GYMN-L Digest - 25 Sep 1995 to 26 Sep 1995 - Special
issue
There are 25 messages totalling 516
lines in this issue.
Topics in this special issue:
1. Sabae
World's.
2. Mohini / Bilozerchev
3. Olympic tickets
4. Olympic Tickets (2)
5. Dominique Dawes' wrist injury: W.
Post info
6. Dawes and
Stanford
7. Computer
ad...
8. Newsweek
9. Garrison BB Mount.
10. October IG magazine
(2)
11. KELLY GARRISON
STEVES
12. world
championship questions
13.
Nadia Comenici (sp)
14. T.V. Times
15. Chow not going to Worlds? (2)
16. Andrea Pickens (2)
17. olympic
tickets
18. Pickens
19. Phelps
20. body
types
21. AOL AGAIN !
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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 22:32:54
-0600
From: ***@ZEPHYR.MEDCHEM.PURDUE.EDU
Subject:
Sabae World's.
If Sabae
will have Team competition, then what was the purpose of Dortmund?
Jeff
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 00:35:08
EDT
From: ***@PRODIGY.COM
Subject:
Mohini / Bilozerchev
To:
Subject: Mohini / Bilozertchev
I
have never posted anything before, so I hope that I am doing this
correctly.
Since Mohini Bhardwaj was transferred from Brown's - Fla. to Brown's
-
Houston to train with Alexandrev
(Coach of Boguinskaia who recently switched from Karolyi
to Brown's -
Houston), Ray Gnat and Joan
Moore Gnat have
left Brown's. They have
accepted positions at
Gwynnetts in Suburban - Atlanta. Of
course
their Elite daughter Jeanna Rice has made the move
with them.
Jeanna
is recovering from
recently being hospitalized with osteomyclitis.
Replacing
Ray and Joan at Brown's - Fla. is arguably the greatest
male
gymnast ever - Dimitri Bilozertchev
and Olga Korina Dubranskaya.
I am assuming that Dimitri no longer has his own gym in the Florida
Panhandle
(but I don't know for sure.)
Just thought you would like to know.
STEEL
"BE
YOURSELF.
WHO ELSE IS BETTER QUALIFIED?"
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 05:50:08
-18521200
From: ***@MADRAD.RADIOLOGY.WISC.EDU
Subject:
Olympic tickets
I
was really disappointed with my Olympic
tickets. Out of 27 gymnastics sessions which
I
applied for, I only received 3. And 2 of those
are
for the podium training, so I only have 1
actual
competition session. The worst part
is
that the 3 sessions are spread over 7 days,
so
I'll have to stay in a hotel during that time.
I bet most of these
seats went to corporate sponsors
(for their
employees). Is anyone out there
happy
with their tickets?
The
good news is that it's only 2 more days
before we leave for Japan! Sayonara.
Lani.
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 09:47:12
-0400
From: ***@GATEWAY.US.SIDWELL.EDU
Subject:
Re: Olympic Tickets
>
Did anyone out there actually get their Olympic
Tickets? I got a
> packet full of information today telling me I did not get
them. Just
> wondering if Fairtix worked in
favor of anyone else.
We got our packet yesterday, but all we got was
soccer. I thought this
was kind of strange; I really wasn't expecting to get, say,
the women's
all around finals, but I didn't think
that men's podium training would be
*that*
popular. Besides, we had some
baseball games and other stuff as
alternate
choices, but we didn't get those either.
Did anyone else
request podium training and
*not* get it?
Lisa
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 09:55:52
EDT
From: ***@EOS.NCSU.EDU
Subject:
Olympic Tickets
To quote Homer Simpson: "WOO-HOO!" I was able to get a ticket for the
morning session of the women's team optionals! Unfortunately, it wasn't
my main primary choice (I had asked for a $106 seat), but
they did bump
me back to a $27 seat. So, I guess I have a
"nosebleed" seat. But I
am
counting my blessings. They did the same thing to me on the
gold medal
baseball game, and bumped me back a
ticket price. But isn't there
a
scientific theory that says that the farther
away you are, the better
chance you have of
catching a foul ball? Kinda like pressure increases
as temperature increases? But anyways. .
. I also got a ticket for the
bronze and gold
medal women's soccer games (it was a package), which did not
sell out surprisingly to me. This is, after all, it is an Olympic
FIRST,
and the U.S. is one of the better teams in
the world.
I do hope for the people who ordered tickets for the
Opening Ceremony.
Sunday night, one of the local TV stations here said that
an uncomfirmed
Japanese report says that
40-50,000 of the 70,000 available seats are
going to corporate sponsors. Makes you wish you were rich, doesn't
it?
Good luck to everyone else in their quest
for tickets!
--Brent
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 11:12:30
-0400
From: ***@JUSTICE.USDOJ.GOV
Subject:
Dominique Dawes' wrist injury: W. Post info
The Washington Post today
had a very brief article (why they
can't provide
decent coverage of a local star I will never
understand)
that said that Dominique is wearing a cast on her
wrist
because she has a stress fracture in the growth plate of
that
end of her ulna (one of the two bones in the forearm).
