By Andy Thornton on
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 9:17 AM
The men's European Championships have completed, and some incredible gymnastics took place. Check out these videos of the top floor workers in Europe right now!
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By Andy Thornton on
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 6:12 PM
The incredible Russian junior duo of Viktoria Komova and Anastasia Grishina are competing together at the European Championships this week. Check out these videos that just surfaced of their bars and beam routines from podium training!
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By Andy Thornton on
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 12:33 PM
The 2008 U.S. Men's Olympic Team will go down as one of the most memorable ever...almost on a par with the team that won gold in 1984. After losing BOTH of the Hamms, putting out the weakest pommel horse team of the entire Olympic Games, and using several gymnasts who were unpredictable at best, the USA came away with a bronze medal that stunned the world. Not to take ANYTHING away from that phenomenal team, but let's use my proposed selection points system to see how it would work using real competition results. One fascinating question...Would national champion David Sender's Olympic fate have been different?
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By Andy Thornton on
Monday, April 26, 2010 4:08 PM
The selection of world and Olympic teams (and even the national teams) have gradually become more and more subjective over the last ten years to coincide with the evolving nature of international competition formats and rules, which highly favor event specialists and require a very strategic team dynamic. Could this proposed points system be a way for our selection procedures to return to the completely objective, score-based process we all miss? Check it out!
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By Andy Thornton on
Sunday, April 25, 2010 1:24 AM
The next round of 5 floor routines in the top 50 countdown!
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By Andy Thornton on
Thursday, April 22, 2010 8:50 AM
The top 50 countdown of the best floor routines of the last decade continues!
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By American Gymnast on
4/21/2010 9:26 AM
 I was confident that nothing short of a volcano would stop the Reisport grips shipment that was scheduled to leave today. Alas, a volcano would stop this shipment! The volcano in Iceland has grounded planes in Europe. Reisport is hoping these gymnastics grips will be in the air by the middle of next week.
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By Andy Thornton on
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 12:46 PM
International Gymnast is one of the most respectable and well-rounded gymnastics websites on the internet. I've always turned to them for up-to-date news, competition coverage, insightful articles, and more. That's why I was quite surprised to see a video of one of the most horrifying moments in recent gymnastics history streaming on their home page.
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By Andy Thornton on
Sunday, April 18, 2010 1:32 PM
Check out the next set of five floor routines on my list of the Top Women's Floor Routines of the Last Decade! Do you agree with my choices?
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By Andy Thornton on
Friday, April 16, 2010 5:54 PM
After considering the puzzling decline in the quality of both dance and tumbling in women's elite gymnastics today, I decided to put together a list of the 50 best floor routines from the last ten years, complete with videos and a summary of each gymnast. I'll start off the countdown at #50, and reveal 5 routines every couple of days! Can you predict which routine will be my #1?
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