Article on USA: "U.S. women advance to team finals, qualify for 2008 Olympic Games" http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/news/2007/pr-sep02-WomenAdvance.html USA finishes at top in qualifying; Martha Karolyi and USA Gymnastics satisfied, [quote]

Women's Inidividual AA Qualifiers: http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/events/2007/worlds/results/02sep-WomIndividualQualificationsafer10of10.pdf 1 267 NISTOR Steliana ROU 61.600 (1) 2 308 LIUKIN Anastasia USA 61.525 (2) 3 312 JOHNSON Shawn USA 61.200 (3) 4 179 TWEDDLE Elizabeth GBR 60.775 (4) 5 208 FERRARI Vanessa ITA 60.550 (5) 6 122 BARBOSA Jade BRA 60.525 (6) 7 266 IZBASA Sandra Raluca[ Read More... ]

Women's Team Qualifiers - top 8 go to AA finals, top 12 send full teams to 2008 Beijing Olympics: 1 United States = 245.025 2 China = 241.175 3 Romania = 239.875 4 Russia = 238.000 5 Italy = 234.425 6 Great Britain = 233.025 7 France = 232.700 8 Brazil = 232.250 9 Ukraine = 231.425 10 Germany = 231.125 11 Australia = 230.850 12 Japan = 228.175 13 PRK-DPR Korea = 226.575 14 Canada[ Read More... ]

Women's Team Qualifiers - top 8 go to AA finals, top 12 send full teams to 2008 Beijing Olympics: 1 United States = 245.025 2 China = 241.175 3 Romania = 239.875 4 Russia = 238.000 5 Italy = 234.425 6 Great Britain = 233.025 7 France = 232.700 8 Brazil = 232.250 9 Ukraine = 231.425 10 Germany = 231.125 11 Australia = 230.850 12 Japan = 228.175 13 PRK-DPR Korea = 226.575 14 Canada[ Read More... ]

Event Qualifiers: Vault 1 143 CHENG Fei CHN 15.625 2 256 HONG Su Jong PRK 15.500 3 309 SACRAMONE Alicia USA 15.475 4 122 BARBOSA Jade BRA 15.450 5 185 CHUSOVITINA Oksana GER 15.375 6 274 ZAMOLODCHIKOVA Elena RUS 14.487 7 257 HONG Un Jong PRK 14.362 8 153 KOMRSKOVA Jana CZE 14.275 Reserves R1 304 SHERBATYKH Olga UKR 14.262 R2 180 DOWNIE Rebecca GBR 14.212 R3 287 KAESLIN Ariella SUI[ Read More... ]

Maybe the guys should add music to their floor lol. Nastia Liukin-Pan Am Games 2007-EF BB [youtube]IZrKjQXZa_k[/youtube] loud whistler trying to distract her during her whole routine she took out her triple twist dismount, lowering her A score by 0.2 -prob. for her ankle from her website: newsroom: http://www.nastialiukin.com/newsroom.html photo gallery:[ Read More... ]

Some tips: Make sure your jump to the bar is good, glide far, then bring your ankles to the bar, then pull up On my team we did a lot of conditioning to learn it, and drop kips and practicing the glide swing part of it, and also practicing it with spot. The conditioning: lots of v-ups, when standing holding a weight down with arms down and then lifting it up over your head with straight arms,[ Read More... ]

A lot of the girls at my gym wear shorts at practice. It would be cool if it was an option at competitions too.