gymn
Digest
Wed, 20 Apr 94 Volume 2 :
Issue 107
Today's Topics:
(spoil) AP report on Worlds
(spoil) Men's prelims
(spoil) more complete 2nd day results
(spoil) prelims, 2nd day, top three in
each
(spoil) some Prelims quotes, Men
(spoil) So where are they?
(spoil) W prelims
(spoil) yet more Worlds... (2 msgs)
AA
Seeding Question
Big Apple Circus
Campi
Eating Disorders & Gymnastics
Gymnastics GIFs
Henrich (This is not a spoil)
Oksana
Knisick
Rhythmic (Patrick)
ROV
spoil: Womens
Floor
Spoil: Worlds (Mens Pommell
& Floor)
This is Pathetic!!!!
This is a digest of the
gymn@athena.mit.edu mailing list.
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Date:
Wed, 20 Apr 94 07:55:41 EDT
From: ***@aol.com
Subject: (spoil) AP report on Worlds
GYMNASTICS: MIXED SUCCESS FOR
DEFENDING WORLD CHAMPS
4/19/94
Associated Press
BRISBANE, Australia --
Defending all-around champions Vitaly Scherbo and
Shannon Miller had mixed fortune on the
opening day of the world gymnastic
championships
Tuesday.
Scherbo, winner of six gold medals
at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, was the
leading
qualifier for the final of the men's floor exercises, but was
eliminated from the pommel horse event when he slipped and
fell from the
apparatus.
The 22-year-old
from Belarus stormed angrily from the arena after making the
error and finishing 32nd.
Miller, a 17-year-old
from Edmond, Okla., who won three gold medals at last
year's
world championship, was the fourth qualifier for the vault, but was
only ninth in the uneven bars event in which she was
defending champion.
Miller won't even be a reserve for the eight-woman
final because two other
Americans qualified and a nation is only allowed
two competitors in any
final.
Scherbo was in fine form during the floor exercise, in
which he scored 9.637.
He is followed by Ivan Ivanov of Bulgaria (9.587) and Igor Korobchinski
of
Ukraine and Ioannis Melissandis
of Greece (both 9.575).
He did not compete on the rings, one of his
gold medal events in Barcelona.
Yuri Chechi
of Italy, the defending champion in the rings event, headed the
qualifiers for that event with 9.712 points. Dan Burinca of Romania (9.687)
was
second, followed by Andreas Wecker of Germany and
Paul O'Neill of Mandan,
N.D., with 9.625 points.
Marius
Urzica of Romania, Mark Sohn
of Boca Raton, Fla., and Vitaly Marinich
of Ukraine were the leading qualifiers in the pommel horse,
tied with 9.662
points.
Miller unveiled a
new move -- a 1 1/2 twisting three-quarter giant swing to a
handstand on the low bar -- in her uneven bars routine, but
was let down by a
poor landing.
''I had a
little problem with bar routine, but hopefully I'll get it fixed
for the all-around,'' Miller said. ''I had a small hop on my
dismount.
Hopefully, I'll get it fixed for the all-round.''
Lu Li
of China scored a 9.900 to head the qualifiers in the uneven bars,
ahead of Lavinia Milosovici of Romania (9.825) and Svetlana Chorkina of
Russia (9.812).
Amanda Borden of
Cincinnati, Oh., and Dominique Dawes of Silver Spring,
Md.,
qualified for the uneven bars final by
finishing in fifth place with 9.725
points.
Milosovici headed the qualifiers for the women's vault
final with 9.731
points, ahead of teammate Gina Gogean (9.724) and Yelena Piskun
of Belarus
(9.712).
Miller scored 9.706 points to clinch her final
spot.
Almost 300 competitors from 53 countries are competing in the
six-day
championship, which continues through
Sunday.
Qualifying will continue through Wednesday, with the men's
all-around
competition on Thursday and the women's
all-around on Friday. Individual
finals are slated
for Saturday and Sunday.
Medals are awarded for each apparatus, with a
separate competition and medals
for the all-around
title.
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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994
06:36:05 -0500 (CDT)
From: <***@owlnet.rice.edu>
Subject: (spoil)
Men's prelims
These are only the results after the first round of men
(ie there are
still many
more to compete), but I got a lot of replies saying people
wanted into as soon as I got it, so here's what I've
got:
>From UPI, the men's prelims, 2nd day, after just one
session:
Vault
1. Dan Burinca,
Romania, 9.250 points
2.
Shigery Kurihara, Japan,
9.225
3. Dmitri Vasilenka, Russia, 9.200
4. Humberto
Perez, Mexico, 9.175
5. Krasimir Dounev, Bulgaria,
9.150
6. Yuri Ermakov, Ukraine, 9.125 (<-- Susan, there he is)
7. Jonathon Sianturi,
Indonesia, 9.075
8. (tied) Marvin Campbell, Britain, and Innocent Eragbhe, Nigeria, 9. 050
10. John Roethlisberger, U.S.,
9.025
11. Alexander
Suarez, Puerto Rico, 8.975
12. Damien Crozier, Australia, 8.950
13. Gilberto Da Silva, Brazil,
8.725
14. Enrique Trabanino, Spain, 8.300
15. Martin Staudacher,
Austria, 8.025
------
Parallel Bars
1. Alexi Nemov,
Russia, 9.537
2. Huang Huangdong, China, 9.462
3. Andreas Wecker,
Germany, 9.325
4. Andrea
Massucci, Italy, 9.225
5. Krasimir
Dounev, Bulgaria, 9.100
6. Nicu Stroia, Romania, 9.075
7. (tied)
Martin Campbell, Britain, and Yuri Ermakov, Ukraine,
9.050
9. John
Roethlisberger, U.S., 9.025
10. Daisuke Nishikawa, Japan, 8.950
11. Alexander Suarez, Puerto Rico,
8.825
12. Dejan Locnikar, Slovenia,
8.800
13. Carlos Garcia,
Mexico, 8.650
14. Peter
Novak, Czech Ropublic, 8.625
15. Dimosthenis,
Greece, 8.475
16. Cheng
Kun Chieh, Chinese Taipei, 8.400
17. Damien Crozier, Australia,
7.875
18. Patrice Casimir, France, 7.825
19. Kingsley Eragbhe,
Nigeria, 7.475
20. Jose
Maria Barbuto, Brazil, 6.925
------
High Bar
1. Alexei Nemov,
Russia, 9.375
2. (tied) Jan-Peter Nikiferow,
Germany, and Marvin Campbell, Britain, 9.325
4. Vladimir Shamenko,
Ukraine, 9.225
5. Csollany, Szilvester, Hungary,
9.125
6. Martin Riesner, Czech Republic, 9.050
7. Andrea Massucci,
Italy, 9.000
8. Daisuke
Nishikawa, Japan, 8.900
9. Blaz Puljic,
Slovenia, 8.875 (<-- Hey, this
guy trains at AZ State!)
