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29 November 2009

Gold Medal Greetings

You can now get a message sent from some of the top US gymnasts. Sounds interesting. It will also be interesting to see if enough people use it to keep it running.

Australia vs Japan Day 2

Lauren Mitchell won Beam and Floor while Shintake won bars and Oshima won floor. Unfortunately Mitchell and Tsurumi pulled out of the all-around which was a disappointment, but we wouldn't have been able to follow their all-around battle anyway as no all-around scores were shown. In fact there were only 2 little scoreboards that were only visible to part of the arena which only displayed the most recent apparatus scores - no all-around scores, no apparatus rankings.

Anyway, I have posted a few videos from the competition here (I may have got some of the Japanese gymnasts names wrong as I am not all that familiar with them):

































27 November 2009

Japan defeats Australia

Japan defeated Australia in the WAG Australia vs Japan in Canberra tonight. Japan won 221.75 to 212.775 (I think those were the scores).

Lauren Mitchell wins young sports performer of the year

Lauren Mitchell won the Young Sports Performer of the Year award at the Sports Performer of the Years Awards at Star City Casino in Sydney on the 25th. She beat out Soccer player Ben Kantarovski, High Jumper Amy Pejkovic, Tennis player Olivia Rogowska and Tennis Player Bernard Tomic.