Some vids can be found here and HERE!
And here are fabulous pics!
Night 1:
(Yes, that is Emily Little giving a gorgeous big smile)
Night 2:
Sunday, November 29, 2009
National Clubs/ AUS v JPN Wrap-Up
Thanks to ChaChaKid and Supergymmo.
Some vids can be found here and HERE!
And here are fabulous pics!
Night 1:
(Yes, that is Emily Little giving a gorgeous big smile)
Night 2:
Some vids can be found here and HERE!
And here are fabulous pics!
Night 1:
(Yes, that is Emily Little giving a gorgeous big smile)Night 2:
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Australia vs Japan 2
All-around and apparatus finals kick off today.
Good luck to all competitors!
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ChaChaKid says:
Japan are wearing the same leotards from last night. Australia are in their pink flame leotards from London!
GA confirms Lauren will NOT do AA tonight, just beam and floor.
AAAARGH I hear a thunderstorm a-rumbling! I do NOT want my web connection to get knocked out!
Anyway
Australia kicks off on vault, Japan on bars.
Vault:
Coley Y-full, Bonora Y-full, Wheeler "explosive" handspring front pike, Little "awesome!" Y 1.5!
Japan appear to be showing some minor niggles on bars.
GA Twitter says Tsurumi is now out of AA contention so she won't be doing all 4 events tonight (I guess there was hope she might try for it today after only doing 2 yesterday?)
Aussies are prepping the bars...c'mooooon Larrissa!
GA says their warm-ups look good.
The rain is hammering down now, hopefully our power can hang in there!
Emily Little sits in third place AA after one rotation (14.365), Shintake and Minobe of Japan in first and second respectively.
Bars:
Fiona hits floor after overshoot but finishes off nicely otherwise.
Georgia B sits down her dismount, oh no!
The other Georgia does a nice routine with an extra swing after her "massive tkatchev" - does this girl have power in her or what!?
Emily struggles with a toe shoot up to high bar... falls! Oh no (again)!
Tsurumi on beam as Miller steps up to bars.
Larrissa shows a great routine, rocks the Adler again... but hands down on dismount!
Beam:
Japan in 1-2-3 all around going into 3rd rotation.
Fiona falls on beam, on a back tuck dismount that is reportedly not her best.
"Great" routine from Georgia B!
Ditto Georgia W! I detect good things coming her way in 2010!
Emily's bad luck continues with a fall on her tuck front somi.
Everybody buzzes as Lauren steps up for beam.
LOZ HITS! "Nails the layout", woohoo!
"Awwww" for Japan: "Poor Ozawa has a cold and hasn't put the tissue box down all night! Yet she nailed an amazing double layout on floor but stepped out of bounds on her 2nd pass. And straight to the tissues after the routine!" According to GA she changed the second pass from what she did yesterday, making it a full-in.
Floor:
Team Aus "look confident" heading to their last event
Mitchell's score for beam was 15.325!
Georgia B shows a good routine, great comeback for her since London.
Georgia Wheeler, on the other hand, suffers a fall on her double-arabian!
Emily Little makes up for previous errors and hits a great floor exercise, all tumbles stood up and kept inbounds, to end her competition for the day.
Here goes Lauren!
AND SHE NAILS IT AGAIN, GA TWEETS THAT THE CROWD DOES INDEED GO WILD!
"Peggy quite pleased."
Presentations:
AvJ Vault: 3rd Oshima/Tsurumi (t), 2nd Little, 1st Ozawa
AvJ Bars: 3rd Oshima/Miller (t) 2nd Minobe, 1st Shintake
AvJ Beam: 3rd Minobe, 2nd Tsurumi, 1ST MITCHELL!
AvJ Floor: 3rd Minobe, 2nd Oshima, 1ST MITCHELL!
Japan goes 1-2-3 in the all-around! Oshima, Minobe, Shintake respectively.
Read a round-up here.
Congratulations also to Emily Little won the National Club junior AA title! She was followed by Emma Collister and Georgia Wheeler.
Good luck to all competitors!
************************************
ChaChaKid says:
Japan are wearing the same leotards from last night. Australia are in their pink flame leotards from London!
GA confirms Lauren will NOT do AA tonight, just beam and floor.
AAAARGH I hear a thunderstorm a-rumbling! I do NOT want my web connection to get knocked out!
Anyway
Australia kicks off on vault, Japan on bars.
Vault:
Coley Y-full, Bonora Y-full, Wheeler "explosive" handspring front pike, Little "awesome!" Y 1.5!
Japan appear to be showing some minor niggles on bars.
GA Twitter says Tsurumi is now out of AA contention so she won't be doing all 4 events tonight (I guess there was hope she might try for it today after only doing 2 yesterday?)
Aussies are prepping the bars...c'mooooon Larrissa!
GA says their warm-ups look good.
The rain is hammering down now, hopefully our power can hang in there!