10. Martin Staudacher, Austria, 8.825
11. Mihai
Bagiu, U.S., 8.750
12. (tied)
Tor Einar Refsnes, Norway,
and Marius Urzica, Romania, 8. 675
14. Jose Mario Barbuto,
Brazil, 8.400
15. Li
Jing, China, 8.300
16. Dimosthenis, Greece, 8.125
17. Brenden
Mand, Australia, 8.075
18. Humberto
Perez, Mexico, 8.000
19.
(tied) Enrique Trabanino, El
Salvador, and Carlos Latorre, Puerto Rico,
7.600
21. Patrice Casimir,
France, 7.125
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Date: Wed, 20
Apr 1994 11:57:33 -0500 (CDT)
From: <***@owlnet.rice.edu>
Subject:
(spoil) more complete 2nd day results
Here's a press release from
USAG. For some reason, they don't
have
one concerning the first day of events... o
well.
WORLD GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS: DAWES AND MILLER DAZZLE
FANS
USA's Dominique Dawes and Shannon Miller dominated the second day
of
preliminary competition at the 1994 World
Gymnastics Championships in
Brisbane, Australia, both qualifying for event
finals in balance beam
and floor exercise.
Dawes
(Silver Spring, Md.) captured first place on balance beam with a
9.837 and
second place on floor exercise with a 9.825. Miller
(Edmond, Okla.) took second place on balance beam with a 9.825 and
third place on floor exercise with 9.787. Dawes was very pleased with
her performance saying, "I was thinking positive and
trying my best."
When asked why she didn't seem excited she replied,
"Because there are
still three more days of
competition."
Miller wanted to hit her routines during the second
day of competition
in order to make up for her
first-day performance. "I didn't do as
well
as I would have liked yesterday, so I wanted to go out and hit
solid routines. The last two days have been a warm- up for
the
all-around competition."
For the
U.S. men, Chainey Umphrey
(Albuquerque, N.M.) qualified to the
horizontal
bar finals with a 9.50 which put him in a tie for fifth
place
after the preliminaries. Excited about his performance, Umphrey
exclaimed, "The crowd was going wild when I caught my
release moves. I
heard them and I got pumped! I
took a step on my dismount, but overall
I felt good about it."
Results
for other American gymnasts are as follows:
> Amanda
Borden from Cincinnati, Ohio, finished 11th (9.550)
on
balance beam and 29th (9.075) on floor exercise.
> Umphrey also placed 20th (9.275) on parallel bars.
> Scott
Keswick from Las Vegas, Nev., finished in 13th
(9.450) on
vault.
> Mihai Bagiu from Albuquerque,
N.M., had a disappointing
fall on his triple
dismount from high bar, scoring an 8.75.
> John
Roethlisberger from Afton, Minn., scored a 9.025 on
both
vault and parallel bars.
Qualifiers to the Finals
BALANCE
BEAM--WOMEN
1
Dominique Dawes, USA/9.837
2 Shannon Miller, USA/9.825
3 Lavinia
Milosovici, ROM/9.762
4 Qiao Ya, CHN/9.725
4 Nadia Hategan,
ROM/9.725
6
Lilia Podkopayeva, UKR/9.687
7 Julia Stratmann, GER/9.625
8 Oksana Fabrichnova,
RUS/9.612
FLOOR EXERCISE--WOMEN
1 Lavinia
Milosovici,ROM/9.837
2 Dominique Dawes,USA/9.825
3 Shannon Miller,USA/9.787
4 Gina Gogean,ROM/9.687
4 Dina Kochetkova, RUS/9.687
6 Joanna Hughes, AUS/9.662
7 Hullan
Mo,CHN/9.625
8 Elena Piskun,
BLR/9.600
VAULT--MEN
1 Yeo Hong-Chui, KOR/9.812
2 Vitaly
Scherbo, BLR/9.662
3 Li Xianshuang,
CHN/9.650
3 Grigory Misutin,UKR/9.650
5 Yoo
Ok-Ryul, KOR/9.612
6 Suzuki Masanori, JPN/9.600
7 Murat Canbas, TUR/9.575
8 N/A
PARALLEL
BARS--MEN
1
Huang Lipin, CHN/9.687
2 Ivan Ivanov, BUL/9.587
2 Rustam Sharipov, UKR/9.587
4 Vitaly Scherbo, BLR/9.575
5 Lee Joo-Hyung,
KOR/9.550
6
Jung Jin-Soo, KOR/9.537
6 Alexel
Nemov, RUS/9.537
8 Evgeni Chabaev, RUS/9.512
HORIZONTAL BAR--MEN
1 Aljaz
Pegan, SLO/9.650
2 Zoltan Supola, HUN/9.550
3 Boris Preti,
ITA/9.537
4 Csaba Fajkusz,
HUN/9.512
5
Ivan Ivanov, BLR/9.500
5 Chainey
Umphrey, USA/9.500
7 Vitaly Scherbo, BLR/9.475
7 Jari Monkkonen, FIN/9.475
Competition resumes Thursday,
April 21, with the men's all-around
competition.
