Check out these brand new videos from the Pacific Rim Championships going on right now...Jordyn Wieber's sensational comeback, world all-around gold and silver medalists Bridget Sloan and Rebecca Bross, Russia's, Ksenia Afanasyeva, and more!
A landmark decision in gymnastics was made yesterday when the results of the 2000 Olympic women's team final were officially altered TEN YEARS after the competition concluded. Read why I strongly support the IOC's decision to give the bronze medals to their rightful owners - six American gymnasts who were old enough to compete in Sydney.
Check out the next batch of floor routines in the top 50 countdown...FIVE different countries represented!
The men's European Championships have completed, and some incredible gymnastics took place. Check out these videos of the top floor workers in Europe right now!
The two most exciting rising stars in the world are competing together on Russia’ junior team at the European Championships. The videos below are of their full bars and beam routines from podium training yesterday…just released!
The 2008 U.S. Men's Olympic Team will go down as one of the most memorable ever...almost on a par with the team that won gold in 1984. After losing BOTH of the Hamms, putting out the weakest pommel horse team of the entire Olympic Games, and using several gymnasts who were unpredictable at best, the USA came away with a bronze medal that stunned the world. Not to take ANYTHING away from that phenomenal team, but let's use my proposed selection points system to see how it would work using real competition results. One fascinating question...Would national champion David Sender's Olympic fate have been different?
The selection of world and Olympic teams (and even the national teams) have gradually become more and more subjective over the last ten years to coincide with the evolving nature of international competition formats and rules, which highly favor event specialists and require a very strategic team dynamic. Could this proposed points system be a way for our selection procedures to return to the completely objective, score-based process we all miss? Check it out!
The next round of 5 floor routines in the top 50 countdown!
The top 50 countdown of the best floor routines of the last decade continues!
Floor Routines #45-41 of the last decade…
I’m sure many of you have picked up on some of my frustrations with the level of gymnastics in the elite women’ world nowadays, in particular on floor and vault. While the difficulty in the men’s tumbling and vaulting around the world has risen astronomically over the last decade, on the women’s side these two areas have gone in the other direction
The finals at the French International is underway today, but I wanted to go ahead and post some videos and comments on some of the awesome routines from the qualification round.