gymn Digest Fri, 6 May 94 Volume 2 : Issue 121

Today's Topics:
Beam Routines - Mo/Kochetkova (2 msgs)
bounces
comments on my comments
Dawes Theory
Hilton Challenge roster
L10 Nationals (Jr.)
landing tumbling passes
leftover questions (3 msgs)
Sitting on the bar
Steps in tumbling passes
Stuck landings, Code suggestions (3 msgs)
Teams for Upcoming Meets
The Gymn Pub
Trivia Answers
Trivia Questions
USAG announces Goodwill Games teams
USOC Athletes of the Month
Vaulting distance and flairing out
White leos suggestion
Women's NCAA items

This is a digest of the gymn@athena.mit.edu mailing list.

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Date: Thu, 05 May 1994 00:14:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: ***@delphi.com
Subject: Beam Routines - Mo/Kochetkova

For those of you lucky enough to have seen Mo's and Kochetkova's beam
routines, could you please decribe their exercise and your overall
impressions. Thanks. Tasha

P.S. Does anyone know what Kochetkova performs for vault?

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Date: Fri, 6 May 94 10:01:05 BST
From: ***@ic.ac.uk
Subject: Beam Routines - Mo/Kochetkova

> For those of you lucky enough to have seen Mo's and Kochetkova's beam
> routines, could you please decribe their exercise and your overall
> impressions. Thanks. Tasha
>
> P.S. Does anyone know what Kochetkova performs for vault?

I had a look again the above mentioned routines and here are the main
elements of them:

1. Kochetkova BB:
mount (don't know since they didn't show that bit); 2 split leaps;
flick-layout-flick; full twist backflip; full twist Korbut;
fish jump into full twist Korbut; flick-flick-double back dismount.

Very clean with no major wobbles. I like the full twist backflip since
no many people do that skill. One small step on dismount. (In the All-Around)

2. Mo BB:
side mount into one arm straddle down to plange; flick into split jump;
aerial walkover; flick 1/4 turn to handstand; leap with head backwards;
arab spring into layout; arab spring-flick-double back dismount.

Difficult routine but with wobbles here and there. (She fell off in the
1/4 turn to handstand during apparatus qualifying)

3. Kochetkova VT:
Handspring 1 and 1/2 forwards with 1/2 twist.

In AA, the two scores were 9.675 and 9.775. Good landings.

Sherwin

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Date: Thu, 05 May 94 11:15:34 EDT
From: ***@MIT.EDU
Subject: bounces

Hi,

I have been receiving a lot of mail recently pertaining to bounced
mail on the list. If you have been posting a lot recently you are
probably receiving a lot of bounced mail back. I have tried to clean
up a lot of the problems on the list -- I think things should be
getting better in the next few days.

I have a few requests:

1) If you know you are going to be losing your account, please unsubscribe.

2) If you know your system is going to be down for a while, please let me
know so you don't get unsubscribed due to bounces (If it's going to be
more than a few days, I'll probably transfer you to digest though).
Conversely, if you seem not to be getting mail (or seem to have been
switched into digest format involuntarily) after a long period of system
problems at your site, let me know and I can re-instate you.

3) If you receive bounce messages, please wait until the problem has been
occurring consistently for at least a week before informing me of it. Most
problems end up being temporary and fix themselves within this time period.
If you do send me a bounce, I'd appreciate it if you would just send the
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each bounce message to me once -- If I need to check with you to see if it
stopped bouncing I'll contact you directly. Finally, please be patient.
Once you send me the info, it may take me a day or two to get to it, a day
or two to look into it (to avoid removing people whose mail is getting
through despite the apparent bounces, though I usually end up moving these
people to digest eventually so everyone doesn't need to get the bounces),
and another day or two for changes I make to fully take effect. If a problem
appears to me to be temporary, I may let it go on for a while longer to see
if it will fix itself.

Sorry to clutter everyone's mailbox with this administrivia, and sorry about
the bounce messages, but that seems to be a fact of life on a large mailing
list (which we are these days).

