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.

Johnyaowuncar

Get a load of this:

"Sacramones performance was terrible during the olympics and was the reason why Team USA lost. With that kind of performance and still made it to the national team, I wonder how many coaches did she have to sleep with in order to get the spot. Her ass is so fat, I think her ass is at least 20 pounds extra compared to her teammates. That was why she brought down Team USA. Stupid bitch should go to Jenny Craig. Alicia will go down as the worst, and most disgraceful gymnast in Olympic history."

and:

"Sacramones performance was terrible during the olympics and was the reason why Team USA lost. With that kind of performance and still made it to the national team, I wonder how many coaches did she have to sleep with in order to get the spot. Her ass is so fat, I think her ass is at least 10 pounds extra compared to her teammates. That was why she brought down Team USA. Stupid bitch should go to Jenny Craig instead of whoring out her 2 cents! Drop dead and get a life bitch! "


Well - what do you think? I think we should get this dude to stop! How? He has now 14 accounts (johnyaowuncar1 - 14). Why does he hate Alicia so much? Grr!

2008 In Review

2008 In Review
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Downs

Anna Pavlova
The vault zero and being robbed of a Balance Beam Bronze. She injured herself (tore ligaments), and now is out for a while (at least 6 more months).

Russia - no team medal
I really wanted Russia to medal over Romania.

Alicia Sacramone
Robbed of a vault bronze, and fell twice in the team competition. Poor girl. She retired a couple months back. I wish her all the best.

Cheng Fei
Poor girl. I expected to come out of Beijing with three golds. She took home one (team gold).

The Brazilian Team
Oleg Ostapenko (Tatiana Lyssenko's old coach) didn't do nearly as well as expected with the girls. I hope it didn't demolish their spirit. I think we have a lot of great gymnastics to come from Brazil in Worlds at London.

The Ukrainians
They're so inconsistent. They finished 4th as a team in Athens, and they didn't even qualify as a team (9th) in Beijing! I heard the National Training Center is closing down and all the gymnasts are moving back to their home clubs.



Ups

Shawn Johnson and Liang Chow
A fabulous relationship. I am really impressed. Shawn's biggest mistake in the competition was a step out of bounds. She performed a total of 14 routines at the games.

Nastia Liukin's All-Around Success
One of the best all around titles ever won.

China's Team Gold
Clean, difficult gymnastics. Looking forward to seeing them at Worlds.

He Kexin and Yang Yilin
Their medals were well deserved. In the UB Finals, Kexin lifted up Yang to wave to the crowd. :)

Jiang Yuyuan
Energetic performances! Look at her floor!

Sandra Izbasa's Floor Gold
4/5 Stuck passes.

Hong Un Jong's Vault Gold
A record for the North Koreans. Do not confuse her with SU Jong (world silver medalist - vault). Hong SU Jong is Hong UN Jong's older sister. Anyways, I am delighted with both of them.