GYMN-L Digest - 28 Dec 1995 to 29 Dec 1995

There are 17 messages totalling 442 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

1. Elite Canada Telecasts
2. Chunichi Cup.
3. FIG Headquarters.
4. Perfection (3)
5. Moves on Beam (2)
6. GYMN-L Collegiate Update Vol. 1, no. 4 (2)
7. Gymnastics Triva
8. peirre nadeau
9. Aloha Gymfest
10. pits
11. Mary Lou's thingy
12. irc service
13. circ de soleil

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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 12:08:25 -0400
From: ***@CAPITALNET.COM
Subject: Elite Canada Telecasts

>Do you know when Elite Canada is going to air?

According to the Elite Canada program, the competition will air on Rogers
Cable TV as follows:

Fri. Dec. 29, 1995 6:30 - 9:00pm Toronto, East York, North York
Tue. Jan. 2, 1996 12:30 - 3:00pm Network (I assume the rest of Ontario)
Thu. Jan. 4, 1996 9:00 - 11:30am Network

Carol Orchard did play-by-play commentary*, and Day Two of both Junior & Senior
HP will be shown. (*practicing for the CBC job for the Olympics?)

Can any of you Toronto folks who catch it on Friday let us know how it goes?

Thanks,

Grace


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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 12:14:20 -0600
From: ***@ZEPHYR.MEDCHEM.PURDUE.EDU
Subject: Chunichi Cup.

Who sponsors this meet and will they soon have a WEB Site?


Jeff

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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 13:25:34 -0600
From: ***@ZEPHYR.MEDCHEM.PURDUE.EDU
Subject: FIG Headquarters.

Anyone know if they have an email address? I didn't find anything through
a Lycos or Yahoo search.

Jeff

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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 13:40:12 -0600
From: ***@ZEPHYR.MEDCHEM.PURDUE.EDU
Subject: Perfection

We all seem to get the fact that Nadia recieved the first perfect 10 in the
Olympic in 1976. My question is: Does anyone know of a gymnast who recieved
perfect marks prior to 1975? I thought that Nadia recieved a 10 in Skien
Norway at Europeans and I know that she got on at the America's Cup in 1976.

So, who was the first Male and Female to get a '10' in an international
competition?

Jeff

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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 15:06:31 -0500
From: ***@DELPHI.COM
Subject: Moves on Beam

Dear Gymners,

Yesterday at my gym(Brown's Metro), the girls levels 8-10 had a
mock-meet against LaFleurs. A girl from LaFleurs, Lisa Panioni(sp?) threw
some cool moves on beam that I had never seen before. First, she did a 3/4
twisting Shushunova to a support position on the side of the beam. What is
this worth and who was the first to do it? Then, she did a front tuck with
a half twist swing down. What it this worth and who was the first to do
this? Any info. on these moves would be greatly appreciated. THANKS!

Gymnastically yours,
David

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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 13:15:41 -0800
From: ***@LELAND.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: GYMN-L Collegiate Update Vol. 1, no. 4

GYMN-L's Collegiate Update
Volume 1, no. 4
Dec. 28,1995
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(***Editor's Note: Sorry this is late, folks. I am at home in
Wisconsin and hadn't found the time to get on-line and finish editing
it.)

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Contents:

1. Jenny Hansen nominated for Sullivan Award

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*****Item number 1.4.1*****

From: ***@aol.com
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 23:40:33 -0500

Kentucky State gymnast Jenny Hansen, the regining NCAA all-around champion,
was one of the 11 nominees announced Monday (19 December 1995) for the
Honda-Broderick Cup, which is awarded annually to the year's "outstanding
collegiate woman athlete." The winner will be announced at a January 8th
banquet to be held in Dallas, Texas (gleaned via UPI).

-Susan


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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 15:45:45 -0800
From: ***@NETCOM.COM
Subject: Re: Perfection

> Olympic in 1976. My question is: Does anyone know of a gymnast who recieved
> perfect marks prior to 1975? I thought that Nadia recieved a 10 in Skien
> Norway at Europeans and I know that she got on at the America's Cup in 1976.

