Event finals: [quote] Vaculik, winner of Friday's all-around competition, vaulted a clean Yurchenko full (13.7) and an Omelianchik (13.4) to place first, ahead of Missassauga's Alyssa Brown and Gymnix Montreal's Nansy Damianova. Vaculik continued her success on bars (clear hip full to Tkatchev, full pirouette to Gienger, double front dismount), tying Sport Seneca's Hopfner-Hibbs (Markelov,[ Read More... ]

Canadian men placed 11th at the 2007 Worlds, so they qualify to send a full team. 2007 Elite Canada Dec. 15, Abbotsford, B.C. Senior Men's All-Around 1. Nathan Gafuik (Univ. of Calgary, AB) 89.900 2. Ken Ikeda (Twisters, BC) 88.250 3. Hugh Smith (H. Alta, NS) 84.400 4. Patrick McElroy (Univ. of Calgary, AB) 83.400 5. Matt Albrecht (Oakville, ON) 81.240 6. Matthew Beller[ Read More... ]

UCLA attracts a lot of the high ranking gymnasts. [quote]World Gymnastics Championships medalist Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs of Toronto, Ontario, Canada has signed a national letter of intent to attend UCLA. Hopfner-Hibbs will defer enrollment as she trains for next year's Olympic Games and will join the Bruin gymnastics squad in the fall of 2008 and compete in the 2009 season. [/quote] Her most[ Read More... ]

2007 Canadian national champion Kristina Vaculik won the AA at the Elite Canada competition Friday night in Abbotsford, British Columbia. [quote]"I just came here and basically told myself to do the same thing I did in Beijing," said Vaculik, who was sixth in the all-around at the "Good Luck Beijing" International Invitational earlier this month. Vaculik posted the highest score of the[ Read More... ]

A lot of the women's teams have that vault problem, but are getting stronger in the event - like China's team.

Oksana Chusovitina (who turned 32 on June 19), won the women's all-around title over Anja Brinker (16 years old) and Katja Abel (24 years old). Chusovitina also got golds on vault and beam in the event finals, but scratched from the bars and floor events. Fabian Hamb

Vanessa Ferrari wins the all-around by more than 2 points. Romania wins the team competition. Catalina Ponor got the highest individual score, beam score of 16.300 (7.1 A-score). Ponor competed on vault, beam, and floor. Results: 2007 International Tournament July 22, Civitavecchia, Italy Team Competition 1. Romania 238.15 2. Italy 234.40 3. France 231.45 4. Czech Republic[ Read More... ]

ooo Lily Pod! thanks for the link! :D she is really good - it's funny i was just thinking on Dancing with the Stars on in the US that a gymnast would be good at the show too - esp. if the artistic gymnast kind - like Lilia.

Lilia Podkopayeva on "Dancing with the Stars" [youtube]LaCivuIzsXc[/youtube] Lilia Podkopayeva trains for "Dancing with the Stars" [youtube]36YjfKClRkU&NR=1[/youtube] apparently Lilia is speaking Russian while her partner and the host are speaking Ukrainian. same theme song for the show as in the USA! prob. no one is surprised from her doing splits like the audience usually is for[ Read More... ]

follow up to it: Italy got all of the 4 women's titles, and the men's high bar title. Vanessa Ferrari got gold on bars, beam, and floor: 15.800 on bars (6.8 A Panel), 15.600 on beam (6.8 A Panel) and 15.325 on floor (6.3 A Panel). The other girl to get more than one medal was Mexico's Elsa Garcia - she got 3rd on vault and second on floor - the one that Bart Conner and Elfi said during the[ Read More... ]

follow up to it: Italy got all of the 4 women's titles, and the men's high bar title. Vanessa Ferrari got gold on bars, beam, and floor: 15.800 on bars (6.8 A Panel), 15.600 on beam (6.8 A Panel) and 15.325 on floor (6.3 A Panel). The other girl to get more than one medal was Mexico's Elsa Garcia - she got 3rd on vault and second on floor - the one that Bart Conner and Elfi said during the[ Read More... ]

