GYMNASTICS
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Decision about age of Chinese gymnasts Yang and
Dong expected soon
February 26, 2010
(Examiner): Were Chinese gymnasts
Yang Yun and Dong Fanxiao too young to compete at the 2000
Olympics? And if they were, what should be done about it? The
International Gymnastics Federation's (FIG) executive committee is
expected to issue a ruling today on whether Yang and Dong were old
enough to compete at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.
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Silver lining for Wan Nin despite missing the
cut
February 26, 2010
(The Star): Young rhythmic gymnast
Lee Wan Nin can still walk tall although she failed to make the
cut as one of the three Asian representatives for the Olympic
Youth Games in Singapore. The petite 15-year-old can be proud
after achieving a breakthrough in the recent Moscow Grand Prix
when she nailed two silver medals in the ball and clubs apparatus
respectively.
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Gymnast prepares for world stage in Las Vegas
February 25, 2010 (Your
Ottawa Region):
To say that
Kasey Whalen is excited about attending the FIG Aerobic Gymnastics
World Series in Las Vegas this July is a bit of an understatement.
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Namibia gears up for African Gymnastics
Championships
February 25, 2010 (Namibia Sport):
Namibia will host the 10th Junior and Senior
African Gymnastics Championships and the African Continental Games
qualifiers for the 2010 Youth Olympics in Walvis Bay from 28
February 28 to 13 March. The countries that have already confirmed
their participation are South Africa, Angola, Zimbabwe, Botswana,
Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, Algeria, Tunisia, Senegal, Egypt,
Libya, Ethiopia, Morocco and Cape Verde, as well as the hosts,
Namibia. >>
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Charlie Tamayo: 'I had to trade my family for
the chance at a better future'
February 23, 2010
(Examiner): Charlie Tamayo can do a
standing double back. He can do a double twisting double back and
a laid-out Arabian double front. He can do a quintuple front --
five full somersaults -- into a foam pit from a trampoline. What
he can't do is compete for the Team USA, despite having lived in
the United States for the past seven years. But even as a
competitor without a country, Tamayo, 29, has not given up on his
Olympic dream. >
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Chris Brooks added to American Cup lineup
February 23, 2010
(Examiner): Winter Cup champion
Chris Brooks has been added to the 2010 American Cup lineup,
replacing Tim McNeill,
USA Gymnastics announced Tuesday. McNeill, who finished
second all-around at the 2009 U.S. Championships and seventh
all-around at the World Championships, underwent a procedure to
burn the nerves in three of his vertebrae on Feb. 1, he told
Examiner.com in an
interview last week. >>
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Lopez, Brooks Added to American Cup Field
February 22, 2010
(International Gymnast): Venezuelan
Olympian Jessica Lopez and American Chris Brooks have been added
to the lineup for the upcoming Tyson American Cup. Brooks, who won
the recent U.S. Winter Cup, joins former Oklahoma teammate
Jonathan Horton in representing the American men at the event,
which will be held March 6 in Worcester, Mass. >>
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Tuks to host international meet
February 22, 2010 (IOL):
The Jannie Jansen International
trampoline, double-mini and tumbling competition will be held at
the Rembrandt Hall, University of Pretoria, on March 3-4. With
athletes such as Bianca Budler, Karen Wilson and Lucky Radebe, the
competition promises to be cut-throat as they will compete against
world ranked participants from Brazil and France. >>
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Johnson injures knee while skiing
February 22, 2010
(Associated Press): Olympic
gold medalist Shawn Johnson will be in a leg brace for six weeks
and her training will be limited for six months after surgery on
her left knee following a ski accident in Colorado. Johnson's
agent, Sheryl Shade, said Monday that Johnson tore her left ACL
last month during a family vacation. Johnson has begun physical
therapy. >>
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Canadians Kristina Vaculik, Riley Cholod
victorious at Nadia Comaneci International
February 21, 2010
(Examiner): Canada's Kristina
Vaculik was the top gymnast at the second annual Nadia Comaneci
International, held Saturday night in Oklahoma City, Okla. The
Nadia Comaneci International honors the 1976 Olympic champion, who
resides in Oklahoma with husband Bart Conner and son Dylan.
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The Q&A with three-time Olympic gymnastics gold
medalist Nadia Comaneci
February 20, 2010 (News OK):
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Motivation of London 2012 stopped Tweddle
quitting
February 19, 2010
(Inside the Games): The
reigning world gymnastics champion in the floor exercise Beth
Tweddle has admitted that she would probably have retired from the
sport if London were not hosting the Olympic Games in 2012.