Women's all-around takes place Friday, April 22.
Individual event
finals are April 23-24. ABC will
broadcast
highlights of the 1994 World Gymnastics Championships on
April 23, 24 and
30.
Check local listings for times.
WORLD GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
TV SCHEDULE
The World Gymnastics Championships from Brisbane,
Australia will be
on ABC television as
follows:
Womens All Around:
4/23/94 4:00-6:00pm
EDT ABC
Womens Individual Event Finals and Mens
All Around:
4/24/94 4:30-6:00pm EDT ABC WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS
Mens Individual Event Finals:
4/30/94 4:30-6:00pm
EDT ABC WIDE WORLD OF
SPORTS
Consult your local TV listings for times in your area. Frequently,
local
channels have the right to preempt or tape & shift times.
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Date:
Wed, 20 Apr 1994 11:40:40 -0500 (CDT)
From: <***@owlnet.rice.edu>
Subject:
(spoil) prelims, 2nd day, top three in each
A mix of info from Reuters
and AP:
Men
Parallel Bars: Lipin
Huang (CHN) 1st, 9.687, Ivanov (BUL) 2nd-tie,
Sharipov (UKR)
2nd-tie, both 9.587 Scherbo, 4th, 9.575.
Vault:
Hong-Chul Yeo (KOR) 1st, 9.812, Scherbo,
2nd, 9.687, Li
Xianshuang (CHN) 3rd, 9.650.
High
bar: Aljaz Pegan (Slovenia)
1st (9.650), Zoltan Supola
(HUN) 2nd
9.55, Boris Preti (ITA) 3rd, 9.537, Umphrey (USA) 5th-tie 9.500,
Scherbo
7th (no score).
Women
Beam: Dawes 1st, 9.837, Miller 2nd,
9.825, Milosovici 3rd,
9.762
Floor: Milosovici 1st 9.837, Dawes 2nd
9.825, Miller 3rd 9.787
"Shannon is getting better every day and
by Friday we will see her
back in top form,"
--Nunno
"I feel really good about
today. I was thinking positive and trying my
best. I'm not getting too excited yet, because
I know there are still
three days to
go." -- Dawes
"She
[Dawes] was fantastic," -- Hill
"I went pretty good on the
floor, but I think I need to clean it up a
little
more before the all-arounds. I was pretty happy with
my beam
routine, but I had a small wobble on my
full turn. I guess it was
probably a loss of
concentration." -- Miller
Miller, re
being a crowd favorite: "They help me along... The crowd's
been great here."
"My warm-ups were
awesome, but I was kind of nervous before my
routine,
because I got cold standing there waiting. The guy before me
was injured and I had to wait for the stretcher to carry him
off...
The crowd was going wild and I got really pumped up... I took a
step
on my dismount, but overall it felt
good." --Umphrey
(Argentine
gymnast Sebastian Alvarez was "lifted from the arena with
an injured right knee" from high bar, according to
AP.)
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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994
06:50:23 -0500 (CDT)
From: <***@owlnet.rice.edu>
Subject: (spoil)
some Prelims quotes, Men
This info is from a AP story that I just read
about how the Am men
(Sohn 1st, O'Neill 3rd in
prelims) are doing better than the Am women
(4th was the best finish thus
far):
"I'm very excited right now, but I'm just trying not to let
it out too
much, because there are finals to worry
about," said Sohn, a
24-year-old
competing in his first international event in two years.
"We
designed this routine to be first, and while I didn't do my best,
I have a
strong routine and it did the job."
Paul O'Neill, a 28-year-old
veteran, said the American men are
determined to
be more competitive than in the past.
"We're going to
end that record,"
he said. "The judges know who we are now and we are
much
better set up."
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Date:
Wed, 20 Apr 94 05:37:26 EDT
From: ***@aol.com
Subject: (spoil) So where
are they?
Several noteables seem to missing
from the pack and if anyone out there who's
actually getting to see this knows anything I'd love to hear
it (on the net
or e-mail)...
Ivan Ivankov BLR
Tatiana Lyssenko
UKR
Ludmilla Stovbchatayia
UKR
Yulia & Olga Yurkina
BLR
Andrei Kan BLR
Yuri Ermakov
UKR
Alexei Voropaev RUS (and I
heard for sure that he was supposed to be there!)
Valeri
Liukin (I was under the impression that he was stil lcrazy enough to
keep going)
On the other side of the coin (ie. who WAS there), it was a nice surprise to
see Vitali Marinich
competing for Ukraine. His career was rather sadly cut
short
(he was only 20 or so) when after only one worlds ( 1989 for which he
was unprepared since he was put on suddenly after Bilozerchev and Gogoladaze
were...uhh..."removed"
from the team and Liukin & Kharkov were injured)
he
competed in the world professional meet from
'91 not knowing that he would
then be unable to
compete in other amatuer FIG events... something
about a
paper he signed not being
translated...nasty business that got both he &
Novikov
kicked off - or ineligable
for, depending how you think of it - the
Soviet team. Since Arkaev
was there and didn't warn them - which, by the by,
Bilozerchev
protested loudly enough to get him thrown out of a discussion
group - I consider it more the former than the latter. Anyway, he competed
at the Birmingham Challenege (he
was coaching at Woodward - where ALL the
Sovs
seems to go - here in the US for a while) last October but I'd heard
little of him since.
It was also interesting to see
Belenki competing for Germany now instead of
FIG
or Azarbajean (sp?) (which was accepted into FIG). Does anyone know if he
is technically a citizen now or if some other arrangement
has been attained?
