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Archive for November, 2008
Nadia Comaneci Comedy Sketch
Posted in Gymnasts, tagged nadia comaneci on November 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Amber Trani has a Journal
Posted in Articles, NCAA Gymnastics, tagged amber trani, courtney kupets on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Amber Trani, formerly of the dreaded Parkettes, now has a blog of sorts on the UGA gymnastics website as she is one of the most touted 2008 freshmen. While everyone shakes their head over the fact that she didn’t learn a Yurchenko 1.0 twist before a Yurchenko 2.0 twist (seriously?), in the journal(s) she details [...]
This wins for Sordid Scandal
Posted in Drama and Gossip, tagged verona van de leur on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You thought that the Chinese gymnast age controversy was scandalous?
You thought wrong – the Dutch do it better.
Triple Full has a series of posts on one of my old favorites, Verona Van de Leur, and the ugly unfolding of her family drama.
To be honest, although this scandal is “yucky” on all levels, I would be [...]
I don’t remember being this excited
Posted in NCAA Gymnastics, tagged courtney kupets, tabitha yim on November 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
…about the upcoming NCAA season. Sure, a major part of it is that it’ll be Courtney Kupets’ last season, and with Humphrey and Yim gone, there’ll be less to keep me in the NCAA know-all.
I suppose I’ll come out and say right now that I’m rooting more for UCLA. With Tabitha Yim gone, I don’t [...]
Oh really, Stanford?
Posted in NCAA Gymnastics, tagged lenika de simone on November 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Some time ago I wrote that Spanish Olympian Lenika de Simone was going to compete NCAA for Stanford.
However, it has been reported that her name is not on Stanford’s 2008 roster, and that she may not even be NCAA-eligible due to her role in the 2006 gymnastics film Stick It. (I had no idea she [...]
Bela the Buffoon
Posted in Drama and Gossip, tagged courtney mccool, emilia eberle on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’d always known Bela Karolyi was a lying, cheating, glory-hogging buffoon. Even my mother dislikes him intensely.
I’d always known that Martha K. was nothing short of a Mob Boss in her job.
And I’d always known that Emilia Eberle was probably the most miserable-looking gymnast (in my opinion, even more than Gina Gogean) ever to come [...]
Blatherings on the 2009 NCAA season
Posted in NCAA Gymnastics, tagged courtney kupets, haley deprospero, natasha kelley, shayla worley on November 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s been confirmed that Shayla Worley is going to UGA. While everyone is harping about how she was the basically the number one “draft pick”, I am hoping very much that she will not be too much in the way this season. UGA has been all Kupets, all the time (so to speak) for three [...]
This is not about Shawn.
Posted in Articles, tagged sandra izbasa on November 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Since everyone and their mom is talking about Shawn’s inclination not to compete in 2009, I will instead point you all to a delightful article about my girl Sandra Izbasa, at the Triple Full blog.
With Stela retired, and the other Romanian girls on the Olympic team injured and recuperating, Sandra is currently going at full steam to [...]
My Favorite Pictures (v)
Posted in Pictures and Montages, tagged courtney kupets, tabitha yim on November 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
All the hoopla around Nastia, Shawn, and (to some extent) Alicia makes me nostalgic for the quadrennium that had preceded them. Almost all of my favorite American gymnasts turned senior elite in the 2001-2004 era: which, if you’ll remember, included Sacramone and Memmel.
But these two are higher in my regard, and I miss them.
Courtney Kupets [...]
