Olympic Gymnastics

We’re seeing by far the best online coverage ever of a Trampoline and Tumbling World Championships. From FIG … … It will be exciting to watch Japan’s world class Trampoline gymnasts. At the last two world championships, Tetsuya Sotomura and Yasuhiro Ueyama medalled in Individual as well as Synchronised Trampoline, topping by their joint Gold in [...]  

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LSU alumna stays focused on schoolHeroes get remembered, but legends never die. This epic quote from Babe Ruth’s character in the 1993 movie ‘The Sandlot’ perfectly sums up the career of former LSU gymnast Ashleigh Clare-Kearney. Clare-Kearney’s name will live on f...  

Valentin Uzunov posted an article on The Gym Press: … a 12 week off-season sprint training program, for preadolescent gymnasts (7-12 years of age), who have not had formal sprint training. A detailed discussion is presented on the theoretical and practical application of the key concepts to effective sprinting for vault: optimized running mechanics, [...]  

By Becky Hopf Special to the Tuscaloosa News Co-sponsored by Bama Bounders Gymnastics Club and Tuscaloosa Sports Foundation, the Bama Rama Invitational will bring more than 700 gymnasts from six states to the Belk Activity Center.  

Whoop. I still can’t get too excited about today’s SPECTACULAR. Olympians Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin join us again for this spectular event. This year’s musical host is Ashley Tisdale, who starred in Disney High School Musical movies. NASTIA LIUKIN SAMANTHA PESZEK SHAWN JOHNSON RAJ BHAVSAR COURTNEY KUPET JONATHAN HORTON IVAN IVANKOV Rushmore Plaza Civic Center, Rapid City, South Dakota – Progressive Skating and [...]  

Who is MunchTheSilivasFan? WOW. She put together an epic edit, almost 9min long. (When is the last time you saw a gymnastics montage of this length?) Plenty of slow motion and close-ups. This is the first video in months that I’ve downloaded to my computer. It’s perfect for showing non-gymnastics types simply how amazing are gymnasts. By [...]  

LONDON — The Americans are making a habit of this 1-2 thing. Bridget Sloan edged teammate Rebecca Bross for the title at the world gymnastics championships Friday night, just as Nastia Liukin beat Shawn Johnson for the Olympic gold medal last...  

Romanian Coach Nicolae Forminte said: … the Code of Points does not help Romania develop and retain many gymnasts. “Now the scoring is open(-ended), so everyone tries to do many difficult combinations that take a lot out of the body,” he said. “It’s not easy to make many routines. There are two notes, Difficulty and Execution. [...]  

Ekaterina Kurbatova of Russia leads after the first of five qualifying sessions at the world gymnastics championships, edging Olympic bronze medalist Yang Yilin. Kurbatova, somewhat of a surprise all-arounder, finished with 55.950 points Wednesday. Yilin, the only medalist from Beijing co...  

Another BIG competition will be hosted in England. Put it on your calendar if you can get there. … will be held at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham from 21 April until 2 May 2010. … Around 800 of Europe’s best gymnasts from 40 countries will participate in this event, which will incorporate team and [...]  

Greek gymnast Vassilis Tsolakidis narrowly missed out on a medal at the World Gymnastics Championships in London yesterday, finishing fourth in the parallel bars final with 15,350 points. He was the only Greek to participate in a final in this championshi... ...  

The male gymnastics community has elected the Finnish athlete Jani Tanskanen as a member of the FIG Athletes’ Commission. He’ll represent the Men’s Artistic Gymnastics within the Commission. … … Jani Tanskanen won the World Champion title on Horizontal Bar in 1997, in Lausanne (SUI). Today, he is the MAG Technical Director in the Finnish Gymnastics [...]  

It’s refreshing to see some of the top coaches in the world explaining to the mainstream media why the International Gymnastics Federation age rules are a mistake. And unenforceable. … the governing body (FIG), whose rules state competitors must be at least 16 during an Olympic year to compete at the Games, introduced a system [...]  

LONDON -- Hard to believe now, but there was a time Nastia Liukin was something of an unknown. Oh sure, her pedigree -- dad had two Olympic gold medals, mom a world title in rhythmic gymnastics -- was common knowledge. As was the fact