--Robyn

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Date: Thu, 05 May 94 01:01:02 EDT
From: ***@aol.com
Subject: comments on my comments

>One more annoying thing to include - the stupid over-arching flair in
women's Yurchenko-fulls. Laschenova and a couple others they did the flair
w/o
the bad compromise in bodyline, but the thing Zmeskal used to do? She was
good,
but not 10 worthy.

I must disagree. I think the open-up extension really helps the Yurchenko
full, as Kim did it as well as Laschenova (awaiting your flame, Susan).

Mara

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Date: Wed, 04 May 94 21:26:39 EDT
From: ***@aol.com
Subject: Dawes Theory

>The Code, and
therefore Judges and the sport itself, judge you on how you do. Everything
else is static and has no place on the competition floor.

It would be nice if that was true, but to anyone who thinks it is, have I got
a bridge for you!

Mara

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 02:59:13 -0500 (CDT)
From: ***@owlnet.rice.edu
Subject: Hilton Challenge roster

Again, from USAG, however this time via the USOC BBS:

1994 Hilton Challenge

WHO: Top gymnasts from Belarus (former Soviet Republic), China and the
USA will compete in this team and all-around competition. USA athletes
include 1992 Olympian and two-time World Championships silver medalist
Dominique Dawes, 1994 World Championships team members Mihai Bagiu,
Amanda Borden, Scott Keswick, John Roethlisberger and Chainey Umphrey,
1994 National Team Members Kellee Davis and Katie Teft. In addition,
Belarus' 1994 World Champion Ivan Ivankov is expected to compete along
with 1992 Olympic and 1993 World Champion Vitaly Scherbo.

WHAT: The Hilton Challenge gymnastics competition is scheduled for May
21 and 22 at America West Arena. The Hilton Challenge is a triangular
gymnastics competition between Belarus, China and the United
States--all superpowers in the world of gymnastics. Men's competition
is Saturday, May 21 at 7:30 p.m. Women's competition is Sunday, May 22
at 1:30 p.m.

WHERE: America West Arena, 201 E. Jefferson Street, Phoenix, Arizona
85001. (602) 379-2030.

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Date: Thu, 5 May 94 16:56:10 EDT
From: ***@aluxpo.att.com
Subject: L10 Nationals (Jr.)

We have a beautiful day to start the week-end. Today was registration, with
each region having a 2-hour work-out. I was there for region 6/7 and 3/4
work-outs - there's going to be some really great gymnastics to see.
Rachele, when Cypress was registering, the coach starts saying his name - when
I pop up with - You must be Terry Walker (if that's not his name - at least
I got it right when I was talking to him). He seemed surprised until I went
into your interviewing the gym, zones etc. He remembers you as a reporter.
One of his kids is doing 3 layouts on the beam already. Peggy Liddick was there
with the Dynamo kids - Michi Ishikawa is a favorite for the children's division
as she took second last year.

We parents have done a lot of work to try and make this a great meet for the
kids. We all have lots of pre-meet work to do - like I made something for
the judges food, the coaches food and the general concession stand; put
together the program; helped set up the gym (this means moving lots of equipment
and putting up decorations and skirting lots of tables). Now comes working
the meet - today I registered 2 sessions while Sara was practicing - and during
the meet I'll be sitting with the vault head judge filling out (and computing)
score sheets.

There's a beach party planned for the kids tonight, complete with DJ, lots of
games, food, lots of gifts etc. They should have lots of fun. They'll be
getting lots more in their goody bags after they compete also.
Sounds like most people will be pleased to hear that the leos they got
from Alpha Factor are NOT white. (they're actually pretty nice) The bust and
sleeves are the regional colors (region VII is teal, others are watermelon,
rose, etc. - nice new colors) The warm-ups, however, are a different story -
bright red pants and white & red jacket.