Kelli Hill also said
that she had strained her shoulder trying to
compensate
for the wrist injury, and the shoulder also could use
the
rest. So that's the story, and
she's focusing on next year
and still taking
classes at U. Maryland with the intention of
going
to Stanford after the Olympics (no mention of whether the
scholarship is still available, and I've forgotten what was
said
about that on the list a few weeks back,
except that somebody had
the answer).
(In
case I've overstated the shoulder thing -- it just sounded
like preventive medicine: no real injury, just making sure
that
she didn't do damage trying to compete while
compensating for the
wrist injury.)
Just
thought those of you from out of town would want to know .
.
.
--Ann.
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 11:08:45
-0500
From: ***@VAXA.CIS.UWOSH.EDU
Subject:
Dawes and Stanford
Date sent:
26-SEP-1995 11:07:20
OK, here's the scoop on Dawes and
Stanford. She had a scholarship,
she lost the
scholarship because she took money and/or had an
agent.
Therefore, she is taking classes at Maryland until she
fulfils her Olympic Dream, and then will attend
Stanford as a student
next fall.
That's
the poop, and nothing but the poop.
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 12:26:14
-0400
From: ***@IC.AC.UK
Subject:
Computer ad...
I was browsing through a computer magazine today
("PC Marketplace",
UK, October 1995) and was surprised indeed as
I was flicking through
the pages, to find a big
photo of Annika Reeder on one of the pages.
It has a title of "INSIST
ON THE BEST" and on the left of the picture
it
says "Annika Reeder - British & Commonwealth Gymnastics
Champion"
and the right it says "SMC
Computers plc - sole sponsor". This company
is obviously using the positive image of gymnastics to
promote their
computers. Underneath the photo was
this:
"Getting to be the best takes years. There is no short cut,
no magic
formula, just hard work and continual
improvement over a long period
of time.
Dedication
to the task means staying focused when others fail - there
can be no distractions or excuses.
The highest
standards of performance must be achieved by continually
improving
strengths and removing weaknesses.
Keeping a competitive edge is the only
way to stay ahead: first
place is hard to win and
must be strengthened at all times.
In business as in sport: Insist on
the best."
Then follows 24 pages of adverts of this company,
advertising the whole
range of their products -
PCs, hard disks, memory chips, etc. And on
nearly
each opposite page there is a photo of Annika doing different
poses in various gymnastics poses - leaps, balance, etc.
Annika is
wearing a red leotard with a
"SMC" logo on it. This company is
obviously
very proud to be the "sole sponsor" of Annika and I guess
Annika
must be chuffed to have a sponsor such as this to balance her
gymnastics expenses.
I think here in UK we still
have a very positive image of the sport
in
people's minds. No "Little Girls in Pretty Boxes" on the book
shelves or allegations such as those at the Australian
Institute of
Sport over our heads. In fact
everything I've heard in the press
recently about
gymnastics were all very positive e.g. Annika winning
the
Commonwealth Games Gold was on front page of newspapers. Anyway
I hope the
press people is nice enough to keep this image up. It
will
be an achievement if, say, the British team
qualify for the Atlanta
Olympics.
Sherwin
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 13:14:40
-0400
From: ***@STYX.IOS.COM
Subject:
Newsweek
In
the October 2nd issue of Newsweek there is an article about
Dominique Moceanu and some nice pictures of her, Miller, Dawes,
and
Nadia. Its
in the society section on page 72. Overall it was a positive
article which is just what the sport needs here.
Lori
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 12:31:39
-0600
From: ***@ZEPHYR.MEDCHEM.PURDUE.EDU
Subject:
Garrison BB Mount.
A friend and I were talking about this the other
day and we were wondering
if anyone else has done
the RO-Tuck full mount on the beam since Kelly
Garrison did it?
Jeff
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 15:06:21
-0400
From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject:
Re: October IG magazine
are there any posters?is there good nationals coverage?what
are the other
stories?
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 14:24:57
CDT
From: ***@PROCTR.CBA.UA.EDU
Subject:
KELLY GARRISON STEVES
On Tues. Sept. 26, Jeff asked if anyone knew if
a gymnast has
performed Kelly Garrison's mount on
beam.
I don't know about that, but you know she has four skills
named after her. I
think it may be the most of any gymnast.
Nice to here of
her name again, brings back good memories for U.S.
Beam:
1.RO-full
mount
2.shoulder roll forward
3.Valdez through horizontal plane
Floor:
4.Cat
leap 1 1/2
Shawn
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 15:10:24
-0400
From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject:
Re: October IG magazine
Sorry I just got your message about no poster
right after I read this
message.
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 15:17:23
-0400
From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject:
Re: world championship questions
I really need results tonight so if
you can try to answer ASAP. I
recently
had Mall Tours w/ Scott Keswick and Betty
Okino at a mall near me and there
was a chart of all of the gymnastics meets with TV coverage
and it said Sept.
26 (tonite) World Team Trials on ESPN. My TV Week doesn't have it listed.
