behind. Top 3 All-Around Finishers Nastia Liukin Vault: 15.000 (she did a Yurchenko 1.5…it must have been very nice, like Ponor’s) Uneven Bars: 16.650 (And Nastia answers He Kexin’s challenge…) Balance Beam: 16.400 (International Gymnast calls Nastia’s “new” skill the Nistor, [...]
Pacific Alliance Quick Hits
Posted in Other Meets on March 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Updates on the women’s competition can be found on International Gymnast. Russia and China have already competed earlier today; the USA and Australia have just started. Enjoy!
European Championships Update
Posted in Other Meets, tagged beth tweddle, dariya zgoba, european championships, stefani bismpikou, yulia lozhecko on March 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Since my last post: Beth Tweddle (GBR) and Dariya Zgoba (UKR) are now back and planning to compete! Stefani Bismpikou (GRE) is still out, though. With Zgoba in for Ukraine, Iryna Krasnyanska has been bumped down to alternate. Poo. The beautifully watchable Yulia Lozhechko (RUS) is out of the competition. Rumors going around as to [...]
Lonely Hearts’ Club Band
Posted in Gymnasts, tagged alexandra marinescu, carly patterson, music, sabina cojocar on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Carly Patterson isn’t the only former gymnast to (try to) enter the music industry. Former Romanian gymnast and 2001 Worlds medallist Sabina Cojocar launched a music career as well, though I’ve no idea how successful she’s been. Carly’s Music Myspace (she has two new singles, and a remix of an old song). Very catchy stuff, [...]
More Pacific Alliance Yay-ness
Posted in Other Meets, Pictures and Montages, tagged anna myzdrikova, elyse hopfner-hibbs, jana bieger, kristina vaculik, nastia liukin, pacific alliance, rebecca clark on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
More Pacific Rim Whatchamacallit news: Now I’ve heard that the 3 seniors and 3 juniors from the participating nations are going to be together in the team competition–so that means, for example, Liukin, Hill, Bieger, Bross, Shapiro, and Clark are all going to be Team USA, with a 6-5-4 competition format–six team members, five members [...]
Romanian Gymnastics “is in Crisis”
Posted in Articles, Drama and Gossip, Olympics, tagged romanian gymnastics, sandra izbasa, steliana nistor on March 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
While this article is Bad News, I did snort at the title. Typical Romanian drama-mongering for you… Comaneci no longer inspires…etc., etc. While no one believed Belu et. al when they said Romanian gymnastics was at a crisis point in 2002-2003, I see no reason not to disbelieve Forminte yet when he cries “Crisis!” now. [...]
Gymnastics Slogan: Fill in the Blank
Posted in Olympics on March 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
However you feel about the Word That is Pronounced “Boy Caught” in relation to the Olympics, if you still intend to watch the sport, I ”borrowed” this slogan to add to your viewing pleasure. Feel free to write it all over your automobile, or make a banner of it and drape it in your kitchen, or in [...]