As for the AA seeding...I can only imagine (and
this is pure speculation now)
that there will be
either a blind draw or some sort of "relative" positioning
(by EF qualifying scores even though they don't count...I'm
not exactly sure
how they'd do this but FIG has
been guilty of stranger things) so that the
best
get into the last rotation...both for drama and scoring purposes. It may
work as the single entry compos did where they draw position
by country and
then the indivdual
coach can place anyone into any slot he's got available
(seems
to be the most logical answer). BTW, did you know that in Dortmond
compulsories will again be competed as teams?
Susan
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Date:
Tue, 19 Apr 1994 09:36:31 -0500 (CDT)
From: <***@owlnet.rice.edu>
Subject:
(spoil) W prelims
Whoops, sent that last one off too soon, sorry! I believe these are
the final prelims for women's V and UB.
Tuesday's
qualifiers to event finals:
Women
Vault
1. Lavinia Milosovici (Romania)
9.731
2. Gina Gogean (Romania) 9.724
3. Yelena Piskun
(Belarus)
9.712
4. Shannon
Miller (U.S.)
9.706
5.
Svetlana Chorkina (Russia)
9.693
6. Lilia Podkopayeva (Ukraine)
9.668
7. Dina Kochetkova (Russia)
9.662
8. Oksana Knizhnik (Ukraine)
9.643 (<--
who??)
Uneven Bars
1. Li Luo (China)
9.900
2. Lavinia Milosovici
9.825
3. Svetlana Chorkina (Russia)
9.812
4. Nadia Hategan (Romania) 9.762
5. Dominique Dawes (U.S)
9.725
6. Amanda
Borden (U.S)
9.725
7. Dina Kochetkova (Russia)
9.700
8. Lilia Podkopayeva (Ukraine)
9.675
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Date: Tue,
19 Apr 1994 14:51:27 -0500 (CDT)
From: <***@owlnet.rice.edu>
Subject:
(spoil) yet more Worlds...
All right, folks, a few more
details...
For some reason, I have no idea why, Scherbo
did not compete on the
rings! I guess that means he's not going to go
for the AA. I wonder
if this was a premeditated decision, or if he decided this
after
falling off of PH...
Apparently,
Miller her hit 1.5 twisting 3/4 giant swing to a
handstand
on the low bar (that's what Nunno and the AP call it, I'd say a 1.5
twisting straddleback, but hey),
but she had problems with the landing
(I guess she threw her double
layout). "I had a little problem with
bar
routine, but hopefully I'll get it fixed for the all-around. I had
a small hop on my dismount," Miller said.
The
AP says that "Lu Li" heads the UB list, so I guess I was right
in
guessing that Reuters was just spelling her
name differently.
Here are the event finalists as listed by AP, with
my notes thrown in:
MEN
Rings
1. Yuri Chechi,
Italy, 9.712 points.
2.
Dan Burinca, Romania, 9.687.
3. Andreas Wecker,
Germany, 9.625.
3. Paul
O'Neill, United States, 9.625.
5. Szilvester Csollany,
Hungary, 9.562.
5. Veleri Belenki, Germany,
9.562. (he's
competing for GER now!)
5. Jordan Jovtchev, Bulgaria, 9.562.
8. Rustam
Charipov, Ukraine, 9.537.
Reserves
1. Yoo
Ok-ryul, South Korea, 9.537 (how'd they make this tie
break?)
2. Scott
Keswick, United States, 9.512. (so close!)
Others Who Did Not Qualify
12. Andrea Massucchi,
Italy, 9.462.
17. Chainey Umphrey, United States,
9.400.
19. Hikaru Tanaka, Japan, 9.350.
(tie)
Shinya Watanabe, Japan, 9.350.
21. Boris Preti, Italy, 9.325.
25. Sergio Alvarino,
Argentina, 9.250.
(tie) Jurgen van Eetveld, Netherlands,
9.250.
27. Alan Nolet, France, 9.225.
28. Mario Franke,
Germany, 9.200.
(tie) Jonathan Sianturi, Indonesia,
9.200.
(tie) Espen Jansen, Norway,
9.200.
Floor
Exercises
1. Vitaly Scherbo, Belarus, 9.637.
2. Ivan Ivanov,
Bulgaria, 9.587.
3. Igor
Korobschinski, 9.575.
4. Ioannis
Melissandinis, Greece, 9.575. (Greece!)
5. Grigory
Misutin, Ukraine, 9.525.
5. Masanori Suzuki, Japan,
9.525.
7. Neil Thomas,
Britain, 9.450.
8. Dashuang Li, China, 9.400.
Reserves
1. Alan Nolet,
Canada, 9.400. (still competing??)
2. Jung Jin-soon, South Korea,
9.375.
Others Who Did Not
Qualify
10. Orjan Dahl, Sweden, 9.375.
13. Jan-Peter Nikiferow,
Germany, 9.275.
15.
Andreas Wecker, Germany, 9.250.
(tie) Georgios Papadimakis, Greece,
9.250.
(tie) John Roethlisberger, United States, 9.250.
25. Valeri
Belenki, Germany, 9.125.
26. Yuri Chechi,
Italy, 9.100.
28.
Alexander Selk, Netherlands, 9.075.
29. Chainey
Umphrey, United States, 9.025.
Pommel Horse
1. Vitaly
Marinich, Ukraine, 9.662.
1. Mark Sohn,
United States, 9.662.
1.
Marius Urzica, Romania, 9.662.
4. Valeri
Belenki, Germany, 9.612.
5. Eric Poujade,
France, 9.600.
6. Igor Korobchinski, Ukraine, 9.575.
7. Huang Huadong,
China, 9.550.
8. Li Donghua, Switzerland, 9.537.
Reserves
1. Chang Feng
Chih, Taiwan, 9.537. (another of
those ties)
2. Guo Linyao, China, 9.525.
Others Who Did Not Qualify
10. Yoshiaki Hatakeda,
Japan, 9.525.