Qualifiers were on 3/17 - 50 countries competing! Italy's Vanessa Ferrari got 1st on floor - she has nice perky floor routines! fun to watch! Ukraine's Daria Zgoba got the high score on bars, and the high score of the meet, with 15.925 - guess hse didn't have the falls she had at the Tyson American Cup a couple weeks ago on bars, and then Bart Conner and Elfi were talking on and on about her[ Read More... ]

Here are the event finals scores: 2007 Great Britain vs. USA 3/18/07 - Lisburn, Northern Ireland Vault 1. Samantha Peszek USA 14.900 2. Shawn Johnson USA 14.750 3. Marissa King GBR 14.650 4. Laura Jones GBR 13.950 4. Emma White GBR 13.950 6. Natasha Kelley USA 13.250 Uneven Bars 1. Shayla Worley USA 15.450 2. Natasha Kelley USA 15.200 3. Bianca Flohr USA 14.650 4.[ Read More... ]

More on Jana Bieger: "17-year-old Jana Bieger is South Florida's newest Olympic prospectAfter a surprise second-place finish in the Gymnastics World Championships, 17-year-old Jana Bieger is South Florida's newest Olympic prospect." - http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/breaking_news/16110868.htm?source=rss&channel=miamiherald_breaking_news she's going to go to her own gym soon, when[ Read More... ]

"Izbasa and Nistor win golden medals at Glasgow Gymnastics Grand Prix The two Romanian gymnasts won floor and balance beam event finals." - http://www.nineoclock.ro/index.php?page=detalii&categorie=sports&id=20061113-15896 Sandra Izbasa also got 3rd in the beam final, and Steliana Nistor also got 3rd on the floor final.

"A Ferrari takes gold in world gymnastics" - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061020/ap_on_sp_ot/gym_world_championships_12 Bieger wasn't totally perfect tho, but she didn't have a fall either: [quote]Pushed to the front of the lineup, Bieger put in a wire-to-wire effort that included only one significant mistake

There are YouTube links of the 2006 World Gymnastics Championships prelims in the Videos section here and also in the Artistic Gymnastics Women's Prelims thread. flyinflex do those links work for you?

you can watch videos from YouTube from the 2006 World Championships! Here's Liukin's bar routine: [youtube]eM6Nj5FPHnQ [/youtube] These bar routines are getting really long! Chellsie UB [youtube]Pg65sJknBD4[/youtube] Memmel BB [youtube]HNxgSsE_aM8[/youtube] Hollie Dykes BB [youtube]H3yGzE213zg&NR[/youtube] Sacramone FX [youtube]U4Cum2vxgL0&NR[/youtube] Sacramone VT1 Rudi[ Read More... ]

Ya, Liukin had a step forward on her double layout...and, guess what??!!! you can watch videos from YouTube from the 2006 World Championships! Here's Liukin's bar routine: [youtube]eM6Nj5FPHnQ [/youtube] These bar routines are getting really long! Chellsie UB: [youtube]Pg65sJknBD4[/youtube] Memmel BB: [youtube]HNxgSsE_aM8[/youtube] Hollie Dykes BB:[ Read More... ]

kati lynne, was the coach that said u were going too fast young and inexperienced? i agree, the coaches always say to go as fast and dynamic as possible - slo mo is harder.

Svetlana Khorkina prob. was totally off the chart for being too thin / underweight for her height - no offense against her tho - she was fun to watch and a great gymnast, but some more weight would have looked nicer on her - maybe she's one of those types that have that natural weight type...or maybe she was watching her weight too much.

cuz gymnastics is cool!!

Ya, Hollie will probably be leading the Australian team! :D

hey, a new article is out today on Hollie! It's on The Courier Mail, http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,20452238-10389,00.html , called: Princess Hollie in regal form