more coverage in the media, new Ohio study out, check out the topic under the All Sports section, Daily Thread category, at: http://www.gymchat.com/messageboards/viewtopic.php?t=28340

"A gymnast recovering from a leg injury does a partial workout." Gymnasts know this...'partial' workouts, doing vaults without hands for elbow/arm/shoulder injuries, bars for leg injuries,...etc. More media coverage on gymnastics injuries & injuries prevention, not just as the summer Olympics are coming up, but also as a new study is out: [quote]But in the first national study of[ Read More... ]

That's an awesome recruit for Utah. Gael Mackie was a member of the Canadian 2004 Athens, Greece Olympics team. [quote]As a 16-year-old, Mackie competed for Canada at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. Mackie's international portfolio also includes gold-medal performances in the all-around and on vault, bars and beam at the 2007 Friendship Classic, a fourth-place all-around showing and a[ Read More... ]

Gael Mackie graduating high school early, going for college gymnastics with Utah's Red Rocks instead of international competition: [quote]Mackie decided to graduate high school early to attend college rather than continue international competition. "I am 99.9 percent sure she is coming," head coach Greg Marsden said. There is one step yet to complete. Mackie and the Red Rocks are waiting[ Read More... ]

Nationals is awesome. I don't think it's a big deal that you missed prom to go to Nationals. People probably would get it, but still say 'aww'. Prom is the biggest dance party event in high school, but Nationals is a big event too, it's not like you missed it for gymnastics training that you could reschedule and work around with. People do make a big deal out of it anyways. It's really about[ Read More... ]

I don't see why people make such a big deal about missing the high school prom for gymnastics. I missed my prom to travel interstate for a national competition. I don't regret it at all. I had an awesome time travelling away with friends, having fun in the hotel and competing nationals. I saw a video of the prom and it didn't look half as much fun.

Try the Environmental Health Department. Their website is http://www.cdc.gov/Environmental/ .

that kind of reminds me of the movie "Stick It" and how that girl decides not to miss her prom.

This is the Hamm twins official web: http://www.hammtwins.com/ They started another web for their Olympics comeback: http://www.makingtheolympics.com/ Their announcement video of their comeback: http://www.makingtheolympics.com/videos/announce.html This has some video of some skills and what they're doing (conditioning) - and ya, they included their mess-ups too! And about their new web[ Read More... ]

According to this article, Kathryn Howard did it - senior year, no prom...but she was homeschooled anyways. "Gymnast graduates early to compete for UNL" - http://media.www.dailynebraskan.com/media/storage/paper857/news/2007/02/07/Sports/Gymnast.Graduates.Early.To.Compete.For.Unl-2701861.shtml?sourcedomain=www.dailynebraskan.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com [quote]The 18-year-old[ Read More... ]

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