I Need Updates!

On the following gymnasts, please:

1. Oksana Chusovitina - competing or not?
2. Yang Yilin - still injured?
3. Jiang Yuyuan - what is she upto?
4. Jade Barbosa - what's the deal with her hand?
5. Sandra Izbasa - new routines?

Would be helpful, thanks.

American Cup 2009

American Cup 2009
FYI: Jordyn Wieber won!
She just rocked the house. She's very much like Shawn and Carly....
She performed BIG SKILLS such as:
*AMANAR VAULT (landed locked legged, barely got it around, but still - WOW!)*
*Double Double Layout Uneven Bars Dismount*
*Standing Back Layout on Balance Beam*
*Full Twist + Back Tuck on Balance Beam*
*Opening with a Full-In on Floor Exercise*
*2.5 Twist + Front Layout, stuck, on Floor Exercise*
*Ending with a Stuck Double Pike on Floor Exercise*
I think she very much deserved to win, even though I was rooting for Bridget.
Very impressive!
You can find her American Cup Set:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1Low76BGng

Bridget did fabulously too! WOW!
You can find her American Cup Set:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sOTJKyWzMM


Two things:
Nastia was there and looked like she enjoyed Jordyn's FX. I sure did!
Umm...FYI. Marta painted her nails black. Ha ha ha.

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Well the germans had fun, didn't they? Fabian won the mens side (Du-uh), and Kim Bui took third in the WAG side!
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YAY!

Sorry! and WOW.

Sorry - I haven't posted in a bit of time

and now for the WOW.

(totally un-gymnastics related).
So I go to my electro-fan friend's house for a SLEEPover. She has a GameBoy, TV, and a computer. She watches the TV (expert channel changer alert). uses her GBA, and won't let me use her computer! She says it was HER turn. And then at night her parents make us go to bed at 11:30. Grr. Not fun.

So happy V-day everyone!
And yesterday was Friday the 13th - what did you do? I watched the Psych Friday the 13th episode (you know - the one about Annie and the PJ's and Clyde or Clyve or whatever his name is and Jason Cunningham. Hah).
I have to admit, I got pretty spooked.

Floor Music

My ALL TIME top tens:

10. Shawn Johnson 2005 - Heaven Is A Place On Earth
9. Anastasia Liukin 2007 & 2008 - Dark Eyes
8. Svetlana Boginskaia 1988 - Carmen
7. Lavinia Milosovici 1996 - Hooked On America
6. Sandra Izbasa 2008 - Taniec Eleny
5. Shawn Johnson 2007 - Highway Blues
4. Carly Patterson 2004 - Mr. Voodoo Pinstripe Bad Guy (or something like that...)
3. Jiang Yuyuan 2008 - (?)
2. Catalina Ponor 2004 - Gia
1. Anna Pavlova 2008 - Exodus

Nice Save!

Nastia Liukin (USA) - 2006 Nationals - Day 2 - Balance Beam - 15.700
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhpSVG8aVhE

Great handstand save! She has had lots of trouble with the
Flic Flac (B) - Back Layout with Stepout (C) - Back Layout (E).
She fell in worlds 2007 and has had problems with that.