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Miss Valentine 2010
Le 18 février 2010 (Sport Vox): Miss
Valentine. Un tournois international de Gymnastique Rythmique sans
enjeux majeurs, se trouvant dans la ville de Tartu en Estonie. Et
pourtant, c’est là-bas que se sont réunies ce weekend les
meilleures gymnastes internationales. >
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In her own words: Samantha Peszek
February 18, 2010
(Inside Gymnastics):
Inside Gymnastics is proud
to feature Samantha Peszek as our January/February cover story and
we’re sharing a bonus online feature with more of her words about
coaches, champions and her idols. Read on to find out what college
has in store and her thoughts on little sister, Jessica, following
in her steps! >>
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SPORTS WORLD
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Results of the IOC Athletes’ Commission
Election
February 24, 2010
(IOC): Adam Pengilly from Great
Britain (bobsleigh) and Angela Marie Ruggiero from the USA (ice
hockey) have been elected to the Athletes’ Commission of the
International Olympic Committee (IOC) by their peers at the
Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games for a term of eight years. During
this period, they will also serve as IOC members, bringing the
athletes' voice right to the heart of the Olympic Movement. >>
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PM forms National Sports Development Committee:
Decline in sports contributed towards rise in terrorism: Gilani
February 24, 2010
(Daily Times): Pakistan Prime
Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Tuesday said the decline of sports
in the country had contributed towards the rise in terrorism in
the country. “If the youth of the country are provided with
motivation, facilities and opportunity to harness their energy
into positive activities like sports, the extremists would have a
hard time in finding youth that can be misled,” he added. >>
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The primary mission of
this new online platform – developed by the UN Office on Sport for
Development and Peace (UNOSDP), is to provide a source of
information, news and useful material about why and how the UN
Family and UN Member States use sport and physical education to
create positive social change worldwide. >>
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February 2010
(Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute):
Summary of a recent article which looked at parental beliefs about
specific types and intensities of physical activity and their
relationship to children's physical activity and sedentary
behaviour. >>
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Sport Education is the Key to Managing
Catastrophic Sports Injuries
United States Sports
Academy: Physical activity and sport
by their very nature include inherent risks leading to injuries
for many individuals who participate. Most sports injuries
encountered by young athletes are minor in nature, but when an
injury is extensive enough to be categorized as catastrophic it
can be devastating to those involved. Fortunately, catastrophic
injuries are rare, but it remains important to be aware of the
remote possibility of their occurrence and the need for shared the
responsibility for the management of such injuries.
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Why Figure Skating Is So Much Better Than
Gymnastics
February 24, 2010
(New York Sports): Scott Hamilton
was choked up at the end of Joannie Rochette's skate in the short
program last night, and so were we. The Canadian skater, whose
mother died just two days before her Olympic debut, made a clean
go at the short program and ended the evening in third place.
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Phelps Confirmed As First Youth Olympics
Ambassador
February 23, 2010
(The Sport Briefing): Michael
Phelps has become the first official ambassador for the Youth
Olympic Games (YOG) ahead of the inaugural event in Singapore
later this year. “The Youth Olympic Games is an excellent
initiative, not only for the athletes competing, but also those
who are inspired to get into sport and be more active,” said
Phelps.
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Digital revolution making Olympics more popular
than ever
February 23, 2010
(Inside the Games): Half the
world's population is expected to tune into the Winter Olympics
with coverage worldwide due to exceed 50,000 hours amid the
explosion of digital media, it was claimed here today. These Games
have already set new records, with Canada's shock Olympic ice
hockey loss to the United States on Sunday the most viewed sports
programme in Canadian television history. >>
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JO-2010 - Près de 1600 contrôles et aucun
cas positif aux Jeux
VANCOUVER
Le 22 février 2010 (AFP): Près de
1.600 contrôles antidopage ont déjà été effectués aux jeux
Olympiques de Vancouver, et aucun cas positif n'a été décelé, a
indiqué lundi le CIO dans son point de presse quotidien.
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We are moving towards cleaner Games- IOC
February 22, 2010
(Reuters): An absence of positive
doping tests during the Vancouver Olympics is proof the Games are
gradually getting rid of cheats who have fewer places to hide, the
International Olympic Committee’s medical chief said on Monday.
The Vancouver Olympics have had no positive doping tests since the
Games opened on Feb. 12, with more than two thirds of the 2,100
tests already conducted. >>
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U.S. not seeking 2020 Summer Olympics
February 21, 2010
(The Washington Post):
Recently rebuffed in its attempt to hold the 2016 Summer Games in
Chicago, the U.S. Olympic Committee does not plan to enter a U.S.
city in the race for the 2020 Summer Games and remains uncertain
about when it will next attempt to bring a Games to U.S. soil,
USOC Chief Executive Scott Blackmun said Saturday morning.
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International Olympic Committee appoints PA for
2012
February 21, 2010 (Sports Pro Media):
The International Olympic Committee has appointed the Press
Association as host national news agency for the London 2012
Olympic Games. The Press Association will provide comprehensive
coverage of the Games for the national, regional and local media
in the United Kingdom.
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London 2012 program International Inspiration
set to leave long-term global legacy
February 19, 2010
(Around the Rings): The team
behind London 2012’s sports participation programme ‘International
Inspiration’, Sebastian Coe (London 2012 Chairman), Tessa Jowell
(Olympics Minister) and Keith Mills (London 2012 Vice-Chair &
Chair of International Inspiration Foundation), have moved to
guarantee a long term global legacy for the first global sports
participation programme ever delivered by an Organising Committee.
International Inspiration was developed as a result of the
commitment made by the London 2012 bid to ‘reach young people all
around the world and connect them to the inspirational power of
the Games so they are inspired to chose sport’. >
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