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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.

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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):

































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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).
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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.

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14 October 2009

Qualifers for Apparatus Finals

I finally found the qualifiers for apparatus finals here. They are

Floor
1 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 USA
8 OKIGUCHI Makoto JPN

Pommel
1 ZHANG Hongtao CHN
2 BERKI Krisztian HUN
3 SMITH Louis GBR
4 KOCZI Flavius ROU
5 SELLATHURAI P. AUS
6 TOMMASONE Cyril FRA
7 SELIGMAN Robert CRO
8 MCNEILL Timothy USA

Rings
1 YAN Mingyong CHN
2 PINHEIRORODRIGUES FRA
3 IOVTCHEV Iordan BUL
4 VOROBIOV Oleksandr UKR
5 MORANDI Matteo ITA
6 STANESCU G. ROU
7 AIT SAID Samir FRA
8 NABARRETE ZANETTI A. BRA

Vault
1 GOLOTSUTSKOV Anton RUS
2 DRAGULESCU Marian ROU
3 KOCZI Flavius ROU
4 BOUHAIL Thomas FRA
5 RI Se Gwang PRK
6 BOTELLA PEREZ Isaac ESP
7 FAHRIG Matthias GER
8 WAMMES Jeffrey NED

P Bars
1 FENG Zhe CHN
2 WANG Guanyin CHN
3 TANAKA Kazuhito JPN
4 KIERZKOWSKI Adam POL
5 TSOLAKIDIS Vasileios GRE
6 CUCHERAT Yann FRA
7 YOO Won Chul KOR
8 ZONDERLAND Epke NED

High Bar
1 ZOU Kai CHN
2 CASSINA Igor ITA
3 PEGAN Aljaz SLO
4 LEYVA Danell USA
5 HORTON Jonathan USA
6 ZONDERLAND Epke NED
7 UCHIMURA Kohei JPN
8 TSAREVICH Aliaksandr BLR
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Dragulescu is BACK!

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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03 October 2009

Promo video for London world

You can watch it here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/gymnastics/8287907.stm

It has some pretty cool special effects.
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Wiwatowski out of worlds

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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29 September 2009

Doha World Cup

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 his new routine that he showed at the recent worlds trial. Perhaps he will do it in the finals. His score on rings was only 14.75, but it looks at though the judges were being hard on the execution deductions with top ringmen Angioletti, Tampakos and Coppolino also receiving relatively low scores in the 14 to low 15 range. In fact nobody got an E-score over 8.8.
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27 September 2009

Spanish MAG team for worlds

The Spanish men's team for worlds has been announced and is

Rafael Martínez
Isaac Botella
Manuel Carballo
Sergio Munoz
Ivan San Miguel
Javier Gomez
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