Sara's doing pretty well, considering. She and her coach have been counting
off the days, hoping she could make it till Nationals. Well, they're here
and she did. She's just hoping to make it one more day and is looking forward
to having as much healing time as she needs. Her goals for the meet are
making four-for-four and anything more would be icing on the cake. She doesn't
even think about what could have been any more, so that's great! She and her
teammates were interviewed on TV and had their pictures in the paper, so she
feels like quite a celebrity.

I'll post more when I have the time.

Toby

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Date: Thu, 5 May 94 10:34:31 BST
From: ***@ic.ac.uk
Subject: landing tumbling passes

> Alright here is a pet peeve of mine regarding women's floor: how come
> they can take as many steps as they want before a tumbling pass? The men
> are limited to 3 steps - any more and it is a deduction. I want to watch
> a floor routine not a track meet! It is much harder to do a double back
> from 3 steps than it is to do it from 5 or 6 or more!!! It also looks bad!!

I guess the women are not as powerful as men and have to take more steps
to gain speed before they can do their tricks. Don't forget those men are
muscular beings whereas the women are mere little girls (although they are
incredibly powerful for their age, of course)! And there is a significant
age difference between the two.

Sherwin

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 11:10:59 -0400
From: ***@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
Subject: leftover questions

OK all:

I'm not a big gymnastics fan (figure skating is my favorite),
but I have been a TV gymn fan since like the '88 Olympics.
I only know the big, current names (in fact, I didn't even watch
the Worlds this year because I was too busy with school :( ).
Mo Hui-who? Where's Kerri Strug? These are the questions running
through my head.
Anyhow, I had some other leftover questions that I have dug
up from the dark crevices of my finals-induced-stressed-out-brain:

I remember when Sandy Woolsey finished 2nd at Nationals in '91.
Why was she not in Indianapolis, then? Did she retire before
that fall or was she shafted a la Kim Kelly in '92?

Why are the teams for the Goodwill Games only made up of
four gymnasts? Also, who competed for the U.S. (men's and women's)
in '86 and '90? How did they do in the AA?

That's about it. Oooh, I have a final in less than three hours.
Better hit the books.
Bye Bye
Toho

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 11:20:15 +0600
From: ***@scoter.cdev.com
Subject: leftover questions

> I remember when Sandy Woolsey finished 2nd at Nationals in '91.
> Why was she not in Indianapolis, then? Did she retire before
> that fall or was she shafted a la Kim Kelly in '92?

She did not retire before Worlds.

I remember hearing Sandy and Stormy Eaton talking about this
over the intra-Hoosier-Dome radio broadcast during Worlds.
(Weak FM signal, play-by-play, interviews, well done I thought)
They were Not Amused by the final selection process for the
Worlds team.
--John

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 13:11:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: ***@gateway.us.sidwell.edu
Subject: leftover questions

> I remember when Sandy Woolsey finished 2nd at Nationals in '91.
> Why was she not in Indianapolis, then? Did she retire before
> that fall or was she shafted a la Kim Kelly in '92?

She was in Indianapolis, but she was an alternate, along with Elisabeth
Crandall. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think what happened is she made
the team (or else was first alternate). During the workouts before the
event, Michelle Campi had the look Bela wanted, so he put her on the team,
even though she was the second alternate and left Crandall and Woolsey to
be the two alternates.

I have another question about Indianapolis. Wasn't part of the uproar
over Kim Gwang-Suk's changing age that she was too young to compete in the
'89 Worlds if she was born on the date they gave at the Olympics because
she would have been 13? Wasn't Kerri Strug (Toho, she pulled her stomach
muscle and moved back home, which is why you didn't see her at Worlds) 13
at Indianapolis if she turned 15 in Nov. '92?

Lisa

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Date: Wed, 04 May 94 17:49:53 EDT
From: ***@aol.com
Subject: Sitting on the bar

>2. On unevens, whenever performing (on the low bar, facing the high bar)
> a glide shoot-through (or straddle) to catch the high bar, most
gymnasts
> bounce from their butts in order to catch the high bar. That should
be
> a deduction. Julianne MacNamara was the only gymnast that I
remember
> seeing recently (?) performing this move correctly.

