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Lauren Mitchell is not only working hard to prepare for the upcoming Olympics, she is also getting out to clubs to help younger gymnasts.MEMBERS of the Castle Hill RSL Gymnastics Club last month had the opportunity to meet their idol, Australian artistic gymnast Lauren Mitchell, who is only the second Australian woman gymnast to win medals at a world championships and the first to win gold.

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Following the conclusion of the London Olympic test event, Italy, Canada, France and Brazil have qualified full teams to the London Olympic after their top 4 finishes today. As we did with the MAG, we can now try to work out who the potential olympic individual qualifiers are.12 Qualified Teams: USA, RUS, CHN, ROU, JPN, AUS, GER, GBR, ITA, CAN, FRA, BRA.Worlds apparatus medalist: Phan (VIE)

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FIG has confirmed the list of MAG qualifiers. The list is here.

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Now that the Olympic Qualification part of the London Test Event is over, we can start to work out who has qualified for the Olympics (based on the results here. The FIG has put up the process here. Based on my interpretation of the process, the olympic qualifiers will look something like this:12 teams: JPN, USA, CHN, GER, KOR, ROM, UKR, GBR, FRA, ESP, ITAApparatus medalists from worlds (not part

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Some bad news has come through that Sam Offord has unfortunately received an injury during podium training and is out of the Olympic Test Event. Unfortunately this will eliminate any chance he has to gain Olympic selection, as the final Olympic places will be based on the results of the Test Event. He will be replaced by reserve Josh Jefferis.

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The NCAA season for WAG started today with Florida defeating NC State (196.025 to 194.675), Washington defeating Michigan State (193.175 to 191.825) and WMU defeating Centenary (191.45 to 186.175). The MAG starts next weeks.

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Thomas Bouhail has broken his leg on P Bars and has undergone surgery. It is reported that it will be at least 2 months before it is known whether he will have a chance at the olympics, but given that his best apparatus is vault, this will make it even more difficult to get back to full strength in time.http://www.nst.com.my/sports/other/gymnastics-bouhail-faces-olympic-ko-1.24591

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Following a recent trial in Canberra for the London Test Event in January, Thomas Pichler and Sam Offord have been named to the Australian team, with Josh Jefferis as the reserve. In London, Sam and Tom will battle to gain a spot at the 2012 Olympics.

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You can see the first of Lauren Mitchell's ads for VISA in the lead up to the Olympics below:

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FIG has just released the list of new skills that have been submitted for worlds here.I wish a bigger deal was made of this as I love seeing new skills and I think that gymnasts also need to be encouraged to think up new skills. Anyhow, there are a few interesting new skills here. Gymnastike has a video of Sasaki's P Bars which shows his new skill (straddled front sault to hang).Watch more video

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Over the last few years I have noticed that a few female gymnasts have been much taller than I have expected. Indeed, it is a common belief that female gymnasts need to be tiny. However, when Rich McCharles from Gymnastics Coaching stated here (in the comments) that he believes the current code of points is best suited to a gymnast that is 4 foot 9 (144cm), I thought that this number is a bit too

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In my opinion adult gymnastics is one of the most untapped markets for gymnastics. It offers great health benefits and is also great fun. Dominique Dawes did a segment for Yahoo Weekend Edition that shows an adult class at her old club. Hopefully the gymnastics world can start to present gymnastics in a wider range classes and not just the competitive aspects that many gyms focus on.

