American Gymnast Update for 02/06/2012
My new current top ten U.S. Men's Olympic contenders (in order), based on the results of this weekend's Winter Cup: 1. John Orozco – Currently America’s best male gymnast. Orozco had an even more stunning performance on Day 2 than he had on Day 1, including 15’s on five out of the six events. His next ...
What happened to the Olympic “stock” of some of the top Olympic contenders on Day 1 at the Men’s Winter Cup in Las Vegas? Stock Went Up John Orozco: Any performance that simply re-demonstrates the gymnastics and composure that he showed at last year’s nationals and world championships will continue to solidify his value to Team USA. ...
I don’t have any videos yet, but just wanted to make sure everyone knew that the first session of the Men’s Winter Cup is taking place right now, and live scoring can be followed at http://live.usagym.org. Paul Hamm is competing, as is Jonathan Horton (it appears on just one event), as well as Chris Brooks, ...
The official roster for the upcoming Winter Cup, to be held February 2-4 in Las Vegas, has just been released. Many fans will be extremely excited to see that both 2004 Olympic champion Paul Hamm and 2008 national all-around champion David Sender are currently slated to compete. Below are a total of 13 gymnasts – including ...
"Good workout today! Getting ready to compete." That was the comment left by Paul Hamm on his facebook post from yesterday, which featured a training video showing routines on floor, pommel horse, vault, and parallel bars. Paul Hamm has managed to stay on the “down-low “since being arrested for alleged assault and refusal to pay a cab ...
I was definitely surprised to see this, even despite her obvious struggles last year – including injuries, failure to upgrade any of her routines (aside from her nice double layout on floor), and failure to medal at the worlds in Tokyo. Her gymnastics still had an elegance and level of beauty that made her one ...
UCLA vs. Cal 1/15/12 Final Team Scores: UCLA 196.675 Cal 192.500 Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs Floor 9.90 WOW! No double Arabian, but choreographically, this is another masterpiece. Absolutely love watching her. Samantha Peszek Floor 9.825 To Guns N’ Roses’ “Welcome to the Jungle.” She hardly even ran into that double layout! Elyse ...
With the Games in London set to begin in less than seven months, the Olympic selection season is essentially here for all participating countries in London - the final four of which will be determined at the Olympic Test Event in just a couple of days. Russia has already solidified Olympic team berths on both the ...
Ksenia Afanasyeva All Routines 2011 Mexican Open Afanasyeva has been one of the more popular gymnasts in the world over the last three years. One of the biggest reasons is simply how beautiful she is to watch – she has that classic, balletic Russian style that seems to show through in almost everything she does. Even ...
Kyla Ross Sarah Finnegan With the Olympic Test Event now serving as an additional Olympic qualifying competition for the first time ever, this year’s competition carries a whole new level of significance. In fact, one could easily consider this year’s Olympic Test Event to be like a “mini world championships.” There will be numerous teams vying for ...