I see nothing whatever incorrect about sitting on or bouncing off the low bar
before reaching up to the high bar (as long as she doesn't bend her legs,
another one of those things that never gets deducted). But even there were
something wrong with it, consider the alternative. Some girls might do
hechts to go from low to high, but almost everybody would stand on the low
bar instead, because hechts are risky and it would be impossible for 99% of
girls to catch the high bar if forced not to sit. Or, the bars would have to
be set much closer, compromising the ability to perform all the things that
make up the modern routine -- releases, giant-pirouettes, uprises, front
giants, full-ins, double layouts, etc. We'd all have to go back to beating
on the bar. Also, everyone would have to do legs-together jams, since it's
virtually impossible to do a straddle jam and hop from low to high w/o
sitting, even with the bars close together.

To illustrate my first point, I used to do a double-leg jam without sitting
on the low bar in the '85-'88 compulsory. At my first major meet, I missed
the high bar and fell (it still hurts to think about it, 8 yrs later). I
never did it again. Not worth the risk.

-- gimnasta

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Date: Wed, 04 May 94 17:49:06 EDT
From: ***@aol.com
Subject: Steps in tumbling passes

>Alright here is a pet peeve of mine regarding women's floor: how come
>they can take as many steps as they want before a tumbling pass? The men
>are limited to 3 steps - any more and it is a deduction. I want to watch
>a floor routine not a track meet! It is much harder to do a double back
>from 3 steps than it is to do it from 5 or 6 or more!!! It also looks bad!!

As it happens, it is probably as hard for most women to do a double back from
5 or 6 steps as it is for men to do it from 3. To state the obvious, men
tend to be stronger. If women were limited to 3 steps, their ability to do
anything harder than a double back would be compromised (in most cases; this
is only a generalization). Also, because women are not as strong and also
much shorter, if they were limited to 3 steps, they'd finish the tumbling
pass mid-mat (hey -- maybe not such a bad idea to get a little more
integration of dance and tumbling. Tumbling could be done in more directions
than just the usual diagonal). In any case, I don't think it looks that bad
(usually).

-- gimnasta

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Date: Wed, 04 May 94 21:27:02 EDT
From: ***@aol.com
Subject: Stuck landings, Code suggestions

>"superior" (even if I do spell it wrong).

Actually, this time you got it! (eek) <g>

>...and has anyone ever
seen Laura Cutina?

Yes, and ironically enough, she was considered superior in compulsories to
optionals!

> This is why we MUST not get rid of compos since that is where the
best are truly seperated from the rest

For all practical purpose, the FIG *has* started down the path to eliminating
compos. Both of the last two Worlds were decided without them (both AA and
Events). Granted, team worlds and 1995 will have them, but who really knows
after 96? They have got to find a way to keep them, or form is going to take
a serious back seat to little tricksters (as if it didn't already). Look
what happened when they eliminated compulsories from singles figure skating.

>and all we care about is winning a medal now and again not becoming
truly "good". You watch an NCAA meet and you see so much unexploited talent
it makes you cry

I think that Miles Avery knows what he has with Drew Durbin and Blaine
Wilson, IMHO. It's a shame he's only the assistant coach.

Mara

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Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 08:13:43 +1000
From: ***@pharm.med.upenn.edu
Subject: Stuck landings, Code suggestions

>>and all we care about is winning a medal now and again not becoming
>truly "good". You watch an NCAA meet and you see so much unexploited talent
>it makes you cry
>
>I think that Miles Avery knows what he has with Drew Durbin and Blaine
>Wilson, IMHO. It's a shame he's only the assistant coach.


And you don't think that Peter does? That is a really ignorant thing to
say - Peter recruited them, and I believe (since I know Miles - pretty
well!) that Miles considers himself to be working WITH Peter to create a
good team and not against him.