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News stories are starting to emerge that Sang Lan, the gymnast who broke her neck performing a timer on vault at the 1998 Goodwill Games, is suing Time Warner for not providing care for her after the accident. However, different sources are reporting vastly different amounts. Some sources put the figures at US$100 million (http://www.strait2taiwan.tw/content/ex-gymnast-sang-lan-sue-us100-million)

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Former gymmast David Simpson has been jailed for 24 weeks after claiming a disability allowance after a car accident left him 'virtually an invalid'. However, he was caught performing as a children's entertainer at parties.Read the full story here

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The Commonwealth Games are getting near and the BBC has put up a few videos about the gymnastics:http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/commonwealth_games/delhi_2010/9040457.stmhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/gymnastics/9040191.stmhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/gymnastics/9040189.stm

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Watch here

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Mihaitza48 has posted some videos from Romanian Nationalshere

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Some might remember the tragic death of Michelle Maitland in Townsville about a year ago. A hearing has begun which has revealed that she was under the influence of marijuana at the time. The hearing is trying to determine if Townsville Gymnastics breached WH&S standards. Read about it here:http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/article/2010/09/09/169111_news.html

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Women's gymnastics is renowned for it's short careers, but this is ridiculous! Apparently Kayla Williams is retiring from elite gymnastics, barely a year after she started competing in elite competitions. Although she does plan to compete in the NCAA for the University of Alabama, it is still really sad to see her leaving elite gymnastics.

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Gymnast turned pole-vaulter Joel Pocklington has created the following ad featuring some gymnastics for a Doritos competition.http://www.doritos.com.au/#/gallery/week-5/id/1080Also, see some of his showreels:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHhUuGheOY8http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y-lOys6qFQ

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The Australian Womens Commonwealth Games team is:Georgia Bonora Mary-anne Monckton Ashleigh Brennan Lauren Mitchell Emily Little Reserves:Shona MorganGeorgia WheelerIt is a little interesting that they have taken 3 injury petitions. But it is certainly hard to go past Lauren Mitchell. Emily Little also put up a good case with her recent results and I guess Ashleigh's 2nd place on day 1 at

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View on the stanford site here.Initially I thought that this might mean an end to her international career, but the article does say that she will stay on the national team, so that is good news. Some international gymnasts such as Daria Bijak have maintained their international careers while competing in the NCAA. The team environment of NCAA can be very motivating, however, I believe there is a

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Check out the pit system in the video below. It looks like an interesting way to convert a multi-purpose hall into a gym.

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The recent Toyota Hybrid Camry ad here in Australia featured some gymnastics. Watch it below:

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The shoulder injury that caused Philippe Rizzo to withdraw from the Pacific Rim Championships turns out to have been more serious than initially thought. He has recently had surgery on his shoulder, which now puts both Commonwealth Games and Worlds in doubt for him this year.

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See press release by British Gymnastics here.Oh No! This will be a big blow for Great Britain, and I was really looking forward to see how he backed up his all-around silver medal at worlds last year.

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An interesting study was done that shows that Rhythmic Gymnastics can improve bone density which can reduce the risk of bone fracture in later life.See the article here: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-05/tes-gti050310.phpI wonder if Arstistic Gymnastics has the same benefit. My guess is that it would, since the article mentions that it is the weight bearing exercisea that produce the

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Gymnastics Australia has put up a couple of interviews with Stephanie Moorhouse here:

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With the Winter Olympics here, let's look at the Aerial Skiing. In Australia there have been quite a number of ex-gymnasts who have gone into Aerial Skiing including 2000 Olympian Trudy McIntosh. This year former gymnast Bree Munro has qualified for the Olympics. Here is an interesting video about how Aerial Skiiers train:

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From News.com.au. Watch it here:http://player.video.news.com.au/news/#fedqYxGwN9uqiVZh1_b9cc6pcgXGQueDIt is interesting that many gymnasts still see 17 as old even though many more gymnasts are now competing into their 20's. In fact, according to the stats from the FIG website here:http://sportcentric.lg1x1.simplecdn.net/vsite/vfile/page/fileurl/0,11040,5218-198717-215940-156385-0-file,00.pdfthe

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I have often pondered the use of gymnastics to do things faster or better than traditional methods, but this PE teacher has broken a world record in a way that I never would have imagined. He does a handspring to get the speed to do a soccer throw in. He throws it an amazing 49.78m.View the BBC story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8469341.stmThere are also some YouTube videos of it:

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I think many people have already found this YouTube channel. But in case you haven't seen it, it has lots of great tips for coaching and learnings skills and is a great resource.The Gymnastics Minute

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Congrats to Prashanth Sellathurai, Phil Rizzo and Larissa Miller who all medaled at the Toyota Cup in Japan. Proshy came 2nd on Pommel, Phil came 3rd on High Bar and Larissa came 3rd on Uneven Bars. Proshy put up an amazing score of 15.9 on Pommel. He had the highest start score of 16.7 but couldn't catch the amazing Chinese gymnast and current world champion Zhang Hongtao. However, he may be

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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.

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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

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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).

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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.

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I finally found the qualifiers for apparatus finals here. They areFloor1 UCHIMURA Kohei JPN 2 DRAGULESCU Marian ROU 3 ZOU Kai CHN 4 GONZALEZ SEPULVEDA CHI 5 FAHRIG Matthias GER 6 SHATILOV Alexander ISR 7 LEGENDRE Steven USA8 OKIGUCHI Makoto JPNPommel1 ZHANG Hongtao CHN 2 BERKI Krisztian HUN 3 SMITH Louis GBR4 KOCZI Flavius ROU 5 SELLATHURAI P. AUS 6 TOMMASONE Cyril FRA 7 SELIGMAN Robert CRO8

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With a 15.725 on floor, Wow! I was a bit worried about Sellathurai's Pommel with some quick hits suggesting he fell on the dismount, but IG's facebook page says his score is 15.575 which should be enough for finals. Phew. However, Rizzo will miss high bar finals after he sat down his dismount and Offord will miss all-around finals. It looks like he had a bad day as he only scored 82.25.

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You can watch it here:http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/gymnastics/8287907.stmIt has some pretty cool special effects.

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Luke Wiwatowski will miss worlds after snapping his achilles tendon on Saturday. He was training on floor when he tore his achilles on the takeoff for a triple twist. Wiwatowski was set to compete on floor and high bar at worlds. He was the reserve for the worlds team in 2007.

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France got off to a good start at the Doha world cup by qualifying in 1st place on 4 of the 6 men's apparatus and also on Uneven Bars. The field was fairly weak with most countries currently focusing on their preparations for worlds. However, there were a few top gymnasts there. Prashanth Sellathurai qualified 2nd on Pommel and 7th on Rings. Judging by his D-score on Pommel: 6.6, he did not do

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The Spanish men's team for worlds has been announced and is Rafael MartínezIsaac BotellaManuel CarballoSergio MunozIvan San MiguelJavier Gomez

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Here is a video featuring some action from the Dutch Men's World Trial. Features the well known Wammes and Zonderland and also an up-and-coming gymnast Deurloo. The Dutch men have shot up the rankings in recent years, having placed 36th at the 2003 Worlds, they came 23rd in 2006 and 20th in 2007. They now just need some more depth in order to be a contender for a top 12 placing, although the

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There has some suggestions that Charlie Tamayo is making a comeback. In fact he competed at the National Qualifier before VISA Championships on 4 events: Floor, Pommel, Vault and P Bars. You can see his floor and vault for this comp here:Charlie defected from Cuba to the USA back at the 2003 Worlds and I don't think he has competed internationally since, which is a shame because he is such an

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Australia had its men's world championships trials on Saturday in Canberra. Sam Offord came 1st and Sam Simpson came 2nd. Josh Jefferis had an off day with problems on floor, rings and high bar to drop out of all around contention, but he should still make the team for some individual apparatus. Philippe Rizzo also had some problems, missing his def on high bar. Prashanth Sellathurai showed an

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Trials for the Australian WAG worlds team were held on Tuesday and yesterday (Wednesday). The results are due to be released today. With a maximum of 4 girls being selected for worlds this year (I think), it is likely that Lauren Mitchell and Shona Morgan will be on the team. Georgia Bonora and Emma Dennis didn't compete at nationals, but if they are back in reasonable shape they should also make