Emily Little sits in third place AA after one rotation (14.365), Shintake and Minobe of Japan in first and second respectively.
Bars:
Fiona hits floor after overshoot but finishes off nicely otherwise.
Georgia B sits down her dismount, oh no!
The other Georgia does a nice routine with an extra swing after her "massive tkatchev" - does this girl have power in her or what!?
Emily struggles with a toe shoot up to high bar... falls! Oh no (again)!
Tsurumi on beam as Miller steps up to bars.
Larrissa shows a great routine, rocks the Adler again... but hands down on dismount!
Beam:
Japan in 1-2-3 all around going into 3rd rotation.
Fiona falls on beam, on a back tuck dismount that is reportedly not her best.
"Great" routine from Georgia B!
Ditto Georgia W! I detect good things coming her way in 2010!
Emily's bad luck continues with a fall on her tuck front somi.
Everybody buzzes as Lauren steps up for beam.
LOZ HITS! "Nails the layout", woohoo!
"Awwww" for Japan: "Poor Ozawa has a cold and hasn't put the tissue box down all night! Yet she nailed an amazing double layout on floor but stepped out of bounds on her 2nd pass. And straight to the tissues after the routine!" According to GA she changed the second pass from what she did yesterday, making it a full-in.
Floor:
Team Aus "look confident" heading to their last event
Mitchell's score for beam was 15.325!
Georgia B shows a good routine, great comeback for her since London.
Georgia Wheeler, on the other hand, suffers a fall on her double-arabian!
Emily Little makes up for previous errors and hits a great floor exercise, all tumbles stood up and kept inbounds, to end her competition for the day.
Here goes Lauren!
AND SHE NAILS IT AGAIN, GA TWEETS THAT THE CROWD DOES INDEED GO WILD!
"Peggy quite pleased."
Presentations:
AvJ Vault: 3rd Oshima/Tsurumi (t), 2nd Little, 1st Ozawa
AvJ Bars: 3rd Oshima/Miller (t) 2nd Minobe, 1st Shintake
AvJ Beam: 3rd Minobe, 2nd Tsurumi, 1ST MITCHELL!
AvJ Floor: 3rd Minobe, 2nd Oshima, 1ST MITCHELL!
Japan goes 1-2-3 in the all-around! Oshima, Minobe, Shintake respectively.
Read a round-up here.
Congratulations also to Emily Little won the National Club junior AA title! She was followed by Emma Collister and Georgia Wheeler.
Australia vs Japan
Cocktails.
Brilliant.
So... interesting stuff coming out of C-town, hey! I'm sorry I missed it!
Hopefully those who had errors yesterday can fix them up in today's AA/EF round of competition. Larrissa Miller is proving herself to be quite the reliable performer when it counts (she debuted the Adler, wheeee!), and I can't wait to see the new floor from Georgia Wheeler! Apparently Emily Little had good floor and beam routines so it's good to see she's getting there with her consistency (vault fall notwithstanding). I hope to cover the event as best as I can today without actually being there. I know that videos are on their way so... that's probably the only thing I can provide that the GA Twitter can't!
Results can be found here.
MLC's website put in a more detailed report of Georgia W's routines, you can read it here.
General stuff, with thanks to ChaChaKid:
* Apparently not all scores were flashed for all routines
* Both teams competed in their Olympic leotards (Australia prelims green-and-gold, Japan prelims red)
* Monica Sloane was there competing IDP10
* Lauren hit a great floor in the last rotation - kept it in bounds the whole time! - and waved to the crowd afterward. Awwwwww.
Brilliant.
So... interesting stuff coming out of C-town, hey! I'm sorry I missed it!
Hopefully those who had errors yesterday can fix them up in today's AA/EF round of competition. Larrissa Miller is proving herself to be quite the reliable performer when it counts (she debuted the Adler, wheeee!), and I can't wait to see the new floor from Georgia Wheeler! Apparently Emily Little had good floor and beam routines so it's good to see she's getting there with her consistency (vault fall notwithstanding). I hope to cover the event as best as I can today without actually being there. I know that videos are on their way so... that's probably the only thing I can provide that the GA Twitter can't!
Results can be found here.
MLC's website put in a more detailed report of Georgia W's routines, you can read it here.
General stuff, with thanks to ChaChaKid:
* Apparently not all scores were flashed for all routines
* Both teams competed in their Olympic leotards (Australia prelims green-and-gold, Japan prelims red)
* Monica Sloane was there competing IDP10
* Lauren hit a great floor in the last rotation - kept it in bounds the whole time! - and waved to the crowd afterward. Awwwwww.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Smile Time
Have a nice day everyone, whatever the weather.
I'm starting my day with the B-52's and ending it with some gymnastics news! With apologies to Dr Seuss, I really can't complain about that!
:)
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Storm Clouds
Sorry everyone, my power got knocked out for nearly 3 hours hours in a huuuge storm that hit my area of Melbourne. I left the house this morning in glorious sunshine, and couldn't have seen such torrential rain coming! It was crazy!