If you followed the men's season you would see that this team peaked
early and managed to hang in there through Big Tens. For some reason at
Regionals and at NCAA's they couldn't pull it off. It was one of the
hardest things for me to sit there and score that meet watching them not
pull in the scores I saw at Penn State and Big Tens. Kip missing his PB
routine was the biggest disappointment for me - it is beautiful! But you
certainly can't blame that on the fact that Miles is only the assistant
coach. Ohio has an excellent staff - Peter, Miles and Mike - and those
guys know that they have a good coaching staff, not just a good assistant
coach.

Mayland

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Date: Thu, 05 May 94 16:03:38 EDT
From: ***@aol.com
Subject: Stuck landings, Code suggestions

>And you don't think that Peter does? That is a really ignorant thing to
say - Peter recruited them, and I believe (since I know Miles - pretty
well!) that Miles considers himself to be working WITH Peter to create a
good team and not against him.

My point was that Miles would make an excellent Head Coach, not that Peter
isn't one!

Mara

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Date: Wed, 04 May 94 21:27:30 EDT
From: ***@aol.com
Subject: Teams for Upcoming Meets

I was speaking with someone at the USAG today in relation to the US-Romania
meet, and she gave me some idea who will be competing there and at the
Tri-Meet (US-Belarus-China). Because there are so many hi-profile
competitions coming up, the US team is being split for various meets, in
particular, one group will compete at the Tri-Meet, a different group at
US-Romania.

This list is not written in concrete, but accurate as of today (5/4):

US vs. Romania

US Women-Miller, Fontaine, Sarah Cain, Amy Chow, Doni Thompson, Kristi
Powell, Dominique Moceanu (this is the group that has been invited but no one
is confirmed).

Romanian Women-Milosovici, Gogean, Hatagan, Cacovean, Simona Amanar, Ana
Maria Bican (sp?), Daniela Morindua (sp?)

US Men - Mihai Bagiu (ironic, huh), Chainey Umphrey, Blaine Wilson, Drew
Durbin, Bill Roth

Tri-Meet

US Women - Dawes, Borden, Kellee Davis, Katie Teft

This is all I was able to get (I didn't want to try the patience of the woman
at USAG).

A brief opinion. The diluted US women's team is going to have trouble with
Romania (a win seems VERY unlikely)!

Mara

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 03:54:21 -0500 (CDT)
From: ***@owlnet.rice.edu
Subject: The Gymn Pub

The purpose of the Gymn Pub is to provide a place for Gymn members to
keep up on each other's lives without cluttering up the alias with
random little non-gymnastics notes. If you have something to
contribute to the next Gymn Pub posting, mail me (rachele@rice.edu),
at any time, with any pertinent info. (Marriage, graduation, new
baby, new job, travelling, new hobby, met a Gymn member in person,
just saw a cool meet, etc... these are just some examples of good Gymn
pub material.)

Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 16:21:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Bob

Hi I'm Anna, and I just subscribed to Gymn. I'm 12, going on 13. I
really love gymnastics, but I don't really have the discipline to be
an Olympian. My favorite gymnast is Dominique Dawes. My favorite
event is floor. But unfortunately I'm better at UB!

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From: Randy
Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 16:28:10 -0700 (PDT)

I graduated from the University of Georgia about a year ago which
eventually necessitated the migration of my account to a pay service.
(Small plug:) CRL is $20/month flat, no time limits, no tiered rate
based on connect speed, 5M disk space free. Disadvantage: no 800
number, but access numbers in GA, TX, and CA (that I know of). I
searched for a job for nine months before getting hired on as a
Systems Analyst with the local city-county unified government. I help
babysit two AS/400s, two i486 Unix boxes, and a plethora of PCs.
Eight hundred-plus users and a dozen analysts. Haven't made it to 40
yet, but turned 30 at the beginning of the year.

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Date: Wed, 4 May 1994 21:50:06 -0400
From: ***@cykick.jvnc.net

1. As a follow-up to October's brain surgery, I had some "minor"
cosmetic-type stuff done on St. Patrick's Day (Mar. 17), so I now look
less like a Conehead when I'm not wearing my wig. I tell folks the
doctors "tried to straighten out my head" - but spending 5+ hours on a
conference call for work probably led many to question how
"successful" this operation really was. ;-) Actually, the surgery was
successful (I even got to go home only a few hours later), hair
continues to grow in, and I hope to be able to retire the wig by the
end of June.