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The US men's worlds team has just been announced and I am a little surprised. The team is Jonathan Horton, Alexander Artemev, Tim McNeill, Danell Leyva, Steven Legendre and David Sender. I am a little surprised at the inclusion of Sender and Artemev. I am surprised at Sender's inclusion, not because of his performance, but because he said that he would not be competing at worlds and that VISA

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Yang Wei is in some controversy in China again. Apparently he let it slip that he know that his baby will be a boy. However, in China you are not allowed to know the gender of a baby before it is born.

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This is an interesting news article about Rhythmic Gymnastics in Ukraine

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Well, Uchimura won this battle against Hambuchen and looks like he is moving from strength to strength. Five of his routines are shown in the following videoI was impressed with his P Bars, even with the new rule that you can't do the same skill in different positions he managed to show a lot of release moves. The routine also had a great flow.Some of Hambuchens routines are shown here:He has

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Japanese Gymnastics has posted the all-around line up for the Japan Cup. On the men's side, the all-around looks like it will be a great competition, with Hambuchen and Uchimura looking set to challenge for the all-around title at worlds with the retirements of Yang Wei, Paul Hamm and Tomita. Horton is also one of the worlds best, and if the Russians can knock any sense into Deviatovski (

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In WAG, Lauren Mitchell won the All-around over Shona Morgan and Britt Greeley. Mitchell also won Bars, Beam and Floor, while Emma Collister won Vault. There has been some talk about Lauren's beam having one of the highest start value's around.Although GA didn't show her AA score from beam, only the 2 day total (29.15), but given that her 1st day score was 13.775, that means her AA beam score

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GA have finally put up the results from apparatus finals yesterday:FloorSam Simpson QLD 14.725Luke Wiwatowski NSW 14.65Patrick Peng NZ 14.25PommelNaoya Tsukahara JPN 14.95Prashanth Sellathurai NSW 14.6Sam Offord SA 13.75RingsPrashanth Sellathurai NSW 15.825Sam Offord SA 14.775Naoya Tsukahara JPN 14.45VaultSam Offord SA 15.625Luke Wadsworth VIC 15.062Aaron Thanas VIC 14.912P BarsNaoya Tsukahara

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2008 Olympian Naazmi Johnson won the Rhythmic section of nationals with a score of 92.55. Meanwhile, almost 4000km away in Perth, in the WAG section, ex-elites Chloe Sims and Monique Cowan helped Queensland win the level 10 team title.

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Well, the 1st day of MAG nationals were held yesterday in Brisbane. As expected, the all-around competition was won by Naoya Tsukahara, although since he was a guest, the official champion was 2nd placed Sam Offord who put up a great score of 86.45. 2008 Olympian Sam Simpson came 3rd with 83.15. Luke Wiwatowski did well to finish 4th considering he had a nasty injury recently.While training

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ABC has been showing a good 3-part series on circus Oz. It can be viewed online here on ABC iView. I believe this is only available if you are in Australia. So if you are outside Australia you will need to use a proxy server to view it. It is available for the next few weeks.

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Looking at the results from World Uni Games, it appears that Ri Se Gwang received 2 7.2 D-Scores for his vaults in event finals (where he came 4th). This indicates that he performed his handspring double front pike 1/2 out and twisting full twisting double Tsuk. Well, it was most likely these vaults anyway as the only other 7.2 vault is the Li Xiaopeng. However, the bad thing is that this

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rhythmsofdevine has posted some videos from world uni games

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From CBS Sports:http://all-access.cbssports.com/player.html?media=129415CBS Sports has some good college videos. Unfortunately it requires Silverlight.

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A couple of videos have appeared for the Rhythmic competition at the Mediterranean Games:I haven't been able to find any videos for the Artistic comp yet, but hopefully some will appear soon. It looks like a good competition.

