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2015 Pan Am Games

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:42:25 +0000

Toronto won the right to host the games on the first ballot at a PASO meeting in Guadalajara today.

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2010 Olympics

admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:19:26 +0000

The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games or the 21st Winter Olympics, will be held February 12-28, 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with some events held in the resort town of Whistler nearby.

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Special treatment for Leaf goalie

admin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:37:54 +0000

A recent letter to the editor of the Toronto Star raises a very controversial issue. What are your views should athletes receive preferential treatment?

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Special treatment for Leaf goalie
Sep 20, 2009 04:30 AM
I had to write to show my dismay and disappointment in our “great” medical system.
This has to do with the recent ablation procedure new Leaf’s goalie Jonas Gustavsson underwent on his heart. I appreciate he is key to the team, but my husband has been waiting for more than two years.
He was referred by his cardiologist for the procedure and finally heard from the hospital in January. He went in for consultation in the summer and was put on a waiting list for at least another year.
He has had an atrial fibrillation condition for more than 25 years. All of a sudden someone in the limelight has it for a few hours and leapfrogs over my husband and everyone else on the waiting list.
This type of preferential treatment is wrong. I am very upset that this occurred and want to understand why.

TheStar.com | Opinion | Special treatment for Leaf goalie

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Blog Live -Gymnastics Events

admin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:06:16 +0000

Gymnastics Live Blog Example

Click this link to see how it works: Broadcast Blog Live From Event

Anyone interest in working with us to post a live blog from an upcoming event please contact. Gymbrooke Sports News

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Did you know?…

admin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:04:07 +0000

10 interesting facts you probably didn’t know about gymnastics!

# 1 The number of the National Federations which are members of the international Governing body (FIG) has grown to 130 in the year 2008.

# 2 1960 saw a number of Gymnastics curiosities in Great Britain: like 200 boys applying for 90 places in the first National School Boys Course held at Swaylands College near Tonbridge, or the Royal Albert Hall’s 6,000 seating capacity being insufficient to meet the demand of the crowd during the British Championships held on 25th March 1961.

# 3 British Gymnastics is one of the oldest Governing bodies in the world. It has been formed on 21st June 1888, then under the name Amateur Gymnastics Association.

# 4 The triple somersault on floor was seen for the first time at Olympic Games in Seoul 1988; it was performed by Valery Liukin (USSR) whose daughter Anastasia (Nastia) Liukin became Olympic All-around Champion for women exactly 20 years later, in Beijing 2008, competing for the USA.

# 5 The first International Code of Points for men has been created in 1949 and consisted of 12 pages, while its last edition, from 2007, consists of 150 pages.

# 6 Svetlana Khorkina (RUS) is the only woman in the history of gymnastics who has won the World Individual All-around title three times – 1997, 2001, 2003.

# 7 Under the overall description of Gymnastics lie the individual disciplines and activities of: Men’s Artistic Gymnastics, Women’s Artistic Gymnastics, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Trampoline Gymnastics (all of the above being Olympic disciplines), and also Tumbling, Acrobatics, Aerobics, General Gymnastics and Gymnastics & Movement for People with Disabilities (GMPD).

# 8 The word gymnastics is derived from the Greek ‘gymnos’ (naked), as most athletes during the ancient Olympic games performed without clothes. The ‘gymnasium’ in Greek was a public school or place designated for physical exercises.

# 9 There are four male gymnasts who have won the Individual World All-around title twice: Yuri Korolev (USSR), 1981 & 1985; Dmitry Bilozertchev, (USSR), 1983 & 1987; Ivan Ivankov, Belarus, 1994 & 1997 and the Chinese Yang Wei, 2006 & 2007.

# 10 Artistic Gymnastics is one of the few sports that have been contested at every Olympic games of the modern era since 1896 when only 18 male gymnasts took part representing 5 nations.

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Gymnastics – Huge numbers register for Worlds

admin — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:38:13 +0000

41st Artistic Gymnastics World Championships
London (GBR), October 13 – 18, 2009

LAUSANNE (SUI), FIG Office, July 31, 2009:

The 2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships will truly be a worldwide event as the Definitive Registration list shows 75 delegations and a total of 457 gymnasts (283 MAG and 174 WAG) will be present at London’s O2 Arena for the biggest gymnastics show, on October, 13-18.

The overall number of all participants, coaches, judges, officials and guests to be accredited at this event comes, so far to 1,166 people.
Considering that the last World Championships of the competition format that will apply in 2009 (Competitions 1, 2 and 3, but no Team event), in Melbourne in 2005, saw 189 male and 95 female gymnasts representing 67 National Federations, it is apparent that the London World Championships will be one of the biggest ever.
According to initial estimations, 961 men’s routines and 551 women’s routines will be competed in the Qualification round of the Championships on October 13 – 14 for men and women respectively – a tough job for the judges!
The heavyweight countries are of course all represented, with China, the USA, Romania, Russia, Japan and Great Britain amongst the delegations sending a full complement of 6 MAG and 4 WAG gymnasts.

