April 2010
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Why does everything remind Nastia of her own...
We all know the these Spring Creek Academy grads are anything but intelligent. Their way of associating one thing to another is a thing of miracle. I’m convinced that the only reason Nastia dated Evan Lysacek was because Lysacek going to the Olympics reminds her of her going to Olympics. “Brings back memories!” says Nastia all the time on Twitter and on Television. If I see a...
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Super Six...and sad NCAA season is over
Congratulation to UCLA. Anna Li is my half Shanghainese princess. She would have been a brilliant gymnast if trained under the Chinese program. But then she wouldn’t have been as happy as she was tonight. Anna’s parents were in the stands and cheering hard, looking like children. Certain things you can only have in America.
Stanford should have been second if they didn’t falter...
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The Little Soviette
I didn’t use to see the appeal of this little Russian, that’s because I never saw her old routine. Oh my! The youthful, innocent joy in these classic Soviet routines. Yulia Belokobyskaya and Anastasia Grishina are two gymnasts pulled straight out of a 1976 junior Soviet team or replicas of a young Soviet wannabe Nadia Comaneci in the piano music era. But what a treat anyways!
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The Three Exodus
Anna Pavlova is not the first one who used Exodus as floor music, and not the last.
Nicole Pechanec, a Stanford gymnast who used to compete for Czech Republic used the music first, in 2007. The dance was fluid and decent, but lacks depth compared to Pavlova.
Anna’s routine is widely loved for a lot of reasons. The choreography is exquisite and subtle. The music cut has an...
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Weekend of Nasty Gymnasm...
Alright. I’m with Rhonda Fahn. Hearing Georgia not making NCAAs gives me a nasty grimace. The Team of God has been bullying their way under heaven’s guidance all season, overscoring themselves and getting pissed while not getting the special treatment. Looking ahead, even a god heavenly CGAer like Cassie Whitcomb ditched her friendship with Shayla and jumped ship to UCLA. It will take...
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Everybody Hates Bela Karolyi
Aunt Joyce had posted an interview with Kathy Johnson that is absolutely phenomenal and a must read. In summary: Bela Karolyi is a bigger asshole than he appears on TV; NBC is stupid and evil.
This brings me to again reflect the history of how USAG has been getting their way with Bela-bullying tactics. I must point out that at 2003 Worlds in Anaheim, the Chinese team was penalized for warming up...
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March 2010
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Briefs
My girl and her little sister were taken on a royal tour and a sublime afternoon swim in Doha, together with the Chinese men’s team, which continues to get as many EF golds as possible. This Chinese men’s team is fairly screwed up in that they can round up medals in all individual events with three different crops of gymnasts, but none of the guys are capable of even touching all six...
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Long Briefs.
—It’s been a slow month. Cottbus World Cup was boring as usual — is the prize money less than the cost of a flight ticket now? Gymnastics still is nowhere near a popular sport if the world cup circuit doesn’t attract halfway decent gymnasts. Why does it work just fine for Figure Skating? Seriously, fuck two per country rule, fuck only EF, no AA format, especially fuck the...
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Why the Russian women never won a team gold.
2010 Russian Championship is on. Thanks to the wonderful Russiancup2009 youtube account, we found out what we had long suspected, the Russian ladies never retire for good. Of the 2008 Olympics team, only the 27-year-old Ludmilla Ezhova Grebenkova did not show up.
Ksenia Semenova is still suffering from her almost two-year-long growth spurt. Semenova now is not the Semenova in 2007, light and...
Liveblogging from Nastia Liukin Cup
Here we go..
McKayla Skinner Fx —Tasha Schweikert’s music. Opened with a full-in. Bouncy gymnast, bad splits.
Kiersten Wong Vt - y full. Really high vault. Another y full. 9.7
Lominica Hall Fx - double layout oob. (nastia must feel intimidated) powerful, bad splits. front layout full front layout. double tuck off. Sloppy gymnastics.
(first half of rotation 1 over).
I just...
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February 2010
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In Chen Lu I believe...
I’m no technical expert on figure skating, so I listened to Lulu’s commentaries.
Chen Lu: Mao’s triple axels are better than Lysacek’s. (They even did a side by side replay of Mao and Evan’s 3As on CCTV)
Chen Lu: Plushenko’s in a league of his own.
Chen Lu: Nobody ever jumped as well as Mao.
Chen Lu: Mao’s program is grotesque and more dramatic, and...
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Briefly noted.
Nastia Liukin and Evan Lysacek confirmed dating. We wonder when NL gets her heart broken, who will be the guy she falls back to. I nominate her agent Evan Morgenstein. But she might just become a lesbian and date Nina Kim instead.
UCLA vs. Oregon St. was the first NCAA meet I watched from the beginning to the end this season. Oregon State was the kind of the school that put out only one E element...
Have people been reading up Al Fong? →
I always believe a person shows more personality in writing than in talking, but this guy still leaves me intrigued. He seems to write from true emotions, and in fact quite genuine in his writing, if not a bit simple-minded (what kind of 40 something years old use the word awesome with a !.) He also seems to be very full of himself. The guy was also known as being fierce on podium, giving...
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Why I hate WOGA Gymnastics.
At WOGA Classic last weekend we found out that Valerie Liukin’s elite gymnasts are doing slight variations of the same beam routine of Nastia Liukin and Rebecca Bross, the two of whose routines are already slight variation of each other. Ivana Hong’s beam routine has been epically replicated after Princess Nastia, all the way down to the poses and the hair puff. Grace McLaughlin and...