(For those daring to count, this makes 5 operations in just over two
years - 3 lung surgeries, one brain, one cosmetic on the head. When
we joined Gymn, during the '92 Olympics, I was recuperating from my
2nd lung operation.)

2. We're getting ready for summer travels, centered around square
dance conventions as usual. We begin with one event in Va. Beach,
where we expect to see fellow Gymn member Kathy Godfrey; then after a
quick (!) trip home to retool and repack, we're off to Portland, OR
for another one. Can't wait...

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>From me (Rachele):

I graduate this Saturday! Whoopee! I will be hitting four meets this
summer: L10 Sr. Nat'ls in Seattle (next weekend); tri-meet in Phoenix
(5/21) [will meet up with George, Susan, and other Gymners]; dual meet
in Worcester (6/11) [will meet up with Robyn, Mayland, and get to meet
Robyn's Gymn baby, Ryan]; and USA Champs (8/20) [don't know yet, let
me know if you'll be there!]

-----

Although she didn't submit this for a Gymn pub posting, I feel
compelled to tell people that our lovely Susan will turn 21 this
month. If you want to contribute to the Gymn-Gets-Susan-Sloshed-in-
Phoenix-Phund (sorry, had to), then let me know. ;)

Rachele

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Date: Fri, 06 May 94 00:29:13 EDT
From: ***@aol.com
Subject: Trivia Answers

The topic is "Unlucky Gymnasts"

1-What world class "Soviet" gymnast suffered foot injuries during two of the
three world championships he competed in?

Valeri Liukin (89, 91, 93)

2-What two world champions served as alternates to the '88 Olympic team?

Oksana Omeliantchik and Valentin Mogilny

3-In 1988, the US women's Olympic team did not contain any of the previous
three years' National AA Champions. Who were these National Champions?

Sabrina Mar (85), Jennifer Sey (86), Kristie Phillips (87)

4-What two time world AA champion was never part of an Olympic team?

Yuri Korolev (81 & 85 World Champ)

5-Which team has had three Olympic AA silver medalists in a row? Who were
they and when?

Romania - Nadia Comaneci (1980), Ecaterina Szabo (1984), Daniela Silivas
(1988)

6-What gymnast lead qualifying in two world beam finals only to lose in EF
due to poor landings?

Yang Bo (89 & 91)

7-Twice, the NCAA Women's Championship has been won by a host team by .05.
Name the years, the home teams that won, and the visitors that lost.

1987 - Georgia defeated UCLA
1994 - Utah defeated Alabama

8-What gymnast missed out on a world title due to a miscalculation by the
judges in '91?

Vitali Scherbo on vault where he scored what was later deemed an "impossible"
score by the FIG who said that he should have tied You Ok Youl

9-Which gymnast won optionals and placed second overall at his/her national
championships, but then was cut from competing at the World Championships?
What year?

Sandy Woolsey, 1991 - she retired from elite shortly after

10-What two gymnasts were heavily favored to win at the 1984 Olympics and
1985 Worlds, but did not get to compete AA in either?

Dimitri Bilozerchev, Olga Mostepanova

Hope you had fun!

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Date: Fri, 06 May 94 00:29:00 EDT
From: ***@aol.com
Subject: Trivia Questions

The topic is "Unlucky Gymnasts"

1-What world class Soviet gymnast suffered foot injuries during two of the
three world championships he competed in?

2-What two world champions served as alternates to the '88 Olympic team?

3-In 1988, the US women's Olympic team did not contain any of the previous
three years' National AA Champions. Who were these National Champions?

4-What two time world AA champion was never part of an Olympic team?

5-Which team has had three Olympic AA silver medalists in a row? Who were
they and when?

6-What gymnast lead qualifying in two world beam finals only to lose in EF
due to poor landings?

