U.S. men's gymnastics action is about to heat up again. The 2009 Men's National Qualifier will take place on Saturday, July 11 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO. The athletes will arrive this week with training sessions taking place on July 9-10. Saturday's competition will be divided into two sessions.
The National Qualifier is mostly designed to determine qualifiers to next month's VISAs in both the Junior and Senior divisions. Any gymnast who is 16 or older [...more]
Cal sophomore Kyle Bunthuwong was added to the previously announced U.S. squad that will compete in next month's Japan Cup. Bunthuwong, a current member of the U.S. Senior National Team, will be joining his former Cal teammate, [...more]
The 2009 Japan Cup will take place July 18-20 in Chiba City. The event will feature individual and international team competition with teams from the U.S., Australia, China, Japan, Germany, Russia and Korea. It will be the first team competition under the new 5-3-3 system. According to the event's website, [...more]
Sho Nakamori is a hard-working, cerebral member of the men's gymnastics community. Not only is he an eight time All-American and member of the U.S. Senior National Team, he is also a CGA National Academic All-American. Nakamori just completed his undergraduate career by earning degrees in International Relations and Japanese Studies. His recent tweet on Twitter said it all - "snakamori done with school. now, focus=gymnastics."
Now that his studying days are over, for the time being at least, Nakamori is focused like a laser beam to earn [...more]
Stanford All-American gymnast, Sho Nakamori, has launched a new blog that will chronicle his quest to make the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team. The blog, while new, is jam-packed with interesting information about Nakamori's life, interests, and hopes.
His about page is a very interesting bio including his fond memories of [...more]
U.S. Olympian Joey Hagerty finished third out of a field of eight at the Champions Trophy event today in Frankfurt, Germany. The competition was the first of four All-Around meets being held this year in German cities. According to Hagerty, it is doubtful that he will compete [...more]
Raj Bhavsar was the only American to advance to the finals at this weekend's Moscow Stars World Cup. In the preliminaries, he debuted his new skill on parallel bars, the "Bhavsar." Similar to a Tkachev, Raj goes practically the entire length of the bars before he regrasps.
In the finals, [...more]
Four members of the U.S. Men's Senior National Team will be competing at the Moscow Stars World Cup May 29-30. Oklahoma Assistant Coach, Rustam Sharipov will accompany the team. These gymnasts will be competing on individual apparatus for World Cup points and prize money. [...more]
We don't know who this person is, but he (she) brings up some good points. The blog Brusqueness commented on American male figure skater Evan Lysacek's recent accomplishment in winning the World Championship, the first for the U.S. in 13 years. The blogger continued, "Don't expect him to appear on a box of Wheaties anytime soon." Good point. He (she) goes on to say that "men's figure skating (like men's gymnastics) lacks a broad appeal to the general public."
The blogger goes on to point out the many examples of [...more]
Four members of the U.S. Men's National Team have been selected to compete in the World Stars/World Cup meet in Moscow May 29-30. During that same weekend, Joey Hagerty will be competing in a new event, the Champions Trophy, in Frankfurt, Germany. Raj Bhavsar, among the four chosen to compete in the Moscow event, will be competing for the first time since the '08 Beijing Olympics.
Here are the five chosen to compete internationally: [...more]