But yes, here I am. The news had already broken but here it is again anyway:
BrittyBritt is out of the Aus v Japan, due to a back injury. She will be replaced on the team by reserve Georgia Wheeler.
Best wishes to Britt for a speedy recovery, and good luck to Georgia in her first national duel meet.
On a more sunshiney note, you can watch the Sports Performer Awards ceremony on Channel 10, this Sunday 29/11 from 1-2pm, or on One HD from 8-8:55pm.
National Clubs scores and standings will be updated here.
Are you attending National Clubs/AUS v JPN this weekend? I'd love to hear from you! Send reports, photos or other tidbits to ozgymblog@gmail.com
But yes, here I am. The news had already broken but here it is again anyway:
BrittyBritt is out of the Aus v Japan, due to a back injury. She will be replaced on the team by reserve Georgia Wheeler.
Best wishes to Britt for a speedy recovery, and good luck to Georgia in her first national duel meet.
On a more sunshiney note, you can watch the Sports Performer Awards ceremony on Channel 10, this Sunday 29/11 from 1-2pm, or on One HD from 8-8:55pm.
National Clubs scores and standings will be updated here.
Are you attending National Clubs/AUS v JPN this weekend? I'd love to hear from you! Send reports, photos or other tidbits to ozgymblog@gmail.com
YESSSSSS!!!!
Congratulations to Lauren Mitchell for being named the 2009 Age/SMH/Colonial Young Sports Performer of the Year!
See the other winners here.
We're so pleased for you, Lauren, and so very proud!
Thanks (am I allowed to say thanks for this?) to everyone who voted, give yourselves a big pat on the back.
"Hm... my brand new watch says it's TIME TO KICK YOUR BUTT!"
(thanks Nade for the photo link)
See the other winners here.
We're so pleased for you, Lauren, and so very proud!
Thanks (am I allowed to say thanks for this?) to everyone who voted, give yourselves a big pat on the back.
"Hm... my brand new watch says it's TIME TO KICK YOUR BUTT!"(thanks Nade for the photo link)
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Quick Twits
Gymnastics Australia have launched their own Twitter page to do live score updates from the SUPER HYPER MEGA ULTRA AWESOME ULTIMATE ASIA-PACIFIC SHOWDOWN OF GYMNASTICS.
Follow GA at Twitter here.
I will do my best to post updates and reports from National Clubs/Aus v Japan as they come to my attention. I am very excited for this event and will cover it as much as I can.
That said, I may be AWOL for much of this Friday because...
well...
I don't like blowing my own horn too much...
but...
Friday's my birthday.
:)
Follow GA at Twitter here.
I will do my best to post updates and reports from National Clubs/Aus v Japan as they come to my attention. I am very excited for this event and will cover it as much as I can.
That said, I may be AWOL for much of this Friday because...
well...
I don't like blowing my own horn too much...
but...
Friday's my birthday.
:)
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
O.U. Good Thing
What are our Aussie expats up to, eh?
Olivia Vivian and Melanie Jones have competed at the Oregon State Intrasquad exhibition meet.
Olivia performed on bars, beam(!) and floor(!) which all were quite impressive if reports are anything to go by. Freshman Mel competed vault (Tsuk-layout), bars and beam (incl. a layout to two feet). She apparently doesn't have a "completed" floor routine yet. Olivia showed a nice side somi on beam.
Good luck to the girls in the new year! Go Beavs!
(With thanks to Stoddard Reynolds and the Oregon State Athletics Department)
One day later: VIDEOS!
(featuring Mel on beam)
(featuring Olivia on bars)
Ya gotta love the team atmosphere of college gymnastics. Loud cheers, excited high-fives, all support all the time.
Not only do I cheer on our Aussies, I personally love watching Laura-Ann Chong and Mandi Rodriguez perform as well. Last year, Rodriguez went into NCAA finals ranked 2nd in the nation on floor.
Olivia Vivian and Melanie Jones have competed at the Oregon State Intrasquad exhibition meet.
Olivia performed on bars, beam(!) and floor(!) which all were quite impressive if reports are anything to go by. Freshman Mel competed vault (Tsuk-layout), bars and beam (incl. a layout to two feet). She apparently doesn't have a "completed" floor routine yet. Olivia showed a nice side somi on beam.
Good luck to the girls in the new year! Go Beavs!
(With thanks to Stoddard Reynolds and the Oregon State Athletics Department)
One day later: VIDEOS!
(featuring Mel on beam)
(featuring Olivia on bars)
Ya gotta love the team atmosphere of college gymnastics. Loud cheers, excited high-fives, all support all the time.
Not only do I cheer on our Aussies, I personally love watching Laura-Ann Chong and Mandi Rodriguez perform as well. Last year, Rodriguez went into NCAA finals ranked 2nd in the nation on floor.
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