7-Twice, the NCAA Women's Championship has been won by a host team by .05.
Name the years, the home teams that won, and the visitors that lost.

8-What gymnast missed out on a world title due to a miscalculation by the
judges in '91?

9-Which gymnast won optionals and placed second overall at his/her national
championships, but then was cut from competing at the World Championships?
What year?

10-What two gymnasts were heavily favored to win at the 1984 Olympics and
1985 Worlds, but did not get to compete AA in either?

Answers are in a separate message...

Mara

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 02:53:58 -0500 (CDT)
From: ***@owlnet.rice.edu
Subject: USAG announces Goodwill Games teams

Direct from the Delphi BBS:

Two time World Champion Shannon Miller tops the list of gymnasts who
will compete at the 1994 Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg, Russia,
July 23 to August 7.

Dynamo Gymnastics teammates Jennie Thompson (Wichita Falls, TX),
Marianna Webster (Joplin, MO) and Soni Meduna (Colon, NE) complete the
womens team. Mina Kim (Oklahoma City, OK) will serve as the
alternate. Steve Nunno and Peggy Liddick of Dynamo Gymnastics will
coach the women.

"Winning the World Championships all-around title gave Shannon a lot
of confidence," said coach Nunno. "She knows she's back on track and
looks forward to leading the USA team to some good results at the
Goodwill Games. The other team members are young and less experienced
internatinally so I think it's a good combination--the young kids led
by veteran Miller."

1994 World Championships event finalist Chainey Umphrey from
Albuquerque, n.m., will be joined by UCLAA teammate Scott Keswick from
Las Vegas, Nev., and Ohio State Team members Blaine Wilson and Drew
Durbin from Columbus, Ohio. Ohio State's Kip Simons from Bloomsburg,
PA., is the mens's alternate. USA men's coaches include UCLA's Art
Shurlock and Ohio State's Peter Kormann.

Shurlock commented, "I visited the city years ago when it was
Leningrad. It was an incredible experience then, and I'm looking
forward to going back. We are taking an outstanding team!"

Since their inception in 1986, the Goodwill Games have alternated
sites between the U.S. and Russia. The first Goodwill Games were in
1986 in Moscow, with the 1990 games held in Seattle. In 1998, the
Games return to the U.S. to New York City, July 25-August9. The
Goodwill Games are hosted through a bilateral effort of the
participating sports federations in the United States and Russia, in
cooperation with their respective National Olympic Committees, local
organizing committees and television entities.

The 1994 Games are expected to feature approximately 2,000 of the
world's best athletes from more that 50 countries competing in 24
sports. Sponsors for the '94 Games are Anheuser-Busch, Delta Air
Lines, Foot Locker, the Gillette Company, Jiffy Lube International,
Inc., in cooperation with Pennzoil Products Co., Member's Only, the
National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia, Pepsi-Cola, The
Prudential Insurance Company, Reader's Digest, Reebok International,
Ltd., SmithKline Beecham and Sony Electronics Inc. The 1994 Games are
jointly presented by the participating Russian and U.S. Sports
federations, the Russian Olympic Committee, the St. Petersburg
Organizing Committee and Goodwill Games, Inc.

For the 16-day event, TBS Superstation will air 64 hours of original
programming during prime time, as well as a 64-hour encore
presentation during West Coast prime time. ABC will air 17 hours of
weekend and afternoon coverage, one-third of which will appear on
"Wide World of Sports." The Games are also expected to be broadcast
in 100 countries worldwide.

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Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 23:03:27 -0700 (MST)
From: ***@sosi.com
Subject: USOC Athletes of the Month

>From the USOC...Miller does it again.

