Posted in Gymnasts, tagged lavinia miloşovici on May 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Since I probably won’t be blogging over the weekend, I am taking this opportunity to extend difficulty plus execution’s Mother’s Day Greetings to Lavinia Miloşovici.
Milo’s daughter Denisa (born 2004) has cerebral palsy; she was premature and had suffered from complications. And yet Milo is determined to raise her child well. Two years ago, Romanian gymnastics [...]
Posted in Gymnasts, Olympics, tagged koko tsurumi, kyoko oshima, mayu kuroda on May 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Japan’s women’s team:
Kyoko Oshima, Miki Uemura, Mayu Kuroda, Koko Tsurumi, Yu Minobe, Yuko Shintake.
Oshima, who won the all-around in the recent NHK Cup in Japan to secure her spot on the Olympic team, is notable for her admirable cover-up after botching uneven bars at the 2005 World Championships.
Kyoko Oshima, 2005 World Championships all-around uneven bars
Oshima [...]
Posted in Gymnasts, Other Meets, tagged jiang yuyuan on May 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Very very recently, from 2008 Chinese Nationals.
Pretty Amânar. So that’s Barbosa, Johnson, Pavlova (splatted), and Jiang. Who’s next please.
And Jiang’s floor from the same meet:
Youtube user fanbutterfly has more videos from this event, which will give us a very good idea of China’s Olympic A-team.
Posted in Drama and Gossip, tagged jennifer sey on May 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »
(I haven’t gotten the book, and if I do it’s because I want to read the tidbits about the Mrs. Oh, and about how tyrannical USA Gymnastics was.)
A somewhat vocal consensus is that Jennifer Sey is loopy and we shouldn’t listen to her because her ideas are OUTDATED and everyone is more LALALA HAPPY now than back in those [...]
Posted in NCAA Gymnastics on May 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I know this has been posted elsewhere, but anyway, here you go:
Yoculan Interview with Inside Gymnastics Part 1 and Part 2
Here the great Madame of Georgia gymnastics talks about…stuff. And about her successor, UGA’s assistant coach Jay Clark (who called Courtney McCool a wimp, ha ha not funny).
And Katie Heenan is engaged, and yes I [...]
Posted in Gymnasts, Olympics, tagged kim gwang suk on May 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
For a long time I had wondered about what might have happened to 1991 world uneven bars champion Kim Gwang Suk (PRK), who had competed when she was like seven years old or something.
But she was recently part of the Olympic Torch relay. Yes, folks, she’s ALIVE!
It was her age-falsification that got the DPRK suspended, [...]
