GYMNAST OF THE WEEK; 11.2.12

Gymnast of The Week is the special section on TWG where we celebrate some achievements in the Gymnastics week.
Last week's winner was John Orozco. Who's won this week???

She's American...

It's Briley Casanova.

The reason this upcoming talent is the winner is because she has made it too the Supergirl Classic. Few people have made it this far so it's a great achievement. Well done Briley!!!

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TWITTER NAME CHANGE

We've decided to take another twitter name change. Sorry, if this messes you about but we thought we'd change it one more time...
it is;

@TWGgymblog

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ZIBO CITY ENTRIES

The Zibo City World Cup competition Nominative entry has been released. Meet the gymnasts;

LARISSA MILLER
LAUREN MITCHELL
JADE BARBOSA
CHENG FEI
YAO JINNAN
TAN SIXIN
SUI LU
TIJANA TKALCEC
KRISTYNA PALESOVA
YAMILET PENA ABREU
OKSANA CHUSOVITINA
NADINE BERGER
ELISABETH SEITZ
VALERIIA MAKSYUTA
ALEXA MORENO MEDINA
DANIELA ANDREI
YANA DEMYANCHUCK
JESSICA LOPEZ
THI HA THANH PHAN

Well, we've definitely got some talent in the mix. The Chinese are here on home soil, the Germans have a strong party with first year Janine Berger. Lozza Mitchell and Larissa Miler fly the flag for Australia. Dominican Republic have there favorite Yamilet Pena.
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PAC RIM TEAMS

USAG have released the list of the teams competing in the Men and Women competition.


Here they are;


AUSTRALIA
CANADA 
CHILE
CHINESE TAIPEI
COLOMBIA 
COSTA RICA
HONG KONG, CHN
JAPAN
KOREA
MEXICO
NEW ZEALAND
PANAMA (WOMEN)
PHILIPPINES
RUSSIA
USA

Schedule;

The competition schedule is as follows:
Friday, March 16
10 a.m. – Rhythmic Team & All-Around (Sub Div. 1)
1:30 p.m. – Women’s Team & All-Around (Sub Div. 1)
3 p.m. – Rhythmic Team & All-Around (Sub Div. 2)
7 p.m. – Women’s Team & All-Around (Sub Div. 2)
Saturday, March 17
1:30 p.m. – Men’s Team & All-Around (Sub Div. 1)
3 p.m. – Rhythmic Individual Event Finals
7 p.m. – Men’s Team & All-Around (Sub Div. 2)
Sunday, March 18
9 a.m. – Trampoline Junior Team Competition
11:30 a.m. – Trampoline Senior Team Competition
12 p.m. – Men’s & Women’s Junior Individual Event Finals
4 p.m. – Trampoline Individual Event Finals
6 p.m. – Men’s & Women’s Senior Individual Event Finals
7 p.m. – Synchronized Trampoline Competition

THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY: PT. 2

You may have read the first post of the ones that got away but if not here is a quick description. It's a series where we look back on gymnasts that have unfortunately retired but brought massive talent.

GABRIELA DRAGOI (last competed; 2010)

I'm not sure where Gabi's got too but she's missing. We first so of saw her at the 2007 worlds. She brought the classic Romanian talent on beam and she had a nice floor routine. Her bars wasn't too shabby but Romanian aren't renowned bar workers. In the Olympics, she obviously won a bronze medal with her team but she also made the Beam final. Surprisingly, no other Romanian did actually compete in that final! She came in one of the lower ranks but It was still a great opportunity! I'm not sure if she went to London 2009?? But, she definitely went to the 2010 worlds. No finals but she competed bars for the team final!

ALINA KOZICH (last competed; 2009)

Alina is the star of the show in many peoples eyes in Ukranian Gymnastics. Her beautiful lines and grace made her Gymnastics career a long and successful one. Alina's strengths are probably all-around. Graceful on floor and beam, powerful on vault but I suppose bars is her weakness. In 2004, Alina went to the Olympics and made the all-around final. I remember how heart-broken I was when she fell her beam dismount! In 2005,6,7, she went to the Worlds. At the 2008 Olympics, Ukraine had a very poor show in the team qualification event. She fell and landed OOB on floor. Ukranian leader Korobchinksy sent her to Uzbekistan because he felt she'd lost it for the team. In 2009, she put on her Uzbekistani jacket and went to Worlds. She didn't compete the all-around and she didn't make finals but it was a nice elite gymnastics send-off. Since 2010, Alina has been coaching in Japan and she helps Choreo etc. with Sergei Butsula.

PART 3 IS COMING SOON!

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MID-WEEK GYM NEWS

Yeshh, it's Tuesday! No where near the weekend yet!
Here is some of the intlgymnastics news hitting the planet;


WAMMES TAKES LEGAL ACTION ABOUT NOT GOING TO LONDON 2012.


Netherland's Jeffery Wammes is going to court to get an assessment about how fair it was to bump his compatriot Epke Zonderland over him to make the Olympics. Wammes scored 2 points or so higher than Zonderland but he didn't get picked. Of course, Zonderland is the more exciting of the two and could place very high on P.Bars and High Bar but Wammes also brings strong vaulting and an all-around status with him to. Follow @GYMPOWER1 for more on that


NCAA!