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This is Ri Se Gwang training a double Tsukahara with full twist. WOW! Even though he didn't land it, it is incredible. It will be interesting to see what value it will get from the FIG. It should get valued at 7.4, since a double Tsukahara is a 6.6 and a full twist is 0.8, however, I have heard that FIG is capping vaults at 7.2. I hope that it does get the 7.4 though, since if there is indeed a

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There is an interview with Louis Smith on BBC here

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Apparently Louis Smith will appear on the X Factor and may even give up gymnastics if he does well.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/5478716/The-X-Factor-lures-Olympic-gymnast.html

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You can watch the first episode of Make It Or Break It on the ABC website hereAlso, on the Make It Or Break It Twitter (http://twitter.com/miobishow) they mention that the show was the 2nd highest rating premier in network history. Wow! I hope that the show inspires at least a few people to get into gymnastics, even if the show does have some things that could reflect badly on the sport (such as

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Well, there has been a fair bit of talk about the new gymnastics drama Make It or Break It. But for those of us who are not in the US, it doesn't appear to be online yet, so we can't watch it. I had a look on the ABC site, and they do have some free episodes, but Make It or Break It isn't on the list yet. But since it is new there is a chance it may appear there in the future (Although it has the

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Well GA has put up the list of competitors for nationals. Interestingly Tsukahara is competing. I'm not sure why though, perhaps he is using it as preparation for Japanese worlds trials. But it will be great to have him here. Perhaps some videos will appear on YouTube. However, there were some notable names missing, a couple of which are Thomas Pichler and Matthew Curtis. I believe Tom is still

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There are some more NHK Cup videos here - from oga0119.

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Looks like Uchimura won the NHK cup in Japan with a 3 day total of 276.75 (92.25 average), including a huge 16.05 on floor. On the women's side it looks like Tsurumi won with a 3 day total of 172.775 (57.59 average). This comp doubled as a world championships trial. There is a video of Uchimura's floor here:and Tsurumi on bars:For more videos see yu1207's profile on youtube:

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German nationals were held recently with Hambuchen easily winning the men's competition with 90.9 over Marcel Nguyen (86.8) and Philipp Boy (86.3). The women's compeition was won by Kim Bui with 55.65 over Elisabeth Seitz (54.35) and Anja Brinker (54.1). Rhythmic was won by Annika Rejek, men's tramp by Martin Gromowski and women's tramp by Jessica Simon.

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The Games of the Small States of Europe is a multi sport event that is participated in by Andorra, Cyprus, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, San Marino and Montenegro. It was held this year in Cyprus. Both team competitions were won by Cyprus. The women's all-around was won by Antonia Georgiou of Cyprus and the men's all-around was won by Dimitris Krasias of Cyprus. The is some

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There is an interesting interview with Proshy here:

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IG reported that Anton Golotsutskov was going to perform a new vault in the finals of the World Stars 2009 in Moscow. The vault was supposed to be a handspring rudi in back out. However, the vault he performed vault a kind of 1/4 in 1/4 out. This is the vault from Moscow:It actually looks more like he has gone back to his 2003 technique where he almost does a double side sault.Here is his vault

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Well we can finally see Raj's new move, the Tkatchev on P Bars. You can see him doing at the 2009 World Stars in Moscow here:And also in training here:When I heard that it was a Tkatchev on P Bars I guessed it would be like a Tippelt, but was wondering whether he would be doing it to upper arms or to hang. As you can see, he indeed does it to hang. Although it is quite similar to a Tippelt, I

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Well, I have been meaning to write a gymnastics blog for a while, and have now finally gotten around to starting it. The name for the blog comes from what we used to call a Tkatchev when I was young after watching some of the older gymnasts having trouble with the move, which for some reason came back to me when I was thinking about possible names for this blog.To start with I'll talk about the

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