18. Oliver
Walther, Germany, 9.350.
(tie) Yuri Chechi,
Italy, 9.350.
22. Thomas
Zimmerman, Austria, 9.325.
24. Nikolaos Kosmas, Greece, 9.225.
25. Daisuke Nishikawa, Japan,
9.200.
(tie) Flemming Solberg, Norway,
9.200.
36. John
Roethlisberger, United States, 8.950.
------
WOMEN
Uneven Bars
1. Lu Li, China, 9.900.
2. Lavinia
Milosovici, Romania, 9.825.
3. Svetlana Chorkina,
Russia, 9.812.
4. Nadia Hategan, Romania, 9.726.
5. Dominique Dawes, United States,
9.725.
5. Amanda Borden,
United States, 9.725.
7.
Dina Kochetkova, Russia, 9.700.
8. Lilia Podkopayeva,
Ukraine, 9.675.
Reserves
1. Shannon Miller, United States,
9.637. (even
if someone's
injured, she's not in bc
of Dawes and Borden)
2.
Luisa Portocarrero, Guatemala, 9.587. (too bad!)
Others Who Did Not Qualify
10. Hanako
Miura, Japan, 9.587.
12.
Anita Tomulevski, Norway, 9.562.
17. Virginia Karentzou,
Greece, 9.525.
18. Marilou Cousineau, Canada,
9.500.
(tie) Mari Kosuge, Japan,
9.500.
(tie) Monica Martin, Spain, 9.500.
21. Chiara Ferrazzi,
Italy, 9.375.
22. Rufina Kreibich, Germany,
9.350.
(tie) Michal Schaf, Israel,
9.350.
24. Yuka Arai,
Japan, 9.337.
29. Stacey
Galloway, Canada, 9.225.
(tie) Elodie Lussac, France, 9.225.
------
Vault
1. Lavinia
Milosovici, Romania, 9.731.
2. Gina Gogean,
Romania, 9.724.
3.
Yelena Piskun, Belarus, 9.712.
4. Shannon Miller, United States,
9.706.
5. Svetlana Chorkina, Russia, 9.693.
6. Lilia Podkopayeva,
Ukraine, 9.668.
7. Dina Kochetkova, Russia, 9.662.
8. Oksana Knizhnik,
Ukraine, 9.643.
Reserves
1. Andrea Molnar, Hungary,
9.625.
2. Klaudia Kinska, Slovakia,
9.599.
Others Who Did Not
Qualify
11. Larissa
Fontaine, United States, 9.600.
13. Elodie Lussac, France,
9.593.
15. Dominique
Dawes, United States, 9.575. (wonder what happened)
17. Monica Martin, Spain,
9.512.
19. Rufina Kreibich, Germany,
9.425.
20. Niina Prajanen, Finland,
9.406.
(tie) Hanako Miura, Japan,
9.406.
22. Mercedes
Pacheco, Spain, 9.400.
23. Marilou Cousineau,
Canada, 9.331.
24.
Chiara Ferrazzi, Italy, 9.318.
25. Mari Kosugue,
Japan, 9.312.
26. Hu
So-young, South Korea, 9.312.
27. Sofia Pidoula, Greece, 9.275.
28. Yuka Arai, Japan, 9.262.
(tie)
Elizabeth Valle, Spain, 9.262.
30. Zita Lusack,
Britain, 9.168.
------------------------------
Date:
Tue, 19 Apr 94 19:16:24 EDT
From: ***@aol.com
Subject: (spoil) yet more
Worlds...
>For some reason, I have no idea why, Scherbo
did not compete on the
rings! I guess that means he's not going to go
for the AA. I wonder
if this was a premeditated decision, or if he decided this
after
falling off of PH...
Just a note
since there is no need to qualify into all around he does not
need to compete on all events just be put in on Thursday
(though I thought
the women's was first since it
alternates and the men went first last time)
and
score highest that night to win the AA.
They compete prelims the way
the compete EF men in the morning (uusally since
it's a smaller draw) and women in the evening...based on how
they did it in
Brummie anyway, They drew for
placement and competed
in rounds which gives
us bizzare results (like Grigori Mistuin first on pommels - his routine,
unless it's undergone radical change is worth 9.1 the base
score {9.0 + .1
bonus for the required D})
Susan
------------------------------
Date:
Tue, 19 Apr 94 21:39:50 EDT
From: ***@aol.com
Subject: AA Seeding
Question
According to the following, posted by Lynda last week:
>Day
3, Thursday April 21
Competition II, Mens All
Around
Times: 13.30 - 15.30
16.00 - 18.00
19.30 - 21.30
Day
4, Friday April 22
Competition II, Women's All Around
Times 13.30 -
15.30
16.00 - 18.00
>19.30 - 21.30
the
AA will be divided into three groups.
What I am wondering about is how
will it be
determined who competes in which group?
As we all know, the last
group will get the
highest scores (comparable - or uncomparable - to
the
routines performed).
Does anyone know?
Mara
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Date:
Wed, 20 Apr 94 09:53:15 -0400
From: ***@riscee.bxb.dec.com
Subject: Big
Apple Circus
Getting away from the Worlds for a minute....
Last
Friday, we went to the Big Apple Circus while it is here in Boston. I was
expecting
a typical circus-type event, something that would amuse our 3 year
old for a couple of hours. Boy, was I wrong; *I* was completely
enthralled the
entire time.
Alot of the show was based upon gymnastics and
acrobatics. The beginning had
the entire group tumbling around the ring, with aerials, fulls, double-fulls,
etc. This lead
into two women performing rhythmic gymnastics with routines
containing ribbons, clubs, balls and hoops. These women were very talented.
One
of the highlights for me was a handstand act performed by a very talented
acrobat/gymnast.
