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 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, [...]
Posted in Gymnasts, Olympics, tagged mirela tugurlan on April 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
You may remember that I wondered what had happened to 1996 Olympian Mirela Tugurlan (ROU).
Well, there was a (rather) recent article about her; she’s married (tied the knot in 2005) and has a daughter (born 2006). Apparently a broken knee ended Tugurlan’s international career in 1997. She began her coaching career at a gymnastics club in her hometown of Focşani in [...]
Posted in Gymnasts, tagged shawn johnson on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
From Rick at Gymnastics Coaching.
I don’t prefer Shawn, but I LOVE VeggieTales. Bob and Larry are the best.
So, yeah. Listen to Bob and Larry (and Shawn) and go out and exercise.
Posted in Gymnasts, tagged chellsie memmel on April 20, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I don’t understand the people who hate Chellsie Memmel because she has “bad form”, “ugly gymnastics”, “chucked skills”, “never smiles”, etc., etc.
Yes, I know her gymnastics ain’t what it used to be, but is that a reason to say such nasty and hurtful things about her?
Posted in Gymnasts, tagged lyudmila yezhova on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
…if she ever lost it in the first place.
Reason #3457628395614 why I love Lyudmila Yezhova Grebenkova:
No, I don’t know who the other people are. Hee hee.
Posted in Gymnasts, tagged nastia liukin on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
I mean seriously, have you seen those faces Nastia pulls during the opening strains of her floor music?
Blythe at the Gymblog made remarks about Nastia’s floor exercise. Yes, it’s not her best event; I’d have to be a bloody idiot to disagree, and I’m not THAT idiotic.
But I also think Nastia has meant her floor routine to be built the [...]
Posted in Articles, Gymnasts, Olympics, tagged ivana hong on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »
From Blythe at the Gymblog, who got it from the New York Times:
Olympic Hopes Rooted in Tale of Close Escape
This isn’t the first time that the Times has written an article about Ivana that wasn’t actually about her…the other time they talked about her coach Armine Barutyan and about how HARD and DIFFICULT it was [...]