Andy

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May 4, 1994
MILLER, DOLAN NAMED USOC APRIL ATHLETES OF THE MONTH

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Gymnast Shannon Miller
won her second consecutive all-around title at the World
Championships and swimmer Tom Dolan captured four
individual titles to earn the USOC's April Athlete of the
Month honors.
After bouncing back from a pulled abdominal muscle,
five-time Olympic medalist Miller won her second straight
women's all-around competition, with an overall point
total of 39.274 at the 1994 World Gymnastics
Championships in Brisbane, Australia. Miller, who also
won a gold medal on the balance beam (9.875), became the
most decorated American gymnast in history, winning more
Olympic and World Championship medals than any other U.S.
gymnast, male or female. She also became the first
American in history to win back-to-back all-around titles
and only the fourth female gymnast in the world to
accomplish this feat.
Dolan won a total of four individual titles at the
1994 Phillips 66 National Swimming Championships in
Federal Way, Wash. His four titles placed him among the
elite, becoming the first male swimmer since Mark Spitz
to win four titles in one national championship. Dolan
broke the American record in the 400 individual medley
with a time of 4:13.52, which was the second fastest time
in history. He also won the 400m freestyle, 800m free
(eighth-fastest time in history and third-fastest

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Date: Wed, 04 May 94 17:48:42 EDT
From: ***@aol.com
Subject: Vaulting distance and flairing out

>Hey, is there anything in the women's rules where they have to land
>past the third mat line on vault or get a deduction like the men have now?
What

The guideline in women's is that the gymnast should travel at least as far as
her body is long. The judges just have to estimate. I've thought about the
tape on the mat thing. I'm ambivalent. On the one hand, it's a lot more
clear cut, but on the other, it seems unfair to require Boginskaya and Kim
Gwang-Suk to travel the same distance without taking into account something
like a foot of height difference (of course, I realize the men aren't all the
same height either).

>One more annoying thing to include - the stupid over-arching flair in
>women's Yurchenko-fulls. Laschenova and a couple others they did t

Personally, I think the flair looks fine.

-- gimnasta

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Date: Wed, 04 May 94 22:00:04 EDT
From: ***@aol.com
Subject: White leos suggestion

>White leo's, however, are out of the question
because you can see bras through them.

One thing that can be done about that is to wear a tank leo underneath.
You'd still wear a bra, but it won't show more than on any other leo. (The
tank would be instead of trunks, though. Well, it wouldn't have to be, but
that's a lot of layers). I personally never did it (it seems to me like it
would be kind of uncomfortable), but I know girls who have. The problem
might be having the tank show at the top,it depends how the leo is cut. But
with all the high-neck leos these days, it might be ok.

Another observation on leos: At Indianapolis, some of us remarked on how
nice the yellow Australian leo looked. Then in Barcelona, they looked lousy.
The difference seemed to be that the mats at Indy were blue and the ones at
Barcelona were this drab (reddish?) brown. The yellow which looked good
against the blue background looked gross against brown. So equipment is
another consideration in leo selection ;)

-- gimnasta

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Date: Fri, 06 May 94 00:00:59 EDT
From: ***@aol.com
Subject: Women's NCAA items

I know this is a little behind the times, but I had a sked a friend in
Atlanta to send me any NCAA stories that appeared down there. They just came
today, and I thought some people might be interested in a few assorted items.
Needless to say, the focus in on Georgia:

-After team preliminaries, Suzanne Yoculan ripped her team publicly.
Apparently the scores on vault for Georgia were not as high as they are used
to, and Yoculan claimed certain individuals were more concerned with making
vault finals than helping the team win.

-During team finals, Georgia had a strong lead going into their last event,
beamover .6 ahead of Utah. Leah Brown was up first, and fell twice (8.675),
Angeles and Simpkins also fell.

-Talk abot deja vu for Kim Kelly. Her fall on floor (9.375) essentially was
the difference in Utah winning by .05. Very reminiscent of US vs. Romania
1991, where Kelly's fall on a double-twist counted and the US lost by .2.

-From a postmortem article, "Yoculan was so sure of a Georgia victory she had
pestered reporters repeatedly in recent weeks about her concerns that a
picure of the Lady Bulldogs toting the 94 NCAA Championship trophy appear in
the next day's paper." (pride goeth before a fall).

FYI

Mara

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