Nadia didn't score any 10's at the '75 Europeans (9.65, 9.70, 9.75, 9.75
for 38.85), but she received the highest score of the meet (9.9 for UB in
EF). According to the ROM book "Nadia Comaneci si echipa de aur", she
scored her first 10 at the '75 ROM Nationals, on FX. From what I've
read, her first "international" 10 came at the '76 CAN-ROM dual meet
(held before the American Cup), where she received 6 perfect marks.

I vaguely remember reading somewhere that Latynina or Caslavska had
received a 10 sometime in her career...

For the men, there were several 10's given out at the '80 Olympics
(Ditiatin for V; Deltchev for R; Tkachev for HB; Nikolay for PH; and
Magyar for PH) in the AA. Magyar was the only man to get a 10 in EF, for
his PH routine. There have surely been 10's awarded before this,
probably at national champs, dual meets, etc.?

Debbie

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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 17:49:32 -0600
From: ***@SASKNET.SK.CA
Subject: Re: Moves on Beam

>Then, she did a front tuck with
>a half twist swing down. What it this worth and who was the first to do
>this? Any info. on these moves would be greatly appreciated. THANKS!

-I saw Kristy Wanner of the Bluewater Gym Club in Sarnia, Ontario (CAN)
train this move about a year ago. She punched from two feet doing (what
I called) a Barani straddle-down. I don't know how long she had been
doing it, so whether Kristy is the first to do it I don't know. I don't
recall seeing it anywhere else but unfortunately whoever performs it
first at a Worlds or Olympics gets the credit. Not a fair rule IMHO,
but can you imagine how many letters & videos the FIG Tech. committees
would have on their desk if everyone had a move they wanted named after
them? Though, apprently originality doesn't matter to the FIG anymore
anyway........ (no flames, please!)

This Worlds/Olympics rules, though, brings to mind a few gymnasts who
could've & should've had moves named after them. First to my mind is
the Chen (tuck-open Korbut) which should be called an Anderson IMHO
(and *is* called an Anderson in an older USGF supplement to the FIG Code.)
Or Jackie Bender (CAN) who wouldn't even have been able to fit all of her
original skills into a 90 second beam routine!!

Just rambling...

DORY

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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 19:59:40 -0500
From: ***@BUTTERCUP.CYBERNEX.NET
Subject: Re: Perfection

>I vaguely remember reading somewhere that Latynina or Caslavska had
>received a 10 sometime in her career...

Caslavska got a 10 for her floor routine at the nationals but I can't
remember the year. 68?

Lori

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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 22:25:30 -0500
From: ***@UKY.CAMPUS.MCI.NET
Subject: Re: GYMN-L Collegiate Update Vol. 1, no. 4

Jenny attends and competes for The University Of Kentucky, NOT Kentucky
State University, which is a different University in a different city. UK
(not to be confused with the United Kingdom) is in Lexington, Kentucky, and
is my alma mater. Jenny, after having won the NCAA AA for three years in a
row, has to be one of the greatest collegiate gymnasts ever. We're very
fortunate that her great love of horses and equestrian sports brought her
here to the Bluegrass. I know her coach, Leah Little, is very pleased to
have her here. She certainly deserves the Sullivan. I know the men have
the Nissan (Sp.?) award presented annually for the outstanding male
collegiate gymnast; do the women have a comparable award?

Chris Johnson


> GYMN-L's Collegiate Update
> Volume 1, no. 4
> Dec. 28,1995
>_____________________________________________________________________
>
>(***Editor's Note: Sorry this is late, folks. I am at home in
>Wisconsin and hadn't found the time to get on-line and finish editing
>it.)
>
>-------------------------------------
>
>Contents:
>
>1. Jenny Hansen nominated for Sullivan Award
>
>_____________________________________
>
> *****Item number 1.4.1*****
>
>From: ***@aol.com
>Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 23:40:33 -0500
>
>Kentucky State gymnast Jenny Hansen, the regining NCAA all-around champion,
>was one of the 11 nominees announced Monday (19 December 1995) for the
>Honda-Broderick Cup, which is awarded annually to the year's "outstanding
>collegiate woman athlete." The winner will be announced at a January 8th
>banquet to be held in Dallas, Texas (gleaned via UPI).
>
>-Susan
>
Chris Johnson


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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 23:34:35 -0500
From: ***@UMICH.EDU
Subject: Gymnastics Triva

I was looking at my old Trival Pursuit and the sports and leisure
question ask Who was the first women to qualify for all four finals at
the Olympics? The answer is Mary Lou Retton and I was wondering if
this is true. Is it also true that after the 1976 Olympics that the age
was raised to fifteen? I know it is now 16 after 96, but I was
wondering if the answers are true.