One of the props was a 4 foot high platform
with stairs
leading down. This guy started out in a handstand and
hopped his way up and
down the stairs with
ease. Then he did it in a one-arm
handstand! At the
top of the patform, one other
trick he did was a backhandspring to a one-arm
handstand (hold) and then proceed to hop around in a circle
on that one arm. I
was *very* impressed!
If this ever comes around to
your part of the country, I would definitely
encourage
you to take it in. This circus is
*definitely* not just for kids.
Steve
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Date:
Wed, 20 Apr 94 07:56:05 EDT
From: ***@aol.com
Subject: Campi
AP Article (s) on Campi's
Injury...
GYMNASTICS: CAMPI SUFFERS A SERIOUS BACK INJURY 3/30/94
By JIM RATTIE
McClatchy
News Service
SACRAMENTO -- Gymnast Michelle Campi
suffered a back injury last week in
preparation
for the U.S. World Trials that has clouded the 17-year-old
athlete's future as a world-class performer.
Campi slipped off the high bar and landed hard on her back
during practice at
Pozsar's Gymnasium on March
22, the night before she was to leave for the
trials
last weekend in Orlando, Fla.
Campi injured
three vertebrae and underwent six hours of surgery Saturday at
Mercy San
Juan Hospital in Sacramento to relieve pressure caused by one of
the vertebrae pressing against her spinal cord.
''It
all happened so fast,'' said Celi Campi,
Michelle's mother. ''She
slipped off the high bar,
flipped in the air and hit the floor from about
eight
feet up.''
Celi Campi
said the family consulted with several physicians before deciding
on surgery. Michelle Campi spent
nearly 24 hours in intensive care before
being
moved to a private room Sunday.
On Wednesday, the high school junior
spoke about possibly returning to
gymnastics. She
faces a second operation as early as December to remove a pin
that is stabilizing one of the vertebrae.
''Right
now, I'm not thinking that far ahead,'' she said in a telephone
conversation. ''I just want to concentrate on my recovery.
I'll probably go
back into gymnastics, but at this
point it's hard to say.''
Campi said she
believed she was performing well enough to make the U.S. team,
which is scheduled to compete in the World Championships
April 16-23 in
Brisbane, Australia.
''I felt that I was well
prepared,'' she said. ''I felt I was going to make
the
team and I was happy with the way the training was going.''
The
routine she was performing was one she had done several times in
practicing her dismount.
''It wasn't like a
daredevil skill I was doing,'' she said.
In 1992, Campi
injured her right elbow while practicing the floor exercise
the night before the U.S. Olympic Trials. That injury forced
her to withdraw
from the competition.
MICHELLE CAMPI faces the difficult
decision whether to continue
a*gymnastics*career
that seemed inevitably headed to the Atlanta Olympics in
1996.
It's also a career that has
seemed jinxed.
Campi, 17, of Sacramento is in a full torso brace and
recuperating at
home after an 8-foot fall from the
uneven bars March 22 that fractured three
vertebrae.
The next morning she was to have flown to the U.S. trials for the
world championships.
Two years ago, on the night
before the U.S. Olympic trials in Baltimore,
Campi
dislocated her elbow in a fall and missed the meet. She was added to
the Olympic team through an exemption as the nation's
third-ranked gymnast
after Kim Zmeskal
and Shannon Miller but suffered a stress fracture of her
pelvis
before the Barcelona Games and was replaced.
''I still am frightened,''
her mother, Celi, said last week. ''I saw her
hurt her elbow the night before the Olympic trials. This is
an emotional
thing for me because I know how many
years my daughter has put into this
sport. I
cannot help but have a tinge of bitterness if this is the way it's
ending.''
Michelle Campi
will be in the brace for about two months. Surgery is
likely
in December to remove a pin that's helping stabilize her spine, and
doctors say she can resume*gymnastics*at that point if she
wishes.
Sacramento gymnast Michelle Campi,
17, may be released from the hospital as
early as
today after surgery to repair three fractured vertebrae, but
continuing her Olympic career is questionable at this point,
said her mother,
Celi Campi.
Campi lost her grip practicing her uneven bars
routine March 22,
the day before she was to leave
for the U.S. team trials for the
world*gymnastics*championships
April 19-24 in Brisbane, Australia, and fell
about
eight feet to the floor. In a full-torso brace she will wear for the
next two months, Campi was able to
walk for the first time Thursday
------------------------------
Date:
Wed, 20 Apr 94 07:56:39 EDT
From: ***@aol.com
Subject: Eating Disorders
& Gymnastics
Found this (and all the other stuff - though this one
is kinda' old) on the
AP News Wire...Kind of
Interesting how our sport is so peachy keen when
it's
getting ratings and the "cute" ones
are winning and when it's not then we're
the evil
empire. What do you all think?
IN WOMEN'S GYMNASTICS, EATING DISORDERS
ARE DIRTY SECRET
By MARK MCDONALD
Dallas Morning News
The agony
and the ecstasy of women's gymnastics is this:
Christy Henrich, battling anorexia, her career over, has wasted
away to
barely 50 pounds. Meanwhile, world
champion Shannon Miller is bigger,
stronger and
more competitive than ever.
Miller, the most highly decorated gymnast
in American history, has two
reasons to look
forward to this week's U.S. Gymnastics Championships in Salt
Lake
City.
First, even though she has won the world all-around title, she
has never won
that title at her own national
championships. Second, the four-day meet at
the
Delta Center on Wednesday through Saturday marks the end of a long,
painful season for the 16-year-old Oklahoman. Miller's
father says Shannon's
lower back has been sore all
year.
It's about time Miller won the U.S. all-around: She finished
eighth at the
1990 nationals, she was seventh the next year, then she injured an elbow at
the
'92 meet. Now, as the reigning world champ and the winner of five medals
at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, she is clearly the
all-around favorite.
The gymnastic community's elation over her
international success has been
tempered, however,
by the tragic story of Henrich, 21, the former
national
team member who is being treated for a
life-threatening eating disorder at a
residential
clinic in Kansas City.