If it is on tonite
could ya please tell me what time (eastern time)
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 15:19:09
-0400
From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject:
Re: Nadia Comenici (sp)
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 15:09:15
CDT
From: ***@PROCTR.CBA.UA.EDU
Subject:
T.V. Times
Someone had posted a while back that the t.v. coverage of
World Team trials(W) were on Sept. 25 on ESPN. Someone today was asking
about it and they thought it was tonight. I freaked out because I thought I
might have missed it but had been thinking all along that it
was
Oct. 3. Well, I called ESPN
personally because I couldn't wait and they said
it is Oct. 3 at
9:30 p.m. That's what they said,
so. I don't guess it was on
last night also,
was it?
Shawn
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 16:17:44
-0400
From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject:
Chow not going to Worlds?
I read today on the bulletin board on
America Online that Andree Pickens will
be
replacing Amy Chow on the world team. Does anyone know if this is true?
I'm
sure Andree Pickens will do her best, but this American team is getting
weaker by the minute.
LeeAnn
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 16:28:58
-0400
From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject:
Andrea Pickens
I just heard that Andrea Pickens is replacing Amy Chow
on the world team. Is
that true? Sorry
if this has already been discussed on the list.
Liz
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 16:47:27
PDT
From: ***@EPIX.NET
Subject:
olympic tickets
I
didn't get the tickets I wanted either. All I got was
pod-training. But a girl at my gym got tickets too
both the event finals
and the exabition.
I was so disapointed is there
any other way too get
tickets to any womens events.
Tara
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 17:26:30
EDT
From: ***@EOS.NCSU.EDU
Subject:
Re: Andrea Pickens
> I just heard that Andrea Pickens is replacing
Amy Chow on the world team. Is
>
that true?
Sorry if this has already been discussed on the list.
> Liz
USA
TODAY says that Mary Beth Arnold will take Amy's place.
--Brent
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 17:26:28
-0400
From: ***@STYX.IOS.COM
Subject:
Re: Chow not going to Worlds?
If
this is true, then I guess a previous post about Mary Beth
Arnold stepping
down as alternate is also true. I agree
that this team
is much weaker then expected, I
hope noone else gets hurt. But then
again,
young teams can surprise us (Indy 91- with homecourt
advantage).
Oh well I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens.
Lori
On Tue, 26 Sep 1995, (No Name) wrote:
> I read today on
the bulletin board on America Online that Andree Pickens will
> be replacing Amy Chow on the world team. Does anyone know if
this is true?
> I'm sure Andree Pickens will do her best, but this
American team is getting
> weaker by the
minute.
>
> LeeAnn
>
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 17:17:57
-0400
From: ***@PHOENIX.PRINCETON.EDU
Subject:
Pickens
I thought Mary Beth Arnold was the alternate. Does this make Monica
Flammer the
alternate now? When do they leabve (or have they already)?
-Emily
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 15:00:39
-0700
From: ***@IX.NETCOM.COM
Subject:
Phelps
HI!!!!!
In The Cincinnati Enquirer they had a very
short article about Jaycie.
It said that Jaycie is going to compete in the worlds despite a
knee
injury.
Bye!!!
Margi and
Mardi :)
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 16:04:40
-0700
From: ***@NETCOM.COM
Subject:
body types
Jimmy the Greek was outta line with his cracks, but body
type is important.
I know a delightfully intelligent black gymnastics
coach. Great coach,
but hes terrified of demonstrating
the moves himself.
He does not practice gymnastics because he has a bodytype that injured easily in
the
sport. Charlie Lake was well known
as a "Lurch" being that hes like 5-6
tall. This is
considered tall for gymnastics. He
can do the skills, but
hes
stastically unlikely to rack up the points due to his
height.
Charlie is special because he DOES get points despite his
height.
You do not put a linebacker body up on hi-bar.
You are
just asking for an accident.
So the body type does not mean you cant
to do the event, it just means you are
less or
more likely (depending on boidy type) to do well at
it and win the
meets. You dont
expect me at 5-11 to do as well as my buddy Zane @ 5-4 do you
?
I agree however that Jimmy the greek sure came off as a biggot.
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 17:04:15
-0700
From: ***@NETCOM.COM
Subject:
AOL AGAIN !
Last week I was at a conference
of sysadmin folk.
Something totally off the wall
happened that changes my attitude.
I was on the terminal room staff.
One
of my fellow staff members got spammed with some commercial junk mail
and began fuming about it, and I joined him in yet again
griping abpout AOL
stupidity.
A gentleman got up from his terminal and asked us what was wrong.
We told
him and he returned to his terminal.
He returned to us in a few mins and assured us that the problem was solved.
Then i got a look at the email address on his badge!
AOL.NET
Well
it seems, this man is the postmaster of AOL.
At
breakfast the next morning, I was introduced to the rest of the AOL
staff in attendence @ LISA. Seems AOL has been working HARD on
improving their
technical
expertise. They now have some
pretty bright people working for
them and they are
weeding out the morons on the staff
and the abusive
users from their midst.
I
shall refrain from AOL bashing for a while and give them a chance.
-texx
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