Lightbulb Hands reports, among other things, that the FIG has now reduced the number of gymnasts on an Olympic team from six to five. They are doing this supposedly to allow more gymnasts to qualify by other means.
International Gymnast article on the changes, featuring a very ugly picture of Bruno Grandi LOL
As if it weren’t [...]
Archive for May, 2008
FIG’s New Policies
Posted in Articles on May 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
National Championships in Boston
Posted in Other Meets, tagged chellsie memmel, lisa wang, samantha pezsek on May 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I went to the NEW and IMPROVED USA Gymnastics website, and this is what I saw:
It reminds me of the opening sequence of the Brady Bunch. Basically it’s just the World Champion team plus Memmel and Bieger. Sam P.’s leotard is ugly, as well as Chellsie’s (I always hated that pink and black combination).
You can [...]
It’s Featured Gymnastics Montage Time (x)
Posted in Pictures and Montages, tagged alexandra eremia, catalina ponor, monica roşu on May 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My favorite Romanian gymnast montage to date:
2004 Olympic medallist Alexandra Eremia (ROU) to the music of The Goo Goo Dolls.
I always thought Eremia was prettier to watch on balance beam than her Olympic champion teammate Cătălina Ponor. To me, Ponor was all about attitude and confidence on the beam; Eremia’s beam [...]
Beth T.’s New Bars
Posted in Gymnasts, tagged beth tweddle on May 26, 2008 | 7 Comments »
At the British Team Championships this past weekend:
Miss Tweddle has a 7.4 A-score, with total score reportedly 16.650. Rather archy in one of her handstands. I kind of like the toe-on Tkatchev (Ray) to reverse grip (?) cross-arm catch into the Yezhova (so I assume it is the Tweddle). Even if [...]
Australia’s Olympic training squad named
Posted in Gymnasts, Olympics, tagged australian gymnastics, daria joura, lauren mitchell on May 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
From Mez at the Australian Gymnastics Blog:
Dasha Joura
Lauren Mitchell
Olivia Vivian
Georgia Bonora
Shona Morgan
Emma Dennis
Amber Fulljames
Melanie Jones
Ashleigh Brennan
My hopes and dreams for the Australian team this time around:
That they will make team finals and give Italy and Brazil a run for their money.
That Dasha will get a floor exercise medal.
That Lauren will keep her Dos Santos in bounds.
That [...]
Bijak has knee injury at German Olympic Trials
Posted in Olympics, Other Meets, tagged anja brinker, daria bijak, joeline moebius, katja abel, kim bui, marie-sophie hindermann, oksana chusovitina on May 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
University of Utah gymnast and German Olympic hopeful Daria Bijak sustained a knee injury at the German Olympic Trials. Crap. Her Olympic chances seem to be in jeopardy; no idea on what effect it may have on her NCAA season next year.
A quick glance at the German results for the Olympic qualification trials (which you [...]
You gonna be a scandal someday…
Posted in Drama and Gossip, Gymnasts, Olympics, tagged he kexin, shawn johnson on May 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There’s been plenty of rumbling about He Kexin’s age.
In a Chinese newspaper, Miss He was reported to be 14 when everyone’s been INSISTING that she is 16. But then again, the reporter also went on to write a bunch of blather, like how Nastia won three world championship beam titles. (Iryna Krasnyanska might have something [...]
Can Shayla make it?
Posted in Gymnasts, tagged isabelle severino, monette russo, pyon kwang sun, shayla worley, viktoria karpenko on May 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Shayla Worley has never been one of my favorites, but if she turns out to be the next Hollie Vise, as Polish 101 suggests, I will feel dreadfully sorry for her, and doubly more so because her best friend since TOPS (also known as the USAG Intergalactic Kiddie Camp) Sam Peszek is now considered a [...]