Former world champion Kim Zmeskal
and ex-Olympic stars Bart Conner and Nadia
Comaneci appeared at a benefit
fund-raiser for Henrich last weekend. Her
family is struggling with medical bills estimated at $1,000
a day.
Eating disorders have long been a dirty little secret in
women's gymnastics,
although recently the sport
has come under serious and open attack. A
watchdog
group has formed in Houston, and coaches have been charged often
anonymously and sometimes recklessly with the virtual
starvation of their
elite gymnasts.
The
problem, everyone agrees, is real and pervasive. Former Olympian Kathy
Johnson
has admitted to having battled an eating disorder while she was a
competitor. Erica Stokes, another former national team
member, quit the sport
when her ritual vomiting
began to damage her health.
And several ex-Olympians have complained
privately about the rigors of
staying in fighting
trim just as their young bodies are going through
momentous
girl-to-woman changes. Some of the gymnasts on the 1988 Olympic
team, sequestered in their dormitories in Seoul, pleaded
with a team official
to smuggle a few M&Ms
into them.
Christy Henrich's mother, Sandy,
says that ``99 percent of what happened to
Christy is because of the
sport.'' And Susan Stokes, Erica's mother, has
likened
elite gymnasts to racing greyhounds.
Mary Lee Tracy, one of the
country's more accomplished coaches, says she
often
must defuse concerns of parents who have their girls at her Cincinnati
Gymnastics
Academy.
``Sure I do, but eating disorders are psychological
disorders,'' Tracy said.
``Coaches get blamed all the time, but a big part
of this is self-esteem and
self-esteem should be
built at home.
``The vast majority of coaches more than 90 percent of
them are into having
their kids eat properly,
fueling their bodies correctly.''
Miller has grown two inches and
filled out to 79 pounds since the Barcelona
Games, and she remains the
class of the American field. She is so good that
even
if her back is hurting, she can water down the difficulty of her
routines and still win the meet.
She has been
helped and pushed by Kerri Strug, her new training
partner and
fellow 1992 Olympian.
``She's
the real mystery person,'' said Paul Ziert, publisher
of
International Gymnast magazine. ``She's so very
talented, but she doesn't
realize how good she
really is. She has been in three World Championships and
one
Olympics, so she should be doing better.''
Strug,
15, often appears grim and nervous during competitions. At the recent
Olympic
Festival in San Antonio, coach Steve Nunno teased her
about having
actually seen her smile once.
``She
just draws in,'' Ziert said. ``She needs to express
herself more, to
speak up a little more.''
Originally
at Bela Karolyi's gym in
Houston, Strug moved to Nunno's
Dynamo
club in Oklahoma City after the Olympics. Karolyi is taking a hiatus from
elite
coaching, and there is much speculation about whether he will return
for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
Whether
Miller and Strug can hang on that long is another often-asked
question. Miller will
be 19 and Strug 18 when the Atlanta Games come
around.
That's almost the Jurassic Age for women gymnasts.
``A lot
can happen between now and Atlanta,'' said Bill Strauss, veteran
coach of the Allentown (Pa.) Parkettes.
``Injury, burnout, the Sweet 16
Syndrome. Lots of things.''
Miller
and Strug aren't saying they won't be in Atlanta, and
the fiery Nunno
has been
talking them up as ``the best one-two punch ever in American women's
gymnastics.''
Financially, of course, it would be
foolish for Miller and Strug to declare
themselves out of contention for '96.
``If you
don't commit to Atlanta, you won't be attractive to the money and
marketing people.'' Ziert said.
``So it's easy for them to say, `Yeah, sure
I'm going to Atlanta.'''
Dominique
Dawes may give Miller and Strug a run for the money
and the
marketing deals. The 16-year-old
Marylander, one of the few black gymnasts to
reach
the elite ranks, is a pocket rocket on floor exercise. And she has a
new floor routine that gymnastics insiders all over the
country are buzzing
about.
``She offers
American gymnastics something very, very exciting, and very
different,'' Ziert said. ``She has
this immense personality. She allows us to
share
her emotions with her while she's competing.''
``Those three Shannon,
Kerri and Dominique they're the hot kids,'' Tracy
said.
``After them it's a big, wide-open field. It'll just come down to who
hits and who misses.''
------------------------------
Date:
Wed, 20 Apr 94 00:12:00 UTC
From: ***@genie.geis.com
Subject:
Gymnastics GIFs
For anyone who has access to Compuserve,
there are currently 3 gymnastics
GIFs available in the Reuters News
Pictures Forum:
1. Scherbo doing flairs on FX
2. Miller on V
3. Comaneci leaping in a field of cows
(no joke) and wearing what seem to
be
the biggest pair of rubber boots ever made
Judging from previous experience in
this Forum, there should be new GIFs
daily until
the competition ends.
FYI,
the GIFs are copyrighted by Reuters Ltd., are for personal use only,
and may not be reproduced or redistributed without their
*express* written
consent.
Debbie
------------------------------
Date:
Wed, 20 Apr 1994 11:12:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: ***@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu
Subject:
Henrich (This is not a spoil)
The AP article (I
assume) was written in September. Does anyone have
more
recent news on Henrich? Whoa, 50 pounds? She's 5 feet
tall and 30 pounds
lighter than Shannon??!! To
quote Gimnasta, "eeee..."
There's a
cultural thing involved as well as the sports pressure as
well. Gymnasts and divers aren't the only ones here, folks.
The "you look so
good - have you lost
weight?" is a commonly asked question of women. Anyone
else care to contribute to a separate discussion on this via
my mail? Let me
know - athletics vs. cultural vs. gender aspects of eating
disorders. An
interesting topic for those of us
who follow this sport.
Cara
fyi - CBC doesn't seem to have
much in the way of Worlds coverage as well..