Enough about the Superbowl already, It was NCAA time! UCLA vs. Stanford and Bama vs. Florida! After all the thrills and spills, here were the results;


UCLA beat Stanford
Alabama beat Florida Gators.


Here is the top 12 in the NCAA Women's Gymnastics;

1. UTAH
2. Alabama
3. Arkansas
4. Florida
5. Oklahoma
6. Georgia
7. UCLA
8. Nebraska
9. Oregon State
10. Penn State
11. Ohio State
12. Stanford

(updated; 6th February)

JAPAN WORLD CUP CANCELLED

Due to a conflict in scheduling, FIG have decided to call off the Tokyo World Cup. They will however host in April 2013.

AMERICAN CUP DRAWING OF LOTS

This is the official list of who is going to start when on each apparatus at the American Cup (courtesy; FIG);

courtesy; thedailygymie

1. Rebecca Tunney
2. Nadine Jarosch
3. Georgia Simpson
4. Diana Chelaru
5. Larisa Iordache
6. Jordyn Wieber
7. Lisa Katharine Hill
8. Alexandra Raisman

Well, that's a wrap folks! Be sure to follow us on twitter though, too keep it alive!!!

THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY: PT. 1

This is a post about some of the gymnasts that are taking long breaks or are retired! 


ANA MARIA TAMIRJAN (last competed: 2009)


Tamirjan has seen it all for Romania. I'm not sure she went to the 2007 worlds but she went to the Olympics and got a team bronze medal. 2009 was her most busy year though. She went to the Jesolo competition with the team. Later, she went to the Worlds and made the all-around. Here is her vault from worlds;

ANNAMARI MAARANEN (last competed internationally; 2007)


Maaranen may be retired from International competition but she stills competes for the Denver University. Before moving to Denver, Maaranen had a very successful senior international career that dates back to 2004. She went to the 2007 worlds but unfortunately the Finnish team didn't qualify a team. Watch her competing for Denver;

DARIYA ZGOBA (last competed; 2009 worlds)


Zgoba is one of the most experienced Ukranian gymnasts in this decade. Her first internationals were around 2004/5. But, more recently, she competed in the 2007 worlds. The Ukranian gymnastics team were a lot more EXPERIENCED that quad so they managed to qualify a team. Her and Holenkova, Kozich, Koval, Prosturkina and Irina Krasninskaya all went to the Olympics. 

Part 2 will be published soon.......

SORRY GUYS!

I'm ever so sorry I haven't been able to post alot lately but my life has been so hectic and frantic I don't know when too stop. Plus, Jan/Feb and March time is the relatively quite time of the season so you haven't missed out on much gymnastics action. Likewise with the twitter, I haven't been on for a long time, but I'm definitely going to get back into the swing of things. 


Well, TEAM USA have proposed they'll be sending a team to the Cottbus World Cup!


Brigid McCarthy (the couch gymnast) has more on that over her blog.


Gymnastics Youtuber iLitter has created a video about all the things about the WOGA classic, including the voice overs of Rebecca Bross and Katelyn Ohashi. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnrjW9ru970&feature=g-all-lik&context=G2c379f4FAAAAAAAAAAA

StephanFloorMusics has added a few more floor musics to his collection including;


Aagje VanWellegham, McKenzie Wofford, Nadine Jarosch and Anastasia Sidorova.


Switch Ring Blog has some new blog updates.

Follow @JamesOlympics and read his blog for sports motivation(kind of) and expressive stories!!!!!

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MY SCAM PREDICTIONS.

The American Cup is soon coming and I'd thought I'd predict the ranks in the all-around and events. So, here it is;

AA

1. Jordyn Wieber.USA
2. Larissa Iordache.ROU
3. Alexandra Raisman
4. Nadine Jarosch
5. Rebecca Tunney
6. Diana Chelaru
7. Lisa Katherina Hill
8. Georgina Simpson.

Vault

1. Jordyn Wieber
2. Larissa Iordache
3. Alexandra Raisman
4. Diana Maria Chelaru
5. Nadine Jarosch
6. Lisa Katharina Hill
7. Rebecca Tunney
8. Georgina Simpson

Bars

1. Larissa Iordache
2. Rebecca Tunney
3. Jordyn Wieber
4. Nadine Jarosch
5. Georgina Simpson
6. Lisa Katharine Hill
7. Alexandra Raisman
8. Diana Maria Chelaru

Beam

1. Larissa Iordache
2. Jordyn Wieber
3. Nadine Jarosch
4. Alexandra Raisman
5. Diana Chelaru
6. Georgina Simpson
7. Rebecca Tunney
8. Lisa Katharine Hill

Floor

1. Jordyn Wieber
2. Alexandra Raisman
3. Diana Chelaru
4. Nadine Jarosch
5. Georgina Simpson
6. Larissa Iordache
7. Lisa Katharine Hill
8.  Rebecca Tunney

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