Archives for May 2014

In the news, Uncle Tim, Brigid head honcho at The Couch Gymnast, Evan, and Jessica chat about:

• Bela Karolyi style scratch-and-petition-nastics at Australian National Championships and the Godwin Factor for Commonwealth Games team.
• The Russian men dominate with gorgeous, clean, high flying skills at European Championships while Ukraine earns a spot on the podium despite war at home and neck tattoos.
• Max Whitlock beats Krisztian Berki on pommel horse!
• Fabian Hambuechen had a scary fall, did Epke Zonderland’s hair cut help his high bar form, and  should Mr. Alexander Shatilov have won the Mr. Sofia title?
• Mtv Germany has a shirtless gymnastics video shoot that we investigate like Grandi at a rhythmic judging exam.
• The shinning hope for Australia after a dark time, Larissa Miller of tribe Uneven Bars.

We get to the bottom of the top news stories from around the gymternet:

• Anna Pavlova’s fall out of the show and down the stairs
• THIS KID! Emmy doing the most adorable routine we’ve ever seen. 
• New skills submitted for evaluation at the European Championships
• Updates from The Ranch: Laurie Hernandez, MyKayla Skinner and Maggie Nichols
• Steve Butcher, Men’s Tech Committee Chair, sounding reasonable.

Pre-sale tickets for 2015 World Championships in Glasgow are on sale here.

Full results from the 2014 Australian National Championships here 

• 95: WAG European Championships Part Two — Lesser Known Stars and a Behind The Scenes Report
• 94: Women’s European Championships Part One!
• 86: British Championships & Doha World Cup
• 82: Cottbus, English Championships & Danusia Francis finally gets a 10 on beam!

2014 Australian All-Around Champion, Georgia Godwin of Queensland.

 

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Blythe and Jessica talk to Emma Bailey direct from the hallway of her hotel in Sofia, Bulgaria at the Women’s European Championships about:

• The great Soviet Pink Panther routine by  Elena Shevchenko (USSR) vs. the new Pink Panther performed by Marta Pihan-Kulesza (POL).
• The red carpet, the banquet dances, and other cool stuff the organizers did.
• Could Sandra Izbasa return for Rio?
• Diana Bulimar, the unsung hero and backbone of the Romanian team.
• A Danish gymnastics club gets to train on all of the equipment from World Championships.
• Teams on the rise and lesser known fan favorites; Noemi Makra (HUN), Claire Martin (FRA), Emma Larson (SWE), Gaelle Mys (BEL), Lisa Top (NED)
• Emma gives her impression of the once-great Ukrainian program.
• Are there too many World Cups schedule, without sufficient time to rest before the European Championships?
• And finally, high bar Olympic medalist Krasimir Dunev , one of the organizers of Euros, proves he is freakin’ cool as hell.

Emma’s YouTube Channel has some videos of fan favorites not captured on the broadcasts.

Leotard series postcards (leocards) and prints by Meg. Buy them here.

2014 European Gymnastics Championships site.

• 94: Women’s European Championships Part One!
• 89: Everybody Loves Raymond! Pacific Rim, Men’s NCAA Championships, plus a Russian Championships/Tokyo World Cup recap DO OVER!
• 86: British Championships & Doha World Cup
• 64: Glasgow World Cup & NCAA 2014 Previews
• Episode 62: Pavlova to Azerbaijan, Oleg (Finally!) in Stuttgart & The Mexican Open Extravaganza
• Episode 22: Beth Tweddle
• Episode 20: Jenni Pinches
• Episode 19: Andreea Raducan

 

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This week, London Olympian Jennifer Pinches joins Uncle Tim and Jessica to chat about:

• Russian great, Anna Pavlova returns to competition for Azerbaijan with a medal!
• Uncle Tim reveals sexy data hidden in the results from the meet, including the surprise of team Germany beating everyone on one event.*
• The new floor artistry rules are in place, but did floor champion Ferrari comply?
• The incredible rise of the British junior and seniors teams with crowd pleasing and incredibly difficult, artistic gymnastics.
• Queen Mustafina and Iordache show their true depth and consistency of Romania and Russia, year after year.
• Why Jessica is outraged that Romania’s Larisa Iordache placed second on balance beam despite seemingly superior execution.
• The impressive, new senior Maria Kharenkova of Russia who rocked a shoulder height two-foot layout on beam and demonstrated a mature attitude.
• We award the first ever, Prize for Execution for highest execution score in the all-around to Princess Catherine Lyons of Europa.
• Roxanna Popa is a friend to all and everyone is her fan.
• The Slinky Pink Panther routine from Marta Pihan-Kulesza of Poland that we can’t get enough of.
• All-around silver medalist, Laura Jurca (ROM) does “The Swim” on beam, we weigh in, smart move or too campy (see gif below)?

*Correction : In this episode we said that Great Britain had the highest difficulty on bars in the senior team final with 5.667. The correct difficulty that gave team GB the highest difficulty average was 6.266.”

Here are the latest news stories that we discuss in depth:

• Shannon Miller “I would get death threats at the age of 15.”
• Jake Dalton is  now married *cue weeping sounds worldwide*
• Ksenia Afanasyeva talks about her ankle surgeries.
• Danell Leyva has a 7.3 D on high bar!
• Spain’s (University of Florida) Silvia Colussi-Pelaez, is transferring to Oregon State this fall.
• Lloimincia Hall selected for Nike Internship.
• Kenzo posted a video of his yurchenko 3.5!!
• Our solutions for City of Liverpool gymnastics club closure.

• 89: Everybody Loves Raymond! Pacific Rim, Men’s NCAA Championships, plus a Russian Championships/Tokyo World Cup recap DO OVER!
• 86: British Championships & Doha World Cup
• 64: Glasgow World Cup & NCAA 2014 Previews
• Episode 62: Pavlova to Azerbaijan, Oleg (Finally!) in Stuttgart & The Mexican Open Extravaganza
• Episode 22: Beth Tweddle
• Episode 20: Jenni Pinches
• Episode 19: Andreea Raducan

 

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