Blah.
------------------------------
Date:
Tue, 19 Apr 94 22:25:18 EDT
From: ***@aol.com
Subject: Oksana Knisick
Someone mentioned "who's she"
so I thought I'd share what I
know...
The only thing I've ever seen her in is the '92 Stars of the
World (Moscow
News) where she had reallyneat Strazheva-esque floor and did all these
cartwheel gainer combos (off both legs) on beam. She was all legs (back then
anyway) and struck me as really cool...hope ABC deigns to
show her
Susan
------------------------------
Date:
Tue, 19 Apr 94 23:19:47 EDT
From: ***@aol.com
Subject: Rhythmic
(Patrick)
Sent only to me by mistake:
Hi, Gymn folks!
I'm a bit slow on the reply here, but
I wanted to add my two cents to
Gimnasta's comments regarding rhythmic gymnastics. I haven't seen
all
that much of it, but I've liked what I have seen. (Plus, from
a
photographic standpoint, I'll take a 200-degree split leap over
a full-in any day.)
Perhaps someone else can fill
me in as to how widespread this is,
but I have
noticed at least some resentment toward rhythmic gymnasts
by artistic gymnasts who refer to their sport as
"real" gymnastics.
Is there much of a "battle" between
the two?
Gimnasta writes (in part):
>
Plus, it is to me conclusive proof that what it takes to extract
> some artistry, or at least some amount of expressiveness,
out of gymnasts
is
> to
give it *real* importance in evaluating routines
I
am intrigued by this statement, and I would like to know what
people
think might be done to "codify"
expressiveness in routines, or at least
give it
more value. I suppose I should
check the code to answer this,
but as long as I am
writing this, I'd like to know if there is a
requirement
for presentation in the scoring or if a gymnast could perform
a difficult routine perfectly but with no "soul"
and still get a 10.0.
(I'm speaking specifically about women's beam and
floor exercise.)
If she could score a ten, perhaps routines should start
below a 10.0
and only be elevated by
"artistic" bonus. If this
is already the case,
perhaps the judges should
judge more critically?
I realize that, artistic though it may be,
gymnastics is a sport; still,
I too would like to see artistry give more
value at the international
level. Maybe then I wouldn't have such a
collegiate bias. :)
Any other thoughts?
-Patrick
------------------------------
Date:
Wed, 20 Apr 94 05:37:43 EDT
From: ***@aol.com
Subject: ROV
>
I'd like to know if there is a
requirement for
presentation in the scoring or if a gymnast could perform a
difficult routine perfectly but with no "soul" and
still get a 10.0.
There USED to be a thing called ROV (Risk,
originality, and virtuosity)
that accounted for a
part of the gymnasts (male and female) total score (it
was
worth different amounts at different times) but with this new code it has
been, sadly and to the vast detriment of the sport in my
humble view,
eliminated (it had been coming for a
long time). For example, ROV
allowed
for a piked
full-in done with straight legs, pointed toes, and extraordinary
amplitude to be worth more than a pike full-in that barley
made it around and
was sloppy in the air. Under the current code a piked full-in is a "C' (for
girls
ayway) and it's worth only so much no matter what. If both tricks
were
stuck they would be worth the same regardless
of the obvious superiority of
the first full-in.
In the interest of "fairness", and I use that word with
great hesitance in reference to the current code, ROV was
removed and along
with it any credit for artistry
or creativity - the basis of the sport. They
wanted
fairer (yeah I know that's not really a word...but cut me some slack
here) judging. They therefore attempted to eliminate the
"subjective"
elements (though any sport
judged by humans is by nature subjective). In my
belief
they screwed up big time and blew the sport all to hell. Without
credit
for originality...why come up with a new skill? Without credit for
form...why maintain it? Without credit for dance...why have it? Etc. Etc. All
leading
up to the big question...Without ROV why have gymnastics at all? Why
not
just see how many whipbacks someone can do in thirty
seconds and give
them the gold (oh yeah we did
that already in Indy <grin>)? Yes, I'm cynical
and
bitter (and those are my good points!) but I feel that it's not out of
line with today's gymnastics.
Getting of soapbox
and shuffling out of the room,
Susan
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 20 Apr
94 19:17:15 +1000
From: ***@education.canberra.edu.au
Subject: spoil: Womens Floor
Just saw a clip of Millers Floor
(9.7) and her beam (don't know score) and
she has
made it into finals for both.
Dont know about Dawes. Report said
Miller
was being pushed by Huilin Mo from China.
Will
ask Nancy tonite what happened to Dawes vault.
Lynda
'Sleep is better than medicine'
------------------------------
Date:
Wed, 20 Apr 94 16:59:31 +1000
From: ***@education.canberra.edu.au
Subject:
Spoil: Worlds (Mens Pommell
& Floor)
Andreas Wecker
blundered majorily in pommell,
he dismounted only halfway
thru
his routine and it didn't look like
a fall.
Lots of stacks on floor.
Have only seen highlights so
far.
To top it off we've been moving offices and havent
had the chance to post
the results, tho it doesnt matter as Rachelle
gets them pretty quick onto
the net.
Have you
been watching live Clive???
I'm going to ring Nancy Ray in Brisbane tonight
and tomorrow night and get
her thoughts, will
hopefully be a bit more organised on Friday and will
be
able to post them.
Lynda
'Sleep is
better than medicine'
------------------------------
Date:
Wed, 20 Apr 94 07:02:38 EDT
From: ***@aol.com
Subject: This is
Pathetic!!!!
This is what "USA Today" considers
"coverage" of the World Championships...
"GYM
DANDY
World champion
gymnast Shannon Miller seeks to be her dominant self when
she defends her title starting today in Brisbane,
Australia."
If I comment I'll get in trouble with the more delicate "Gymners" so I'll
just
leave it at that...
Fuming in Cali...wish I was in Aussie!!!
Susan
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