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British Gymnastics seek Artistic Gymnastics Manager for 2012
Aug 25th
British Gymnastics is delighted to be working closely with London 2012 on the delivery of Games, which is now just two years away. The full time position of Artistic Gymnastics Manager, which will be crucial to the success of the Men’s and Women’s competitions at North Greenwich Arena has just been advertised on the London 2012 web site.
More information on the British Gymnastics website and job spec here
Italian Gymnast Violetta Ballirano Injured
Aug 24th
Violetta Ballirano aged 15, a member of the Italian National gymnastics team (rhythmic) has reportedly been hospitalized and classed as in a serious condition since falling out of a sixth floor window whilst in Moscow on Saturday. It seems to be rather unclear how the incident happened, reports says that she entered the building and 3 minutes later she landed on the roof of Nissan Qashqai vehicle parked near the entrance to the building. Ballirano is said to be in a critical condition suffering from closed cranial trauma, brain concussion and numerous bone fractures.
Let’s hope she gets better soon!
Nastia Liukin – “London’s waiting for you”
Aug 24th
Youtube user Mariafelicio19 made this video for Nastia.
As I said before, I’m not normally one for montage videos but I think the music and footage go really well together. It was a well thought out video. Very nice.
Karolyi on Make It or Break It
Aug 20th
GK has reported that Bela Karolyi will make a guest appearance in the ABC show Make It or Break It. Bela will feature in the shows season finale on August 31st playing the part of Sasha Belov’s father…. interesting!
What’s your take on this?
Teams named for Worlds
Aug 19th
Some countries have already named their teams for the upcoming World Artistic Championships in October.
USA Men’s Team
Jonathan Horton, Danell Leyva, Brandon Wynn, Chris Brooks, Steven Legendre and Chris Cameron.
Canadian Women’s Team
Bianca Dancose-Giambattisto, Coralie Leblond-Chartrand, Charlotte Mackie, Dominique Pegg, Jessica Savona and Kristina Vaculik.
Australian Men’s Team
Sam Offord, Prashanth Sellathurai, Thomas Pichler, Josh Jefferis, Luke Wiwatowski, Luke Wadsworth and Philippe Rizzo
New Zealand Women’s Team
Holly Moon, Briana Mitchell and Jordan Rae
YOG Photos
Aug 19th
I’m really enjoying the photographs from the YOG Flickr photostream. Check them out for yourself
Image via YOG Flickr Photostream
