Wild Rose

I'm not going to say much about this disappointment of a meet. Canada won the team title over China and Australia. But Shang Chunsong of China did win the all around over Canada's Jessica Savona and Sabrina Gill. And the most impressive score of the meet was from Shang Chunsong on the balance beam in the event finals, scoring a huge 15.1. Jiang Yuyuan was a complete disappointment. She didn't show her normal flair and was inconsistent, therefor, scoring extremely low. Huang Huidan of China also had a disappoint meet. Australia's Britt Greeley made her comeback at this meet, but was not very impressive. This years Wild Rose Invitational was all in all not a great meet.

Shang Chunsong's beam routine in the team finals/ all around. Only shows half of the routine.



Doha and Wild Rose

Here are the gymnasts planning on competing at the Doha Challenger Cup and the Wild Rose Invitational.

Doha-
Ashleigh BRENNAN AUS
Larrissa MILLER AUS
Fadwa Mohamed MAHMOUD EGY
Gaelle MYS BEL
Daniele MATIAS HYPOLITO BRA
Christine LEE CAN
Madeline GARDINER CAN
MAKARENA  PINTO ADASME CHI
Sixin TAN CHN
Jinnan YAO CHN
Nancy Mohamed TAMAN EGY
Farida Ahmed SHOKRY EGY
Meriam Fouad ELHAJJ EGY
Clara DELLA VEDOVA FRA
Camille COUDRET FRA 1
Jocelyn HUNT GBR
Dewi PRAHARA INA
Nefy NURBAETI INA
Dewi Mustika INA
MARNI INA
Moldir AZIMBAY KAZ
Aljazy AL-HABSHI QAT
Shaden WOHDAN QAT
Claudia CUMMINS RSA
Nicole SZABO RSA

Wild Rose-
Australia
Georgia-Rose Brown
Britt Greeley
Tierra Exum
Emily Little
Katie Wurth
Canada
Kristin Klarenbach
Jessica Savona
Sabrina Gill
Mikaela Gerber
Bianca Dancose-Giambattisto
Dominique Pegg
China
Jiang Yuyuan
Huang Huidan
Shang Chunsong
Champions (Canada)
Miranda Meyer

A preview of these two competitions will be posted later on.

Other Meets

The Jesolo competition and the Bercy Cup has also happened this month. For results and videos you can go to the blogs The Couch Gymnast and Between the Olympics. Aliya Mustafina dominated at Bercy and the American seniors and juniors won the team competition at Jesolo, as well as the all around.

The Couch Gymnast-
http://www.thecouchgymnast.com/

Between the Olympics-
http://betweentheolympics.wordpress.com/

Teams for European Championships

This is a very deep field of gymnasts for a competition were you are allowed to send four gymnasts. Here is the list of teams and the gymnasts that they are sending and what events that they are competing.

