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USA Nationals, Visa Championships
Here's a good article on info. on the scheduling, competitors, etc.: "Three Olympians, five world champions highlight Visa Championships field" - http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/news/2007/aug10-VisaChampsThreeOlympians.html [quote]Five world champions are among the 10 world medalists scheduled to compete in artistic gymnastics: women
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for artistic gymnastics: men's: 47 seniors, 38 juniors (19 in 14-15 yr. olds division, and 19 in 16-18 yrs. old division) women's: 18 seniors, 25 juniors Why the difference in #'s? And there are more women gymnasts than men gymnasts in the U.S. right? Maybe cuz they give the men's more of a chance to make it to the U.S. team? schedule: Wednesday August 15th 1pm: junior men's all-around and event finals 7 pm: senior men's first day of competition Thursday August 16th 1pm: junior women's first day of competition 7pm: senior women's first day of competition Friday August 17th 7pm: senior men's final day of competitition Saturday August 18th 1pm: junior women's final day of competition 6 pm: senior women
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Check out the "Gymnastics Blogs / RSS News Feeds" category here on the Gym Chat message boards for incoming info/articles as the USA Gymnastics Nationals that are coming up! Great section!
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Photos: Aug. 14 - Day 1 Training for Artistic Men and Women http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/events/2007/championships/2007VisaChampionships-SanJose/Album1.htm On the 9th picture there, one guy is standing on another guy's back, warming up his back I guess. White leos not so good. Visa (obviously!) and Adidas sponsors.
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Thanks for the link! Great that they put up the picts. so fast! 3 picts. (out of 36) are on the Hamm twins! Guess they really would like them to come back as the leaders for the USA men's team! The white leos don't look so good, esp. at certain picture angles/close-ups...like m and m's, go color! lol :D
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Practice at Visa Championships, Chellsie Memmel's blog: http://wcsnblogs.com/gymnastics/chellsiememmel There's a couple of pictures of her from practice there too. She's on Paul and Morgan Hamm's website, as special guest video: http://www.makingtheolympics.com/videos/chellsie.html (the Hamm twins website is http://www.makingtheolympics.com ) She's practicing her tumbling - in leo and shorts!!, which is sooo common in practices around the world; for her hard tumbling pass double backs she does it into the pit, for landing, prevent over-use injury etc., you know to reduce the poundings! She does beam practice on the floor for warm-up, then takes it to the beam. Shannon Miller's blog: [quote]I leave on Wednesday for the Visa National Championships. I
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Kick-Off Event/Opening Ceremony is tomorrow, at 12:00 pm. Who's there: Mayor Reed, Steve Penny (President of USA Gymnastics), Olympic Champion Peter Vidmar, and others at HP Pavilion Local clubs perform tumbling routines. Then starts the first event: Jr. Men and Individual Events - men's competition Here are the start lists: Wednesday, August 15th 1:00 p.m. - Junior Men All-Around and Individual Events: http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/events/2007/championships/results/RotationSchedule-Day1JrM.pdf 7:00 p.m. - Senior Men All-Around and Individual Events: http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/events/2007/championships/results/RotationSchedule-Day1SrM.pdf Thursday, August 16th 1:00 PM Junior Women All-Around and Individual Events - Day 1: http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/events/2007/championships/results/RotationSchedule-Day1JrW.pdf 7:00 PM Senior Women All-Around and Individual Events - Day 1: http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/events/2007/championships/results/RotationSchedule-Day1SrW.pdf
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Chellsie's gymnastics club looks awesome in her guest video clip.
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Sasha Artemev plans on doing a triple-twisting Yurhcneko vault. He's taking out some of his difficulty to go for consistency - like Grandi I think it was that said that the gymnasts will figure it out that they can get a better score by doing the skills well than by adding more and more difficulty - on the other hand, some guys can add more and more difficulty and be consistent too, so that is what they are prob. thinking of when trying harder and harder skills. [quote]At the U.S. Qualifier, Artemev finished seventh after the first day with multiple falls. He said he decided to scratch the second day of competition after suffering a slight injury on parallel bars. He's since made the decision to remove some of the skills to improve his consistency. "My routines were stacked [with tricks]," he told IG. "A lot of skills I couldn't handle." [/quote] [quote]Artemev says some of the skills he's removed from his planned routines include a double front pass on floor exercise, a Wu travel on pommel horse, a piked Belle on parallel bars and a Weiler kip and Stalder-Rybalko combination on high bar. "My routines are easier for me and I'm confident," said Artemev, who will turn 22 on Aug. 29. "I'm not competing on the edge." Artemev, a native of Minsk, Belarus, says he has been training the triple-twisting Yurchenko seriously for a few months. "It's one of those vaults that's on and off," he said. "If I get a good block and I stall it then I can land it. I have stuck a couple in the gym and it's like, whoa. But just landing it, even with a step, I'll be happy." [/quote] It's from: "Artemev Aiming for Consistency, History" The history is that if he lands his tripe twisting yurchenko vault, he'll probably be the first to land it in competition. He did it at the U.S. men's qualifier in June, but rolled out if it - it's a 7.0 A-Panel score, so he got 15.750 on the vault. link: http://www.intlgymnast.com/news/2007/aug/081407_artemev.html
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More photos up, tradeshow set-up if you're interested: http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/events/2007/championships/2007VisaChampionships-SanJose/Album2.htm it's fun to pick out people you know Really interesting info: quick hits commentary, starting with the junior men's competition: http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/events/2007/championships/quick1-JrMen15.html And results (updated periodically): men's junior 14-15 yrs. old: http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/events/2007/championships/results/1mjaa14.htm men's junior 16-18 yrs. old: http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/events/2007/championships/results/1mjaa16.htm
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