Many stories have been posted the past few days about the resignation of Illinois Assistant Men's Gymnastics Coach Jon Valdez. Most have flirted with potential implications, but so far the story is short on hard facts, other than Valdez' September arrest for drunk driving in Waukesha, WI. A mysterious investigation of a [...more]
According to USA Gymnastics, Glen Ishino and Danell Leyva have been tapped to compete in the Pan American Gymnastics Union Individual Event Championships November 19-23 at Rosario, Argentina. In essence, Ishino and Leyva are being groomed for the 2012 London Olympics, which confirms what we’ve been thinking for awhile. Ishino won the 2008 J.O. Nationals [...] [...more]
U.S. Men's Olympic Gymnastics Team alternate, David Durante, is going back to The Farm . Durante is returning to his alma mater, Stanford, to help coach the 2009 pre-season favorite to win the [...more]
StickItMedia had the pleasure of attending the Gymnastics Superstars performance held on 9/20 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, CA. It was a great show, featuring the entire U.S. Men's Olympic Gymnastics Team, Nastia Liukin, Shawn Johnson and Chellsie Memmel, and others. What would a gymnastics extravaganza be without Paul and Morgan Hamm and Blaine Wilson? [...more]
While on the Tour of Gymnastics Superstars, Paul and Morgan Hamm sat down with Elliot Almond of the Silicon Valley Mercury News. They talked about how hard it was to be able to influence the USA Men's Team during the Olympics only by yelling at the TV, like the rest of us, and we know how that always works out. They were very impressed with our boys, though, and hoped that their remarkable comeback attempts helped raise the bar for the others. Morgan talks about his upcoming wedding and entry into chiropracter school. He admits that he is done with the sport of gymnastics after this tour. However, Paul cannot quite [...more]
NBC’s Universal Sports Network is rebroadcasting the Men’s Olympic Gymnastics competition this week. Coverage is as follows: Men’s Team Finals - September 16 @ 8:00pm EDT Men’s All-Around Finals - September 17 @ 8:00pm EDT Men’s Individual Event Finals - September 18 @ 8:00pm EDT Click here for the listings for where to watch the action. [...more]
Oprah’s filming her season-opening show on Monday, September 8, in Chicago’s Millenium park, and her guests will be many of the USA Olympic athletes. All of the men’s gymnastics team are due to be there. The filming itself will take place on Wednesday, September 3rd, at around 10:00 am, but if any Chicago gymfans want to [...] [...more]
The Olympians are busting some moves (and hopefully nothing else!) for the huge upcoming Gymnastics Superstars tour. They appear to be working on some hip hop and learning a lot of fun moves from Michael Rice, the owner of Gymcats in Las Vegas, where they are training. Paul and Morgan Hamm, looking more relaxed than [...] [...more]
From The Washington Post Friday, August 22, 2008; 1:00 PM Washington, D.C.: If you wanted to get more American kids to do gymnastics, and to compete in these events, how would you go about encouraging them to do so? And if we did encourage more competition, should we recruit more Latinos, African Americans, Native Americans and [...] [...more]
"Can you believe that just happened?" That's what Jonathan Horton screamed to his coach after he did everything he had to do last night on the high bar to claim another medal. He tweaked his routine to add difficulty and delivered a powerful performance. All that likely prevented Horton from striking gold was the lack [...more]