Austria
Elisa Hämmerle (AA)
Barbara Gasser (AA)
Belgium
Aagie Vanwalleghem (AA)
Julie Croket (AA)
Lisa Verschueren (BB/FX)
Antje Vandevelde (VT/UB
Belarus
Alina Sotnikova (AA)
Volha Makhautsova (AA)
Bulgaria
Ralitsa Mileva
Croatia
Tijana Tkalcec (VT/FX)
Tina Erceg (BB/FX)
Czech Republic
Kristyna Palesova (AA)
Jana Sikulova (AA)
Denmark
Mette Hulgaard (AA)
Michelle Lauritsen (AA)
Mia Ruru (AA)
Spain
Claudia Menendez (AA)
Beatriz Cuesta (AA)
Claudia Vila (AA)
Ainoa Carmona (AA)
Finland
Annika Urvikko (AA)
Rosanna Ojala (AA)
Ida Laisi (AA)
France
Mira Boumejmajen (UB/BB)
Marine Brevet (AA)
Clara Della Vedova (AA)
Marine Petit (BB/FX)
Great Britain
Danusia Francis (AA)
Jennifer Pinches (AA)
Hannah Whelan (AA)
Beth Tweddle (UB/FX)
Georgia
Ketevan Bolkvadze (AA)
Germany
Kim Bui (AA)
Oksana Chusovitina (VT/BB/FX)
Nadine Jarosch (AA)
Elisabeth Seitz (AA)
Greece
Vasiliki Millousi (AA)
Stefani Bismpikou (AA)
Paschalina Mitrakou (AA)
Elisavet Tsakou (AA)
Hungary
Renata Toth (VT/BB/FX)
Austin Sheppard (AA)
Dorina Bocozgö (AA)
Ireland
Charlotte McKenna (AA)
Iceland
Jóhanna Rakel Jónasdóttir (AA)
Embla Jóhannesdóttir (AA)
Dominiqua A. Belányi (AA)
Thelma Rut Hermannsdóttir (AA)
Israel
Valeriia Maksiuta (AA)
Roni Rabinovitz (AA)
Yuval Samouha (AA)
Sapir Hana Cohen (AA)
Italy
Vanessa Ferrari (AA)
Carlotta Ferlito (AA)
Elisabetta Preziosa (AA)
Chiara Gandolfi (AA)
Lithuania
Greta Nevedomskaite (AA)
Mante Jasilionyte (AA)
Luxembourg
Mara Kimmel (AA)
Aline Bernar (AA)
Netherlands
Yvette Moshage (AA)Naoual Ouazzani Chahdi (AA)
Céline Van Gerner (AA)
Joy Goedkoop (AA)
Norway
Haldis Naerum (AA)
Karoline Sondov (AA)
Poland
Marta Pihan-Kulesza (AA)
Gabriela Janik (VT/UB)
Katarzyna Jurkowska (BB/FX)
Portugal
Alexandra Choon (AA)
Ekaterina Kislinskaya (AA)
Romania
Ana Porgras (AA)
Sandra Izbasa (VT/BB/FX)
Diana Chelaru (AA)
Amelia Racea (AA)
Russia
Aliya Mustafina (AA)
Anna Dementyeva (AA)
Tatiana Nabieva (AA)
Yulia Belokobylskaya (AA)
Slovenia
Ivana Kamnikar (AA)
Fiona Novak (AA)
Teja Belak (AA)
Adela Sajn (AA)
Switzerland
Ariella Kaeslin (AA)
Giulia Steingruber (AA)
Jessica Diacci (AA)
Linda Stämpfli (AA)
Sweden
Jonna Adlerteg (AA)
Veronica Wagner (AA)
Turkey
Özlem Özkan (AA)
Demet Mutlu (AA)
Ukraine
Nataliya Kononenko (UB/BB)
Yana Demyanchuk (UB/BB)
Mariya Livchikova (VT/BB/FX)
Alina Fomenko (AA)

I do have concerns about who is competing and why some countries aren't sending more gymnasts. First of all, Turkey. Were is Goksu Uctas? Then there's Belarus. I know that you are low on gymnasts, but only two gymnast, really? And does anybody were Galina Ivanets is? She was a promising junior in early 2009, but then disappeared last year. And I thought that Poland would send more than three gymnasts. And where is Laura Svilpaite of Lithuania? She is very good on the uneven bars and has a good shot of going to London in 2012 as an individual. And the Czech Republic is sending only two gymnasts. The Spanish team is starting to look very good. They have several DTY and have some good specialist gymnasts. But where is the big Spanish star Ana Maria Izurieta? Is she still injured from her vault that she competed in Rotterdam? And finally the Ukraine. I completely agree with the gymnasts that they are sending. This is their top team since Anastasia Koval is injured and Dariya Zgoba has retired, I just don't understand why Mariya Livchikova isn't competing on all four of the apparatus. She is weak on bars, but if she hits, I think that should could place in the top five at this competition. But she hardly ever hits, unfortunately. It will also be interesting to see the rest of the Romanian upgrades. And to see if Yulia Belokobylskaya can hit her beam and floor routines and qualify into any finals. I will start do do predictions very soon.

