All Flipped Out
(via Germany (Oksana Chusovitina) | World Gymnastics Championships Tokyo 2011 | Gymnastike)
Here is Chuso on vault at the 2011 World Championships during a training session about a week ago. This is 20 years later than the previous video with Chuso at the ripe age of 36 competing against teenagers!
Oksana Chusovitina - 1991 Worlds EF - Vault 1 (by dionnewarwick)
Oksana Chusovitina, or Chuso as most people call her, is competing in her first World Championships in this video. Now, in 2011, she is still competing at the age of 36! She will be going for her 6th Olympics next year, which is something that never happens in the sport of gymnastics, form the men or women. She is best known for vault where she had won multiple world and olympic medals. The age controversy in women’s gymnastics is something I am interested in. This proves you don’t have to be a teenager to have success at an elite level.
Here’s the same type of thing as the previous post. This skill is called a Khorkina II. It is a transition move that gets the gymnast from low to high bar.
Cool image showing the exacts process of a “Khorkina” release move named after the great Russian, Svetlana Khorkina.
This is an article I wrote for the Red and Black (my first piece published!). It talks about the Gym Dogs summer as well as what they’ve been doing so far in the the gym this semester.
Best 10 year old in the world! (by saltocafe)
This shows that gymnasts of any age can be amazing and makes one question the age limit in elite gymnastics.
Everything anyone needs to know about the basics of gymnastics.
Former World AA Champion and Olympian Chellsie Memmel recently withdrew from the Pan American Games team after making the cut last Wednesday. This is not the first time Memmel has been out of the sport because of an injury. Injuries are a major part of the sport of gymnastics and are pretty much inevitable when such difficult skills are being preformed.
Interesting Wikipedia posting on age in gymnastics. The age limit has been a huge controversy in gymnastics over the past decade.
The official press release from USA Gymnastics on the two teams named tonight.
