Gymnasiade 2013, Brazil

Ended on the 3 Disember ,,thus ending the competition. The Brazil competed well in the female and began to reap the fruits of the investment made ​​with the hiring of Alexander Alexandrov. You men, our gymnasts were not well. 

,MAG team ,, the gold went to Russia, Silver  Englans and Bronze France. Overall individual, no Brazilian ranked among the top eight. In this final, gold and bronze went to Russia (Kirill Potapov and Arthur Dalaloyan) while silver went to England (Nile Wilson). Only Angelo Assumption qualified for the finals: Vault (1) and parallel  bars (6). Angelo finished the final jump in 2nd and parallel 7th. A male gym in Brazil has grown in recent years and has been doing a great campaign, Congratulations to the boys, but I believe they can

WAG team - Gold Russia, Silver  Brazil and Bronze England.

Congratulations to all the gymnasts.For more results :

http://pt.slideshare.net/gymblogbrazil/resultados-gymnasiade-2013-classificatria

Team China Has A New Training Motto

"Innovate, Breakthrough, Strive, and to Realize Dreams" are printed in bold font on the new banner over looking the national training center.  With this new training motto, the National Team has set forth new expectations for preparations leading up to the Rio Olympics.  The two smaller banners on either side read "To break down obsolete training ideas and practices" and "To reform and improve training methods and means." 

Big changes are happening on the National Team championed by Head Coach Huang Yubin.  The changes include everything from training methods, coaching staff, to training groups. So far these changes are well received by the coaches and gymnasts alike. Hopefully we’ll be able to see some results by the end of winter training. 

source: Blosson Chinese Gymnastics

Anna Pavlova - Azernbaijian invited her to compete 2015 Baku 2015 European Championships

On her latest interview given for allsportinfo.ru, Anna Pavlova spoke abut her decision to compete for Azerbaijan and her carrier. 
I receive an offer from the Azerbaijan Gymnastics Federation which interested me. Back in August, during the Russian Cup in Penza, I had a conversation with the leaders of our Federation, which agreed to let me go and we filed a enquiry on the International Gymnastics Federation. FIG approved my transition. I certainty wanted to get the approval of the country for which I compete therefore head coach Valentina Rodionenco and Valentina Nikanorova Russian Federation vice president approved my transition.

A couple of years ago there was some proposals to compete for Uzbekistan, but there was nothing official. And I wasn't ready to accept them. I was still hoping that the Russian team was after all, counting on me. I wanted to compete for the country in which I was born. But now my priorities have changed. My dream is to prove to everyone that I still can have results on the international competitions. Azerbaijan has invite me for a specific purpose - to compete in the European Championship that will take place in Baku in 2015. Azerbaijan wants dignity in that competition and I want to return in the international arena. Here our interests converged. About the financial side is really to early too say. In Azerbaijan, as in Russia, you are paid on the result, for the medals. No medals - no money.

GYMNASTICS AZERBIJIAN TO WATCH

 Azerbijian has made greater strides toward Olympic qualification in gymnastics than some countries make in a decade. Some  Russian gymnasts might find it worthwhile to become naturalized citizens, especially with Azerbijian "lucrative" offers. 

Gymnasts such as Ekaterina Kramarkenko?

Alexei Bondarenko? Elena Zamolodchikova?"Anna Dementyeva? just to speculate.

Do nothing but Gymnastics

Russia preparing for 2014

Valentina Rodionenko has outlined the Russian team's plans for the coming months in a recent press statement, highlighting the next major competition for March 2014,the Russian Championships in Penza.  This will be the qualifying event for the European Championships, to take place in Sofia, Bulgaria, next spring.

All the team's major players are back in training now, but not at the most intense level, says Rodionenko. The gymnasts are now working with their coaches to develop new difficulty for their exercises, or to change the composition of their existing routines. 'It is very important that all of them begin the new season in optimal condition', said the head coach.  'On the 22nd, the teams will go home after their current training camp at Round Lake.

source: Rewriting Russian Gymnastiics

National Team Selection Camp -China

Shang Chunsong Wins the 1st Challenge

Today marks the start of two week selection camp for the National Team.  Over 40 young girls and their coaches from all over the country were invited to the camp. The youngest gymnast invited to camp being only 9 years old as part of the identified training group for 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Head Coach Huang Yubin has set new training targets for the National Team members where trampoline trainings will be incorporated in their daily training.  All male gymnasts are expected to complete 4 twists on trampoline where female gymnasts are expected to complete 3.5.  An internal test will be given at the end of the winter training; all gymnasts will be tested on their training results and the gymnast(s) who fails the training target then will be eliminated from the training squat for the 2016 Rio Olympics.

During Monday’s weekly team meeting, Shang Chunsong was awarded a new cellphone for being the 1st gymnast to complete the training goal of 3.5 twists on trampoline. ^_^

(Photos via Che Li’s Weibo)