Posted in Olympics, Pictures and Montages, tagged jade barbosa, Olympics on July 7, 2008 | No Comments »
If the Beijing Olympics were a movie…
Features some training shots I’ve never seen before.
(by cobhc13, who has also made a cute montage of Jade Barbosa.)
Posted in Olympics, tagged ksenia afanasyeva, ksenia semenova, lyudmila yezhova, yekaterina kramarenko, yelena zamolodchikova on July 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yes, I know I am stereotyping Russia.
International Gymnast had a very pretty picture of Ksenia Afanasyeva (who seems to fall on floor exercise every time I watch her) while reporting on the Russian Cup. The competition will help Russia choose its team for the Olympics, which must be prepared to battle (and I do mean [...]
Posted in Olympics, tagged daria joura, lauren mitchell on June 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Australia will be represented in Beijing by:
Dasha Joura
Lauren Mitchell
Ashleigh Brennan
Shona Morgan
Olivia Vivian
Georgia Bonora
Thanks to Mez of the excellent Australian Gymnastics Blog.
Posted in Olympics, tagged beth tweddle, marissa king, rebecca downie on June 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Great Britain will be represented in Beijing by:
Beth Tweddle
Becky Downie
Becky Wing
Hannah Whelan
Laura Jones
Marissa King
Hope to see them in Team Finals.
Posted in Articles, Gymnasts, Olympics, tagged alicia sacramone, chellsie memmel on June 27, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Women’s Health Magazine interviewed Alicia and also posted some songs on her iPod. I don’t like them (the songs I mean).
If you’re a Chellsie Memmel fan, you can buy special T-shirts to show your support. I assume this is a limited time offer.
Posted in Olympics, tagged ana-maria tamarjan, andreea acatrinei, andreea grigore, cerasela patrascu, daniela druncea, gabriela dragoi, sandra izbasa, steliana nistor on June 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Romania, the defending Olympic team champion, will be represented in Beijing by:
Sandra Izbasa
Steliana Nistor
Ana-Maria Tămârjan
Gabriela Dragoi
Andreea Acatrinei
Andreea Grigore
WHAT! No Cerasela Pătraşcu? If she hasn’t healed fully yet that would be reasonable, but I’ve been hearing differing reports on her situation. Apparently the Romanians think that her bars score can be replaced with Ana-Maria’s and Gabriela’s.
EDIT: [...]
Posted in Olympics, Other Meets, tagged alicia sacramone, nastia liukin, chellsie memmel, shawn johnson, olympic trials, samatha peszek on June 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Whew. I have not spent so much time in front of the television as I did this weekend for a long time. Not only did I watch gymnastics, but I watched the Diving Trials as well.
So I watched Night One with my parents…this is how it went down:
NBC’s broadcast started while my mother was [...]
Posted in Olympics, Other Meets, tagged jana bieger, alicia sacramone, nastia liukin, chellsie memmel, shawn johnson, bridget sloan, shayla worley, samantha peszek, amber trani, mattie larson, olympic trials on June 20, 2008 | 8 Comments »
So I spent two hours of my life sitting in front of the computer screen, madly refreshing the Quick Hits page on International Gymnast. Of course I’ll watch NBC’s coverage tomorrow, or at least try my best to, but here are my thoughts so far:
Sam P. is looking good.
Alicia was disappointing on everything she did [...]
Posted in Olympics, Other Meets on June 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Available at International Gymnast and USA Gymnastics.
Enjoy (and Nastia Forever!)!
Posted in Articles, Drama and Gossip, Olympics, Other Meets, tagged jana bieger, oksana chusovitina, samantha peszek, sandra izbasa, steliana nistor, veronica wagner on June 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have watched the Olympic Trials in 1996, 2000, and 2004. And I certainly intend to pay more attention to Trials this time around.
Notes and Rants:
There’s some jabbering going on about how the apparatus used for competition at Nationals and Trials isn’t the USA label AAI (like it’s supposed to be because AAI is a [...]