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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 21:00:33 -0800
From: ***@NETCOM.COM
Subject: peirre nadeau

Im researching this for a friend.

Joe wants to know more about a gymnast named Pierre Nadeau.
Anyone have any info on him ?

Please mail to me directly
***@netcom.com

thanks!

-texx

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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 18:57:13 -10
From: ***@ALOHA.NET
Subject: Aloha Gymfest

There was a recent inquiry on GYMN on whether the Aloha Gymfest would
be held this year. Well, when I read today's newspaper on current
events, there was a notice in the sports section that as of 6:30 pm
today ( 12/28/95)Hawaii time the meet prelims commenced. It is being
held in Kalaheo High School's gymnasium with tickets going for $5.
Artistic gymnasts from England, Japan, Australia, and US are
competing.

Will try to post results as soon as I am able to obtain them. Aloha!

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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 23:42:42 -0800
From: ***@NETCOM.COM
Subject: pits

Pits are easy to build.

Basically you decide if you want to dig it in the ground of build overhead.

CSC is renting space in a mothballed high school gym wing.
This means the floor cant be dug up.
No prob !
Overhead platworm ends, large box full of foam at the end to fall into.
Storage under the platform.

So figure out your sizes. How long you want the ramp?
How much floorspace should it include (wide/long).
Have you the ceiling space to put it 8 ft in the air ?
8ft deep is plenty deep if you got the room.
As you can see its pretty easy to plan.

Throw some numbers at me and Ill help you with the details.
If you are going to dig up the floor thats a cinch.
There arent many plans because its just SO easy to do off the cuff.

Like I said, throw some numbers at me, Ill design it for you
(and maybe put some blueprints up for Rachele to put on the web ?)

-texx

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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 00:02:36 -0800
From: ***@NETCOM.COM
Subject: Mary Lou's thingy

OK
Heres the scoop.

As most of you know, PC's mostly have a compatible system of adding
new circuitboards. Its called a "buss" and i wont bore you with
all the gory details on what it really is.

Most MACs have a common buss.

The laptops are in the process of standardizing on a new buss called PCMCIA.

Mary Lou was showing off IBM's new PCMCIA modem card.
Tennsy thing you add to a laptop to give it an internal modem/fax.

Mary-Lou was doing some stuff as a sports reporter for awhile.
A laptop is great for that, as she can edit her copy, then at the next
stop, jump in a phonebooth and either fax it in or upload it to the master
typesetter system at whatever rag shes writing for at the time.

She can even run a spreadsheet to make sure shes not getting stiffed by
the companies shes endorsing.

Really for her, its a great gadget, for IBM, they chose an atriculate model.
Some guys might even say "Shes cute and smart !"

Well anyways, thats what shes doing for IBM.

(Now if shed only do a spot for a REAL computer company... like SGI)

-texx
face down 9 edge first, roadkill on the info superdata highway

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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 00:16:02 -0800
From: ***@NETCOM.COM
Subject: irc service

I use netcom

(408) 983-5750

I get unlimited time for $17.50 US.
My first 5 megs online storage are free.

I get news, irc, i can use the shell for writing software, i get mail.

I went with shell because I dont have to use a PC to login.
You can get a slip account if you demand a point & click interface.
With the slip account, you get something like AOL,
course with slip you MUST have your own computer and you cant login with
say a Teletype ASR35 !

Oh yes, they are almost nationwide now and will soon go international.

Tell them that texx sent you. Tell them its the texx with 2 x's !

-texx

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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 00:55:23 -0800
From: ***@NETCOM.COM
Subject: circ de soleil

They are noted for their acrobats, gymnasts & clowns.

The gymnastics stuff they do is incredible.
I recall thenm trying to do some recruiting from this list at one time.

Definitely not to miss.
No other circus does the gymnastics like they do.


Last, they are not french, but french canadien and that is a BIG difference !

-texx

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