Cottbus Videos

Vault

Oksana Chusovitina

Giulia Steingruber

Nadine Yarosch

Bars

 

Yao Jinnan

 

 

Elisabeth Seitz

Kim Bui

Natsumi Sasada

Yulia Belokobylskaya

Beam

Yao Jinnan

Celine Van Gerner

Vasiliki Millousi

Natsumi Sasada

Floor

Yao Jinnan

Tan Sixin

Mariya Livchikova

 

Cottbus Cup

There was very nice gymnastics at the Cottbus Cup this year. Many gymnasts from many different nations competed. Oksana Chusovitina won the vault with an average of 14.312. She did her normal vaults which are a Tsuk 1.5 and lay out front with a full. Giulia Steingruber of Switzerland competed a Rudi and a Tsuk full. And Nadine Yarosch of Germany got the Bronze medal with a Yurchenko 1.5 and a piked front. Yao Jinnan of China won the bars title with classic Chinese lines and skills. And Elisabeth Seitz got the Silver with her Def back in the routine and other big skills. And Kim Bui won the Bronze in her big come back meet. Yao Jinnan also won the beam title with huge skills and connections such as her huge bhs, bhs, layout. Celine Van Gerner earned the Silver with a clean routine and a new round off layout connection. And vetrran Vasiliki Millousi of Greece won the Bronze with a surprisingly solid routine. And the floor title also went to Yao Jinnan with her clean tumbling and dance. And the Silver went to junior stand out Tan Sixin of China, with a not so difficult routine, but clean tumbling and gorgeous dance and choreography. And the Bronze went to Elisabeth Seitz. Unfortunately no video of her routine has come out so I don't know what was in her routine. Some other stand out routines and gymnasts are Mariya Livchkova of the Ukraine, Natsumi Sasada of Japan, and Yulia Belokobylskaya of Russia. Mariya Livchikova had a lovely floor excerise routine that had a double front, triple twist, and a Memmel turn. She had a couple of steps out of bounds and large steps so she didn't make the final. Natsumi Sasada showed a very difficult bars and beam routine. Her bars was very difficult and unique with nice combinations and a jam. Her jam did not hit the hand stand, and she didn't have enough power to go over the bar and fell on the bar. She did her extremely difficult and unique mount on the beam, which is a lay out full, or a lay out Garrison. and then she connected it to a Korbut. And Yulia only made the bars final, when her specialty events are beam and floor, but she did show a huge piked stalder tkatchev. I will show videos on a different post since there are so many!

American Cup, Scam again!

So we all new that even though USA Gymnastics had no control what so even over the American Cup this year, they would find a way to cheat in another very talented American gymnast and over score them. And it happened, UGGHHH!!!!!! In my opinion, they should have a ninth gymnast there from the World Championships to be an alternate. The FIG has made a new rule that I agree with is that there can be no last minute replacements, just like Jordyn Wieber was. Here are the routines, and who do you think should have won? Please leave comments and MUSTAFINA ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jordyn Wieber

And by the way, Jordyn was WAY over scored on beam, bars, and floor!

Aliya Mustafina

And Aliya was underscored on really all of the events.

I'm Back!!!!!!!

Hi everybody, I got my cast off early so I can start posting again, yay! In my next couple of posts I will give a summary of this month so far.

Out until end of March

Hi everybody! I have recently broken my arm and I will not be posting until the end of March. This really sucks because March is a huge gymnastics month this year. The reason why I won't be posting is because it is really hard to type. You can go to other blogs such as The Couch Gymnast, the Gymnastics Examiner, and Between the Olympics, as well as some others. Some meets this month are the Nastia Cup, American (Scam) Cup, Cottbus Cup, Paris Cup, Doha Cup, and the Wild Rose Invitational. Check again on April 1, 2011 for my next Post. Thank you!

Nicloe Hibbert out, Jordyn Wieber in

Nicole Hibbert of GRB is being replaced by Jordyn Wieber. Nicole got injured at the English Nationals during warm up on vault, and Wieber was the alternate so she is in. I'm not thrilled with this because this means that Aliya may come in second! I love Aliya, and Jordyn has difficult skills, but not as much as Aliya and not near the amount of grace as Aliya. But Jordyn may not be at her best, because she was no where nere as good as she really is at the WOGA Classic. But we haven't seen anything from Aliya yet this year, so you also don't know what to expect from her. So that is realistically your top two. Expect the bronze to go to Ally Raisman, Lauren Mitchell, or Ariella Kaeslin. I'm expecting this American Cup to be one of the best ones yet! And hopefully NBC or Universal Sports will show more gymnastics than just the top three or four!