The other countries sending the maximum number of participants are Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia and Switzerland.

Gymnastics International Federation : Womens Artistic Gymnastics RSS

The names of the gymnasts who will compete in the World Championships will be known after the deadline for the Nominative registration, September 9, 2009.

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Mr. Vladimir Lashin = Bela Karolyi

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:00:41 +0000

It’s all about winning.

The appointment of Vladimir Lashin as Canada’s new WAG National Coach brought posts of Shock and Surprise on various discussion sites.

Appointment of Mr. Vladimir Lashin as the new WAG National Coach / High Performance Director

Gymnastics Canada is very pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Vladimir Lashin as the new Women’s Artistic Gymnastics (WAG) National Coach / High Performance Director. Mr. Lashin is a university graduate from the State central Institute of physical education in Moscow, Russia, an NCCP Level 4 certified coach as well as FIG Academy expert since 2008. He has many years of working experience with the WAG National Team athletes and coaches in Canada, Australia and Russia.

GYMCAN

Discussion Quotes

“By selecting Vladimir Lashin as the Head Coach, they are adhering to his coaching methods of mental abuse (among many other things) as being acceptable. He has been seen by many, many people to deliberately ignore a gymnast when she has had a terrible fall. His response to her is anger, yelling, and “get up!!”. Coaches from other clubs end up being the one to care for the gymnast. Is that the kind of coach that should be responsible for our gymnasts’ health and well-being? This is the “best” that Canada can do to provide a national team coach? It’s disgusting.”

“This news is really shocking! As a working member of BC gymnastics community I can say it’s common knowledge here and likely across the nation that Vladimir uses old school soviet coaching methods that wouldn’t be considered ethical in canada in 2009. I’ve heard about and repetitively witnessed the same things over and over again, coaching by threats and intimidation, cruel mental games, water deprivation and encouraging bulimic measures for controlling and losing weight, frequent weigh-ins and disowning gymnasts when injured or not performing very well. There have been numerous complaints about him but no action taken. These are mostly children on the national team. It’s indeed shocking that GCG is not only turning a blind eye to this treatment of children, but condoning it by allowing this coach to run the program.”

It worked in the USA so Canada wanted to follow the same road.

By NANCY ARMOUR
The Associated Press

(AP) — USA Gymnastics has never received a complaint about Bela or Martha Karolyi in the nearly 30 years they have been coaching in the United States, the governing body said Wednesday, a day after a Romanian gymnast alleged the two had abused her.

Trudi Eberle Kollar, a double silver medalist at the 1980 Olympics, said the Karolyis hit her when she was at the Romanian national training center in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Karolyis coached the Romanian team before they defected to the United States in 1981.

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Discussion Quote

I’m rather cynical about this. I suspect the Karolyis have just adapted their methods to meet local expectations. I’ve met several people who saw the Karolyi hit or slap athletes in 70s. In one case an entire audience saw, and heard, him slap a gymnast across the face during warmups a meet in Canada in 1976. The gymnast was one of the older girls on the team, who was not one of his own athletes. The meet was Milk Meet Canada, and the event was balance beam.

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TheStar.com – Strangers give hope to paralyzed gymnast

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:27:30 +0000

Strangers give hope to paralyzed gymnast

COLIN MCCONNELL/THE TORONTO STAR
Avenue Road Roofing volunteers Alberto Lara, left, Ilia Koka and Simon Gorle work on the roof of the fully accessible home being built to help gymnast Taylor Lindsay-Noel.
Volunteers pitch in to build new home for young athlete who lost her Olympic dream
Jason Miller
Staff Reporter
When Olympic hopeful Taylor Lindsay-Noel broke her neck a year ago while attempting a difficult dismount from the uneven bars during a practice session at Seneca College, her life, too, was shattered.
Since then, Taylor, now 15 and a resident of the Bloorview Kids Rehab hospital, has been struggling – without much success – to regain some movement in her paralyzed limbs.
But now the young athlete has been given a reason for renewed hope: Total strangers and several Toronto companies are helping to build her a new house in North York.
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TheStar.com | GTA | Strangers give hope to paralyzed gymnast

The family is still accepting donations to help complete the project. Contributions may be made at any CIBC branch, Account (07312) 77-59185, or arranged by email to teamtaylor2008@gmail.com.

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Youth Olympic Games 2010

admin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:25:28 +0000

Singapore will be hosting the first Youth Olympic Games from 14 to 26 August 2010. It will receive some 3,600 athletes and 800 officials from 205 National Olympic Committees, along with estimated 800 media representatives, 20,000 local and international volunteers, and more than 500,000 spectators. Young athletes – between 14 and 18 years of age – will compete in 26 sports and take part in Culture and Education Programme.

Singapore 2010

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Fundraising Benefit Gala & Runway Show

admin — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:52:39 +0000

In Aid of Taylor Lindsey-Noel, Paralyzed Gymnast and Spinal Cord Injury Research.

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