Wow. So where I just moved (back to) is very close to Jana Bieger’s gym. I went there today to inquire about adult classes and to maybe see her training at bit. I walk in, and along with two others behind the desk, THERE SHE WAS! It was so cool to [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 25, 2008
Thoughts About What Scoring Will Do in Beijing
So there has been a lot of talk lately about over/under scoring going on in the US, plus claims of this and that person won’t score blah, blah, blah internationally. But I wonder what will really happen. Because when I think about it, there have been instances where people actually got higher scores at the [...]
June 22, 2008
Olympic Trials Conclude With Lots of Surprises
For starters, congratulations to Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin for earning their spots to Beijing. Like we all didn’t see that one coming hehe. But there were numerous surprises to me and here they go…
1. Jana Bieger. First off, Tim Daggett was talking about how the Olympic Team needs at [...]
June 21, 2008
Olympic Trials: The Happenings of Night One
Things happened last night, both good and bad. For all those with a shot at the Olympic Team here is what happened:
Shawn Johnson simply told us that even a flood will not keep her from doing her best. I think the most importnat routine of the night was floor. A huge [...]
June 21, 2008
Olympics Trials: Videos
Too late to write but click here for videos of trials. This is the first person to get videos up on youtube.
June 20, 2008
Olympic Trials: Pondering, Predicting, Hoping
So I was really pleased with NBC’s live trials coverage for Men’s Artistic Gymnastics and am wondering if they are airing Women’s live tomorrow night. More fun than awating the live scores on USAG. But here is what I am thinking about coming into Trials…
How Performance is Effecting Each Spot for the Olympic Team:
With spots [...]
June 19, 2008
Olympic Trials: More Podium Training Reports
There is more detailed information available from an Anonymous Source on what is going on with our favorite gymnasts. I have a feeling this report is from last night’s training. Here is what is going on….
Shawn Johnson is reported to be very,very solid. She supposedly stuck three Amanars, and is the only [...]
June 18, 2008
Olympic Trials: Podium Training Reports
Okay, so here is what I am going to do as news trickles in; I will continously update this post with anything new during the day. Tomorrow will be a new post (if there are more podium training notes circulating) and I will do the same thing for tomorrow’s post as more news becomes [...]
June 15, 2008
Results from the French Nationals Event Finals
First off, how excited is everyone that there will be FOUR HOURS of Olympic Trials coverage this week? Actually there is more if you include Men’s Artistic. Before we get to the subject of the post here is a schedule of Olympic Trials on NBC (Eastern Time. And I always check tvguide.com).
Saturday, [...]
June 14, 2008
Results From Some Meet in France = More Analysis on China’s Olympic Team
So thank you to David who always makes EXCELLENT points on this page, I have pulled up the results from Qualifications from the French Nationals (??? Don’t get the title of the meet because some of the Chinese are competing) Here are the results
1. Yang Yilin- 62.700
VT- 15.125
UB- 16.650-7.7
BB- 15.750-6.6
FX- 15.175-6.2
Notes: Yang is establishing [...]
